Party Vibe

I am really chuffed to see guys being prepared to join the ranks of sound systems/rigs…keep on keeping on.

WRT paranoia – don’t be too hasty to give it up before you have even started. It is well worth it – the buzz of entertaining the right people in a wicked venue with little or no “rules” is pretty hard to beat. Just think of it this way> If you start the rig and parties at the back end of this summer, by 2010 (which ain’t that far away) you could be coming back from five days raving proper hard in Italy/France/Bulgaria/Poland etc, and be thinking back to those early days with your little rig and your twenty mates in 2007….

Believe me, it ain’t easy, and you will find yourself facing some tricky situations with the OB as well as idiots who attend. But if you have a good crew, and build a safe reputation with your punters, you will live to enjoy it and love it.

We started off small, sometimes with less than 30 people in a warehouse big enough for 5-600!! or at a club with less than 30 mates (who never pay) still trying to break even.

If you wanna buy some decent “get you started” rig – check my gallery and make me an offer – everything is for sale and everything is negotiable.

Listen to the folks like Globalloon, Gen Lighting, Use, etc – they know their shit and they are not gonna advise you to do stupid things which will lead to your rig/you being nicked. BUT, do remember that what you are doing is still illegal – I have spent time in cells, and I’ve had to go across the country to get my rig back from various police stations.

Don’t do the “hire it to yourself” or a mate trick – like the pros say – it don’t work. It did, but that was way back when the OB were persuadable.

I reckon you should do it. Start small, grow carefully, respect the Old Bill, the locals and the landowners and you will have a great time.

Even being known by OB has its advantages, as long as they know you as the rig that tidies up, doesn’t create vehicle issues (emergency access etc), that talks to them, and that leaves when it says it will. And one final point on this rant:
It doesn’t matter if you stop a party – there will always be another one. We used to stop em if they wanted us to. When you think of a ten year career in putting on parties, having a few stopped ain’t gonna taint the fun over the whole period.

Sorry to go on, but I think that the new blood needs to be encouraged, even if the old boys have quit now (like me!)

Safe
Dan

Maybe you could get a landowners permission to hold a small event?

Although after the complete mess of ‘The Yarmouth siege’, I doubt many people would be willing to help us ‘evil’ ravers now!!!

Yep there are quite a few! But they dont suffer fools at there events!

Don’t let paranoia stop you from doing it….

Remember – firstly, a party isn’t actually illegal until it has been section 63’d – ie the police have arrived and asked you to stop, and you’ve ignored them. So first rule is – if they tell you to stop, do it. Choose a backup site beforehand that you can move the party to if necessary.

If you can get permission from the landowner, so much the better (although you can still be section 63’d if they get complaints). Not sure how the law stands in England WRT trespass laws (they don’t exist up here in Scotland).

Next, remember – if the party is advertised in the public domain (ie all over the internet), they can and may very well come after you with the PEL legislation. So don’t put it in the public domain – make sure it’s friends, and friends of friends etc… It may take a while to build a big crowd of party goers, but it will be worth it….

Make sure you respect the land, and surroundings. Try not to do parties where they will antagonise local people, and make sure the site is cleaned up when you leave it (hard to do yourself while organising rig etc, but you will find people coming to the parties take on this responsibility for you fairly quickly…) The quickest way to get your rig nailed is to get a rep for being obnoxious to locals, or for coming and trashing the places you have parties and leaving it to others to tidy up.

Common sense really when it comes down to it…:wink:

The only way to change attitudes made sour by the various press coverage of riots etc is to be entirely reasonable – OK, occasionally it will mean you have to can the party one weekend (that you put down to experience, and move on). But you’ve no reason to be paranoid unless you know your crowd is going to be the type that riots when the party is stopped, or the police show up (in which case, time to get a different crowd…:wink:)

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