Ordinary People Acid House Documentary Seeks Funds (interview)
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Producers of High On Hope are seeking personal donations to clear music rights for the award winning rave movie, to allow the gritty documentary to be released on DVD and shown in independent cinemas.
Contributors who donate £3 receive a secret link to watch the film in advance, while those giving £100 receive a name-check in the final credits, a DVD and 2 tickets to a private screening and after-party. Producers need to raise £30.000. (Click HERE to donate: http://www.highonhope.com/donate/ )
The fascinating film charts the inside story behind the rise and fall of the illegal late 80s acid house scene in Blackburn, via interviews with the core party organisers and footage from some of the legendary raves, which attracted tens of thousands each weekend in 1990 and 1991.
Spurning the ‘suited superstar DJs’ and the ‘people who carved careers, adulation and financial muscle out of the acid house revolution’ the film instead focuses on the largely anonymous individuals who helped create the scene, most of whom ended up prison for their efforts.
Bankers Get out of Jail Free Coke Card
Bernie Madoff
High-flying financiers in London are spending their bonuses in cocaine bars where ‘it is as easy to order a gram of cocaine as it is a mozzarella panini – all claimable on company expenses’, the Standard reported this week.
The paper chatted to bankers who boasted of blowing tens of thousands of pounds on cocaine, consumer goods and prostitutes and said they did so with implicit impunity from unusually tolerant local cops.
“To be frank, we have to concentrate resources on the crimes that most affect society. Traders and bankers taking cocaine does not affect others’ lives as much as violent crime, burglary and fraud, “ a senior City of London police source told the Standard.
“They are wealthy people who can afford drugs and don’t need to rob to fund their addiction. The only real problems are personal,” he added. (Standard: http://bit.ly/uapxOQ )
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Absolutely wonderful stuff from Liverpool upcoming producer Killaflaw…..
Cardiff Clubbers Face Fingerprinting Threat
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Welsh police have confirmed they’re considering making finger-printing of clubbers compulsory, after three nightspots in Cardiff introduced scanner systems.
Club licensing cop Sergeant Scott Lloyd said nightclubs in London and Dorset are already using the new technology and confirmed that local clubs may soon have to install fingerprint checks as a condition of obtaining a license.
“These systems can contribute to reducing and detecting crime,” Sergeant Lloyd told Wales Online, “For example, changing the mindset of potential troublemakers entering a venue,” he suggested (WalesOnline: http://bit.ly/rXsYb7 )
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The devices are made by thriving ID card company ID Scan, who brand them their ‘flagship devices’ on a tailor-made website recently launched http://nightclub.co.uk.
The company also boasts that clubbers’ identities and activities can be further monitored with finger-prints matched with revellers’ Facebook profiles.
“Add Facebook, Twitter, mobile and email details to your customer accounts,” they suggest, “SCANNET know who visited for the first time last night, who has a birthday next week and who are your top 500 customers.”
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Fantazia; Raving, We’re (Still) Raving- 20 Years On (interview)
“Loads of old ravers come come to our Fantazia parties still, I would estimate that this year’s events so far have been 50/50 old ravers to new ones. It’s amazing to shake so many hands of those that were there at the first events.”
Chatting to Skrufff this week as he finalized preparations for next weekend’s 20th birthday celebration (in Trafford Park, Manchester) event promoter Charlie Fantazia remains infectiously evangelical.
“Fantazia past and present events mean a lot to so many people. It truly was the 2nd summer of love,” he smiles, “People met their present wives and husbands at the events and made lifelong friends at the 90′s raves.”
Click for details of Fantazia The Greatest Show on Earth’; takes place on October 8 at Bowlers, Trafford Park, Manchester
The power of the parties and the enthusiasm he recalls is immediately apparent from a quick Google search of Fantazia Youtube, revealing scores of Youtube clips of tens of thousands dancing, ironically like no-ones watching (http://bit.ly/BFDGH , http://bit.ly/tgHJ0 (http://bit.ly/oKm2kY ). What’s also more than clear is the diversity of the original crowds, with black, white, young and old ravers jammed in side by side yet clearly all comfortable. (Fantazia Donnington: http://bit.ly/nM9AvO )
“The 50% that are new to Fantazia or raves are privileged,” Charlie continues. “They are getting to see the friendly atmosphere off the raves of old. No aggression, just friendly happy people. Fantazia ravers really keep to that PLUR ethos, not the hoody attitude at other raves we have been to where the menace is palpable.
We encourage our ravers to go wild with their outfits and just wear want they want, you don’t get the negative snobby vibe that is associated with the superclubs.”
