test it out in your garden?:wink:

welcome to pv by the way

you’re not at the uni in guildford by any chance are u?

Welcome to Partyvibe breakbeaterror :bounce_g:

Good luck with tryin to put a party on in Guildford, you’ll need it. Surrey police are really on the ball in general, and I can imagine any party getting closed down pretty quickly.

I guess thats just what happens when you live in a middle England hell-hole though… 😉 (can’t wait to leave in a couple of months time)

I guess if you’re from Surrey you probably know more than I do about legal venues, but theres a couple of places in Guildford that might let you put a night on, The Star, Platform 9 and The Boileroom. Also the university has a big spontaneous party that happens by the lake on the campus at the end of the spring term and people set up their own rigs (thats not an open invitation for anyone with a sound system to show up btw, its mainly just students there, but if you just brought something small no-one would mind)

eons ago friends used to have a good soundsystem in a ‘van’ and go down to the woods and have a little shindig, but those days seem long gone round this way 😥
welcome to PV and if you decide to put summat on PM me :bounce_fl

Yeh I’m at the uni in Guildford doing a sound recording degree, though this is my final year so I won’t be around much longer. Sounds like you’ve got a good idea though, good luck with it, a few small parties in Surrey would be wicked. And if you’re ever in need of a breaks DJ give me a shout!

Surrey though is particularly stubborn, they have never liked even legal raves going back to the 1990s, and non participants views on the scene have been permanently soured by certain crews overdoing things in the early 2000s. Basically what happened in East Anglia from 2004-2007 happened in Surrey/Hampshire/Thames Valley from 2001-2005…

That said, if breakbeatterror takes a good look at a map of the entire region he will soon find that Hampshire, Oxfordshire and the 5 authorities what used to be Berkshire are just a few miles away 😉

most of these areas have also been rinsed by illegal raves – but in some parts of the region (particularly the less “posh” ones) its much easier to put on legal events.

Anywhere where you have permission to be and its safe… there is stuff like traffic flow, fire safety, access for emergency services to be aware of and the other licensing issues. All of these are actually set out on the Licensing Policy for whatever council your event is in…

A few weeks ago a young lad what held a hall party in a church hall in the Thames Valley Police region got “busted” for being over capacity etc, but he was let off with a caution and “given advice” on how to hold events legally. This would hint that at least TVP will try and give people a chance, possibly Hantspol as well.

These days cops work increasingly closely with the local Councils and the NHS to monitor the “costs and risks of the nighttime economy” and its the findings from this what shape the licensing policies for some areas. None of this is secret or “hidden” (it might be buried in boring minutes on the council website or can be found out from doing a bit of research in the local Press).