Break Time @ Club Fandango, Plymouth (Friday 19th August) BREAK TIME
The next Break Time will be on Friday 19th August at Club Fandango, this month will feature DJ Spinz from the Scribes (Unsung Records) along side the usual residents Plastik, Qinetic and Suave, playing funky hip-hop, broken beats and bitchassdirtyfunk.
Club Fandango
Elliot Street
The Hoe
Plymouth
Doors 9 - 2
Tax £4
www.djsuave.co.uk
www.djplastik.co.uk
www.meek.tv
JOY, Friday 12th August @ Mission, Leeds Revival of House JOY...FRIDAY 12TH AUGUST @ MISSION,LEEDS
REVIVAL OF HOUSE 1990-96
Expect the biggest and best tunes 0f the 1990's at the Norths premier club classics event.
ARCH'S 1 AND 2: The music that made clubbing what it is today!!
Djs spinning the classics this month are, ex ARK resident Ewan Cawood, Kells+Tots, Steve Luigi ( Gallery classics set), DaleTheDisc, Ellis Matthews and Paul H
ARCH 3: US Soulful House.
With Groovejet's (space sat nights) DJ's:
Alexander Church
Good2Groove
Doors open 10pm til 4am
£8 before 12 o clock, £10 after.
30TH APRIL MULTI-RIG EVENT watch this space for more on the next manchester mash up..... RANDOM are comin from london and TOYTOWN are trekkin from lincoln...from manchester weve got the usual suspects STRANGE-WAYZ and DAYLITE ROBBERY being joined by O-SO, ANODYNE, MONKEY PUZZLE and the first outing for the newly formed NOTMUSIC rig.... believe it or not there are still more rigs to be confirmed! THIS IS GONNA BE A 'BATTLESTACK GALACTICA'!!!! watch out for more news on UKteknival at the end of may....which will be a huge teknofest as usual.....
for more info and to join the mailing list email strange_wayz23@yahoo.co.uk
.....and remember this time, lets respect the venue people! so we can take this scene from strength to strength....
see y'all soon
safe
SW12
Innerexpress Innerexpress are at it again! They're at the Vibes bar on 5th August 2005. It was brilliant last time and this time promises to be even better. Check out our website for more information. www.innerexpress.tk. Email us if you want to know more! Thanx, cya there!
UK : Reading : more crime’n’grime as armed police bust crackhouse… what I find particulally worrying about this is the young age of all the people involved, and the links with the London gangs, particularly in the wake of Mary-Ann Leneghan's murder... in the old skool days the crack users would be in their late 20s and 30s (they wouldn't last much longer than that though if they didn't give up)
these young people should be out raving at free parties, not getting involved with crack which only leads to addiction and violence (particularly against the girls who might think they are "rude gals" but are just treated as meat by the boys)
IMO this crack culture could wreck the rave scene and progressive youth movements worse than anything the cops could do...
Eight people arrested after drugs raids - Reading
Eight people have been arrested, seven of which remain in custody after officers searched seven homes and seized an estimated 300-400 wraps of crack cocaine and a substantial amount of cash.
Officers stopped a Renault Clio and a Ford Ka outside the Jet Garage in Oxford Road, Reading, at just before 4pm yesterday (25/7) leading to the arrest of six people – male and female - and the seizure of cash.
As a result, police then executed search warrants at two addresses in Sherwood Street in Reading. Two further addresses, one in Temple Place, Reading, and one in Elvaston Way, Reading, were also searched. In the course of these searches two further people were arrested.
Houses in Wanstead, Greenwich and Hackney, London were also searched. These searches ended at around 4am today.
Crack cocaine, with an estimated value of £20 a wrap, cash – the total sum of which will not be disclosed at this time – and drugs paraphernalia were seized.
One of the eight people, a 21-year-old Tilehurst woman, has been released on bail pending further inquiries. She is due to return on 23 August.
A 20-year-old man from Greenwich, London; a 21-year-old Reading man; a 22-year-old man from Hackney, London, a 23-year-old Reading man, an 18-year-old Reading girl and two 21-year-old women from London remain in police custody.
They are being held at stations across Berkshire West and are due to be questioned by officers throughout today.
07/28 MOON SHADOWS Malibu – Sunset,Waves & Open Air Thursdays in Malibu
A weekly affair @ MOONSHADOWS
Hosted by : SOL!D - BALL OF WAX - DEEPER SHADES - CHICOOLIGAN
Every 4th Thursday of the month (07 /28 /05), hosted by:
Lars Behrenroth - Germany
(Deeper Shades of House / XM Radio - Botanica, LA)
w/ special guest JAIME G. (Late Night, Los Angeles)
Deep sounds compliment the beautiful Malibu sunset while enhanced by the sound of the waves hitting the shore. Under the stars on the Blue Lounge sundeck.
8:00pm - 1:30am / 21+ / FREE
MOONSHADOWS
20356 PACIFIC COAST HIGHWAY :: MALIBU :: CALIFORNIA
(Two miles north of Topanga Canyon :: Oceanside)
Info, directions, dinner reservations:
1.310.456.3010 - RSVP@SOLIDSELECTORS.COM
www.deepershades.net / www.ballofwaxx.com / www.solidselectors.com / www.milanrecords.com / www.moonshadowsmalibu.com
enjoy some pictures from the last two times Lars hosted right here:
set 1 - guest DJ DOWNLO - pics by Kathy Behrenroth
set 2 - guest WAYNE LYONS - pics by Andrew Luckham
Civil War In Iraq! Crumbling Iraq
DER SPIEGEL 30/2005 - July 25, 2005
URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,366834,00.html
Is the Country Heading for Civil War?
By Georg Mascolo and Bernhard Zand
From the outside, it seems like chaotic violence. But it's worse than that. In Iraq, Sunni Muslim suicide commandos are launching bloodbaths among the Shiites, gradually edging the country toward civil war. Instead of becoming a democratic beacon for the entire region, Iraq is on the verge of disintegrating.
Violence in Iraq seems only to be getting worse. Here, the scene after the devestating tanker blast 10 days ago.
Some 80 suicide bombers, or about one a day, have lost their lives since April. They may believe that they are bound for paradise, but their last path on earth is full of treachery and deceit.
A young man was standing in front of Baghdad's old city airport trying to stir up a group of his unemployed contemporaries. "You're such fools," he said. "The guards are standing over there at the entrance, collecting their bribes -- and you stand around out here in the sun and don't even know that you're being duped."
The man waited quietly until the agitated crowd had pushed its way into a narrow passageway between three-foot concrete barriers at the entrance of an Iraqi police recruiting office. Then he strolled over to the crowd, forced his way through the barriers and detonated his belt of explosives. 25 people died.
A tanker truck stolen from the oil ministry had already been parked directly in front of the local mosque for some time. It was supposed to explode a few days later in the center of the city of Mussayib, half an hour's drive south of Baghdad -- but not until after 8 p.m., after the day's heat finally subsided. By then, shops in the bazaar would be opening for business and the faithful would be gathering for evening prayers. The assassin climbed under the truck and blew himself up. 98 dead.
The man who was loitering, trance-like, in front of a cemetery in New Baghdad, was wearing a vest packed with explosives. His vest pockets were filled with broken ball bearings. Police officers discovered the man and arrested him before he could do any damage. The suicide bomber had been waiting for a funeral procession carrying the coffins of children killed three days earlier in a suicide attack. The man, a Libyan, was pumped full of sedatives and surrendered to police without resistance.
Daily pattern of murder
The daily pattern of murder in Iraq is spinning out of control; the death toll is becoming unbearable. Iraqi cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani ruled that the indiscriminate slaughtering of politicians and religious dignitaries, children and the elderly has assumed the dimensions of "mass extermination," and that Iraq is headed in the direction of what he called "genocide."
The elderly leader of Iraq's Shiites has consistently urged his fellow Shiites to remain calm and is not given to exaggeration. Indeed, he has good reason to issue his dramatic appeal: Thousands of Iraqi civilians, soldiers and police officers have already met violent deaths in the first half of this year. Nevertheless, Iraq's Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr, says that there is no discernible pattern to the omnipresence of death, no grand plan behind the indiscriminate terror.
But his claim ignores the obvious: The victims of the suicide attacks are almost exclusively Shiites, who represent the majority, or about 60 percent, of the Iraqi population.
The masterminds of terror, especially al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, are Sunnis. Their goal is to instigate civil war, which would lead to the complete collapse of this ethnically and religiously divided country.
This civil war, which has in fact been underway for some time, isn't just frightening the citizens of Baghdad, whose lives have become a living hell as a result. It's also alarming the American president, who sees it as a threat to his legacy. The disintegration of Iraq after a long, bloody civil war would be precisely the opposite of the peaceful, democratic and prosperous development US President George W. Bush had planned to bestow upon Iraq and the rest of the region with his military intervention.
Quarreling Muslim factions
For this reason the US government, whose 139,000-strong occupation force is far too small to be able to guarantee security and order, is avoiding any reference to a religious war or even a clash between quarreling Muslim factions.
The open street fighting that dragged the Lebanese capital of Beirut to the brink of disaster 30 years ago hasn't erupted in Baghdad yet. But the writing on the wall is unmistakable: the conflict between Sunnis and Shiites, which claims new lives every day, is beginning to erupt in sections of this city of five million where the two groups have coexisted peacefully -- until now.
Five times in the last four weeks, for example, ordinary people, who had nothing at all to do with building a new Iraq, were killed as they walked along the road to the airport in Baghdad's Amariya neighborhood. They were killed for revenge, escalating animosities between the two religious groups. First, a Sunni fruit vendor was kidnapped. Then a Shiite pharmacist was shot, followed by the shooting of a Sunni who managed an ice cream parlor. Finally, two Shiite street vendors disappeared; their bodies were found days later, dumped onto a pile of garbage.
"Never before have I ended the school year feeling so discouraged," says elementary school teacher Mohammed Salih, 30. "Even my pupils are starting to curse one another for being Sunnis or Shiites. The seeds of evil have been sown, and they are germinating with each passing day."
"It looks like a civil war," says Ayham al-Samarrai, who arrived in Washington for talks last week. Al-Samarrai, who had been Minister of Electricity in the transitional government that was replaced in April, has many friends in the Bush administration. He is considered to be one of the few Iraqis with reliable connections to individual groups of insurgents. Their main goal, says Samarrai, is to force the Shiite government legitimated by the elections to relinquish some of its influence.
In a formal letter, the key Islamic Jihad groups nominated Samarrai to be their middleman for conveying their demands to the occupation forces. The Zarqawi-led group, "al-Qaida in Iraq," is excluded explicitly.
The declared objective of the governments in Baghdad and Washington is to detach Zarqawi from his support infrastructure of former Saddam sympathizers, unemployed soldiers, Arab nationalists, frustrated tribal leaders and common criminals. Washington's terrorism experts believe that if disappointed Iraqis (Americans call them POI, or "pissed-off Iraqis") can be placated, the chances of achieving some measure of peace in the country would be far less dismal than they are now. Until now, Zarqawi's fighters have shown little interest in capturing the hearts and minds of Iraqis. Indeed, the terrorists, many of whom come from other countries, are perceived as invaders. Is it possible to split the insurgency? Perhaps, but time seems to be on the side of the terrorists and their plan to plunge the country into utter chaos.
Utilities disruptions
Last week, when the temperature in Baghdad soared over 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit), the city experienced something that was even a rarity in the months following the war: the simultaneous collapse of its three most important supply systems.
An attack on the central oil pipeline north of Baghdad interrupted the power supply and caused gasoline and diesel fuel shortages. The extreme heat aggravated a water shortage that had already lasted for weeks -- the brackish liquid now dripping from Baghdad's faucets has become undrinkable. To make matters worse, the power supply to the Iraqi capital was reduced to four hours of electricity, portioned out to customers in small installments throughout the day.
The administration of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari is bearing the brunt of Iraqis' frustrations. Since it came into power in April, Jaafari's government has been unable to improve basic services or improve the catastrophic security situation in the country.
US military officials have been complaining for months that the Iraqi police force and military are not even remotely capable of establishing peace in the country. And now the opinion is official. In a report released on Thursday, July 21, the Pentagon conceded that half of Iraq's 93,800 police officers have barely mastered basic training and are completely unqualified for regular duty.
The other half, as well as two-thirds of the 78,800 new troops in the Iraqi armed forces, are only "partially deployable" -- only in conjunction with US troops, according to the Pentagon brief. That leaves the country with about 26,000 of its own troops to conduct an independent fight against terror -- a force that exceeds Washington's current estimate of 20,000 insurgents in Iraq by just 6,000 men. Only three out of a total of 107 army and police battalions, the report continues, are truly capable of "planning, executing and maintaining independent operations."
Armed pre-schoolers
This lack of experience has become all too apparent to US military trainers at the country's three main training camps, where recruits are given to shouting "Iraq! Iraq! Iraq!" with the same enthusiasm as they once shouted "Saddam! Saddam! Saddam!" Even after completing the training, Iraqi security forces don't come close to meeting US standards. Indeed, American GIs derisively refer to their new brothers-in-arms as "armed pre-schoolers."
Ever since an Iraqi unit forgot to take away a prisoner after a raid near Baghdad, and after it was discovered that guards at road blocks are fond of taking naps, American minders have been deployed everywhere. For the Americans, some of the Iraqis' most annoying habits include doing their shopping while on patrol and consuming psychotropic drugs to calm their nerves before reporting to duty.
Civilian foreign investors, for whose support the Iraqi government campaigned at conferences in Munich and Amman, Jordan, last week, have generally avoided Iraq. Many of the businessmen who attended the events complained that the precarious security situation is making orderly reconstruction an impossibility.
Egyptian telephone magnate Naguib Sawiris has experienced first-hand what can happen to foreign entrepreneurs serious about investing in post-war Iraq. In 2003, the US civilian administration awarded his company the license for the first wireless network in central Iraq. Iraqna ("Our Iraq"), which covers Baghdad and the Sunni triangle, already boasts a million customers and has managed to earn $63 million in revenues in the first quarter of this year alone.
But many Iraqna customers complain about quality problems in the network caused by American forces' frequent use of jamming transmitters during military operations. The insurgents revile the company as being pro-American while simultaneously accusing the Iraqi government of facilitating communications for terrorists.
"Working in Iraq is extremely difficult," says Sawiris. "There are no foreign experts who'll go to Iraq voluntarily, and reliable local subcontractors are nonexistent." The company currently employs only 400 technicians and administrators in Iraq, with another 1,200 employees working as bodyguards and equipment security guards.
The conviction that they are fighting a weak government, a helpless police force and an overextended occupation army serves as constant motivation for the insurgents. But the "tree of Iraqi freedom" is being watered with blood, warned Prime Minister Jaafari, in an effort to prepare Iraqis for the cycles of violence that are expected to continue in the coming months, partly in response the parliament's plan to adopt a new constitution in August, as well as plans to hold a referendum in October and elect a new government in December.
The tactics of violent insurgents in Iraq now are focused entirely on the war of religious divisons, says political scientist Nabil Mohammed of the University of Baghdad. And their strategy seems to be bearing fruit. In addition to suicide bombings, Basra, Baghdad and the areas with mixed populations south and northeast of the capital are now plagued by targeted attacks on Sunni and Shiite clerics and politicians, with retaliation often occurring within hours.
On Haifa Street in Baghdad in early July, a gang of killers shot and killed Sheikh Kamal al-Din al-Ghureifi, one of the highest-ranking representatives of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. That same afternoon, assailants forced their way into a Sunni mosque in the same district and kidnapped Sunni cleric Amr al-Tikriti.
"The war between religious divisions has begun"
In his sermon on the following Friday, Imam Jalal al-Din al-Saghir called for restraint, saying that "the war between religious divisions has begun. Their goal is to force the Shiites into a civil war. If this catastrophe occurs, everything will be lost."
On the other hand, Chudeir al-Chusai, a member of parliament from the largest Shiite party, has already called for vigilantism: "We are on the edge of a precipice that could swallow us all. We have the right to defend ourselves."
Meanwhile, even Sunnis are complaining about the targeted attacks on members of their own faith. They charge that the Shiite militia's Badr Brigades, which should have been disbanded long ago, in fact form the core of the government's own security apparatus.
According to Britain's Observer, there is evidence that government security forces have committed "gruesome acts of violence." The mutilated corpses of Sunnis arrested on charges of terrorism have been returned to their families bearing the characteristic wounds of extreme torture. The newspaper reported that units of the so-called Wolf Brigade, an elite force controlled by the Interior Ministry, maintain secret torture centers where prisoners are subjected to slave-like conditions reminiscent of the practices of Saddam's sadistic commandos. "Yes, these things happen," government spokesman Leith Kubba frankly admits. British and American officials also have found evidence of the torture practices of Iraqi units.
Independent Kurdish state
However, Major General Mohammed Qureishi, the legendary commander of the Wolf Brigade, maintains close personal ties to Prime Minister Jaafari, who praises Qureishi as a "true hero in the fight against terror."
Faced with the pressure of presenting a new constitution by mid-August, politicians of all stripes are doing their utmost to avert civil war. But in doing so they place their own lives in danger. Mijbil Issa and Dhamin Hussein al-Obeidi, two of the 25 Sunni leaders who agreed to join the constitutional convention, were murdered last Tuesday.
Despite lawmakers' efforts, the former realm of Saddam, who disgraced himself in a televised court hearing last week with his shrill complaints, threatens to break into pieces. Politicians in the comparatively peaceful provinces in the north and south of the country are increasingly pushing for secession, and even some Sunnis in central Iraq -- once staunch opponents of a breakup of Iraq -- are beginning to take to the idea.
Jalal Talabani believes the simple fact that he, as a Kurd, was elected president, speaks for Iraq's indivisibility. But Saedi Barsandji, one of the closest advisors to Talabani's rival, Masud Barzani, disagrees: "Whatever the official Kurdish position may be, our historic goal is an independent, sovereign Kurdish state."
Barzani is currently a member of the Iraqi National Congress and heads the Kurdish delegation to the constitutional convention. Last Wednesday, he presented the group with a map that can only further aggravate ethnic conflict in Iraq. The map documents territorial claims extending hundreds of kilometers south of the current Kurdish Autonomous Region, all the way to the city of Jassan, about 100 kilometers southeast of Baghdad.
The leaders of Kurdish northern Iraq have repressed virtually everything Arabic, as well as any other indications of the region's Iraqi identity. And now, say the non-Kurdish inhabitants of northern Iraqi oil center Kirkuk, they are also trying to drive out the city's Arab population. Their claims are not unfounded: Kurdish leaders are insisting on the repatriation of 300,000 Kurds that Saddam had expelled from the Kirkuk region.
"No more centralist system"
The Kurdish representatives in Iraq's government managed to insert strong provisions into Iraq's interim constitution to guarantee the autonomy the region gained in 1991. Under Article 61, a two-thirds majority in only 3 of Iraq's 18 provinces would be sufficient to reject a final constitution. But this clause, originally included as a concession to the Kurdish provinces of Arbil, Suleimaniya and Dahuk, is now being used as a political weapon in predominantly Shiite southern Iraq and in the Sunni triangle.
"We want to do away with the centralist system that ties the entire country to the capital," says Bakr al-Yassin, chairman of the governing council in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. Using Iraqi Kurdistan as his model, Yassin wants to establish a southern Iraqi autonomous region that would consist of the provinces of Basra, Dhi Qar and Maysan -- an area that includes most of Iraq's oil reserves. His most important ally is Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi, the Pentagon's former protégé, whose family hails from Nasiriyah.
Both Yassin and Chalabi are considered secular Shiites. The principal beneficiaries of their plan for an autonomous region, however, would be the religious Shiite parties and their militias, which already control southern Iraq and maintain excellent relations with neighboring, Shiite-dominated Iran. Until now, the leaders of these parties have vehemently supported a uniform, centralized state extending "from the Turkish to the Kuwaiti border." But they are beginning to soften on their position. Both Grand Ayatollah Sistani and his younger rival, Muqtada al-Sadr, have declared that it should be up to the people to decide whether the south should become autonomous.
But Article 61 doesn't just pave the way to autonomy for the Kurds and Shiites. Fassal al-Ka'oud, governor of the volatile al-Anbar Province, believes that the constitutional loophole also applies to other groups. Last May, he and his counterparts from Mossul and Tikrit, Saddam's home town, came together in a largely unnoticed meeting to discuss their options. Although their three provinces are ethnically and religiously less homogeneous than the country's north and south, they could probably muster a qualified Sunni majority that would satisfy the requirements of Article 61.
Kurdistan, Shiistan, Sunnistan? In a fracturing Iraq, what would happen to Baghdad, with its five million inhabitants, where none of the three groups constitutes a clear majority?
Wayne White, a former leading expert on Iraq at the US State Department who now works for a Washington think tank, points out that Baghdad follow the miserable precedent set by Beirut. If authorities aren't able to improve life for Iraqis and isolate terror soon, a battle for control of the capital could result -- possibly with mass expulsions.
And who will ultimately gain the upper hand? "There's no winner at this point," says White.
Translated from the German by Christopher Sultan
London – Acid House night. 11th August Thursday 11th August 2005 9PM to 2AM
Acid Toe Jam
Toasty Acid House, spread with Minimal techno, breaks and electro.
At
The Medicine (Downstairs)
89 Great Eastern Street
London EC2A 3XH
0207 739 5173
Djs
Cidic (Trackheads, Acidica.com)
Maxx Vinyl (Raindance, Resonance)
Louise Plus One (Re-Rave-All)
Alex Fisher (Aftermatch, After Dinner)
The Growler (Aftermatch)
Free Admission!!
Prizes for the best dancers!!
Acid Toe Jam has crashed on earth from Outer Space and intends to infect the world with the sounds of the Rolland TB 303. Therefore it makes the world a place where everyone can get down and shake their respective groove thangs. Acid Toe Jam djs will have their records ready to attack earthlings, with acid sounds infused with house, techno, breaks electro and wonk and guaranteed to make ‘emdance from head to toe. Acid Toe Jam is hosted by Louise Plus One known for her Re-Rave-All parties at Mass in Brixton. Plus dj Juan and the growler of Aftermatch. Eastend`s quirkiest electro(nica) night. The line up will be completed by two guest djs. Cidic (Trackheads Acidica.com) and Maxx Vinyl (Resonance, Raindance) committed to Acid House-Old and New, with elements of minimal techno, breaks and electro.
For info contact louiseplus1@hotmail.com
Or andi@after-dinner.org.uk
Info line 07947 128 129
Visit www.after-dinner.org.uk/acidtoejam/
www.re-rave-all.net
Aztek ~ Massika ~ Brainfuel ~ NativeBeats 23-7-05 Well holy frap jockeys, that was a mission and a half, the natives first outing in 2005 and we got tested, but made it thru alive. First off I worked all Saturday and Friday, and I "forgot" not to get completely spannered on Friday night. So by the time sat eve showed its face, I was slightly delusional from lack of sleep. Plans were going fine, but I hadn’t forwarded a message about when we were meeting to the crew, so they were running a few hours late. Then, once id squared all this out, I get a call saying we're missing a vital lead and some of our rig cant be plugged in. boo. So im sorting out this glitch, and in that horrible pre-rave waiting limbo, trying not to get too caned so actually have some energy, and nearly falling asleep anyway.
Reet, so we mission it to the town near the site, having missed the convoy and having to find it just like everyone else, from the partyline. Problem is, we only have one phone and its not receiving shit, so im going on scribbled notes from an earlier conversation. We get down off the road, onto a track, and follow what seems like the right way, until we get to a mound and a gate. Now I know we are meant to go over it, but the drivers are having none of it and we cant hear shit.
Luckily enough, just at that moment, a astravan appears coming down the hill on the other side of the mound, so I leg it over, only to find that they haven’t found the party either, and have been to the top of the hill. We listen to the partyline on their phone on speaker, and realize there is a further turning we hadn’t heard before, so they set off and we prepare to ramp the mound. The first can gets over fine, but the second bottoms out and has to be tipped over. Not a good sign, as it turns out the rig is coming in a caravan, not a Luton. We get to the top of the hill, turn down a long slope of earth and stone and find our selves at the bottom in a forest. We cant get thru to the organizers, cos there’s no reception down there, and we aren’t hearing any bass, but we keep goin anyway. Finally, we see a van up ahead, halo'ed in light, and we know we've got there. "I’ll be surprised if there are more than 7 ravers here" someone comments, and we all take the piss out of him and get out.
Brainfuel are setting up, when I ask about for someone to chat to from the rig, I get stonewalled, like im a cop or summat. to be expected. I trek down past massika, who are nearly up, to aztek, who are on the end pointed away from everyone else. Im too knackered to make any intros, I have an ask around but no ones seen any of my contacts. or at least aren’t telling me. Back to the car for a reefer, I think, and I wander back, eyes peeled for familiars, and head full of how the fuck the rig will get here.
After a bifta, we decide to go and find some reception and see where the rig is. on the way back up the hill, we pass the troops, who tell us the caravan is stuck behind the mound, and fid's guarding it. I tell them to go get aztek and some shovels and we'd meet them there. On the way further up, we see cars turning around, obviously thinking that we haven’t found shit and are goin home. We catch up with two of them but one gets away. by the time we get to the mound, there’s already a four car tailback behind the 'van. The geez in front has a smashed windscreen, and is more than a little distressed that some wanker of a farmer has put his torch thru the bloke’s viser. Apparently, he isn’t too chuffed we had a rave near his land. surprise surprise. Its not like he can hear us, and the track we used is a green lane public right of way.
we stand about for a bit umming and arring, and then decide to unload the cara and try and make the hillock. It’s looking good, until it hits a root on one side and gets bounced against the tree, smashing a window. Im the only one who notched, so I keep quiet while we push it the rest of the way. Job done, load the van, get going. We get the rig on site at about 1 o’clock.
Now starts the setup, and we haven’t been out as a rig since September, and that was a link, so we are a bit rusty to say the least. I think we tried about five different positions before we came to one everyone was happy with. That got done by many helping hands (nice one, you know who you are) and the visuals started getting setup. We were gonna sit in the caravan and project out to a sheet hanging off the window, not ideal, but better than nowt. Fist problem: the midi keyboard didnt work, at least 7 keys are up shit creek, so vjing is gonna be tricky, to say the least. Second problem: getting the projector in place means having it on a separate table to the mixer etc, which means dangerous leads. danger danger.
So at fucking last we set up, and were ready to rave. I necked a load of shrouds, skinned up a few, got my olde english pikey out the car and set off. had a phat boogie in front of all the rigs; brain fuel was next to us, and made us look like a hifi, and their tunes were heavy punchy and dark. "graveyardcore" I think was the most apt description of the night I think. They have a rig that looks like a monster, with big swirling u.v eyes and a dirty great letterbox mouth lined with fangs. tripout. massika were next down, they had quite a simple setup, with a black n white banner over the decks and a chunky rig. I didn’t spend much time there, dunno why, not that inspiring I guess. Last down the track were aztek, who despite only bringing half their rig were making plenty of noise, and quality noise at that. I still failed to track down any of the lads, but apparently as we were getting the caravan over the mound, they were goin the back way with some of the native crew to help us out. nice one lads. anyway, i wandered around for a bit, chatted to a few heads, but not very much, as i was properly spent, and the shrooms were tripping me out, but they weren't waking me up. I decided to have a mission. Got nice and far away from the rigs when it started raining- at the time it was welcome refreshment, but I didn’t know what was to come. Tripping merrily amongst the trees, I picked my way back over logs and brambles, and disturbed shit loads of scuffling things in the woods. got back to the caravan to skin up. dogboy and arkadarka turned up to help me smoke some weed, and just then, freeman bursts into the caravan and sends the projector flying. tripping, I saw it all slowed down, the projector flipped up in the air, beam swerving in front, dashing itself into a cupboard where it turned off and fell to the floor with a nasty sounding crack. freeman was mortified, and there was a stunned silence while the non crewmembers edged toward the door. Proper shat. Basically the thing we've been working so hard on had been set back 400, if not 1000 quid. and all eyes were on freeman. To be fair, it was our own mistake, we should have been more careful setting up, it was totally an accident on his part but still, he wasn’t pleased with himself. we wandered off for some more stomping and to try and find and extra xlr cable for one speaker..to no avail.
After the projector crashed, I ran out of steam and inspiration and had to crash. Me and my bird in her car with some pillows and blankets- softcore! Anyway, I woke again at about 7, the rain was stronger than ever, and I was well up for bed. I went and gave all the rigs one last rave, packed the rest of the VJ equip up and loaded the car. we were off.
We set back off up the hill we had come in on, to find that a night of rain and enthusiastic driving had fucked the path good and proper. Felt like my girlfriend should have been given a rally medal for getting us out of there, unfortunately the rest of the crew wasn’t so lucky. The caravan wasn’t having it, so a van had to be procured from up in surrey. That meant a four hour round trip. The rig was eventually loaded, and the guys got back late afternoon. The other car full of crew skidded on the way home coming up to a crossing, and misaligned one of the wheels, making the car unridable and forcing the passengers into a taxi. I still don’t know where the caravan is.
[nb: if anyone wants any of this taken down or amended, please private message me. cheers. why i bothered writing this is beyond me, and support, criticism or whatever is most welcome]
Toadstool – Fri 29th July – Dick Trevor
A psychedelic journey of progressive & new wave, full power psytrance
Gloucester isnt that far away.....come and join in with the fun....this month we have......
Dj's
Dick Trevor
Jumanji / AMD / Dickster
Fungi-Psyde
Toadstool
Wayner
Toadstool
Toad
Toadstool / Twisted Magic
Outstanding PA, UV decor, Laughing gas by Toadstool, Natterjack Dancers and all the usual full on mayhem.
£7.00 on Door
National Rail network ~ 0845 7484 950
Friday night:
Departs Bristol Temple Meads ~ 8.38pm ~ arrives Glos ~ 9.26pm
Perfect !!!
Saturday morning:
Departs Glos 7.05am ~ arrives Bristol Temple Meads ~ 8.36 am
£7 single ~ £14 return
See http://toadstool.org.uk/toadstool/whatson.htm for more details
Dick Trevor Biog........
Dick Trevor started making music while at college doing sound engineering. He and Matt Coldrick teamed up and had a go at making a trance track which TIP bought straight away ,from then on they became the Green Nuns of the Revolution. They made tracks for most of the English labels then and various compilations, releasing only one album on Flying Rhino.
After a couple of years making music together they teamed up with keyboard player Neil Cowley who was then playing with the Brand New Heavies and he started to put more funk into the music. They did many gigs around the world with live guitar and keyboards and sometimes an extra percussionist, going for the rock n roll performance. The nuns went their separate ways in 98 and Dick started to produce music with many different people. Within the Flying Rhino stable the Bumbling Loons was formed with James Monro and Slinky Nuns/Seeka with George Barker. On Twisted records Dick did collaborations with Simon Posford as Infernal Machine and Tristan as Trickster. He also did a Western Rebel Alliance remix with Jules Evans ( producer/fisherman) for the Shpongle Remix album.
On Phantasm there were collaborations with Chris Boing as the Bisto Boys and John Ford as Mindfield/Bisto Boys and then more recently with John's son Junya (Eskimo) as Jumanji of which an album is coming later this year on Nano.
Dick also teamed up with Jon Om who used to run Aquatec Records and formed Green Oms, they released an album on Dragonfly a couple of years ago.
He has also joined forces with Jules Hamer from Aphid Moon and come up with AMD which has had releases on Alchemy and Nano and they are completing an album for Nano at the moment.
way from the trance scene Dick teamed up with Danny Howells and started Science Dept having successful releases on John Digweed's label Bedrock (Repercussion, Persuasion) and then on Renaissance Records (Breathe). They have also released Kinkyfunk on Deep Dish's label Yoshitoshi in the US which was a big hit on the progressive scene. Then after that they followed it up with Dusk til Dawn which was a big hit in Ibiza in 2004 and even made it into the UK top 40.Since then they did a remix for Destiny's Child for their single Soldier.
Through Danny's connections Dick got together with native Australian Andy Morris (Narcotic Thrust) and has just finished their first track under the name Phat Static. Andy is quite an up and coming dj over here at the moment and has a show on London's Kiss FM. They have also recently done a remix for Offir Nassim on Star69 Records from the US.
Back on the trance scene dick has released a few of tracks on his own as Dickster on Twisted, Phantasm and TIP and has also got together with Anna , a dj / producer from Israel - their first release was a remix of Mumbo Jumbo on Transient Records under the name Annarchy Rhythm v. Dickster. Dick and Anna (Annarchy) have a new project on the go and also another new one with George Barker (Flying Rhino, Slinky Wizzard) which is more progressive trance, called Misfits, due for their first release soon.There have also been other collaborations with Cosmosis and Pogo (Wingmakers).
In between producing music Dick has managed to get going on the dj scene playing all around the globe since 98 but his main love is actually writing the music and there is plenty more to come!
f8 S.Wales mix Hey guys if anyone knows who was the DJ in the S.Wales F8 who mixed up the rock trax, e.g rage against the machine. i would love to get a copy coz it was bangin. if u know him/her would or r him/her contact me. chearz.
fake cctv bomber pics! More badly planned staged and executed scenarios tircking the public into racial tension, terror and ultimately ther own self policed work camp.
http://www.legitgov.org/cctv_image_of_uk_suspects_240705.html
no bomber no bag! no change there then "The metal was pushed upwards as if the bomb was underneath the train."
"I don't remember anybody being where the bomb was, or any bag."
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/region_wide/2005/07/11/83e33146-09af-4421-b2f4-1779a86926f9.lpf
http://www.faulkingtruth.com/Articles/Commentary/1040.html
police shoot innocent man dead. i know this is old news already, but when i saw it in the papers, i assumed that the bloke had been a suicide bomber because noone was pointing out that he was innocent, just that he had been shot, as if the police did something good. i now realise that his crime was not being white enough, and being scared when our coppers opened fire.
[quote=bbc]
The police marksman's dilemma
By Chris Summers
BBC News website
Scotland Yard's admission that an innocent man, Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes, was shot dead on Friday by plain-clothed police searching for the 21 July London bombers has focused attention on the record of British firearms officers.
Jean Charles de Menezes was not the first person to die by mistake at the hands of UK armed police.
Jean Charles de Menezes (left) pictured at a barbecue last week
His death, which came amid heightened tension caused by a string of bomb attacks on London by Islamic extremists, is the latest in a long line of controversies involving firearms officers.
Only a month ago two Metropolitan Police officers were arrested by detectives investigating the fatal shooting of Scottish-born Harry Stanley in Hackney, east London, in 1999.
Family and friends of Mr Stanley have been campaigning for the officers who shot him to face a criminal trial. There have been two inquests and two judicial reviews during the saga.
In November 2004 members of SO19, the Met's firearms unit, staged an unofficial strike in protest after two officers were suspended following the second inquest.
The Stanley case revolved around the question of whether the officers had acted correctly in shooting the 46-year-old.
Shot by mistake
14 Jan 1983: Stephen Waldorf (survived), Kensington, west London
15 Jan 1998: James Ashley, St Leonards, East Sussex (above)
22 Sep 1999: Harry Stanley, Hackney, east London
They claimed they shouted: "Stop, armed police" and fired when Mr Stanley turned around while carrying a bag which they believed contained a gun. In fact it only contained a table leg.
Most police forces in the UK supply their firearms units with rules of engagement based on guidelines from the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo).
These state that they:
Must identify themselves and declare intent to fire (unless this risks serious harm).
Should aim for the biggest target (the torso) to incapacitate and for greater accuracy.
Should reassess the situation after each shot. These guidelines were introduced in the wake of the 1983 shooting of film editor Stephen Waldorf in Kensington, west London.
Mr Waldorf was shot five times but survived after being fired at by police officers who were on the trail of a dangerous escaped prisoner called David Martin.
Mistaken identity
The confusion apparently arose because police mistook Mr Waldorf for Mr Martin, partly because they both had long hair and partly because Mr Waldorf was accompanied by Mr Martin's girlfriend Sue Stephens.
Two officers were eventually acquitted of attempted murder in connection with the Waldorf case.
Lessons were learnt and the Acpo guidelines were drawn up in an attempt to prevent a repetition.
Fifteen years later Sussex Police officers were criticised after they shot dead a man called James Ashley as he lay naked in bed with his girlfriend.
'Five shots'
Three senior police officers were cleared in 2001 of any wrongdoing in the raid, but the circumstances surrounding the shooting led to the resignation of Sussex Chief Constable Paul Whitehouse.
And only last month the family of Derek Bennett, shot dead by police in July 2001 in Brixton, south London, after he was seen brandishing a cigarette lighter shaped like a gun, won the right to challenge the inquest verdict that he had been lawfully killed.
After the suicide bomb attacks in London on 7 July it is thought the Met's Anti-Terrorist Branch implemented its own pre-arranged response to suicide bombers, based on Acpo advice.
Harry Stanley was walking home with a table leg in a plastic bag
Codenamed Operation Kratos, and based on the experiences of the Israeli security forces, the guidance reportedly states that an officer can shoot a suspect in the head if it is thought he is a suicide bomber who poses an imminent danger to police or the public.
Eyewitnesses at Stockwell station on Friday said they saw police officers fire five shots into the head of the suspect.
If Operation Kratos is being used, it would be the first time a shoot-to-kill policy was officially allowed on British streets.
Killed by SAS
Sinn Fein has long claimed the SAS and other British Army units used a shoot-to-kill policy against IRA members in Northern Ireland.
Among the cases highlighted are the 1992 shooting of four IRA men - Kevin O'Donnell, Patrick Vincent, Sean O'Farrell and Peter Clancy - in Clonoe, County Tyrone.
Three others - Peter Ryan, Tony Doris and Lawrence McNally - were killed in Coagh, County Tyrone, in June 1991 when SAS soldiers fired around 200 shots into the stolen car in which they were travelling.
Shoot-to-kill was also said to have been used by the SAS in Gibraltar in 1988 on three IRA suspects.
An inquest into the incident held on Gibraltar returned a verdict of lawful killing but the European Court of Justice verdict ruled that British soldiers violated the fundamental right to life of the three IRA members.
Many policing experts claim the threat posed by suicide bombers today is so much more serious than the danger from the Provisional IRA in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s that a shoot-to-kill policy is obligatory.
Former Scotland Yard commander Roy Ramm told the BBC: "Generally speaking police officers have been taught to aim at the largest target on the body, which is the torso and that has worked well.
Almost invariably a shot to the head will kill - in a sense it is a shoot-to-kill policy but by practice rather than design
Roy Ramm
"People have died but others - robbers and drug dealers - have lived.
"The problem with the police continuing with that strategy is that if a round enters the body of a suicide bomber it could detonate the charge, probably killing the person wearing it, the police officers and anyone else who is close to the suspect.
"That leaves no option for the police but to take head shots. Almost invariably a shot to the head will kill. In a sense it is a shoot-to-kill policy, but by practice rather than design."
But the death of Mr Menezes shows the tragic consequences which can lead from such a policy and there may now have to be a rethink by Scotland Yard.
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