Personally, I come from a free festivals and travelling background. New Age Travellers etc.<\/p>\n
A number of sayings have helped guide my life over time. Like….<\/p>\n
Bring what you expect to find?<\/p>\n
If not you, who?<\/p>\n
If not now, when?<\/p>\n
If not here, where?<\/p>\n
In sum, this means self-reliance. It means gigs are ALWAYS better, when people attending don\u2019t just attend , but are a main part of the act. It is obvious to all those there, when this magic happens.<\/p>\n
This is actually where I came in. 1972 Windsor, Stonehenge etc….. These were my motives then and remain so now.<\/p>\n
Of course the authorities have difficulty with a system that means they are not in sole charge, hence all the law and violence since the Beanfield etc……<\/p>\n
Over time, I have been involved in raising awareness about the law changes and their implications to us all.<\/p>\n
\u00b7\tPublic Order Act 1986<\/p>\n
\u00b7\tCriminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994<\/p>\n
\u00b7\tNoise Act<\/p>\n
\u00b7\tBarry Legg MP: Places of Entertainments (Increased Penalty) Act<\/p>\n
\u00b7\tSecurity Services Act<\/p>\n
And now all the Acts that have been going through parliament – with the words<\/p>\n
\u201cconduct by a large number of persons in pursuit of a common purpose\u201d being a new definition of serious crime!!!<\/p>\n
With the new definition of serious crime, that enable the use of some \u2018heavier\u2019 police departments to be applied against us. And will be the end of all the RTS and similar gigs.<\/p>\n
Shame eh?<\/p>\n
Now, in \u2018rave mode\u2019, I have spent time with the Velvet Revolution and All Systems gigs, I had written \u2018Sound Advice\u2019 and the ‘Right to Party\u2019 – to try and raise these matters in peoples minds.<\/p>\n
Well, we have lost each of the matters I\u2019m on about here. Whoever you vote for, the government gets in!<\/p>\n
What I am absolutely positive about though, is that people involved in the scene,<\/p>\n
DID NOT DO ENOUGH ABOUT ANY OF IT AS IT HAPPENED AND NOW IS STILL GOING ON.<\/p>\n
People have to realise that self-interest and their own immediate happiness ( hedonism?), is not enough to make a festival, party rave, traveller site, gathering.<\/p>\n
Important, but not enough.<\/p>\n
Some folks on reading this will have been too young, to have had any objection to these changes as they have happened over recent years. But many others of you will have been.<\/p>\n
The way parties are now organised, between those trying to conform with some pretty onerous conditions, (ie half to 2\/3 of a ticket price to \u2018self-police\u2019 and pay for your own public order management and drug search.!) and those involved with the \u2018free\u2019 end of things but at continued \u2018personal\u2019 rather than \u2018sheared\u2019 risks.<\/p>\n
This division is of course orchestrated by the other side.<\/p>\n
This old hippy \/ raver? Is now of the opinion that folk have now got the party they deserve. Discuss……..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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