*OLD THREAD* FREE PARTY – SAT 16th APRIL *2005* – EDINBURGH Yes its that time of year again folks. Time to forget the clubs and move into the wilderness to jump about in front of the speakers from dusk til dawn til dusk again.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEE IT!
SAT 16th APRIL - FREE OUTDOOR PARTY (with full weather cover) - in the Edinburgh area - easy as pie to get to.
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Drugs raid on top London nightclub http://www.24dash.com
One of the capital's best known nightclubs has been raided by police investigating allegations of Class A drug dealing.
More than 200 Scotland Yard officers swooped on The Fridge in the heart of Brixton, south London after the dramatic raid was triggered by a command of "attack, attack" at just after 11.25pm last night.
Scores of officers then burst in through the front door while others covered the rear.
The raid came as hundreds of clubbers were arriving for the start of the venue's "Polysexual" night, which had been due to run until 2pm today.
It follows a two-month covert intelligence operation that identified the alleged dealing of Class A drugs, thought to include cocaine and ecstasy.
Police intelligence suggested the alleged dealing was taking place inside and around the female toilets.
Within an hour of the raid, police made five arrests.
Earlier yesterday, in connection with the raid, a 29-year-old man was arrested in Harrow, north-west London, on suspicion of possession of intent to supply controlled drugs.
The operation, codenamed Atun, was led by CO14, Scotland Yard's specialist clubs and vice unit, and included officers from the Territorial Support Group.
They swept into the club - which is housed in an old converted cinema - took control of the foyer and the dancefloor, turned the music off and the lights up.
Plain-clothes officers, operating undercover, were inside the club as the raid began.
Some clubbers were then brought into the foyer and searched for drugs.
Anyone found in possession was likely to be given a caution.
Senior officers were keen to stress the raid was not targeted at a particular type of music or style of event, but was instead designed to meet community concerns.
However, many disgruntled revellers who had to leave the venue complained that their night had been ruined and asked why it was necessary to halt the night rather than just remove the alleged dealers.
Chief Superintendent Martin Bridger, Borough Commander for Lambeth, apologised to those who had travelled a long way to the club only to see their night end prematurely.
He said that substances thought to be ecstasy and cocaine had been found at the club, and insisted that drug dealing had to be tackled.
"Drug dealers and the misery they cause are not welcome in Lambeth.
"The local community and police will not tolerate their criminal behaviour."
Mr Bridger indicated that the venue's licence would now be reviewed.
"What is clear is that there will be a review of the premises and the control mechanisms they have in place for keeping drugs out of the premises," he said.
Dance party scene becomes commercialized Dance party scene becomes commercialized
ERNEST A. JASMIN; The News Tribune
http://www.thenewstribune.com/
Published: March 29th, 2006 01:00 AM
The weekend fatal shootings of six young people in Seattle have rightly or wrongly put a spotlight on techno music dance parties known as raves.
But the consensus among insiders is that the parties have declined in popularity, especially in Pierce County, where they were never as common as in Seattle.
“Seattle’s got a bigger scene,” said Calvin Murphy, a former rave promoter whose company, Ocean Grooves, books a Wednesday night dance event at 21 Commerce, a Tacoma lounge.
“There’s more people up there,” he said. “You can’t really find a weekly party to go to if you’re under 21.”
That hasn’t always been so. Scenesters recall a 1990s heyday when underground parties were held without permit or traditional promotion at such Tacoma locations as the Heidelberg building downtown and the Propeller Club on the Tideflats.
“It’s harder to throw the parties. There’s more liability,” said former promoter and club owner Bryan Purdy of Burien. Back then “you could call (renowned DJ) Donald Glaude and say, ‘You want to do my party for $100.’ Now you’ve got to go through an agent.”
Raves lost their veil of secrecy and morphed into big business in the late ’90s as techno’s popularity peaked and promoters began to appreciate the merits of securing the proper permits. Many promoters began throwing their events in local nightclubs.
“It’s easier,” Murphy said. “You don’t have to run the venue; you have public facilities. You don’t have to worry about concessions (and) permits.”
The start of the 2000s saw the rise of “massives,” parties with big budgets and lineups that rivaled large rock concerts. Seattle promoter United State of Consciousness has held its annual USC and Freak Night Parties at Seahawks Stadium Exhibition Center.
“The stuff we see today, it’s basically got the same concept,” Murphy said. “It’s just evolved through the years. It’s more commercialized.”
Purists would not call such events “raves.” And Tacoma businessman Jerry Lechner characterizes his as “music festivals.”
Since 2001, his company, Ground Zero Events, has showcased a variety of rappers, DJs and rock bands in loosely rave-style parties. Apocalypse 2 in December drew 900 to 1,100 revelers – aged 16 and up, he said.
The next Ground Zero party, Masquerade 4, will bring popular rapper Twista and various DJs to Seattle nightclub The Premier on Saturday.
Lechner said he planned to donate a portion of proceeds from Saturday’s event to a memorial fund for the shooting victims.
Granted, some underground parties still go on. Stephen Wentling said he’d been to one recently. The 19-year-old University of Puget Sound student characterized the events he goes to as small, usually 10 to 15 people in someone’s basement.
There is a DJ. Partygoers swing neon glow sticks as they dance. People give each other massages, and some “roll” on the illegal drug Ecstasy. “We pamper each other,” Wentling said. “It’s all about just feeling good and loving every moment of it.”
But many consider rave culture a trend way past its prime. Whenever Jonathan Tollerud hears talk about raves “it’s always in the past tense – I used to go to raves,” the 20-year-old UPS student said.
Ravers fear publicity could put an end to their ‘peaceful’ parties Ravers fear publicity could put an end to their 'peaceful' parties
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/
By ANGELO BRUSCAS
P-I REPORTER
Kyle Huff was likely invited to the fatal after-hours party while attending an organized Friday night "rave" at the Capitol Hill Arts Center that drew more than 500 teens and young adults.
Run by a group called Funshine Productions, the rave had a team of security guards that searched party-goers for drugs or weapons as they entered the building.
It was billed as "zombie night" or "Better Off Undead," with one Web site promising: "Funshine Productions brings you a night of terror. Get ready to eat some brains!!!"
By all accounts the party on 12th Avenue ended peacefully without any major incidents at 4 a.m., but the events that followed have put the rave culture in the city on edge, fearing a backlash of publicity.
"I don't know how you put blame on the people who were promoting the rave or providing the event," said David Osgood, an attorney who has represented several rave promoters.
"It's going to cause them problems in the future, just for political reasons. There are going to be people who are not going to be able to simply see it as a tragedy," Osgood said. "So they are going to politicize it, and somehow it's going to be the rave that is blamed."
Promoters Keith Salender and Annika Anderson of Funshine Productions could have been victims of the after-hours party shooting as well. Salender said they had been invited to the house but were too busy loading up equipment to attend after the main party closed down.
"We had a lot of gear to take care of and so we decided not to go, amazingly," Salender said. "Of course, we are really affected because a lot of our friends were involved."
City Council President Nick Licata said he intends to hold a council briefing on the shooting and events that led up to it before today's regular City Council meeting.
Licata, however, cautioned against tying the rave parties to the violence that occurred afterward.
"The police chief said himself that the event they came from on Capitol Hill was very peaceful, very quiet," Licata said.
Licata wants the council to be informed of the full events that led to the shooting today, and is concerned that "some people have raised this as an issue -- connecting the raves with this incident."
"I want the Police Department and the chief to clarify what apparently is not a connection," he said. "This was a private party. You can call it a rave or whatever, but in the old days, it would have just been considered a house party."
Licata noted there did not appear to be any history of trouble with the venue or the promoter.
"The actual rave was at a legitimate place that has been operating for a long time, that had a particular kind of music," Licata said. "The word 'rave' is a marketing tool that is used to get people to show up because it sounds like something exciting or edgy is happening. In fact, it's techno music that is pretty mellow."
The rave Friday night featured several popular disc jockeys, including Delta 88 and The Prophet. It also featured heavy security, Salender said. Security was provided by the arts center as well as a private company hired by Funshine Productions.
Osgood describes raves as completely different from days when they were "uncontrolled parties where you would find an abandoned house or an abandoned building and you'd take it over without the police or fire department or anyone knowing about it. And you would party all night long," he said.
"But modern raves are pretty strictly controlled, and the promoters are very paranoid about them. The raves that I have been to are put on by promoters who think it is advisable to have an attorney on staff, in addition to off-duty police, fire and paramedics."
Osgood fears the publicity over the shootings will drive the rave scene underground, where young people will be far less safe than at controlled parties.
"Kids are going to be kids, and if there is a backlash against either rave promoters or venues, we're going to be much less safer for it," Osgood said. "These promoters know the limitations with which they can put on events in town. Kids are going to do this, either in an abandoned factory or in a venue where you have access to paramedics and police officers and security."
If it goes underground, "the cops won't know where it is, no one is going to know where it is, and it is going to be just like this house party," Osgood said.
Dave Martinez, another local promoter, said raves "imply a dirty past, as if the event was illegal."
He says he's never had a problem, "not with permits, fights, nada."
Osgood said he has represented one rave promoter for the past seven or eight years, and has never had any problems like the shootings.
"I have had nothing but cooperation from the fire department, from paramedics," he said. "I have a lot of cooperation from the police, and occasionally, I have had some problems with the police."
Most of those problems have been regulatory, such as trying to enforce the all-ages dance ordinance where it doesn't apply.
"It just depends on the political climate, whether they think that raves are a good, safe outlet, or whether they think they are evil," Osgood said.
Licata doesn't expect the event or the tragedy to be politicized.
"When a tragic situation like this happens, we all begin searching for answers and try to connect the dots," he said. "I don't see any evidence that connects the dots to an individual who apparently, for lack of a better word, just snapped."
Parties keeping us up all night Sandy 14-hour raves a 'pain in backside'
http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk
Police and a council have come under fire from residents who endured a sleepless night for not doing enough to halt a 14-hour illegal rave.
Up to 300 revellers staged the all night party at the disused Morgan Matroc factory in Sandy from midnight on Saturday to 4.30pm the following afternoon last weekend.
It was the second rave in five weeks thrown in the building.
Carole Harding of nearby Friars Walk said police and Mid Beds District Council appeared powerless to stop it and wants to see the site secured.
She said: "Both the police and the council seem incapable of doing anything once the event has started. A lot of residents were disturbed by 14 hours of continuous noise.
"It was the second time in five weeks it has happened. It is a pain in the backside and is starting to brainwash residents. After 14 hours of pumping music it gets hard to think straight."
Police confirmed they had received numerous angry complaints about the noise but said as the rave was in full swing by the time they were called, it was too dangerous to try to stop it.
They alerted Mid Beds but environmental health officers did not attend.
A spokesman for Mid Beds District Council said: "We will try and identify the owners of the site and make them take action to make sure the site is secured, to prevent further illegal trespass."
See the March 24 edition of the Biggleswade Chronicle for the full version of this story.
24 March 2006
MCR 16/4 – SHITMAT, SCOTCH EGG, OVENAXX, DRSS AFTERPARTY! Mind on Fire presents
EASTER SUNDAY 16th APRIL 2006
SATANS HOLLOW, Princess St, Manchester
4pm – 12:30am
5 pounds.
SHITMAT
www.shitmat.co.uk
wrong music minstral who mixes bross with grindcore and salsa with neighbours samples .. bring ya ear plugs!
DJ SCOTCH EGG
www.djscotchegg.com
Brighton based Chicken Loving Gameboy playing Gabba Machine (Wrong Music)
OVENAXX
http://www.accelmuzhik.net/ovnx/
Revered Japanese producer with pounding live hardcore assault (Accelmuzhik)
TEN PAST SEVEN
www.myspace.com/tenpastseven
folky post hardcore 3 piece from Cork, Ireland, on Out on A Limb Records
JACK RUBY
www.myspace.com/jackruby
Manchester drums/guitar two piece, featuring members of the deceased Beecher and When Words Escape.
BARBARIANS
Insanse improvised noise metal, sometimes using power tools as instruments.
ne 1 got ne news tryin to find out wat is going on tonight. meant to get info around nine but have had no result can ne 1 pm as wether things are still on. :surprised
UK : MCR : God Squad remix Madchester Ok what did all you lot think about this then?
have to say it looked a bit like how the happy clappy Christians get a bunch of old smackheads from rehab etc, make then renounce class As and turn to Jesus and then put on a play to show "we is in touch with da yoof innit"
have to agree with this comment from the Grauniad
Quote:
The Bishop of Manchester, the right reverend Nigel McCulloch says:
"Manchester Passion has a sincerity and an ability to shock and connect that is not far removed from how it must have been on the first Good Friday."
He's right. Some of it is shocking. Ian Curtis would turn in his grave if he could hear Darren Morfitt as Jesus destroying Love Will Tear Us Apart. He sounds as if he's singing from the bottom of a swimming pool.
it reminded me of that old comedian Roy North who was on Granada used to mangle pop songs when I was a kid. Half expected Basil Brush to pop out from behind the cross and shout "Boom! Boom!"
ReRaveAll SAT APRIL 15TH AT THE BRIXTON TELEGRAPH TILTEDDISCO'S EASTER FUNK
Set to change the mould of the ordinary Techno event, making their own tilted world to party in. This will be an escape.
9PM TILL 6AM BRIXTON HILL, BRIXTON LONDON
TILTEDDISCO BASS ROOM
DJ BONE AND FABRICE LIG
STEVE STRAWBERRY
RYAN BLACKMAN
DISCO LOVE AND ACID ROOM
KEITH ANDERSON
GILBATRON
BIG DUBS
PHIL - TECHNOLOGICAL
MILES
Tickets 10 pounds available at:
www.ticketweb.co.uk
www.phonicarecords.com
www.knowhowrecords.com
www.smallfish.co.uk
Try and make it early to guarantee entry.
Edinburgh Free party Any one know bout any free parties in Edinburgh 24th of this month? March, 2 days before the public smoking ban in Scotland!! Cheers!
anyone in south wales area rite basically my mates car didnt pass the mot and we have no transport so if theres anyone fin ther cardiff and vale area going to to the link up party this weekend (easter) and have room for 2 (willing to pay towards petrol) in their car it would be very much appriciated if they could spare a lift :) if anyone is able to do this please pm me or email me at liam_hanlon04@yahoo.co.uk. cheers
repetitive strain injury ive been noticing the tendons in my arm becoming tender after a heavy sesh on the computer, be it writing or video editing, whatever.
i pay attention to the posture suggestions, and take regular breaks, and excercise, etc so my back is sorting itself out, but my hands and lower arms are fucking up now. im sure that there are excercises to help aleiviate the symptoms, but im fucked if i can find em.
it looks like there are so many different forms of rsi, from differnt activities, but mine are mainly from clicking and typing. i found this website which gives an over veiw, but i was wondering if anyone was exprincing, or has experienced, keyboard rsi, and had any tips?
Synergy Centre Weekly Digest 4 Welcome to the weekly digest about activities surrounding the Synergy Centre in Camberwell for events from Thursday the 13th of April to Sunday the 23rd of April.
Thanks to all who came to support Friday's Omnicience!
Tonight: Thursday Film and Food night!
Join us as United Diversity presents the fourth of their 'Another World is Blossoming' Screenings
6pm Castles in the Sky
An orphaned boy and girl go in search of the mysterious floating kingdom of Laputa
8:30pm 1 Giant Leap
A unique project for the 21st century which fuses words, sounds, rhythms and images from across the globe
10pm(ish) La Haine
A powerfully emotional comment on the state of French society and the problems caused by urban deprivation and its underlying causes
Entry by donation Suggested £5/3(waged/unwaged), with all proceeds going towards the centre's renovation fun.
Accoustic Tuesday
From 8pm to midnight every week
Magic, purist and most simple.
Stunning acoustic music with inspired spoken word performances.
Click here to find out who's performing...
Later this month:
Friday April 21st Another Drop
Two rooms of Psy-trance and Alternative Chill, Breaks and Psy-Dub stuff
Friday April 28 Synergy Project at SeOne
Workshops every week:
Tonight
Relaxation and Dance Expression Class
From 7.30 to 9.30pm with Sandra - first class free!
Capoeira Class
From 7pm
Friday
Traditional African Drumming
From 6 to 9pm with Kakatsitsi
Sunday
Traditional African Drumming
From 3 to 6pm with Kakatsitsi
Monday
African Dance Class
From 7 to 10pm with Akoto of Kakatsitsi. For more info please call 07984 210263
Portuguese language workshop
From 7 to 8pm
Tuesday
Capoeira Class
From 7pm
Wednesday
Poi Class
From 7 to 9pm in the Synergy Centre Gallery
Just Jugglers
From 7 to10pm with Alex
Click here to find the Centre
for more info visit our website at www.thesynergyproject.org or call the office on 02077931083
Until next week...
Greetings from the Synergy Centre Crew!
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