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24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE
CAN YOU HELP?
I am doing some research for a documentary about the early years of rave, which basically means late 80's to early 90's. I am really keen to find contributors who can comment on one of the most important eras in modern history.
Were you there? Are you still there? Are you still here? Do you have any stories you'd like to share? If so please email me at RaversReunited@Chrysalis.com
Thanks lex :D
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January 11, 2002 at 2:58 pm
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CALLING ALL RAVERS
CAN YOU HELP?
I am currently doing some research for a documentary about the early years of rave, which basically means late 80's to early 90's. As part of my research I am keen to track down some authentic ravers from one of the most important eras in our modern history.
WERE YOU THERE? ARE YOU STILL THERE?
ARE YOU STILL HERE? DO YOU HAVE ANY STORIES YOU'D LIKE TO SHARE? IF SO PLEASE GET IN TOUCH AT: RaversReunited@Chrysalis.com
Thanks
lex :D
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January 11, 2002 at 1:47 pm
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NYE 2001
Happy Fucking New Year!!!
Santa came and brought Pan!K 7 more K of amps + a shit load more bass binz so...
31:12:01
London:
10 rooms of sound...
100's of K to make yer eardrumz bleed...
TeKno - Gabba - Acid - D&B - Breakz'n'Beatz
Lets fuckin 'ave ya!!!
call 07092 043 044 after 10pm
or visit www.panik.tv for direktions & map
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December 30, 2001 at 3:20 pm
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Noisy neighbours face crackdown
Loud music is one of the key complaints
Noisy neighbours who make their fellow residents' lives a misery are to be targeted in new laws being considered by ministers. Plans are being unveiled to make it easier for local councils to take action against people making a din late at night.
Environment Minister Michael Meacher is also launching a consultation drive to hear the public's views on how to reduce noise from transport and industry. The new efforts to tackle this problem come as the latest figures on noise complaints are published by the Chartered Institute for Environmental Health.
Complaints over noise have more than doubled in the last decade - even allowing for the growth in population. This 2000/01 figures show there were more than 118,000 complaints about noisy neighbours.
Mr Meacher told BBC News the problem of noise pollution, whether it be background noise from roads and aircraft or from noisy neighbours, was widespread. The numbers of complaints were huge and showed no signs of going down.
Making lives hell
"It's something that ruins the lives of many people."
Rising noise complaints were caused by a number of factors, suggested the minister, pointing at traffic, late night parties and people just "selfishly banging doors". Mr Meacher said councils need to be able to act quickly and without red tape to tackle the problem.
Heathrow flight noise has provoked residents' anger. Under current laws, local councils could only take action against people making a noise at night through powers in the 1996 Noise Act.
"The trouble with that is local authorities have to adopt the whole act, which requires them to set up a 24-hour service," said Mr Meacher. "That is very expensive. Only 14 out of 550 authorities are willing to do that so the night noise offence is not used."
Under the new plans, local councils would be able to use the powers - which include fines and confiscating hi-fi equipment - without going to the expense of adopting the whole act. It is understood there could also be a new publicity drive targeted at noise-makers - something that could be rolled out into a national advertising campaign, although no decision has yet been taken to do that.
Background noise
New research into noise awareness is also expected to be on the government's agenda. Underlining the need for public consultation on reducing background noise from roads and flight paths, Mr Meacher said such pollution caused misery for "tens of thousands" of people.
That problem has most recently hit the headlines when the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favour of south-west London residents calling for an end to night flights to and from Heathrow Airport. The government has refused to ban night flights despite that decision, and now looks set to appeal against the ruling. The Department for Environment said the noise consultation plans were drawn up well before that case went to court.
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December 29, 2001 at 1:58 am
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North Wales still alive?
Been taking some time off.. But I'm back now.
Is there anything happening in North Wales these days? Dosse Posse were doing it when I was last on the scene... eeermmm 96' penmon anyone?
Here's hoping
becksnposh@hotmail.com
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December 26, 2001 at 7:17 pm
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New Years Eve – Suggestions?
At this late stage, can anyone suggest where to go for NYE? Anywhere? :D
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December 26, 2001 at 3:34 am
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help me guys
hey guys i'm from israel and im planning to visit amsterdam in this new years eve 2001 any body know about psy-trance party in holland?
e-mail me please :eek:
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November 27, 2001 at 9:41 pm
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ADRENALIN PARTY ON THE 8TH DEC
Adrenalin party on the 8th of December.
see ya all there.
:D
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November 27, 2001 at 5:55 pm
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party’s for the 24th
Panik=London=07092043044
Reading party=07876 124287
Beats and breaks=Kent=07960 071539
K hole=Warham=07815 579238
Stomp'n'Go=07786450677+07887975004
have fun x
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November 24, 2001 at 12:34 pm
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MDMA For Medicine?
MDMA For Medicine?
10 November 2001
For the first time since the criminalization of MDMA in 1985, the FDA have given their permission to allow research into the potential benefits of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, to go ahead... Last week, Rick Doblin, director of MAPS (Multi-disciplinary Association For Psychedelic Studies) announced that the FDA had approved MAPS' 'MDMA/PTSD Protocol', a study into the use of MDMA in the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. 'This approval marks the culmination of 16 years of efforts to obtain permission from FDA for MDMA assisted pyschotherapy research ...' he said, '... this approval also marks the beginning of what I hope will be a $5 million, 5-year project to develop MDMA into a prescription medicine.'
In Spain, MDMA/PTSD studies are already underway, involving the testing of treatment on female victims of sexual assualt suffering from chronic PTSD. The FDA approval will make way for both the testing of MDMA/PTSD studies on victims of criminal assualt in the USA and an equivalent study in Israel, which aims to test subjects whose PTSD resulted from war and terrorism.
MAPS still need to obtain a Instituational Review Board approval from the Medical University of South Carolina, which is expected to take several further months, but it is now embarking on a $250,000 fund-raising campaign to mark the beginning of the '$5 million 5 year project'. The aim of this $250,000 campaign is to fully fund the US MDMA/PTSD study and the Israeli MDMA/PTSD study as well as cover the remaining cost of the current study in Spain. For the full story, go to http://maps.org/research/mdma
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November 21, 2001 at 9:37 pm
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help me guys
any body know about a good new years eve party in amsterdam (psy trance)
im going to be there from the 26/12/01-02/01/02
info pleaes
lee_stern@hotmail.com
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November 21, 2001 at 9:04 pm
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Court upholds dance party ban
Court upholds dance party ban
16 November 2001
HAARLEM — A Haarlem court upheld a ban on the High Energy dance festival in Zaandam due to the drug-related death of a policewoman last weekend.
The decision supported an earlier resolution by Zaanstad Mayor R Freeman to ban the dance party, planned to occur on the Hemkade.
The Amsterdam owner of the Zaanstad entertainment complex, Zilpa BV, had brought swift legal action to the court on Thursday in a bid to have the ban overturned.
Zilpa had said the ban was purely an arbitrary decision.
Vreeman — who decided to close the entertainment complex due to last Sunday's death of a 28-year-old woman and the recent death of a male youth, both incidents linked to drug use — said a final decision would be made next week in regards future festivals.
The mayor was pleased with the court's decision, saying that the council had convinced the judiciary that the two deaths were not chance incidents, but were in fact systematic.
Vreeman will consult with police and health authority GGD about further measures aimed at preventing other dance festivals.
"I want to make this type of night festival impossible," the mayor said.
[ANP/Expatica]
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November 19, 2001 at 2:55 pm
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Manchester anyone?
erm, I love going to tekno/trance nights like sunrise and awakening but is there anything else worth going to in mcr? Are there many parties around? cos i is new to this fun and want sum more please!
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November 14, 2001 at 12:58 pm
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Britons spend £6.6bn a year on drugs
Special report: drugs in Britain
Alan Travis, home affairs editor
Saturday September 22, 2001
The Guardian
More than 3m people spend a total of over £6.6bn a year on illegal drugs, according to the first official estimate of the size of the British drugs market.
The Home Office figures show that cannabis smokers spend an average of £498 a year on their drugs, ecstasy users £681, and that it costs £15,000 a year to feed a weekly heroin habit.
The overall value of the British illegal drugs market is not far from the £8bn a year spent on cigarettes and other tobacco products, compared with the £20bn spent annually on alcohol. As a "recreational industry" its annual sales are worth more than the £5.3bn annual retail turnover of the decorating and DIY market.
New data from the British Crime Survey (BCS), also published yesterday, suggests that the government's anti-drug strategy has had little impact on drug abuse among teenagers in England and Wales.
The government wants to reduce use of class A drugs, such as heroin and cocaine, among the under-25s by 25% by 2005. But the BCS figures, the official yardstick, show that since the strategy was introduced in 1998 use of the most serious drugs has remained broadly stable.
Some decline in the use of LSD, poppers and amphetamines has been matched by a rise in cocaine abuse among 16- to 19-year-olds, with 5% of teenagers admitting they had used cocaine in the past year.
The data also shows drug use to be more widespread among young white people (52% of whom have tried drugs), than among young black people (37%), or youths of Indian (25%), Pakistani or Bangladeshi (13%) descent.
Although the pattern of abuse has been relatively stable since 1998, the Home Office data shows a decline in drug abuse among teenagers over the longer term. In 1994, 34% of 16- to 19-year-olds said they had used an illicit drug in the previous 12 months. In 2000, that figure had fallen to 27%.
But the BCS survey confirms that half of all young people aged 16 to 24 have tried drugs at some point, compared with one in 10 of the population generally. Some 18% said they had used an illegal drug, mostly cannabis, in the past month.
The Home Office director of statistics and research, Paul Wiles, said the official estimate of £6.6bn a year for the size of the drugs market was a "first attempt" to construct a new indicator of the scale of the drug problem in Britain based on street prices, and that it would need further work.
The figures are based on samples of regular users who had been arrested and tested for drugs. More than 65% tested positive for one or more illegal drugs.
The official figures suggest that there are 3.1m occasional smokers of cannabis in Britain and 270,000 regular heroin users. More than 430,000 people are estimated to be occasional users of ecstasy.
The results of the drug testing of people arrested, also published yesterday, reveal 29% tested positive for heroin or cocaine, including crack. These hard drug users had been involved in an average of 432 thefts and burglaries in the previous year. This is nearly 10 times higher than the average of 46 offences reported by arrested criminals who were not drug users.
Bob Ainsworth, the Home Office minister responsible for drugs, said the research meant the government was in a better position to monitor the progress of its strategy.
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November 12, 2001 at 11:14 am
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Police say: sell the drug in shops and pubs
Nick Paton Walsh
Sunday November 11, 2001
The Observer
Cannabis should be sold at licensed outlets such as pubs, cafes and shops, according to a confidential survey of police forces, courts, probation officers and drug care workers. Eighty-one per cent of the 300 groups surveyed said that a system of licensed distribution should be introduced as soon as possible.
The lawful sale of cannabis is seen by campaigners as the next step in liberalising the drug after its reclassification as a class C substance, announced last month by Home Secretary David Blunkett.
The survey, conducted among the members of the government-backed charity DrugScope, will ignite fierce controversy. Anti-drug campaigners are furious at the increasingly relaxed attitude of police towards the drug. A licensing system would cover cafes and pubs, and GPs would be able to prescribe the drug.
The results of the survey will next week be put before the home affairs select committee inquiry into drugs, acting as a powerful indication to MPs of how law enforcement bodies privately feel about the threat cannabis causes.
Police have long argued that the pursuit of users detracts from the fight against organised criminals who engineer the drug's supply. Roger Howard, chief executive of DrugScope and a member of Blunkett's influential advisory committee, said: 'buying cannabis will still lead people into transactions with organised crime and drug dealers who may also be selling other more harmful drugs.'
But anti-drug groups warn that one in four users goes on to try harder drugs. Peter Stroker, director of the National Drug Prevention Alliance, said: 'Where [eased availability] has been tried... use of the substance has increased. Nobody seems to be talking about the vulnerable group of under-18s who take up cannabis. They now have access to tobacco and alcohol with relative impunity, and to suggest an age limit would stop this happening with cannabis is not just myopic, it is cynical.'
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November 12, 2001 at 11:13 am
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