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<blockquote data-quote="Jonno" data-source="post: 771544" data-attributes="member: 5"><p>Nice one for posting those articles Barry.</p><p></p><p>I never made it to Love Decade - I made it to pretty much every single one that summer - all the Revenges etc (including 1 and 4 which only a few managed to make it to) - in fact apart from Love Decade I can't think of one I never made it to. I missed that one for some reason though - don't know if that was a good or bad thing though considering the arrests.</p><p></p><p>I know what you mean with the police being heavy handed though - they didn't fuck about that summer - any means at their disposal to piss people off. I was in a convoy one night where the police blocked off a dual carriage way, made everyone pull over to the side and then booked them for being illegally parked!</p><p></p><p>My brother got truncheoned round the head a few times as well by a WPC as he was climbing back through a fence after the police had broken up a party before it managed to start in 1990. It was just off the M6 - on the works access between J23 & J22 - anyone remember it? Quite a few of us got there but a few coppers had already got there as well - the people in the warehouse were shouting for people to come in, but there wasn't any music - apparently there was no petrol for the generator. A bloke appeared on the roof with a jerry can, disappeared through the roof, and then the music started up - there was a big cheer from the crowd and everyone surged forward - by a massive stroke of bad luck though about 6 full riot vans came flying in straight off the M6 and then started to set about people - crying shame. Jog anyone else's memory?</p><p></p><p>That first party in the article where everyone went to get the decks back was Phenomenom-E - it was Sept 1990 I seem to remember - deffo arse end of summer 1990. It was the most flyered party ever - they even had taster flyers before the proper flyers came out.</p><p></p><p>To be honest, and I know I'm nit-picking here, but there are quite a few bits in that article which are untrue - he seems to have been liberal with actual events to fit his philosophical view of the parties. The Revenge parties weren't after Love Decade for instance - Revenge 1 & 2 at the very least were before Love Decade. He's just said that as if there was some utopian ideal for the Blackburn parties that weren't there for the Revenge one's - which is bullshit IMO. For me as a participant there wasn't any discernible difference between the Revenge parties and the Blackburn parties - they were all banging parties in warehouses, end of.</p><p></p><p>The truth is fucking amazing anyway - it doesn't need dressing up in some pseudo philosophical bollocks.</p><p></p><p>I'm not too sure on his direct continuation thing with the Art Lab thing as well - it seems to have far more in common with the Loft in NY rather than the Blackburn parties.</p><p></p><p>His writing style reminds me of that Energy Flash book which I thought was a bit shit as well - it seems to be in a pretentious punk fanzine style - big words for the sake of it (there's actually a specific big word to describe that as it happens <img src="/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/classics/mcondom.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":condom:" title="condom head :condom:" data-shortname=":condom:" /> )</p><p></p><p>That said nice one for the link Barry, as there is very little out there on the northern warehouse scene.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jonno, post: 771544, member: 5"] Nice one for posting those articles Barry. I never made it to Love Decade - I made it to pretty much every single one that summer - all the Revenges etc (including 1 and 4 which only a few managed to make it to) - in fact apart from Love Decade I can't think of one I never made it to. I missed that one for some reason though - don't know if that was a good or bad thing though considering the arrests. I know what you mean with the police being heavy handed though - they didn't fuck about that summer - any means at their disposal to piss people off. I was in a convoy one night where the police blocked off a dual carriage way, made everyone pull over to the side and then booked them for being illegally parked! My brother got truncheoned round the head a few times as well by a WPC as he was climbing back through a fence after the police had broken up a party before it managed to start in 1990. It was just off the M6 - on the works access between J23 & J22 - anyone remember it? Quite a few of us got there but a few coppers had already got there as well - the people in the warehouse were shouting for people to come in, but there wasn't any music - apparently there was no petrol for the generator. A bloke appeared on the roof with a jerry can, disappeared through the roof, and then the music started up - there was a big cheer from the crowd and everyone surged forward - by a massive stroke of bad luck though about 6 full riot vans came flying in straight off the M6 and then started to set about people - crying shame. Jog anyone else's memory? That first party in the article where everyone went to get the decks back was Phenomenom-E - it was Sept 1990 I seem to remember - deffo arse end of summer 1990. It was the most flyered party ever - they even had taster flyers before the proper flyers came out. To be honest, and I know I'm nit-picking here, but there are quite a few bits in that article which are untrue - he seems to have been liberal with actual events to fit his philosophical view of the parties. The Revenge parties weren't after Love Decade for instance - Revenge 1 & 2 at the very least were before Love Decade. He's just said that as if there was some utopian ideal for the Blackburn parties that weren't there for the Revenge one's - which is bullshit IMO. For me as a participant there wasn't any discernible difference between the Revenge parties and the Blackburn parties - they were all banging parties in warehouses, end of. The truth is fucking amazing anyway - it doesn't need dressing up in some pseudo philosophical bollocks. I'm not too sure on his direct continuation thing with the Art Lab thing as well - it seems to have far more in common with the Loft in NY rather than the Blackburn parties. His writing style reminds me of that Energy Flash book which I thought was a bit shit as well - it seems to be in a pretentious punk fanzine style - big words for the sake of it (there's actually a specific big word to describe that as it happens :condom: ) That said nice one for the link Barry, as there is very little out there on the northern warehouse scene. [/QUOTE]
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