@p0ly 353184 wrote:
when did you make the decision to stop going?
I’d already become a bit disillusioned with SE England’s scene by late 2005 and it came to a head in NYE 05/06 party where two of my closest friends had a fight in the middle of the party over a six year old grudge about door money from a previous rave, then one of them had a big domestic with his missus and it wrecked the atmosphere of the party
I did party in East Anglia though until the end of 2007… and one thing I will say is that the stereotypes of Norfolk parties are mostly bullshit, they are no more worse or sketchy than the parties in SE England done by similar age groups and if the youths can’t afford as much sound equipment its simply because they and their ravers can’t get high paying normal day jobs like people in London or SE England…
but what put me off was the scale of the locals/cops backlash, the amount of K everyone was doing and how even the traditionally friendly EA scene had become a lot angrier, I’d see at least one fight or argument at every party even if the cops didn’t attend. plus people are really ragging themselves on the party scene here, my mates said about 10 ravers had died,either through overdoses or RTCs driving back from raves either sleep deprived or still K’d up, and this is only in the space of 5 years
Then two of my local mates got sent to jail after a party went tits up in 2007 and I thought “fuck this for a game of soldiers” as I’ve got a responsible job, a decent career and a house now and I’m not risking it all just for a weekend…
