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August

August 12th - Longwick: Sunrise & Back To The Future

Tony Colston-Hayter of Sunrise and Dave Roberts as Back To The Future are as thick as thieves again as they virtualy "team up" to host the seminal "1989 - Dance Music Festival" near the village of Longwick in Buckinghamshire.

 

Goaded on by the national tabloids, a team of top ranking police officers find their venue by helicopter and descend on the party site sensing a victory. Van loads of production equipment is refused entry onto the site as the landowner is quizzed and harrassed into cancelling. After speaking to his solicitor, the landowner agrees to let the party go ahead as he has a binding contract with the organisers.

 

Unprepared for all eventualities and with no help from the local authorities, a three-mile tailback on the approach road leading to the party site causes some distruption for the organisers and guests attending the party. Overall, Sunrise's Dance Music Festival is the biggest party to date in the United Kingdom with a ear-bleeding hundred-thousand kilowatt soundsystem and around seventeen-thousand tickets sold.

 

 

 

 

August 19th - Godstone: World Dance

Anton Le Pirate's new venutre "World Dance" hosts their first party in a farmers field near the village of Godstone, Surrey. For Le Pirate's first gathering without any partners, World Dance had eight-thousand people dancing to their tune until sunlight the next day.

 

 

 

August 20th - London: The Marchioness

In the early hours of Sunday morning, the "happy-go-lucky" party scene in London is put into context as a pleasure craft, the Marchioness capsizes after colliding with the dredger Bowbelle near Cannon Street railway bridge on the river Thames. Out of the hundred-thirty-one party-goers who attended the private party on the ill-fated pleasure boat, only seventy-six people survived this tragedy.

 

Leading figures within London's party scene rally together as organisers arrange and host tribute parties for the victims of the Marchioness disaster. It was later revealed that several DJ's and organisers within the closely-knit scene have been personally touched by the tragedy due to them having friends who are envolved and some of the victims are well known on London's party circuit.

 

 

 

August 26th - Effingham: Energy

With Kent Police's Pay Party Unit performing the dark arts on party organisers by monitoring their info hotlines, sabotaging parties via the pirate airwaves, buying tickets and posing as "ravers" to try and find out the location before the convoys do... Taylor and Chambers of Karma reveal that the first five-thousand people to arrive at their showpiece gathering, Energy's "Summer Festival" will get in for nish!.

 

Within a few hours, the organisers plan seems to have paid off as there was more than twenty-thousand people dancing at their gathering on New Marsh Farm near Effingham, Surrey. Once again, the national tabloids are not in a favorable mood as they summarise the proceedings. The following Monday, an over-exaggerated newspaper report stated that twenty-five-thousand ravers, some as young as eleven:

 

 

 

 

 

 
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