Probably just a few times a year here. The aftermarth is just too much for me to do it everyweekend these days.

This year not many at all, (I think 3)
but if it wasnt for uni work they’d have prob been several I could have gone to, Last year we got to about 10,
all with in the midlands and mainly 2 sound systems. One of the systems I think have actually purchased their own land and so they are I’d guess legal?

@Raj 447072 wrote:

I was out last weekend 🙂

Nice one. And you had a ball, yeah?

Not since 2009.

Its way too bait now, especially with the amount of needless violence which has come in to the EA scene and that the kids now involved aren’t even challenging it – they are letting the bullies win (there have been instances where even London crews have had to work with the Police to keep their parties safe).Also both sets of my friends in EA and SE England have had their sound system robbed. Long before London burned things have been going to shit on the rave scene here in England and these things are interlinked, its that selfish chav attitude where everyone tries to show who is hardest rather than have fun.

the last one I went to in 2009 was when it was claimed the air ambulance staff were “attacked”. This wasn’t precissely the case (it was more that rubberneckers were crowding them but TBH I can see how it looked as if they were hostile – also many people seem to have difficulty telling blue from green apart and thus mistake a paramedic rapid response car for feds) – but that year there had been fuckloads of extonox canisters robbed from Eastamb depots and NHS hospitals all across Suffolk so I think the NHS encouraged their frontline staff to take revenge against the ravers.

Given that because of my job now have to work closely with the NHS and (occasionally) even be prepared to provide info to Suffolk Constabulary it is now no longer safe or appropriate for me to attend unlicensed music events. I’d still be tempted by a decent legit one but no one is willing to put in the effort because its easier for many to travel to richer areas, plus these days most youth here give up partying in their early 20s..