Good clubs to rock? Easy, people, am lookinhg forward to sorting out a native beats tour this summer or next...have freeparties covered, what i need to sort is clubnights. i have acts (altho offers / suggestions wouldn't go amisss) but dont know many good clubs in random cities....primary targets...
some wher in norfolk...
leeds sheffeild, newcastle, edinburough(?), manchester, brum, bristol, devon some where (exeter?) salisbury, southhampton, brighton, and finally, the big bad Don.
any info about these areas re clubs, parties and fests, offers of link ups etc, gimme a shout (or post)..
right, i really am goin to bed now... fucking visualls up all night... gbyegain
Megadog Sound System 18th feb 2005 Megadog sound system @ The Musicbox Manchester
18th feburary 2005 10pm/4am
Featuring
Bushcraft LIVE
with DJ'S
Chris Liberator,
Aaron Liberator,
dj Evolution
dj Magic (new york)
& dj Clumsy
;DWith the Preston Madhatters in
the chillout room ;D
Free Party – 26.02.05 – Edinburgh Theres a party planned for this date, venue arranged. Sweet indoor location. Should b on a night bus route, so no excuses. More info closer to the time.
AVE IT!
um.. generators…and ting prolly dont count as your actual technology, but i want to find what one i need for a 5-10krig and full light/projection show...
im rubbish at numbers, so working out which one i need is a mish.
any help would be much appreciated.
PS While im here, can any one shed any light on cheap and effective ways of setting up a dj booth/ lighting rig... like where do you get scaffolding?
UK : Senior Tory gets his knickers in a twist over Dick and Dom’s pants dance Tories show their true colours again...
Quote:
MP slates BBC children's TV duo
A senior Tory MP launched an attack on the website of CBBC's *&^%*&^%*&^%*&^% and Dom in da Bungalow in the Commons, asking whether it was in the public taste.
Peter Luff, the Conservative MP for mid-Worcestershire, attacked site for depicting "grossly embarrassing personal situations".
He invited Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell to his office to watch the show.
She said it was the government's role to develop a BBC charter, but the BBC was responsible for taste and decency.
Mr Luff said: "You can join me in playing How Low Can You Bungalow, a test to see your response to grossly embarrassing personal situations, largely of a lavatorial nature.
"Pants Dancers in the Hall of Fame, photos of children with underwear on their heads, Make *&^%*&^%*&^%*&^% Sick, a game which I think speaks for itself, and finally Bunged Up, in which you play a character in a sewerage system avoiding turtle's poos coming from various lavatories," he said.
'Pure fun'
"Is that really the stuff of public service broadcasting?" Mr Luff added. The BBC defended the show, which is screened on BBC One on Saturday mornings and features presenters Dominic Wood and Richard McCourt, because it said it was aimed at a younger audience.
It gives children a chance to laugh and enjoy themselves at the start of the weekend
BBC statement
"It is pure fun and entertainment, aimed at 8-12 year olds, so it is unsurprising that it doesn't appeal to some adults.
"It gives children a chance to laugh and enjoy themselves at the start of the weekend and we have many letters and e-mails of appreciation for the show, from both children and their parents.
"We do take our role as a public service broadcaster very seriously: any criticisms are always looked into, but have to be addressed in the context of the target audience for the show and its remit to entertain young children," it said.
The show, which features games where adults and children have to shout the word "bogey" as loud as they can in public places, had already courted controversy. Last year, Wood was criticised by media watchdog Ofcom for wearing a t-shirt with a sexual slogan on it.
Ultra Psychedelic Trance – Online Stream – Live acts booked! Namaste!
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reefer madness It looks like the govts half-arsed prod at the hornet's nest which is Prohibition haven't saved them from the honest discussions about illegal drugs and cannabis, in particular, which need to take place urgently.
obviously cannabis has different uses
sick people use it for relief from painful symptoms
lots of people use it to open the creative or relective side of themselves or simply to unwind
in fact, the biggest study into long term effects, funded by the american DEA, showed that occasional users were likely to be mentally healthier than their straight counterparts; ie less likely to suffer from stress related disorders or depression
And although it can ecaserbate certain serious mental health problems, can't we be allowed to make informed decisions? :confused:
I mean, everybody knows that drinking loads is bad for you or that you shouldn't eat too much fat or sugar or that you should exercise
can't we be given the information and the freedom[1] to look after ourselves and each other?
I do think some skunk is too strong and sometimes just want a nice bit of swazi grass :o ... it's more sociable... i wouldn't go to the pub and drink neat absynthe all night...in the same way i don't necessarily want to smoke a small amount of hydro and be incapacitated for hours
moderation people, moderation
[1] with an age limit
Cannabis mental health risk probe
The government says it will review all academic and clinical studies linking cannabis use to mental health problems.
The Department of Health says it is now generally agreed among doctors that cannabis is an "important causal factor" in mental illness.
It follows a mental health group's call for the government to investigate "the link between cannabis and psychosis".
Rethink said its reclassification from a Class B to Class C drug sent a "confusing message" to young people.
The charity wants the Commons Health Select Committee to launch an inquiry into the effect cannabis has on users.
Its call was also backed by health campaign group Sane which wants the classification of cannabis to be reversed.
A Department of Health spokesman said it was already commissioning a review.
"We have no objection to the health select committee looking into this," he said.
"However we are in the process of commissioning an expert review of all the academic and clinical evidence of the link between cannabis use and mental health, particularly schizophrenia.
"There is medical clinical evidence now that there is an important causal factor between cannabis use and schizophrenia - not the only factor, but an important causal factor. That is the common consensus among the medical fraternity."
Cannabis was reclassified last year so that police could target hard drugs.
Home Office figures released on Friday showed that arrests for possession of cannabis fell by a third in the first year of its reclassification.
However, Rethink said there had been a 60% increase in people who smoked drugs and had mental health problems in the last five years.
Most medical experts agree that smoking cannabis in itself does not cause mental illness, but that people who are predisposed to psychosis are much more likely to develop symptoms if they use the drug regularly.
"Cannabis is not risk free," Rethink chief executive Cliff Prior said.
"We have known for years that using cannabis makes the symptoms of schizophrenia far worse in people who already have the illness."
Calling for further research, Mr Prior said the government should "concentrate on the real and specific mental health dangers, not general warnings that no-one takes seriously".
Marjorie Wallace, Sane chief executive, said Sane has campaigned for 18 years about "the destructive link between cannabis and schizophrenia" and that professionals and governments had ignored years of "mounting evidence".
"Far from it being a relatively harmless recreational drug - for vulnerable people, especially teenagers, the innocent spliff in the playground, or chilling out, could trigger a journey of lifelong disintegration," she said.
But Steve Barker, of the Campaign to Legalise Cannabis Association, said that by prohibiting cannabis it was preventing information about its use being readily available, while cannabis could in fact aid those with medical problems.
"There is a larger proportion of people with mental health problems who claim cannabis reduces their symptoms than those for whom it is a problem," he said.
"To criminalise people and to put them though the criminal justice system rather than give them the medical support they need is completely wrong."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4218851.stm
UK : S. London bar accused of license breach because customers danced.. Incidentally, I cannot find any mention of Michael Howard supporting harsher licensing laws on the Conservatives own website, despite there being a transcript of other parts of Howards speech on there - nor on the Wimbledon Conservatives' own website....
But a large newspaper group cannot put words into a politicans mouth without being sued - and from the previous track record of Howard I can well believe he did say what is reported. So why is he afraid to repeat it on his website, so close to an election? So much for their claims of "smaller government/no nanny state"
Quote:
Don't dance or we'll be nicked Jan 27 2005
Wimbeldon Post
A BAR could face prosecution after customers could not help dancing when music was played.
Walkabout in The Broadway, Wimbledon, is being investigated by Merton council because it does not have a licence for customers to dance.
The Australian bar has taken action by having the warning, "No dancing please" printed on T-shirts worn by staff.
Merton council's head of planning and public protection, Councillor Steve Clark, confirmed the authority was investigating a licensing issue at the bar.
The investigation comes as many residents expressed concern about new licensing laws that could see drinking hours extended.
A spokesman for Walkabout said: "Regent Inns [owners of Walkabout] has wide-reaching measures in place to ensure that, where its venues do not have public entertainment licences, they are compliant with licensing legislation, and this includes training managers on how to curb dancing in venues where it is not permitted."
At a meeting this month, the council brought in firmer rules governing licensing.
But the Conservative opposition said the regulations were not strong enough, a point echoed by Tory leader Michael Howard in his speech in Wimbledon on Thursday last week.
GOVERNMENT HYPOCRITS Hypocritical American
Isnt it ironic that America criticizes Holland when the American companies are the greatest killers of all. i.e tobacco companies the majority of which are american owned, kill 4.9 million people per year (ref; WHO).
Its the governments of this world that make billions of dollars in tobacco taxes from the misery of others so they can spend it on weapons to kill even more of them. Governments and those irresponsible corporations should be the ones fined, jailed or even executed, not the recreational drug taker or dealer.
Who is the greatest world polluter which kills millons more people? USA
Who causes the most unrest in the world? USA
Who could do the most to help starving children and others but instead spend trillions on stupid wars and space cowboy research? USA
The only reason why governments dont legalise recreational drugs like E is because they dont make millions of dollars from taxes. Not because of any dreadfull harm they may cause. If this were true then why do they allow alcohol and tobbaco to be sold and to kill and harm millions. The number of people harmed by recreational drugs is microscopic compared to alcohol and tobacco.
Big Gazebo Wanted Alright people,can anyone tell me where i can find a big Gazebo?...y'know the popup aluminium frame kind.I heard that one of the big diy chainstores were doing ones that were 30 feet long...wahey.:)
But after hours of searching online and in person all i get is blank looks from spotty salesboys,can anyone point me n the right direction?
UK : Scot : Waterstones sacks blogger TBH although I consider blogs to be rather self-indulgent (and potentially incriminating to people like us!) - and its well known that corporates and public sector organisations are paranoid over what their employees may say on the net, I can't believe a bookseller in a modern European country which permits free speech would do this... I will certainly boycott them after this!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/11/waterstones_blog/
Quote:
Waterstone's throws book at blogger
By Tim Richardson
Published Tuesday 11th January 2005 12:40 GMT
Bookseller Waterstone's has sacked a long-serving employee for writing a blog. Joe Gordon from Edinburgh, who worked for the company for t11 years, says he was dismissed because he "brought the company into disrepute".
His Woolamaloo Gazette was started in 1992 and is a satirical diary that, in Gordon's own words, enables him "to vent steam on stories which are bugging me or amusing me and hopefully make people think at the same time".
While most of the material he covers does not involve his work, he does occasionally mention his time at Waterstone's. As he puts it: "Like many folk I am not always happy at work...and coin terms such as 'Bastardstone's' and have a character called 'Evil Boss' (my equivalent to Dilbert's Pointy Haired Boss - in fact I compared head office directives to being in a Dilbert cartoon)."
While many people have already judged these this to be harmless, Waterstone's appears to believe they provide sufficient grounds for dismissal. Now Mr Gordon is angry at the way he's been treated and believes that, if the company was so offended, the matter could have been dealt with just a "quiet word".
Wrote Gordon: "I am not a serf; I am not an indentured servant. I am a free man with the right of freedom of expression. The company does not own me, body and soul - conforming to their rules at work is to be expected, but in your own time and space? How can anyone be expected to go through their personal life in fear of saying the wrong thing? No-one should.
"This has left me dreadfully upset. That a company I have given so many years to could treat me in such a brutal manner is despicable. That a book company thinks so little of the primacy of freedom of expression is alarming. I pointed out that Waterstone's has stated publicly several times in the past that as a bookseller they believe in the freedom of expression and not in censorship."
As well as winning the support of other bloggers Gordon has also won the backing of author Richard Morgan, who has added his voice to the chorus of complaints over the sacking. In a letter to the company he wrote: "While I don't wish to interfere in company business, I have to say I think this bears comparison with taking disciplinary action based on private conversation overheard in a pub, and raises some disturbing issues of freedom of speech. Waterstone's is, after all, a bookseller, whose stock in trade is the purveying of opinion, not all of it palatable to those concerned.
"You sell books which offer serious critique of the corporate environment and government, but do not expect to suffer punitive action from government or corporate quarters as a result. You sell books which criticise and satirise religious and political groups, but you do not expect to be firebombed by extremists as a result. Surely Joe has the right to let off steam in his free time without having to fear for his livelihood as a result.
"The action that has been taken so far bears more resemblance to the behaviour of an American fast food chain than a company who deal in intellectual freedoms and the concerns of a pluralist liberal society."
Despite repeated attempts to contact Waterstone's no one was available for comment at the time of writing. ®
Divinorum – 15th Jan @ the Black Swan, Bristol
Free the Spirit & Tribe of Frog present:
Divinorum
Full Power Psychedelic Mayhem
Featuring:
Kristian (Phantasm/Chichime/Psygate)
Natzan (Free the Spirit/Tribe of Frog)
F'da F'da (Implant/Tribe of Frog)
Psychosonic (Timegate/Tribe of Frog)
Morph (Planet Shroom/Phantasm)
Liquid Ross (Liquid Connective/Synergy Project)
Timmer (Tribe of Frog)
DJ Pod (Ripsnorter/Tribe of Frog)
Sean Rudz (666/DMT)
Emerse yourself in a UV wonderland where the faeries and
piskies weave their magic to free YOUR frogadelic spirit!
Free-flowing lightscapes by Vision On,
Frog Pond Chill-out Cafe, giant inflatables, stalls & more
Sat 15th January 10pm-6am
Black Swan, Eastville, Bristol BS5 6NR
FFI:- divinorum@hotmail.co.uk or tel 07867 764472 or 07767 033628
£5 b4 11, £8 after, ToF Members £5 all night
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