Party Vibe

seen it all before – but there’s nothing good about this kind of publicity

from what I heard it started off well but more and more crews joined and they didn’t agree on a finish time and those what got their rigs took ignored TVP’s “advice” to finish by lunchtime (and to be fair TVP do tend to give you a chance if you do this)

dunno if you were partying when two crews proper rinsed the ridgeway a few years back but that was what brought it all on top and got people ASBOs etc..

its a propaganda game, you can never expect the cops to blatantly let you “get away with it” because the locals don’t agree, but if you are seen to be closing down at an acceptable time everyone can actually end up being left alone..

TBH I’d say chat about it all you want here (within reason) but just keep schtum to the mainstream media

sometimes its better that those facts stay wrong

it often at least makes it look like TVP closed down the rave quicker and looked “harder” than they actually were which is what you want the local yokels to think

I’ll be quite blunt about this, there isn’t much of an argument to support free parties in 2008.

If it was the 1990s you could claim it was “celebrating the countryside” or some hippy stuff like that especially with the anti-bypass protests of those days

nowadays as MrAHC mentioned in another thread its often loads of max power types (me and my mates always had a good laugh at some of them grounding their lowered motors on the ridgeway or getting wholly bogged down but after mocking them we’d all go up and help them push their cars to safety)

also there are now regular licensed late night events all across Newbury, Oxford and Reading, so the only reason many people go free parties today is so they can do drugs without the bouncers or feds giving them grief like they would in town..