I only just got round to the video download section- i’d never seen the actual footage of the bristol bust – know as the cumberland basin incident locally. heard sooo much about it from various heads, its one of the “things to know in the area” and everyones got an opinion on it. was wicked seeing the footage and realising that one man with a camera and a will, brought that to national attention.
helped with acouple o raves near there, bout half mile up the river n the forest. my old route to uni is under that flyover, and the local grafitti “wall of fame” is there which ive dubbed a couple o times. the thing that made me think the cops went nuts is about 150metres away over a bridge on th railway, is the police horse training ground, where they have stables and kennels for their dogs. who must have loved it, u know animals and loudness, they shit emselves. we’ve got a sound place now, so they arent fussed so long as it isnt rinsed.
go into the city, tho and its much worse. most squat parties get fucked by the pigs (unless its a live-in squat that people respect) proper london hardcore style.
i think thats the diff between urban and rural partys (squat vs outdoor)
just after the police stomped on the peace protests in bristol (they did stomp and it was peacefull appart fromthat) i was devising a plan to launch water bombs with pioson in to get the military vehicles that stomped our freedom of speech (horses).i was talked out of it by mates. im sure there were cameras there, but noone complained (the news coverage was sayin we got fucked coz we deserved it- bollocks there was old folk there).
just goes to show if we dont ‘cover’ our events (i realise what the word means now) noone will.
