Sound System ‘Hall of Fame’

I get a mention, under ‘AUXILIARY FREE PARTY SERVICES’
Cheers chaps xx
Alan Lodge (Tash) -Free festival Photographer, free festivals these days are host to freeparty rigs https://alanlodge.co.uk

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ENTER The HALL of FAME…………….
OVER 30years of FREEPARTY RIGS
The list is no doubt longer, more to come, I collected some at end and beginning of the century for the now archived nightstorm website
The list has grown, I am still adding
The list is no doubt longer, more to come, I collected some at end and beginning of the century for the now archived nightstorm website
It Truly is a HALL of FAME, its no mean feat to put on a FREEPARTY.
All these Rigs need a shout and lets not let them be forgotten.
SOUND SYSTEM HALL OF FAME, Please help adding to it…..
Aardvark ————————————————————-
Abacus —————————————————————
Active Party Unite————————————-Surrey/Hamp
Acme sounds ——————————————————–
Acid Monkey ————————————London 2008 09?
Adrenaline———————————Greater London 1992-94
Adrenalin—- OXFORDSHIRE start: JUNE99 Techno, D&B
Advance Party————————————————London
All Substance No Style – Nottingham, London, Hastings – 2000s
An Be Proud Of Ur Rig ——————————————
Annoy sound system———————————SW 93 to 2003
An Watt —————————————–were about in 2011
Aphrodisiac —— -Kent 90 -96? they had an off shoot, Aubergine
Agro———————————————————-Reading
Ardkore Soundsystem ——————————— Derbyshire
Armada —————————————– kent then Bristol
Armadillo ———————————————————–
Armageddon ————————————————Reading
Azma Sounds ——————————————————–
Az1 ——————————————————————-
Aggrav8—————————————————————
Aura——————————————————————-
Aura Orange———————————————Birmingham
Audiophile —————————————- London early 00’s
Acidic ———————————————————-Bristol
Al B’hed ————————————————————-
Alien Society Sounds ————————Norfolk 2002-2008ish
Asbo —————————————————————–
Assassins Sound System ———————————–suffolk
ASYLUM ———————————————– Watford area
Ascenzion ————————————————————
Aztek —Hampshire/Oxfordshire/Berks/Wilts/Bedfordshire ——————2004 and still going ————————
Babble Collective SoundSystem ——Leicester 1993 on going
Barn —————————————————————–
Backlash soundsystem ———————————————
back to basics ——————————————————-
Bedlam—————–London1992 now Oz Music:Techno, Ragga
Bedroom ————————————–Northwich, Cheshire
Berserkers—————- were London based but very Glaswegia
Belligerent ———————————————————–
BDI——————————————South Oxfordshire 1994
B4 Polococta, —————————— London 2002 till present
Blacksheep—————————————————London
Black Moon———————————————–Derbyshire
Blackkat sound———————————————NYC– ’96
Bpm ————————————————– Bournemouth
Blue Room————————————————–Brighton
Boing——————————————————————
Born from pulse sound system ————————————–
Brainskan —————————————————–Norfolk
Brainstorm turned into universe———————-Bath 1991 – 93
Brave Nu Cru ———————————————– Swindon
Bridgwater Reggae Sound System ———————————
Brixton Hunt sabs and Travellers. —————————-Brixton
Bust the Box———————————————————-
Buckwild —————————————————— Norfolk
Bitfo ———————————were about in the early 2000’s
Bio hazard ————————————— devon. 2000-2005
Bioshock ————————————————————-
Bio-Tech ———————————-East Anglia 2000-2004
Breaks from the norm. —————————————–BFTN
BWPT———————————————————Leicester
B12 ———————————————————- Norfolk
Cafe del Squat————————————————London
Camouflaged Disco —————————————- Sheffield.
Chemically Driven ————————————————
Chem D (Chemical Disturbance) ———————————
Circus Warp———————————Bristol/Bath 1991 —-93
Circus Normal—————————————Bristol 1991 – 93
Circus Chaos———————————————————-
Circus Irritant ———————Avon/Somerset early to mid 90s.
Circus Lunatek. ————————–South London / site 91-’93
around 60 or 70 raves and festivals mostly London and Kent.
Circle A Sounds —————————————————–
Circosis -London & Europe. 91 onwards. House & Techno. DJ’s Marc & Ben Circosis. Joined forces with Turbo Unit midish 90’s
Citricity—————————————————Birmingham
Chemical warfare ————————————————-
Chiba City—————————————————–London
Children of Kaos ————————————Plymouth based.
Chimaera———————————————-London Chaos
Chillum Tribe —————————————————-Kent
Clueless ————————————————- Cambridge
Confusion, —————————-high Wycombe 2003 to 2005
Confiscated ———————————————————
Cosmic Carrot—————————————————Kent
Culture Vibes club ————————South West in the 2000s
Coming soon ———————————————— Norfolk
Curfew —————————————————– Sheffield.
Chronic sounds —————————————————-
Class A —————————————————————
Crossbones—————————————————London
Crowzone ————————————————————
Cybersounds—————————————- Leamington Spa
Dagobah system ———————————————–Notts
Darkstar Collective—————————————–Wiltshire
Daylite Robbery (Manchester/toured) 2001still going but dormant.
Defcom 1 ————————————————————
Dance conspiracy/eternity ——————————1990/1992
Desert Storm——————Nottingham, Glasgow, Manchester
Destination——————————-Central Oxfordshire 1997
Deeper Understanding ———————————— London
DEDsound. ———————————Berks/Ox/Bucks. 98-99
Dead dog disco —————————————————-
Dekked ————————————————————–
Deep Peace ——————————– Stroud area (early 90s)
Deviant ——————-Newbury/Hungerford were about 2003
Deep Cartel—————————————————Devon
Deeper Understanding ——————————————–
DMT ——————————————————Bristol
D.N.A. Destroy Negative Attitude ———————–North?
Dole House Crew —————South London, 1989-about 1992
—— hired or other rigs used our venues..
Dossee Possee, ————————————- North Wales
D.Storm —————————————began 91 in glasgow
Digga Sounds ————————————- Exeter, Devon ?
Definitive sounds ———————————-Bedfordshire
Delirium ———————————————————
Diatribe SoundSystem —————————————-
Ditch Licker ———————————————–Suffolk
DirtCrunch/Fraktal —————————–Brighton 2010ish
Digital Pollution ———————————— Portsmouth
Digitaal Waste ————————————————-
Disjunkt ——————————————— London 00s
Dissident —————————————————Bristol ?
Disciplines of Rhythm (D.O.R. Sound system)————20/5/93
Discobobulated —————————————————-
Dimension ———————————————————
Dirty Squatters —————————————————-
Disobey ————————————————– Norfolk
Disorder, —————————————-East Anglia based
Disturbance —————————————————–
Distortex———————————————————–
Disruption, ————————————–East Anglia based.
Disruptive Audio ———————————– London 2000,s
Dionisus—————————————-Bedfordshire Diversion —————————————————-
Diverted, ———————————————————–
D.I.Y.—————-1989 onwards Deep house —Nottingham,
Dubious ——————————————— South London
E-Coli —————————————————————
EckoTek ————————————————-Bedfordshire
Elektrik Orgasm ————————————- Bristol 93 to 96
Entrobang ———————————————————-
Energise————————————————————–
Enfused Sounds ——————————————————
Enlightenment————————————————-Brighton
Enginearin —————————————————–Reading
Elemental —————————————————-Leicester
Elevate ————————————Leamington Spa mid 90s
Equality Cohesion —————————————————-
Esicume Noise——————————————————-
Eternal Cru, ——————————————–Wales 1990’s
Everyone Sound ——————————————————
Evverescence ——————————————————
Evolution ————————————————————-
Excalibur————-(primarily reggae/dub but did nuff raves too).
Exodus—————– Luton 1993 Jungle, D&B, techno, reggie
Existential ———————————————————–
E1S ——————————————————————-
EZE love sound system ——————————-the south west
Factual sounds ——————————————Bedfordshire
FAF (Fluffy as Fuck)—————————————-Brighton
Family Groove —————————————————–
Faze One ———————————————————-
Fear Teachers—————————————- oxfordshire
F.O.C —————————————- Surrey 2000-2005
Fierce Sounds —————————————–
Flatline Sound System ———— Wells Somerset 2009 ongoing
Flux Capacitor Soundsystem ————————————-
Fundamental——————————————-London 1991
Fuctnose ———————West Sussex/ London 2002 – 2011
FUBAR Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.- London, Hackey Wick
——-Josh Fubar’s — 2001 to 2008 ———–
Fuk Around Sounds ———————————————–
Fushion ————————————————————
Fraktal ————————————————————-
FRS Free Range Sound.—————– London n beyond. 90s…
Freakency———————————————————–
Frequency Oblivion ——————–South West
FREEBASS ———— Cardiff/South Wales early 90’s still going
Free Dimension—————————————-Suffolk
F.R.U. (Fucked Right Up) —————– Swansea, South Wales.
GabbaWocky ——————————————– London ?
Gateway Sound- ——————————–san francisco 94
Gangster Dolphin——————————————Bedford
Gash collective ————————————— Manchester
Genesis vibration ————————————-Bedfordshire
G Force —————————————————————Glitter rig ———————————————————-
Guillotine ———————————————————-
Goodfellas ———————————————————
Good old boys —————————————————–
Ground Zero–FaceBook —Free Party Sound Systems & Minters Who Love Them. still on the Road, ——Based in France ATM
Grooveyard———————————————Peterbrough
Groovatarium————————————- Lincoln
H Zone——————————————————————
Hamster patrol ———————————————-Oxford
Hanky Panky——————————————–Peterbough
harmonise, ———————————————————–
Hackney House Authority ————————- London 91 -94.
Hardcore Conspiracy SS ——————————————-
Hardcore Konsperancy ——————————–Multi Rigger
Havok —————————————————————–
HC7 or “HARDCORE 7”—end of 1991 to the summer of 1993—
——-we held free parties in & around Bedfordshire. ———-
Hackney sounds —————————————————-
hedonastick ———————————————————
Headfuk——————————————————-London
Hectik ————————————————London 2000,s
Hekate———————————————————London
Hectate ————————————————————–
Homegrown ———————————————————-
Highly Addictive ———————————-Brighton 2010ish
Hypnotwist ——————- Bristol hardcore/speedcore system
Hybrid Tek ——————————————- Hertfordshire
HP21 —————————————-Oxfordshire, 2000ish
IFFY sounds ——–Reading 1994 moved to london: D&B, Jungle
Infused sounds —————————————Bedfordshire
iNfLuEnCe ———Oxford / Ridgeway Hard trance/acid tekno
Intruder —————————————————– Norfolk
Illicit Sounds ——————————————————–
Ill Eagle / Ill Industries ———————–London mid-late 00’s
Inkription ———————————————————-
Innerfield—————————————————-Brighton
Insanity——————————————————-London
Inspyre ——————————————————suffolk
ITS ————————————————Brighton 2010ish
Inspiration. ———————————————————-
Immersion ——————————Lawrie Immersion, London
IRD Rig ———————————-West Sussex/London 2005 –
Irritant Sounds—————-SW crew from later 90s/early 00s
Itsy Bitsy ———————————————chill out cafe
Itchy Fingers ————————————-Norfolk
In House IRS —————————————— Circa 2000
Jah Tapey, ———————————————–Wiltshire
J10 or Junk Chun 10 ————————————Reading
J14 Junktion 14 ——————————–Buckinghamshire
Jellyheads —————————————————–
Jigsore —————————————– Somerset/Devon ?
JFDI soundsystem ——————————————wales
Jiba ———————————————London-based 90’s
Kacchina —————————————————- Luton
KAK —————————————————— London
K D U. Kore Dispersal Unit —————————————-
Ketwork 32. Reading and Europe. 98? Onwards. Reading 96ish.
Kernal Panik ——————————————————
Kevlar ————————————————————–
KAMIKAZE 42! ——————————————————
konglomera sound system.——————————————
Kollusus ————————————————————–
koalition————————————————————–
K-os sounds —————————-Norfolk/lincs 2002/2014
K-Otik, ———————————————–Manchester)
Kinky movement Notts Kite High” —–Vic….Cambridge area
Kinetik,———————————————————–
King beat ————————reggae rig? late 90s early 00s
K9KIMIV ——————————————-West Country
Krysis. ————————————————–July 2012
Krunch…. ——————————Northants… 90s, early 00s
Kreos/Revelation –Buckinghamshire (97-99ish) great Missenden
K.U.N.T——–sound system UK Bristol, Wales and main land Europe under that name from 1998-2015—————
KSS —————————————–Reading and London
Lazy house ———————————Devon, Exmouth
Large Salad Disco —————————————————
Legal Intentions ——————————————————
Life4Land ————————————————————
Live wire —————————-Essex area1998 to 2007 ish
Loony Choons ————————Devon and Cornwall 1992
Lorax ———————————————-Manchester)
Lost ‘n’ sound——————————————- Sussex
LoveLight .———-Bedfordshire Pose (from Dunstable)2000DS
LOVEGUN ——– ‘summit mountaineering club, Snowdon
Lowkey ——————————————–Hampshire/Surrey
Lunar Collective. ——————————– East Anglia based.
LSDiesel ———————————————–south london
LWT Soundsystem (London Weekend Transmission)——London
Mad Hatter Sounds originally tribe of gnome 97- 05ish Preston
Mad big ups ———————————————————
Mainline —————————————————————
Masika —————————————– were about in 2003
Massai Warrior Sound System ————————————-
MAYHEM ——————————————————Devon
Mayhem—- London based hard acid rig till the early to mid2000’s
Manik ————-Little Lee, Kris Fareye, Jamie, and Vince, London
Malon Sounds ——————————————————
Malfauteirs ———————————————-Samira Faraj
Malfunktion ———————————————————-
Maui waui ————————————————— Norfolk
MDMF —————————————————————-
MEOW Sound System, —Deep house,Techno Midlands 2000
Megabitch———————————————————–
Merlins Gate ——————————————————–
Messy sounds ————–Devon / London dnb rig early 2000’s
Minimal effort sound system (mess)——————————-
Mohican Trib—- 1993 Techno, Hardcore, Drum and Bass, Jungle
Monolith ————————————————————-
Monkeypuzzle.———————-Manchester 1997 – Still going
Molotov ———————————–East Anglia 2000-2004
Mushroom————————————————–Hampshire
Mutant Pollutant————————————–Oxfordshire 98
Mutant Dance——————————————–Bristol 1991
Mutoid Waste ——————————————————-
Mission —————————————-high Wycombe way
Mid life Krisis. ——————————————————–
Militia, ———————————- South coast and beyond.
MWD40 Sound System — Leicester 2000 to 2009’Deep House Funk Grooves — only small gigs now and again———————-
Napalm – –Oxfordshire now Oxfordshire/Bristol – 2005 to present – ————-dnb, old skool, techno, hardcore——–
Native Beats ———– Surrey circa 2000s -2003 dnb & jungle
Negusa Negast,- Bishen (Bashment Bish) sound system – London
– 1992 – : Bashment/Reggae/Roots/Hip-Hop/D&B/Jungle
New era ———————————————————-
Northern techno alliance—————————– multirigger?
No nonsense ——————————————Bedfordshire
No Fixed Abode ————————————————–
Noise pollution, —————————-Bath/Bristol based
Nut Nut Crew ———————————- Essex 2009-2014
Nusense, —————————————-Dorset 2000
NTA ——- Northern Techno Alliance (Sheffield and theNorth)
Nine Bar ————————————————Guildford
Network 23———————————————————–
Oblivion ————————————————————
OBCT —————————————————————
OCB One cell brain —————————————————
OCM – Original Cuntry Munters ———————————–
OCD ——————————————————————
OCM —————————————————————-
Oddessey– S.Oxfordshire Techno, hardcore, old skool- 1994 – 98
Odyssey sound system,, ————Suffolk 2008 to present
Offshore State Circus Rig’ –S London. Jungle, extreme wierdness.
Off yer face————————————————Norwich
Ooops!——— Based Reading 1993 – Dan Treble O-ps Mayer: –
D&B, jungle, Techno,we will travel anywhere for a party
One Love ——————————————–Luton
One Unity ———————————————-Bedfordshire
Ontick. ————————–Owned by many London lostboys
Original dirtysouth collective ————————————
Optimist Creed———————————————————
Oscillate———————————————–Birmingham
Oxford Party Crew– 1991 – 93 Music: Hardcore, Techno–Oxford
Off yer Trolley–“Party Animals”..————–…..cambridge area
PANIK SOUND SYSTEM 1998 London and surrounding countyside. –Run by a collective with and open deck policy
Panorama Elite ——————-Nottingham. Active in the 90s
Paradox, Bournemouth and Dorset, Hampshire, Wiltshire 89-92
Party Possible ——————————————- Brighton
Paranoia ———————————————————-
Peaceful Promotions ———————————Wimbledon
Pendulum———————————————————
Phantom Sounds ————— Oxfordshire/Bucks 2001-2004
Pitchless ————- London 00s played mostly noise and core
Plan-B, ————————————— London and Prague
Pineapple Tribe—————————————-Surrey 1995
Planet Grunt (Grunt)—————————— west Sussex 92
PRANK, (PIGS RIGSAND NAUGHTY KIDS) ———–Bristol
Prove It———————————————————–
Project Mayhem —————————————–Oxfordshire
Proper Stuff” —————– run by two brothers, Cambridge area
Primitive ————————————————————-
Pod————Power of Dance ———–party all over —–1994
Positive Sounds——————————————————–
Pokora Sound System —————————-London 2006
Public Nuisance ————————————————-Bristol
Prime ——————————————-SOMERSET 91-94/5
Primal sounds —————————————————–
Psychosis—————————————————- Surrey
Pendragon—————————————— North Wales?
PMT —————————————————————-
Pulse—————————————————Nottingham
Pulse8 ——————————————–Ipswich/Suffolk ?
Pure FX, —————————————–Bracknell. 2010s
PV Twist,—North Devon,North West Cornwall, 2006-2010. —–Buckinghamshire 2011-present for special occasions these days
Quadrant———————————————-Nottingham
UFO ————————————-Kent mid 90’s still going
Underkonstruction ————————- London since 2006
Underground Sounds—— ——london Darren ( sick note)
Underdog ——————————————————-
Unknown ———————Wales/Bristol. Early 00’s onwards
Unknown Project ——————————Bristol 2010ish
United Sounds —————————————————
Unit-E —————————————————-Norfolk
United Systems——————————————London
Unhinged ————————————————-Wallingford
Unstable Sounds —————————————-Basingstoke
Unsound-Kings Cross ’88 –active and various beaches in between
Uslot —————————————————————-
Urban Warfare ——————————————————
Urge ————————————————————- 89
Random Sounds ——————————————-London
Ransack. ————————————London.. Gav Ransack
Realeyes ————————————————-Suffolk
Red eye ————————————————————
Resistrance—- ran for approx 10 years from 92 – 02-Bristol
RJSS.————————– Ron Jon Surf Shack/sound system
Reality Dub and Fairshare Unity-(big up Julian)at it since the 80’s
Requiem ———–Basingstoke / Bristol, 2011 – Present Day
Rere Kum Kum—————————————————–
Respect all crew —————————————————
Reprobate —————————South West 2014 still going
Ravenous ———————————————-Petersfield
Revalation —————————————–luton 2000,s
Remo ———————————————– Folkstone, Kent
Reclaim the beach—————————– London 2001-2018
Reknaw.————————————————-London Punk
Rebel Culture ———————————————–
Rebel Lion ——————————————Norfolk
Retox soundsystem.——————Devon 2003ish to nr present
Re²³volution Sounds ——————————–Mason Garner…
Restless Natives ———-Zebedee and Lawrence North London
Rinky Dink—-The almighty bicycle powered sound system -Stroud
Rig with no name —————————————————–
Rotten Noise ———————————————————-
RSNK red Shoes No Knickers ———————————–
Ruckus. ———————————-London. 97 onwards. Jungle
RUFF KREW ———————————————————-
sativa syndicate —————————————————-
Sabbatical———————————————-Guildford 1995
Samovar Soundsystem—————————– Nottingham
Safe and Sound ————————————————-
Scum like Us —————————————————-
Scallywags———————————————-London
Sensitive Sound————————————————London
Semtex, ————-West Sussex/ London/ Spain 2005 -2010ish
Sentient sounds ————————————————
Section 47————————————————–London
Section 63———————————–Hampshire 2002-2010
Shell Shocked ————————–South coast and beyond.
shindig ——————————————————– Essex
Shit disco ———————————————————–
Shit rig in the corner ———————————————–Shockwave ———————————————————
Sketch ——————————————-Burnham Somerset
Skirmish ————————————————–Chertsey
Sound Conspiracy————————————————-
SoulDrop —————–Bedfordshire now Kent. 2010 ongoing
soul 2 soul —————————————————–.
SoundLab ———————————————————-
SoundCrumpet —————————————————-
Sound Clinique, ————————————————–
Sokaid ——————————————about early 2000’s
Sommatek ————————————–about early 2000’s
Sonic ———————— Steve and Mikey Soviet —— Dorset
Sorted Sounds ——————————–Notts 2002-2011ish
Shuddervision——————————————————
SO SQUALID CREW —————————————Brighton
Shrewd ————————————- Peterborough, Lincs ?
Shtonka—————————————————-London
Stonka—————–London mid-late 00s-French tekno guys
SHAZAM! ——————————————————–
Shhhh ————————————————————
Surge ————————————————-Oxfordshire
Subtech ———————————————————
Subculture ———————————————Oxford
Suspect Sound. —————————————–Surrey
Silverscreen————————————————Reading
Siren Sound System –S London, J. Siren-D,Siren 97-present day
Silver Haze (became Subfactory) ——–Reading. Jungle. 94-96
Slack——————————————- Brighton, early 90s
Slack Banter ——————————————————-
Smokescreen————————————————-Sheffield
SNAFU sound system —————————–by Dave the Rave
Stinky Pink ——————————————————–
STS ——————————————————-Herts
Stumblefunk ——————–Manchester 2000 – Still going
Spawnee Posse—————————————-Manchester
Speakeasy ————————————————- Rachel
Spiral Tribe——————————–London, USA, Europe.1991
Spoof Soundsystem—————————————Sheffield
Specialneedsdisco, SPND CREW————————— London
SS trout—————————————————-Brighton
Spliff Riff — 1992 93Reggie, techno—Surrey/hampshire border
Stable Sounds, ————————————————–
S.T.S S.T.S (SQUATTERS ) ————————Bedfordshire
STORM ———–: OXFORDSHIRE, all over 1998 STILL GOING–
—-Music Techno, Trance, Hardcore, Drum and Bass, Jungle —
Street Level——————————North Oxfordshire 1992
Stinky Pink——————————————————–
Timbuktu ———————————————- Norfolk
Subassault soundsystem:——– Yorkshire Techno: june 1999
Sugar Lump———————————————– London
Survival–Oxfordshire all over 1996 Techno, Hardcore, ——
———————old Skool Sunshine Ravers—————-
Sunnyside ———————————————————-
S. W. A. T. Soundsystem ——————–Bath/Bristol based
Sweat————————Farnham/surrey 1991- 93,Hardcore
Swp ————————————————– Radstock
System ATiT——————————————– Brighton*
System Co-existence——————————–Surrey/Hamps
System outlaw—————————————————-
Tekno Travellers———————— Surrey 1991 – 93 Techno
Technical ————————————————— Herts
Teethout Productions —————————- Essex
Teknikal disturbance ———————— Baldock area, 2000
Techtonic————————————————-London
Tecnofobia ——————————————————
Tek-d ———————————————————-
Tekonta Sekta. ————————————–Midlands
Teknonotice ————————————–Bournemouth
Tek-Nologi, —–Portsmouth area based out of Sterns 89-93ish.
Tek.No.Shit Sound System. ————————–West Sussex
Tekno Kombat —————————————————–
Tearout —————————————-Brighton 2010ish
Thunder fox tribe ————————————————
TPK——————————————————–Reading.
The Camouflaged Disco Sound System————–Sheffield
The Countryside Alliance ————— ———-MultiRigger
The Druids of Kaos,-all over from 2000 Moots of Kaos MultiRigger
The Green monster Rig Brainfuel Crew ————out of Devizes
The Matrix Project ——- Jan 2000 NRG Acid techno/trance
www.thematrixproject.co.ukarea: Wolverhampton/Midlands
Torment ———————————————————–
TOSSERS. —————————————-Bristol later 90s
Tomahawk ———————————————————–
Totem Soundsystem —————————————-South
Total Disturbance ————————————————–
Total resistance.————————————–Mostly Europe..
Toytown ————————————————————-
Toxic —————————————————————-
TNT —————————— London Toby n Tim’s rig. -90s.
Turbo Unit ————UK. Europe, parties, festivals, midish 90’s
Tuk Sound System ———————————————-
Tufty’s LSD rig. —————————————— London
Tunnel Crew ————————————-High Wycombe
Toothdust ——————————————– South Wales.
Tibrium————————————————————–
Timelock——————————————Manchester/Wales
Tinker bell ——————————————-london 2000,s
Tonka———————————————————–London
Transmission————————————————-Leciester
Tramps with amps —————————————————
Trailer trash ———————————————————-
Tribal Energy ———————————————————Treehouse, ——————————Gwent valleys, South Wales
Tribe of Frog ———————————————————–
Tribe of Munt———————————————————–
Tribe of Isis——————————-South Oxfordshire 1998
Tribe of Twats—————————————————-1993
Tribe of Locust ———Dorset 98 -2005 but do the odd reunion
Trauma ———————————————————–
Turbo twats ————————————————–
Twisted sound system ————————– Surrey, Lee Ripley
TVC ————————————————–Kent
Valhalla 1999 Hard House, Deep house, Trance, Acid Tekno
operate open deck policy as is reasonable.
VEGA Sound System —————————————- Suffolk
Vortex Sounds —————————————————
Void ————————————————————–
Vox Populai ————————————-Big Alex rig London
Vibe Tribe——————————————-Leicester early 90s
Virus ——–from Cheltenham, London, early 90’s >> 2000’s—-
———–FB page,Virus sound system uk. —————-
Viking Crew——————————————————
Verbal ————————————————- Leicester 96 ish
Virus—————————————————–Jenny London
Vision —————————————————————–
WAC aka Wide Awake Club. Former Mr Noisy.
Wastegash Soundsystem —————————————–
Wattamess sounds. ——————————-Dorking 2010
Weekend Warriors —————————–Brighton 2010ish
We Love Bass ——————————————-Suffolk
WDA – Wessex dance association, ——Bournemouth 1990—
WMD ——————————————West Country 1993
worth noting rig at torpedo town 91 with Spiral and sweat.
Woodland pose——————— Cranleigh Surrey 1990 – 1992
Wellsbourn Travs——————————————-Wellsbourn
Wrek Tek —————————————————Norfolk
Wieselburger Soundz————————————————–
Wireless Sound System————-midlands Derby crew. Ongoing
Wibble ————————————————– Nottingham
Wonky Sounds ——————————————— Radstock
Wobbleberry———————————————-Hampshire
Zero Gravity ———-London early 90s running legendry parties
–for a year or so in the squatted Clock Shop in Farringdon! —–
Zero Tolerance——– Brighton and surrounding area! August 99
Zulu ——————————————–Brighton 2010ish
2B3 ————————————————————–
2FaceBass ——————————————–Guildford
2000 DS ————————————————————
23 For Life ———————————————————
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united systems ———————————Freeparty phone line

Free Party Line ——-run by Debs and Ian back in the early 90s

SOUND SYSTEMS from other Countries
Adrian’s Wall —————————————-Melbourne
Acolytes — France, were always legends with KSS at Frenchtek
Aestesis ———— france start: 1995 video body: – lots affilied
with technokrat, infrabass in paris or britany www.aestesis.org
AKA Sound System —— Melbourne circadian 2001-2004..
APA {Alien Pulse Agency},—————————— NL
Dingoland —————————————————FR
Drop In Caravan ——————————————–(FR)
Epsylonn Otoktone —————————————–(FR)
Insoumis ——————————————————FR
Heretik ————————————————-France
Kierweit —————————————————-NL
Kraken —————————————————–(FR)
K9KIMIV —————————————————– USA
Les Nomads ———————————————– France
Nonem ———————————————————FR
Nawak ——————————————————–FR
Plasmodio, ————————————————Rome.
Furious, .————————————————-Paris
Metek, ————————————————–France.
APA (Alien pulse Agency), ——————————Berlin.
Mononom, ————————————————NL.
OQP, ————————————————Marseille.
Teknocrats, .————————————————-Paris.
Outlaw, .————————————————-Italy.
K9, Den .————————————————- Haag.
Subsound, .————————————————-Vienna.
NTK————————————————Italy 🇮🇹 Sardinia
Devasta noise ————————————-Italy 🇮🇹 Sardinia
Bouch’Couzou, ——————————————– France
RMS, —————————————————— France
Messbass ———————————————- France
Metro Sound Systems————————————-Czech
Puzzle Soundsystem ———————————–(FR)
Cirkus Alien, ————————————————–(CZ)
Swamp, ——————————————————(CZ)
FDM Freax —————————————————(CZ)
Lego Soundsystem —————————————–(AU)
Mononom/Gigabrol —————————————–NL
Ocupa ————————————————— France
SDC ( Sunday Dub Club) ————-Sydney. Dub Ska Reggae
Sleepnot Soundsystem —————————–Romania
Scooby Doo Crew———————————–Houston,texas
S.P.A.Z. ———————————————San Francisco
Virus —————————– Melbourne 1998 – still going
Wicked ————-San Francisco, a splinter group from Tonka

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“We Are People Too”: A blog by Chris McDonagh on growing up as an Irish Traveller

Chris McDonagh is a Campaigns Officer at Friends, Families and Travellers. Chris is an Irish Traveller and grew up travelling around the United Kingdom. Here he writes on his personal experiences of growing up within the Travelling community, both good and bad. 

Growing up as an Irish Traveller in England was difficult. From a young child I remember the hate and prejudice that was aimed at my family, just for being what others saw as “different”.

Some of my earliest memories are of being spat at or having our trailer attacked by people who had nothing better to do, while the men were away from the camp working, and I remember the fear and disgust I felt. I didn’t have a clue what we had done wrong. An innocent child should not have to feel like that. This was the early 90s.

I was around five years of age, when I wandered away from the camp. I remember I wanted to spend my pocket money (50p!) on some chewing gum which had the rub on tattoos inside the packet. I was walking for what must have been around 20 minutes before I realised, I was lost. I started to panic and I didn’t know where I was, or the way back to the camp, so I sat down on the kerbside and broke down in tears. I must have been crying for 10 minutes and worrying what I was going to do when some people approached me. It was a couple of boys from the local settled community and they all surrounded me. I was afraid as they were all older than me and I felt intimidated. They asked me my name and when I told them, one (with red hair) pushed me onto the ground whilst racially abusing me. Thankfully, someone passing in a car stopped and told them to leave me alone and took me back to the camp, but unfortunately I don’t remember her name. But I will always remember her face. She was a guardian angel sent to help me that day and I wish I could thank her now. She helped a lost child get back home.

Moving from camp to camp was a life I grew up in and it was a life I enjoyed. I enjoyed seeing new places and exploring new things with my brothers and cousins and we would make dens in the woods and forests, and pretend we were ‘cowboys and Indians’, eating berries and making bows using birch branches and a string. Life was simple but it was good.

We moved to a new camp in Manchester and the local children decided to come over and see what was going on. They were stood on the outskirts of the camp when myself and a few cousins walked over to greet them. After saying hello, they then asked were we ‘G*ppos’? Can you imagine walking up to somebody you’ve never met and them using insulting words to describe you, or your children? This behaviour is a learned trait and this word was obviously used to describe Travellers and Gypsies by somebody close to them.  We had to grow a thick skin and learn to get on with things from a very young age, and I don’t think it is right for a child to have to do that. A child should be playing with their friends and learning about the world, but we were being taught how to handle racism and how we should expect this abuse from members of a ‘civilised’ society. We had to toughen up and grow up much quicker than members of the settled community. Not by choice, but by necessity.

In the mid-90s, we moved into a brick and mortar house due to a family member’s ill health, and the constant harassment by the police, local authorities and random members of society. By then, myself and my brothers started at a new school.

On my first day I remember walking into the classroom and introducing myself and immediately the inevitable whispers and looks started. I was seated at my own table and given a book to draw in. The rest of the class were taught whilst I was left to my own devices. Soon break time came, and we all went out into the school yard. Everyone went their own way, until I was left alone in the middle of the playground. My brothers were in a different part of the school as they were older. I looked around at everyone with friends and felt alone. A boy approached me who was in my class and introduced himself to me. We immediately became friends and he was the first person my age who helped me understand that not everyone was the same. He showed compassion and the hand of friendship at a time I felt alone and outcast. I realised that not everyone was the same, though I still had to put up with racism and abuse from students and teachers alike. We are still friends to this day.

Another day we were learning about our times tables, and the teacher told me to stand up and recite my 3 times table. When I did, he made me stand at the front of the classroom and told me I was speaking wrong, because I said ‘three’ different to him. I am an Irish Traveller and speak with an Irish accent, so of course I am going to sound different to an educated man from the settled community. He told me to repeat after him and speak the same way he did, and I remember looking at the floor and my face burning with shame whilst doing what he said. He didn’t attempt to stifle the laughter from the other children. I can still feel that shame today if I think about it.

The reason I have shared these few examples from my childhood is because despite the change in times and what is now deemed acceptable or appropriate, this type of behaviour is still happening. Children, who are so pure that they don’t have the sense to understand, and also adults from minority ethnic communities, are still experiencing this abuse and hate on a daily basis. The times have changed, and what was once deemed acceptable is now being challenged, but the hate that Traveller and Gypsy people receive is not. The media print stories that spread stereotypes, programme makers are making programmes that not only show us in a bad light, they spread blatantly untrue ‘facts’. The authorities that are supposed to protect us as members of society close down sites and reject our planning permissions when all we want is somewhere to live. We are under attack from all sides and it has always been this way. This is the way I have grown up. Outcasted and neglected, accused and denied basic human rights. The world has moved on and given people equal opportunities, but we are still left behind. We are still abused across the board. We have had over 500 years of prejudice and hardship, how much more must we endure? When will we finally be recognised for who we are? We are human beings too and we deserve equality. Our children deserve a chance to live without fear of being abused, and the opportunity to be whatever they want to be without stereotypes and hate following them. I fear I won’t be here when that day comes, and I have come to accept that. But for the sake of my children, I hope our time for acceptance comes soon.

I would like to make a personal request. As somebody who hopefully now has a better idea of the kind of suffering Travelling people endure, I hope you want to help us make a change. And you CAN help us. You can help us by spreading awareness of the easily remedied issues we face (there are many), you can challenge the anti-Traveller/Gypsy hate and rhetoric when you see it, whether it is online, on media sites, on your local MP’s manifesto. Help us campaign to get sites for us to live on. Help your children understand that we are people who have been trod on by society for over 500 years, and that treating us different because we are seen as ‘different’ is wrong. Because we are not different. We are people too. We have needs and aspirations. Feelings and fears. We are all people in this world and we should celebrate each other’s cultures. We should be celebrating each other as friends.

https://www.gypsy-traveller.org/blog/we-are-people-too-a-blog-by-chris-mcdonagh-on-growing-up-as-an-irish-traveller/

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Red Nails

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Nails painted RED today. In support of NHS and blood charities.

#TalkingRed

Guide To Getting Involved / Activities
Hold a red themed event – cocktails or mocktails/cupcakes or traybakes!
Paint it RED – your nails not the town! Why not use your special Talking Red nail polish and go red for the week with friends?
Bake it RED – cakes with red icing, strawberry sundaes or a completely red dinner party – get creative with red foods and enjoy with friends and family!
Big Red Quiz – download the full quiz to do for fun with friends

https://haemophilia.org.uk/support/talking-red/getting-involved

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50 Years of the Misuse of Drugs Act

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The acid house


A look at Britain as a producer of illegal
drugs, Peter Simonson revisits the 1970s, when a remote Welsh
mansion was home to the world’s biggest LSD factory.


If you were to ask the man on the proverbial Clapham omnibus
where the majority of the world’s illegal drugs were supplied
from, he’d probably mention the coca covered mountains of
Colombia or the opium poppy fields of Afghanistan. If he were
a little more knowledgeable, he might mention the fact the
majority of herbal cannabis smoked in Britain is grown within
its borders in suburban houses, warehouses and industrial
estates – nearly 7,000 of which were closed last year. But our
role as a mass producer of illegal drugs is not just a recent
trend. During the late Seventies, Britain was the world’s largest
producer of LSD.
Before LSD was made illegal in 1966, the nascent devotees of
its psychedelic properties obtained their supply legally through
its originator, Sandoz Chemical in Switzerland. Post-ban, LSD
was obtained from illegal labs outside Britain, most famously
from clandestine chemist Oswald Augustus Owsley III in
California.
However, there were some small LSD labs operating within
UK borders. In 1968 an Islington pharmacist, Victor Kapur, was
jailed for nine years after producing 19 grams of LSD (enough
for 95,000 doses) in two labs. One lab was in his garage and
another in the back room of his chemist shop on the New
North Road. A year later Peter Simmons and Quentin Theobald
were jailed for five and seven years respectively after police
busted two clandestine labs, one on a caravan site in the East
End and another at Theobald’s home in Hythe, Kent. But the
urban LSD labs soon disappeared, partly because the LSD scene
itself – which centred around squatted hippy communes in
the London districts of Notting Hill and Camden – was being
constantly targeted by police.
From the late Sixties groups of hippies in Britain and
America started setting up alternative communities away from
the big cities, in rural idylls, where they could live without
being routinely harassed by the ‘The Man’. In the US, this
counter-culture exodus away from urban centres led to an
exodus to far flung states such as New Mexico, were they were
relatively free to live alternative lifestyles and consume and
produce drugs – as the police force was scattered over
an immense area. In the UK, they left the squatted
communes of London for the verdant fields of Wales.
Like their New Mexican brethren, hippies and counter
cultural types could set up their utopian communities
of free love, self sufficiency and, of course, the
consumption of psychoactive drugs, without too much
fear of being troubled by the local constabulary.


THEY PURCHASED A CRUMBLING
MANSION IN THE CAMBRIAN
MOUNTAINS NEAR CARNO,
CALLED PLAS LLYSN, WITH THE
AIM OF MAKING LSD THERE


This was augmented by the burgeoning appeal of the free
music festival scene in Wales, including the Elan Valley Free
festival in Rhyader, the mushroom festival at Pontrhydygroes
and the legendary Meigan Fayres in the Preselli mountains.
The remoteness of parts of the Welsh countryside suited these
festivals, while the locals were accommodating and happy
to rent out their fields to the nomadic hippies. Local Welsh
markets, stores and pubs mostly welcomed the increased trade.
Of course the main drugs consumed at such festivals were
cannabis, magic mushrooms and LSD. In the late Sixties the
area was visited by luminaries who felt a certain anonymity
there, such as Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix and Keith Richards.
According to Lyn Ebenezer, a local reporter at the time, Bob
Dylan also visited under the assumed name, Jerry. A farm
worker in the area later saw the cover of Nashville Skyline and
stated: “Damn, I didn’t know Jerry had made a record.” This
fertile and somewhat remote environment was the ideal place
to set up a clandestine lab. Enter chemist Richard Kemp.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011 DRUGLINK | 21
In the late Sixties Kemp had been working with David
Solomon in Cambridge in an attempt to produce synthetic
THC, the active ingredient in cannabis. Solomon had edited a
book in 1964, LSD: The Consciousness Expanding Drug and had
been a regular at Millbrook, where Timothy Leary conducted
group therapy with LSD. Kemp travelled initially to France
with Solomon with the intention of producing THC, but soon
tried his hand producing LSD. With the financial help of an
American friend of Solomon’s, Paul Arnabaldi, they purchased
a crumbling mansion in the Cambrian Mountains near Carno,
called Plas Llysn, with the aim of making LSD there.
Although LSD was illegal, the possession of its precursor
chemicals, such as ergotoxine tartrate, was not against the law.
This helped Kemp and his friend, Andy Munro, another chemist
with an interest in making LSD. They were able too buy most
of the precursor chemicals, through front companies, from
Czechoslovakia. Then the production line began to roll.
Prior to Kemp and Munro’s LSD factory, illicit acid had been
mainly available in liquid form dropped onto sugar cubes,
on blotting paper and as capsules. Kemp’s premier skills as a
chemist came to the fore in perfecting a smaller, more easily
transportable form of LSD, which was to become known as the
microdot. Their invention, which became a form of ‘brand’,
would prove a global hit, with the lab producing hundreds of
thousands of LSD microdots a year ending up as far afield as
Canada and Australia.
LSD had become a drug not just associated with hippies. As
Andy Roberts notes in Albion Dreaming, in the Sixties certain
drugs were associated with certain discrete subcultures. But
from the early Seventies onwards, this delineation breaks

But what of illicit production of drugs in the UK post
Operation Julie? While Julie was a landmark case
due to its international scale and its links with the
counter culture of the day, the arrests clearly did not
stop budding chemists from attempting to produce
illicit substances
The rise of Acid House and outdoor raves from 1987,
which in many ways mirrored the free festivals
of the 70’s and probably exceeded them in terms
of numbers attending the events, provided the
opportunity for budding chemists with a taste for
psychoactive substances and an un-taxable income.
In the US, two books by Dr Alexander Shulgin and
Ann Shulgin, “PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story” (1991)
and TiHKAL: The Continuation” (1997), provided
the chemical formulas for a range of psychedelics,
empathogens, amphetamines, and tryptamines.
1993
Paul Halfpenny, a research chemist with Parke Davis, the
pharmaceutical arm of multinational Warner Lambert,
was arrested with 2kg of amphetamine sulphate near
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. Halfpenny, along with fellow
Parke Davis chemist, Dr Reginald Richardson, appeared
to have been producing amphetamine and attempting
to produce MDMA at Parke Davis’ Addenbrooke labs. Dr
Richardson was eventually cleared of all charges, while
Halfpenny was found guilty of possession, production of
controlled drugs and conspiracy to produce MDMA.
1998
Operation Pirate, one of the largest police operations against
UK clandestine chemists, saw amphetamine sulphate
labs being dismantled in Merseyside, Cheshire, Cumbria
and Greater Manchester. An 18-man organisation led by
Frederick Cook were arrested and charged. Police discovered
a clandestine lab in a remote cottage in Cumbria with
enough precursor chemicals to enable the gang to produce
£18 million worth of speed at street value. A further raid
at a furniture warehouse in Widnes, appropriately named
‘Aladdin’s Cave’, netted a further batch of chemicals which
could have produced £4 million worth of amphetamine. Along
with the other raids the total value of drugs was estimated by
the police to be worth in the region of £36 million.
2004
The first detected case of LSD production post Operation
Julie was discovered in a house in Ovingdean, near Brighton.
Casey Hardison, an expat American and self-styled medical
anthropologist was raided after a tip-off from US Customs,
who had seized a package containing £4K worth of MDMA
that Hardison had posted to America. During the raid,
police in chemical protection gear dismantled the lab and
discovered 145,000 blotter tabs of LSD, quantities of the
psychedelic disassociatives DMT and 2CB and evidence that
Hardison had bought £38K worth of precursor chemicals
used to produce psychedelics. He was charged with
producing LSD, DMT and 2CB, intent to supply LSD and
trafficking. At his trial in 2005, Hardison, much like Kemp
back in ’78, pleaded that he was motivated not by profit,
but by the spiritual “journey” to produce LSD. Prosecutors
argued that he had moved to the UK to produce LSD to
avoid heat from US police. Hardison was found guilty and
sentenced to 20 years and is currently campaigning against
the sentence through the Drug Equality Alliance.
2005
Peter Sanders had turned his legitimate chemical company,
Sanchem, into an after hours amphetamine lab with the
help of his top chemist Ian Kilner. Through Sanchem they
were able to procure the chemicals to produce Benzyl Methyl
Ketone (BMK) a precursor in the production of amphetamine
sulphate. They produced the BMK at a remote farmhouse
near Southport and transported it back to a portakabin on
the Sanchem site to convert into amphetamine. When the
police raided Sanchem they found enough precursors to
produce £4.2 million worth of amphetamine paste. Arrested
alongside Sanders and Kilner were Steve Dalton (found with
£1.5 million of amphetamine paste in his wardrobe), Anthony
Bodell, and the alleged ringleader, Leonard Briscoe Stubbs.
Bodell and Stubbs were jailed for five and a half years each,
Dalton for four years and Kilner and Sanders got three years
each. Interestingly, Stubbs had previously received two years
after being arrested during Operation Pirate (see 1998).
2006
The first case against UK manufacturers of
methamphetamine appeared before the courts. Timothy
Morgan, David Walker and Stefan Thomas had attempted
to set up a bogus chemical supply company in order to buy
ephedrine, used in the production of methamphetamine.
When this failed they resorted to the US method of buying
up cough medicines from which they extracted the drug. The
police investigation estimated that the gang had the potential
to produce £1.5 million of methamphetamine per year.
AFTER JULIE: UK synthetic drug factories since Kemp and Munro’s lab
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down. Even punks who positioned themselves as opposed to
everything hippies stood for, took LSD.
The growth of LSD use inevitably came to the attention of
British police, who had worked out that an LSD factory was
based in the UK. While Kemp and Munro’s lab was in full
production mode, under the watchful eye of Detective Inspector
Dick Lee, a police task force began to gather intelligence
at commercial concerts and free festivals, using a team of
undercover officers with outgrown hair and hippy clothing.
The evidence coming back to DI Lee was irrefutable: LSD was
everywhere. And all roads seemed to lead to a ‘Richard Kemp’
in Wales.


TO THIS DAY, THERE ARE STILL
RECURRING, HOLY GRAIL-LIKE
TALES OF ‘JULIE’ MICRODOTS BEING
UNCOVERED, SUCH WAS THE QUALITY
OF KEMP’S CHEMISTRY

The international dimension to the case only dawned on DI Lee
when he visited the Home Office laboratories in Aldermaston
during the early Seventies. He was told that 95 per cent of the
LSD being seized in the UK and 50 per cent worldwide was in
microdot form – the mark of Kemp and Munro’s production
line. Lee had further intelligence that the wholesale price
of LSD was substantially cheaper within the Welsh borders
than elsewhere in the UK. By 1976 Lee had joined up the
links between Wales and the global supply of LSD and the
organisation encompassing Richard Kemp, Andy Munro,
Christine Bott (Kemp’s partner), Henry Todd, David Solomon
and a cast of others.
On a very small budget, DI Lee set up a surveillance team
to gather evidence on the goings on at Plas Llysn. Officers
disguised as coal mining surveyors and itinerant fishermen
were, within the confines of the Welsh countryside, trying
to bring down a worldwide drug production ring which was
using pubs in rural Welsh towns and villages such as Tregaron,
Cwmann and Ffarmers to exchange massive supplies of LSD.
On March 26 1977, ‘Operation Julie’, named after a female
officer who had been working on the case, sprung into action.
Over 800 officers raided 83 locations across England and Wales.
Police discovered 600,000 microdots buried in a field near
Reading and 120 grams of LSD crystals – enough to produce 1.2
million microdots – beneath a compost heap near Christine
Botts’ potato patch. A further 50,000 microdots were found
under a stone in a field near Plas Llysyn and 100,000 microdots
in a Winalot dog biscuit box buried in another local field.
A raid on the organisation’s London HQ netted enough LSD
crystal to make a further 2.5 million microdots. In a safety
deposit box in Christine Bott’s name in Zurich police discovered
cash, a gold bar and 2kg of ergotamine tartrate. Later, after
a police tip-off in October, a further 1.3kg of LSD crystal was
discovered, buried beneath Kemp and Botts kitchen.
At the trial in 1978, Mr Justice Parks sentenced 17 defendants
to a total of 124 years. Kemp got 13, Todd, 13, Solomon, 11,
Munro, 10 and harshest of all, Christine Bott received nine
years.
Bott had not been
actively involved in the production
or distribution of the LSD and as the secondary
chemist, Andy Munro said: “Bott got nine years for making
sandwiches. I got 10 for making acid.”
Kemp had originally written an 8,000 word defence
statement, but was advised by his lawyers against using it. It
was released at the time to a journalist at the Cambrian News
who précised it under the headline ‘Microdoctrine – the tenets
behind Kemp’s LSD’. The gist of Kemp’s defence was that LSD
was a catalyst for social change, the motive was the ideal not
the money.
Even after the court case, the gang’s hoard of LSD was being
unearthed. A cache of one million microdots was discovered
buried in a wood in Bedfordshire in September 1979. It took the
total value of the six million LSD tabs seized during Operation
Julie to £100 million. To this day, there are still recurring, Holy
Grail-like tales of ‘Julie’ microdots being uncovered, such was
the quality of Kemp’s chemistry.
The use of LSD has, since the Seventies, rapidly declined.
Its use had a strong following within the anarcho-punk scene
and the travelling hippy communities. The mixing of these two
scenes saw the emergence of the ‘new age traveller’ movement,
which coincided with the rise of the rave scene.
The last British Crime Survey puts last year LSD use
amongst 16-59 year olds at 0.2 per cent of the population.
Those seeking spiritual enlightenment or psychedelic pranks
still have other avenues to choose. As Mark E Smith of The Fall
sang in 1979 a year after the Operation Julie, “I don’t need the
acid factories, I’ve got mushrooms in the field,” while others
buy substances such as San Pedro cactus and Salvia Divinorum,
plus an array of ‘research chemicals’ available online and
produced in the Far East.
Many of the outlaw British chemists of the 21st Century
seem more motivated by the quest for financial rather than
spiritual gain. But although illegal use of LSD is ever declining,
after some 50 years in the cupboard, it’s now enjoying a
psychotherapeutical renaissance. The Multidisciplinary
Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) highlights research
in Switzerland which uses LSD to reduce anxiety for people
with terminal illnesses, while the Beckley Foundation is looking
at the use of LSD in brain imaging research. Albert Hoffman’s
‘problem child’ appears to be having a rebirth.

Peter Simonson is a research intern at the
UK Drug Policy Commission

http://www.drugwise.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Acid-house.pdf


Operation Julie: The World’s Greatest LSD Bust,
by Lyn Ebenezer, is published by Y Lolfa (2010)

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Resisting Anti-Trespass

An exploration by two Brighton artists on the potential effects of criminalising trespass in the UK.
3rd year student project. University of Brighton

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Hot sunny Saturday afternoon in Nottingham

Hot sunny Saturday afternoon in Nottingham
My Samsung S10 recently updated to allow wide-angle shooting in still and video. This is a another messing about to check on width and exposure adjustment from bright to shadows ……

4K Video 3840 x2160

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Newspaper – news cuttings artworks

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Nottingham in Wide-Angle, hot sunny day

Nottingham in Wide-Angle, hot sunny day
My Samsung S10 recently updated to allow wide-angle shooting in still and video. This is a first messing about to check on width and exposure adjustment from bright to shadows ……

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Zine 39 Stoney Cross, June 1986

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Stoney Cross

5th JUNE 1986 Stoney Cross, Hampshire. Operation Daybreak eviction from site and ‘The Walk’. A year after the Beanfield…. and still they haven’t finished yet [KillTheBill]. Upwards xx
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Beanfield set from earlier https://www.facebook.com/tashuk/posts/10158544497391799

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10 Facts Every Street Photographer MUST KNOW

If you take photographs or film in public, you need to be aware of these essential facts.

There is no general law that prohibits #photography/videography in public, but there are some essential caveats to be aware of. From photography in shopping centres, to parks, filming police stations and other important buildings, to GDPR concerns, harassment, and other factors, this video is for you.

For more discussion on some of these, check out my previous video:

Some references:
https://www.met.police.uk/advice/advice-and-information/ph/photography-advice/
https://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/trafalgar_square_byelaws.pdf
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/40/section/1
https://www.guybutlerphotography.com/photographers-rights-law-uk/
https://ipo.blog.gov.uk/2019/06/11/copyright-and-gdpr-for-photographers/

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Can You Take Photographs In Public? Can You Film In Public? & s43 Terrorism Act 2000 Searches

In this video, I discuss whether you can take photographs or film in public. This is a brief explainer video of your rights when taking photographs or filming something (or someone) in public. There is no specific law that prevents you from taking photographs or filming a video in public but there are certain things that you might wish to consider before while doing so.

There are various laws that may cause difficulties depending on the situation but you have the right to keep any photographs and video you take or film in public and you are the copyright owner of all such material. No one has the right to force you to delete photographs or videos that you have taken in public but in certain situations, the police may be able to search, view, or even seize photographs or videos that you have taken in public.

Also consider the Police powers to search under s43 Terrorism Act 2002.

As always, this video is NOT formal legal advice – you must always seek full advice and do not rely on this video or any other video or anything else you read online.

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Black Belt Barrister, Legal advice

BlackBeltBarrister

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Free Party line work

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Battle of the Beanfield : 1st June 1985

The Stonehenge Free Festival had been held at the Summer Solstice since 1974. However at 1977 event, numbers suddenly increased and this became the Annual People’s Festival. Since then, the numbers involved doubled each successive year. ‘Free Festivals’ developed. People were fed up with the exploitation, rules, squalor and general rip-off that so many events came to represent. They discovered something. It is a powerful vision. People lived together, a community sharing possessions, listening to great music, making do, living with the environment, consuming their needs and little else. The 1984 Stonehenge festival attracted hundreds of thousands over a six week period. It was the last. Through June, the gathering grew, until it is estimated that well over 30,000 were in attendance
At a meeting of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), in early 1985, it was resolved to obtain a High Court Injunction preventing the annual gathering at Stonehenge. This was the device to be used to justify the attack at the “Battle of the Beanfield” on the 1st June in Hampshire. Well it wasn’t a battle really. It was an ambush.
It was a magnificent convoy stretching and snaking its way over the Wiltshire Downs, as far as you could see in either direction. It was a warm Saturday afternoon as we drove through villages, people stood outside their garden gates, smiling and waving at us. A carnival atmosphere with little evidence of the ‘local opposition’ that we had been lead to believe was one of the reasons for obtaining the court orders. A police helicopter watched overhead but there was little other sign of trouble until…….. more on link below …….

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I’m tripping on acid. Higher living I’m mastered.

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Free Palestine protesters visit Marks & Spencer, Nottingham

Earlier events can be seen at:

https://youtu.be/njarOqhSdLk

https://youtu.be/3BKJvaSdH7Y

https://youtu.be/nXEp5-doIKM

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Zine Shop: With new titles

Alan ‘Tash’ Lodge, Photography Zine Shop: With new titles:

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Giancarlo and Nicole try to build an Ikea dresser after both taking LSD

Giancarlo and Nicole try to build an Ikea dresser after both taking LSD. The acid complicates an already difficult task, but after hours of false starts, laughter and deep introspection, they just might be able to work together and finally complete “Step 1.”

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