Party Vibe

I was partying 10-20 years ago and also like any other youth in their teens hanging around on streets etc

youths did still carry weapons back then but the difference was no one wanted to strike to kill like they do nowadays as even if you actually hated someone enough to want to kill them you knew you would get sent to HMP and it would be boring and shit losing your freedom. I think people today don’t care as much, possibly because their normal lives are so empty/boring that prison life isn’t that intolerable compared to day to day existence!

the problem is in some cases scummy behaviour is coming across to the bumpkin parties as well (even if its people who know one another bringing their private arguments to the party).

I agree with what r1cky1 and cliffy are saying but the “solidarity” what was around “back in the day” doesn’t seem to be there as much and there is more acceptance of a “hard man culture” amongst some crews and more of tolerance low-level violence/fighting at raves than in the 90s

The streets weren’t much less rough in the 90s or early 2000s than they are now but during that time there seemed to be an unwritten rule that whatever beef you had with someone it was never brought to a rave, it was kept to the streets/estates. This attitude does IMO seem to have changed for the worst in recent times.

the big risk is that if allowed to continue, that eventually someone or a group who think they are harder will take matters into their own hands and execute a rival at a rave (its apparently already happened in London, one gang member stabbed a rival in full view of witnesses).

Then they will become addicted to the buzz they get from being the “big man” and the “enforcer” and trouble can escalate :hopeless: (and then the feds will clamp down even harder than they currently are).

same as what happens already on the legal UK garage event scene..

Norfolk parties are actually the friendliest I have experienced in 17 years of partying…

I felt I could attend them as someone from “different ends” and also a non-white person (I know it shouldn’t make any difference but sadly it does in todays angry competitive society) and I felt really safe compared to many other places I have raved in. (I’ve also noticed East Anglia’s party scene is extremely multicultural compared to other non-London regions!)

I wouldn’t say they are 100% trouble free but its a different profile of incidents. Scum like overt muggers/thieves aren’t tolerated and are ejected as mentioned, but there is a slight problem with various incidents occuring between people who know one another, often domestic arguments or money arguments. If people could leave their personal grudges behind then these raves would be perfect.