Records - 1988



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November 4th - London: Boat Party Goes Wrong

After months of careful surveillance resulting in "operation seagull" by the Metropolitan Police - a drugs raid on the pleasure cruiser "Viscountess" on Greenwich Pier, south-east London concludes with eighteen arrests and conviction of party-goer Clive Reynolds who received four years imprisonment for:

 

 

However, the most significant captures of the night were the organisers - the "Lieutenant" Leslie Thomas and "General" Robert Darby who are both charged with:

 

 

Lesile Thomas is sent away for six years for his role in the party and the former youth worker and co-accused Robert Darby is treated more harsher than Thomas - ten years imprisonment.

 

 

 

 

November 5th - London: Sunrise III

Things are looking up for Tony Colston-Hayter and Dave Roberts as they sell well in excess of four-thousand tickets for their next party, "Sunrise III, The Guy Fawkes Edition". Colston-Hayter & Roberts find their venue and spend thirty thousand pounds on production alone at the old gasworks [ a decrepted gas storage facility in the docklands ] in Beckton, east London.

 

On the night - their old adversaries the Metropolitan Police found Sunrise's venue and swarmed to lock the front gates and seal off the surrounding area. The authorities also discovered and sealed off the organisers main meeting point in Bishopsgate, east London. Just as the party was about to start, a team of riot police burst into the building and stopped the music.

 

Fully prepared and after some protestation by Colston-Hayter and his on-site legal counsel, at around five o'clock in the morning [ and hopelessly out-numbered by the extra bodies who risked serious injury running across a busy dual carriageway and climbing over a barbed wire fence ] the authorities had no option but to withdraw from the party.

 

 

 

November 5th - Loughton: Janet Mayes

The bonfire night celebrations will pay no significance to the household of Ted and Margaret Mayes who's 21-year-old daughter Janet had died after taking Ecstasy at a illegal party in Hampton Court, Surrey.

 

Janet's smiley T-shirts, florescent jumpers and other paraphernalia was burnt as her family displayed their growing anger against the acid house movement and the loss of their daughter.

 

 

 

November 7th - National: Sunrise III

The vultures were circling and the nationals had a field day as they summarised Sunrise's bonfire night party at Beckton Gasworks in east London. One newspaper led the way with their condemnation of the gathering as they concluded that the party was:

 

 

 

 

November 9th - London: Shoom Club

The unexpected demand for even more dancing on a wednesday night forces the Rampling's take stock of their growing popularity. As the Shoom phenomenon is growing at a expediential [ and worrying ] rate, the Rampling's capitalize on the momentum by moving to Busby's, a bigger and more spacious venue across the road from their second base at the YMCA in central London.

 

 

 

 

 
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