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Records - 1990
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borosix.co.uk → Rave History → 1990
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Mid Summer - Various: Free Festivals From out of the smouldering embers of what remains of the illegal warehouse scene, a new underground conscience is evolving. As with pay parties a few years back, this new party co-existence will reject the trappings of fame and immediate fortune by hosting parties for the masses so that everyone could enjoy the experience for nothing. Coming complete with huge travelling soundsystems, these "free parties" will come into the spotlight this summer and fill a niche within UK party culture.
An exploited and fully legal technicality within the UK statutes paves the way for emerging free party organisations like Nottingham's DIY, Cambridge's Tonka, London's Bedlam and Bristol's Circus Warp to discard the norm of delelict houses, schools, office blocks, warehouses and nightclubs to connect with nature and seek out realative peace, freedom and solace in the countryside.
As an embryonic free party scene follows the path of their distant cousins and these new gatherings are now essentially "free pay parties", Kent Police's dreaded "Pay Party Unit" are left out on a limb and a job as they don't have any real powers of arrest within this murky area of British law.
Instead of the customary arrest charges of "conspiring to manage premises where drugs are supplied" or "causing a public nuisance" the local authorities would now have to be forced to charge free party offenders with "mass trespass" and "breach of the peace" which is nearly impossible to enforce due to the amount of people at these types of gatherings.
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July
July - Longton: The Sindrome Brummie organisers Martin Redmond and DJ Bod ready themselves to challenge the likes of Introspective and futher catalyse a new generation of clubbers in a nearby county. The new partnership launch their new venture "Sindrome" at Shelleys laserdrome in Stoke - On - Trent, Staffordshire.
Up until this point, Shelley's had been stuck in a rut and had been pitched as a "sharon-and-tracey-meat-market-brawl-joint" by the locals, but all those negative thoughts should dissipate if Sindrome entices a steady stream of customers which could turn around the fortunes of the down-at-heel nightclub.
Alongside friends and fellow residents the "Unknown DJ" and Steve Warner, Martin and DJ Bod will look after their clientele in the coming months as their extensive connections within the scene will provide Derrick May, Jam MC's, Richie Hawtin, Neil Macey, Colin Dale, Tony Ross and Dave Angel.
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July 8th - Bedford: Om Helter Skelter's Dave Pratley and his long-suffering girlfriend Penny, the driving forces behind one of the success stories of last year, resurrect their year with no funds and hosting the first of their "Om" parties at Castaways in Souldrop, Bedfordshire.
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July 13th - London: Increased Penalties Bill Everbodies efforts are deemed to be in vain as the ravers unruly nemesis, Luton south's Graham Bright's ever popular "Increased Penalties Bill" is passed through the Palace of Westminster, therefore making the controversial bill an official act of Parliament.
Local authorities across the land will now have the upper hand on the party scene as the government now has the official backing to close loop-holes and give the police more sweeping powers to confiscate rave equipment and arrest potential party-goers. The Increased penalties act goes futher to enchance the penalties for organising illegal gatherings with a maximum fine of twenty thousand pounds, and or six months imprisonment.
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