Buddha
Vital Football Hero
I still enjoy raving but as I've got older I've found I simply can't do it as often or as hard as I used to. Nowadays I'll probably only manage to get to half a dozen or so a year but back in the day I was raving pretty much every weekend. The last one I went to was on NYE. Actually. it's one of the things that I'm most looking forward to doing once lockdown is finished.
Of course, there have been some horrific stories in the media recently about illegal raves where there have been stabbings and rapes. When I heard these stories I was depressed, that's not the kind of thing that ever happens at the raves I attend. Indeed, (as the BBC article I'll link at the end of this post suggests) these raves during lockdown haven't been being put on by the normal party people; actually the experienced free party crews have not been putting raves on during lockdown out of respect for the Covid situation. Rather, the people who've been putting them on and attending aint your usual ravers but the kind of people who before lockdown wouldn't have been attending free parties but instead going to the nightclubs. This fits in with why there has been trouble and why I've not heard about them
This article aint bad. It explains how they came about, how the 1994 CJA made them illegal (any music "that includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats", ffs!) but how they've never stopped, just had to mutate to survive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-53170021
Of course, there have been some horrific stories in the media recently about illegal raves where there have been stabbings and rapes. When I heard these stories I was depressed, that's not the kind of thing that ever happens at the raves I attend. Indeed, (as the BBC article I'll link at the end of this post suggests) these raves during lockdown haven't been being put on by the normal party people; actually the experienced free party crews have not been putting raves on during lockdown out of respect for the Covid situation. Rather, the people who've been putting them on and attending aint your usual ravers but the kind of people who before lockdown wouldn't have been attending free parties but instead going to the nightclubs. This fits in with why there has been trouble and why I've not heard about them
This article aint bad. It explains how they came about, how the 1994 CJA made them illegal (any music "that includes sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats", ffs!) but how they've never stopped, just had to mutate to survive.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-53170021
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