yeah rave culture was always supposed to polarize people. depending on your experiences it's either one of the uks great exports or a symptom of our own moral decline
used irish dance hard shoes for sale, but after a nationwide clamp down in the mid 90's the scene was forced further into the underground with new super clubs and licensed sanitized parties
taking their place recent years have seen aninstitutionalized attack on the nation's night life with nearly half of allbridge clubs closing down in the last decade so what happens next an illegal rave ina sauce the young ravens using the uk'scomplicates court laws to break in sound keep the police the bank and gohard fueled by boredom and lit by social media... the scene has left a trail of chaos across the country
with a number of incidence evolving riot police and more than one fatality in its wake but with the full weight of the british media upon it and the police using increasingly extreme tactics to shut parties down can it survive? the location they just magically appearwith the right tools get you in an interview just got to have the master key to thebeach and he sat out for scott to stop raves
they always coming over for right cool what's the point we can't stop kids fromdoing what they do it's not simply a bunch of guys and 12speakers in the field it's bringing people together in a waythat nothing else really does the london squat rave scene is a secretive clandestine world. but we've been put in touch with a guy called havoc who was hosting rave somewhere near the industrial dark clans of east london we have just been messaged the location apparently its about a 5 minute walk away so we are going to go down there where someone will be waiting for us
carriageway to go to my outfield closerange and quite scary in a good way you know we're surrounded by warehouseswasteland it's a long way from a night out of towncenter projects of common base and how straight make sure you get yourself down to countin town at ten o'clock party line was out the wrinkles on itsway a gang of board 10th teenagers were knocking about the warehouse crackingballoons and hoping the police weren't gonna shut it down before it started so we're at the venue which is a sort ofthis used industrial space in the shadow
of the blackwall tunnel apparently the brain chemistry overthere were actually taken from a medical facility the clock was against having his groupbut i managed to get a minute with him to hear how he makes these partieshappen how long have you been doing this since2011 my duties and let people know my tell us a little about the process other social media and think that so networking ready and how do you knowthe buildings just looks like to let
buildings anything we can use that bitesalways look on the internet and it doesn't know the owners have no idea absolutely no no as long as we can getinto a building about to make it look like it's been a broken into it and it'snot breaking a look at how did you get in tonight . but we never broke into thebuilding but we took the keys of the walls and look and i obviously someonebroke off but i don't think it's only one of havoc boys pulled him aside andthe mood change please understand - 10
so apparently it's not come anywhere near his daughter and you will be told to keep quiet for alittle bit because patent police and security from the industrial estate alloutside that we live in here for a few daysthere's no power in this building so we are extracting any electricity there's no doors have been broken theirsolo so what happens is that the place hadturned up you know some of the guys here have said they're kind of essentiallysupporting the place to be staying here
for a few days which apparently is theway to solve buy yourself some time hey security banis lifted it he's not a terrorist and pulling up youcan tell actually this is really just an inevitable part of the process and thisisn't the first time it's happened it won't be lost and as it stands and istill going ahead every now and again you hear a loudexplosion which is usually someone balloon blowing up the customer gas init the rings are coming in to start to fillup a bit over the side that's a lot of baker's jump like that
with having his crew seemingly off thehook from the police everything was in full swing by and see the size of london i wonder what the people who come tothese kind of events get this outside of style applying a massive culture wherelike people dress the same people i like same music everyone doing their thing it's far too sick what's the weirdestthing you've ever seen it right it's all getting a car oh this guylegendary incident out about terms of going to places when and how often theyget shut down too many times two minutes almost every time a dream itgets locked off later on in the night
just like young people trying to havefun it might be some drugs involved but likesame as anywhere else in it india to remind yourself a certain pointthat this is an illegal venture and people are breaking the law and that wewill have the reason for this evening you know cash changing hands tax mattersand seeing the end of it but there's no secret the club's opposing downeverywhere it's no secret that a lot of clubs arebecoming quite appetizing not very fun and when you're looking for somethingthat isn't being provided it's only natural that that comes from afight the illegal source there is that
kind of edge of danger the kind of just because it does make ita little the warehouse use for having tonighthave been acquired by a guy called jimmy white a 22 year old veteran of thisyoung scene with six years experience in the game ok now just like this just overjoyedwhen we got down there we're going to see get into this book toget jimmy had a reputation for sourcing the best locations for parties keeping them on ice until it already andusing his knowledge of scoring laws to
circumvent the police until they cansneak the speakers and the punches in it offered to take us some one of hisregular scouting missions finding potential venues for any future had nismwas your formula for building obviously sighs secure air around likeif there's a lot of people in the area something quiet and not related this iskind of person about it yeah of course this area has been hitstupid amount of time how do you find these places i just get into a car and scout aroundthe area that has as many industrial estates of the canyon never gonna findthe best deals on the other
it's going to be okay yes we like things are usually check hisup in the top how to get him for the top ways but it's obviously quite securequite well to be honest there's quite a lot more shoots down there is alwaystaken measures here they have taken quite good measures to actually stop usfrom getting on that big tune but yes and you can't just get a pair of allcars still legally you're not legally more no they don't get that this is whatwe step onto our buildings as soon as we get into the building this is just basically let's just sayour safety where is that is something
going on we can talk farkle it juststates that we're living in this property this is our home we intend to stay hereat least one person will be on the property and if anyone comes into theproperty without permission we have the right to prosecute them andtake them to cool and the only way to get us at its by a high court order anyother way to end this property is completely against the law and we willprosecute a single so this is the preparation for the party happens no club could ever compare to what asquat career go into the part you find
out the location at 10pm it's just allthe excitement you can do everyone what a roller islike a logarithm if you get my drift yeah that's thereport cover let's check this is open from me well just do tend to over that have to actually hunt you down andfind out every information about it the only way that you could get in troublefor it some someone's talking yeah that's the only way to get introuble for it even though it is in this kind of gray area
why does that mean you need to you cansee right and see because at the end of the day there's a lot of things thati've done in the scene and a lot of things that my group have done in thescene that would prefer not to put a face to the picture what i do i do it for statement and i doit just literally say to the police try and government well they are governing it and this ishow last year a halloween ray from a notorious come tech collective will shutdown only for a full blown right to erupt the police turned up in full force
attractions of shields and dogs the rainwas quickly replied with anything they can find the usual suspects in the mediaresponded in typically hysterical fashion and both the police and scumtech were quick to blame each other for the trouble scum tech famously camera shy but theyoffered to tell us their side of the story halloween was the most intentionalpassive aggressive policing the union for clothes and it would no one said that group in the world formulti-family with everything . charts
post news report by email stating thatthe police turned up to the venue on balls and works with former member of us absolute nonsense this video is thefirst line floor place of origin first place for why this step down the street it's about making the performance art anhour and a half his calls without incident apart from you but ihave a perfectly legitimate wanted to show the apartment anymore than a lifebecause it is next - how's it going to the baltimore's about me and prettyshortly tried the town to records will be noise complaints with one noisecomplaint because it's so powerful for
learning that the shelter body down andsound system / list their equipment with the world at war with itself becauseonce that's been said they didn't need to destroy the that everything was nonegotiation there is no talking to him or there isno return to place for the shop before we don't this is a completely intentional pacelisten and radio dissemination of information the damage that was posed was told afriend nasal completely unnecessary our fourth in a little more focuseddrawing board using my similar to mobile
i don't come down help people they were performers tools with thatpeople are not feeling well but the increasing pressures on thescene and the resulting paranoia will have its own consequences this time on us since the house of habitrate that means the bad news there's been a few police incident so after you rates around london and a few of thepromoters including however could be actually visited by the police of theirhouses and because we were sort of you know sticking around the same time theyput two and two together made 50 and
decided we were police so we've been told not to come to anymore raids in london and that we have essentially been bad from the sea in theaftermath of all we've got some absolutely fantastic threats comethrough this is the message we got from havoc he says all their videos you haveof me can you please delete police come to myhouse today and i don't find that coincidence and this is one of the producers got yougive us all the footage you took from the event on saturday or pay us oryou're going to have problems
seriously no message by monday peoplewill be coming to get the footage back there's a lot of scrutiny on this sceneright now the police are very much on top of their the media seem to beincreasingly involved and you know is something that their own i can see whythey would have a problem with people coming in to solve especially olderpeople coming in to kind of look at in dissect n investigator i suppose butthis is unholy trio of legality bravado and paranoia that makes him verydifficult to work with tensions between the promoters the punters in the policeand burn the culture of accusation and aggression
the stakes were high and everyone wasout to protect their own interests i want it there was another version ofmodern rape culture out there something more open more inclusive more akin tothe dream of the summer of love generation so we went to the promised land of therave scene then be this way for the easy to clean it off you can see this truck is used byramblings but that walker flavors at north wales it used to be the place forages and it died is coming back now back to the bank
music plays a hardstyle of ourtranscriber underground stuff me we started off their raids in clubs andlike they were all right i'm gonna be out good weeks you are not bad weeks butpeople will be able to come to a rave and relax and have a good time about nope it gets over the shoulders of thered sox little beer and stuff like that and then bounces in you know in your face all the time inthe town and things like that i mean it's just like going to placesthis is beautiful the pot calling the hospital
everyone has a great time and i don'tsee what the problem is she's a lairy dan and the distortion crew were alsofeeling the brunt of the police incentives against the scene withincreasing pressure is putting them in the same precarious situation as thelondon ravers the terrain might have been different but there was just asmuch to lose they were in preparation for one of thebiggest events here a huge party in the forest of them be if anyone wants to commit a seriouscrime and/or well tonight do it because we're all the police going to be honest
fucking our best like no i mean i toldthe cop is straight when they came to me out of there so listen we're going to dothe rain i know the consequences i mean that thecompany will arrest me if i am york estrella the guy in charger i've got so much lucien i mean gonnamiss this got a good job and i mean by individual i lose everything please main issue obviously is drugsthat's the main issue and the day they just don't like having a good time butwe're not causing any hassle of course and on any trouble we're not anywherenear a fucking built-up area or a town
or anything like that we're in the middle of nowhere we pullthis reward tonight without any hiccups right i am going to be a population genomicsgot my garden this mate will watch over them sheep and you know they can pop upanywhere me anywhere me tell you a story about ayear was that we did arabia about all about 10 years ago in here we have thefire going and someone threw petrol on the fire fire went straight back to theactual comment everywhere my bar can help
what an idiot i one idiot it's quitefunny though quite funny because a truck keys will melt into his leg and you knowback there by ten years ago when all these bookings else do truckingthroughout you know anything about these poppers not enough jackets and all thatlike i mean fucking out here and all this is it this is the venue for tonightand give you a quick walk around the site length tracking bella second it this vast plain of fell trees seemed alltoo serene an unlikely place for the madness to lay ahead but for dan this was perfect wavecountry couple of hours time this is
going to be like the most popular spotnorth wales like can't wait emma they know we don't believe you - were well you know my name do not do you areyou good you got there enough in this word fromwide seen down and his friends were doing this out of necessity and in doingso they attracted people from all walks of life this wasn't just limited to people fromno club towns the party was during
attendees from much further afield fromplaces were thriving nightlife hi i'm life again you're right thanksparis we traveled to the outskirts ofliverpool for a pre pie that would end up crossing the border into wales so is everyone looking forward totonight yeah thnkx time welcome to expect james way to proteinshake there may be going to tom you don't needto go to the pool one not even you found the way i got this feeling was like it well that's gonna be an amazing wedidn't have a place my home where i
think you wanted to have the lights liketo fight in the games i really want to talk and you don't want that to make youfeel like here yeah i'm what has been your baby no i'mgonna go now like don't get me wrong but you juststick to our meeting and talking about what do you think about the kind ofmedia trail of the you know racing flavors when you say you're brave everyone getsthe persona of old scotty these sweaty and it's just i don't know if ya want totalk to dad so what do you like about the legalrapes that legal makes you want to go
more you know they just because you'renot allowed that it was that it's not supposed to be a plan so you want to bethere anything i am in a match like completion to see people let's go aboutmeasuring you see them look like they need help you get over the globe leash you don't mean that you might find thatto manually yeah one of the saturdays what do your family's think of the kindof rain / - oh my my my my you know what with all the white when i see it andlift y'all just got 25 comes love then headed to bed before oh sure meaning how many out too hard
don't bring too many boxes we aresomewhere around chester and we offer this rape and it's gonna be a lot ofpeople should be fun bombing down a road in a higher minivanit seems a long way from an overpass in canning town we were driving throughcounty lines in a haze of make mr. barker the whole thing felt like somekind of hardcore holiday and much closer to the traditional idea of rave culturethe most people might understand so we are now walking up a dirt track ofthe hill in wales it's fucking freezing and i think thismight be the closest and get to jacob reward
i can hear the fates out hardcoreeuropean gabba we believe in you the party took place under what seemedto be a garden center marquee with the storming gabba hardstyle and acid techno chains hangingout at the bar 0 pa system gathered was a strange mix of hardcore heads farm kids might trippin scousers andaged ravers in the midst of a chemically induced knees up girls how you doing ifathered the only vehicle id card a big healthy amount of people have a babysuits a nice
just listen just because i like him theabbey battles are you family yeah i'm going to have a great timetogether no no i'll be sober now good for trucksto say i had every call we walk past i thought i had the light on for thepassengers seemingly doing lines of white powder off cd cases it's likechocolate dick dogging very obvious question why you got itsmash the music get that fucking bessie walker musicusing that to get much gap in the club for your robe on to your self blonde with this it's all there
pop music talking to girls live awesomefrom the club though what you can get in here calm down the government one of theillegal raves and kind of more illegal ones there god is definitely good you're legally night dance party was a success and todiscuss the fruits of his labor he invited us to his makeshift office the back of his girlfriend hatchback howyou enjoying the night so far mark 11 a fucking bear many people asyou expected delivery at me too early
come on so it's called for students toget it working right yeah what is it about that wants to illegalthat rather than sort of them doing it in a you know a club in the town it's not like we don't want to do in thecommunity hours just that smoke some more commentators and the overallthey're just too expensive people come here because they feel freeand they can decide everyone's just need to do the samething i mean sit around a fire or jump around like a loony a me during that these kids from them callcame down to the rave with them
interesting because you know they're notlocal kids from the farms left in a major you can see but this definitelyseems to offer that something that they can't get there there is a lot of you know intimidationviolence a lack of fun i guess is what they were saying it takes thoserestrictions that being hemmed into a tall building management no cctv camerasand security as well as a lot of people trying to prove themselves at theequation and kind of brings it something i guess more pure when you take a party this spa out into the woods in into theabsolute completely unreachable part of
the world it's in no one's interest to even shutdown the party went on till about my name of a dedicated sub-sect still goingstrong into the biting north whaley in morning there was no police presence atany point but not every rule then passes office movies dance last year party inwhite flint picture turned ugly resulting in another skirmish we're 20 ratings were charged with drugsand disorder offenses and 21 police officers and a dog or injured but nothing compares to the scrutiny ofthe london seems being subjected to do
to a series of raids gone wrong including the now infamous common baseby included where one teenager lost a finger and another lost his life afterdrinking from a cabman lace ball a bit one of the things that really attractedto these race is the fact they offer outside the law but with that it does bring a slightlymore kind of dangerous element to it their own license they're supervised butaccidents happen someone come to south london to me a guywho jack is experienced in the illegal rave scene shows us how long you canreally go jack was 16 years old when he
his friend daniel and a number of otherschoolmates heard about a rave in west london it was a night that would come toshape their young lives this is us in the sixth form centrethat's done that we would sit together every single day how did you find out about the radiatorguarantee well i was actually i proposed to us after lunchtime of that day was afriday a friend of ours said there's this party tonight you guys will come i mean none of us to do anything it wassort of feeling very exciting we thought it was gonna be a big party everyoneelse was buzzing no taken away for it
with regards to the drugs is thatsomething you can source beforehand liberty i was involved in the drug partand there was about three or four of them went off to get them and and andhis money are they mix the drugs of water and then they all started andsipping at it slowly but it was on that last train when daniel sort ofreluctantly drink the whole thing i sort of remember we're all going so shocked that he drank a little toolong ago when you got that was the venue of the set up like it was a bandhan sortof post office or thing and you get in and it's just dark unpredictable
just sort of not welcoming and when didyou first start to notice that things are going awry with daniel we were there for a couple hours i wassitting against the wall he went off our level i don't know why i watched him walk offand i'm i was asking where is he i'm standing up i look to my left andthere's a topless guy with his shoes and socks off so of mumbling with this paramedic toconsider writing things down i'm with him is he okay it was anambulance so we assume that that was
that may be home in the world no problem daniel was taken to hospital his temperature we got up to 42 degreescelsius causing a massive heart attack he stayed in intensive care for threedays but died on the monday morning he was 16 years old i think if i had any regrets that nightwould be out of sort of young 16 year old selfish i don't want my parents to find outmentality i didn't go with him because i thought he was gonna be fine
yeah i was enough with him i should havebeen the first two months were yeah the west ones tomorrow by far you hold any grudges against the kind ofwriting the culture this around no i think it's very cultures up for thepeople that want to go to it and it's sustained by the people to go to it'sthe people who organize it's a business of them are not seeking - home til people
so i don't think you can blame theculture itself for the tragedies that happened within it because the rightdidn't provide the drugs the ropes didn't tell him how to tighten but theword was a friend well that is called to leave away for a reason despite the effect daniel's deathclearly had on jack it was surprising to hear how levelheaded he was about the culture surrounding these raves especially incomparison to how the media likes to portray it more often than not thediscourse around these raves overlooks the reasons why people go to them in thefirst place
it seems to me what happened here isthat young people rightly or wrongly feel that they've got nothing to do andthere's some people for either love or sometimes opportunism i've kind of provided a space for themto hang out and exercise their tribal rites of saturday night restricting young people of theirfreedoms society is pushed one of the most important rite of passage into theshadows and as a result it ended up with something that doesn't seem to be ableto control we received a call from jimmy white thewarehouse hunter assuring us to the heat
in london who died down he told us he had a different kind ofevent lined up he was planning a protest by the britishracing one which he saw as a kind of sequel to the protests organized inresponse to the fervently anti-rape criminal justice built with 1994 jimmy believe that today's scene wasgoing for a similar clamp down and was looking to bring the same sort ofanarchy to the streets of shortage this time without his mask there's a guy could see again and seeabout the scarf yeah yeah i don't have
the program i'm good i'm good we're just having alittle look around now to see how things are going to plan out but look excitedi'm excited so you kind of hoping it to be chaoticor beautiful or peaceful i didn't ever seen ya in the bug chairyeah and what would you hope that people walking past and seeing it would think well obviously what i'm trying to getfrom this is to give the perception to the public that we're not here to justcause mayhem we're here to show them peace love unity respect the publicdon't ever get to see what we do only
what they see on the meter and what about the police at what pointyou that i'm sure oh i'm not too sure how they're going to be actin hopefullythey'll be friendly allow the things that happen it couldend up in them saying no get get out of a kind of thing but this is what thisgames really about man so in terms of location is somewhat youchosen so you can kind of keep it contained to keep it almost like like itis a warehouse party yeah obviously feels like he is awarehouse is kind of in the area i'm not too sure on the numbers that aregoing to come so it might be that we
have to change location hopefully we canstay here because it is a quite good sort of atmosphere how can you take moscow i feel as if forthe racing to step forward in in the political side of things as well as thethe raven side of things that needs to be some sort of face we want to send a message as well asjust party i want a revolution to happen in this racing you worry about anythought of you know potential legal consequences no no man i live for this man whatevercomes i'll take it in my stride
we arrived to the protest in the earlyafternoon i'm agree to buy a small gathering oftrustees and coppers usually the first to arrive at anythinglike this but jimmy head freshly shaved for battle didn't seem to mind too much jus got a car with just waiting for morenumbers turn up ok so now it's looking like it'sgoing to be at the planner what the basic facts are far better thanhave it all built differently on this side
there's a lot of people this kind offour cameras as well the whole thing is just a little bitcrusty than i thought it might be as the day went on the rape kids who sociallives are based around this scene started to turn up and show theirsupport goes down to the club with a separate why people put on your party because wehave their way to hold the party's a there's not much we can achieve butshowed that we are present and we actually kinda party to meet y'all music stop now the police are here andits natural body more of a project seems
to be kind of fluctuating between thetwo throwing the gaza strip arrangements are under a lot of drugs whole thing'sgot a lot more politicized the local ft lot more like a sort of conventionalprotest thanks a lot of different ideas as towhat this thing is i throws that was everything on you know a lot of peoplenow simply seeing is the sort of political protest some people with their directors andstack it was a little fun before because i think it's just a pie as night drew in the previously friendlypolice presence started to multiply and
have the protesters into the tunnel jimmy looking on seem too happysurveying the chaos he unleashed a good turnout they all got it happen there's been kids here dancing to themusic people given each other hugs everyone joining forget why nunu so it's been a good turner channelingspirit was a party and how much of it was protest it was a mix obviously yeah you know itwas good what he was going to turn out to be
it's just a polite way of saying fuckyou to be honest with it how have you found a place you have everbeen alright but they're gonna try and close off soon because of section 45 i think it's anti social behaviour actwas right yeah you can send this to me and says baby you know i don't thinkthere's any social behavior but you know they be there is one who's coming downone the dust settled shortages return tonormal there's something quite transgressivesome quite interesting about seeing all this chaos and all the police and allthis jump often like balloons and cans
of beer for all the kind of you know letthis politics were going on towards the end of it the most political part of itwas actually the party itself and there was no slogans or banners or anythinglike that there was not really even that much of a message and whether it's in afield in north wales or warehouses london the real political statement isin the chaos of it rather than any kind of like manifesto where the people who throws parties realize kind of adifferent question but i think the scene were always kind of reinvigoratingitself because people always want to do something which theydidn't allow too and they want to do
something that kind of pushes throughthe boundaries and normal living and that's what these raves office people we've been told of our big one the party taking place in tottenham inthe middle of another industrial zone as we arrived at about 10pm it seemed tohave been locked off before even started with a police line assembled and a gangof pissed off flavors trying to work out what was going on i think they cannot read gave onekeeping everyone up and just get the building block building someone else inprofit can break in
we got here just the police yeah it was fuckery last one was only that one fedcar out there this time there's so many this time it's just a waste of theirtime wise which looks just as we were about to give up and head home we go shouts in the distance people areapparently jumping a wall around the back the police say when they were anxiousnot to break rank nobody was sure they'd been outsideafter waiting around for two hours there was no way we were following i'mcoming this year just commissioned his
jump out for tonight we were in exactly the same position asthe ravers we wanted in and for the first time we wanted him for the exactsame reasons what was happening inside was theculmination of everything we've heard about hundreds and hundreds of youngravers skanking on the broken concrete sucking on dummies and huffing onballoons this was pure unadulterated undergroundnew culture in its rawest form these kids it was simply a release while made even more vital by the incrediblelack of anything that call their own
they are taking the ideals of theoriginal rape generation the same search for freedom in a society that won'toffer it and forge their own fight back
with the scene is totally of its time something louder harder less idealisticbut everybody's had mystic the police the authorities and the propertydevelopers might be moving closer but for now the scene is a long way frombeing locked off
