I work for Voodoophone, building cell sites. I’ve been in this industry for over five years now – since I “retired” from soundsysteming (ie we lost the all night license at the Boxing Club). My original backgorund is construction, so it seemed relevant to me. Nowadays, I drive a desk, controlling a bunch of installation contractors fitting internal systems into our corporate customer’s buildings, eg Canary Wharf etc.

Over the years, I’ve built several hundred sites on rooftops, inside buildings, on the street and in the fields. What always makes me laugh is seeing venues we have partied in over the years. One example was a really tall building in East London – from it I could see four previous party venues, including one that was still well tagged (NYE 96 I think) and one that had been transformed from the Green Man pub into a travellers inn!!

Big up to all the couriers – several of my crew and pals were/are couriers…the best was Jock, who used to work for the yellow van company, and who Orange Disco supplies got really paranoid cuz he was delivering several 1210s with a big OOOPS! sticker on the back of his van. His boss knew what we did, but had to stop Jock using the van when we got pulled coming out of Steart Beach (97/98 time). However, when he got a new van, which had Irish plates on, he was able to buy his own plate when it got re-registered in UK… V100 OPS.

Someone came up to me at the Boxing Club, and went “did you know that someone has your sound system name on their van?”. “yes” I answered, “that guy over there!”….

Anyways, having keys to the compounds found in many fields close to party venues has always seemed like a good excuse for being there – just a shame I don’t do parties no more 🙁

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Dan O