Party Vibe

West London seems to be getting quite harsh nowadays. Earlier in the year (January/Feb time IIRC) there was an attempt to hold a rave in a large industrial unit in Hillingdon.

It got shut down by environmental health along with what must have been about a quarter of Scotland Yard – about 10 serials (riot vans) all full (not like provincial forces where they send out a van with 3 bobbies in it!). Everyone left pretty sharpish- although the party relocated into another building in TVP area and continued! The bust was reported in local papers as an “example of good practice wih the Council and Police working together”

TBH I’m not surprised at all given the current terrorism scares and their recently upgraded comms/logistics that the Met can turn out in large number at such short notice on a weekend; but there was a time when London parties went relatively untouched by cops unless they needed to be there (like someone had been stabbed etc)

I suppose one problem is that a lot of London industrial estates are very near houses, but the units are normally used for high-tech rather than manual work so there isn’t normaly a noise problem.

another possibility is that the Met are becoming worried that the level of violence at London parties will reach a point where firearms are discharged – at present they (thankfully) have only been brandished (and even that is too much IMO), but with what is going on in London on the urban music scene in recent years its hardly surprising they aren’t optimistic!