fiddy wrote:heva wrote:
I don't really do forums but I felt compelled to re-sign up to respond to you. It's rather ironic that this morning Electric Minds, the other such party mentioned, contacted me to thank me for plugging their event. I then log in to myspace and receive a rather patronising message from someone called Dan, not sure if that's you or who it is. I'll say here what I said there though... we have a free press because we're a democracy. Unless I need a quote, If a night is being promoted with flyers or other viral means, I don't see the need to request 'approval'.
Where illegal parties are concerned, if you're concerned about authorities or 'the wrong people' (I take it you don't want London Paper readers there) then why not do it flash style/word of mouth?
In my experience the only illegal parties that have been shut down are the ones which are poorly organised, have no respect for health and safety and are generally causing problems in the area.
For the record, I didn't even know whose event this was and the info wasn't from the forum but a blog.
All the best with your event.
sorry to hear about the myspace message, it wasn't me (though i can't promise that it wasn't some of the boys in my crew; no dan with us but someone with a similar name). as i said in my message, i was/am a bit pissed but i certainly wasn't slagging you off, so in my books its all chill. i know you meant well and i do appreciate it but yea, as AmitG said, that other venue is legit building where the promoters wouldn't be worried about being thrown out -- ours is a squat, so its a lot more fragile. (though for all you people, don't worry about being arrested you jokers, not going to happen! by attending or playing at this party you're not doing anything criminal!!!)
if you didn't get it from this forum then can't be helped, its because of the details you gave that i thought you must be reading the forum, and if you were reading it from here, you might have realized (by the title of this thread, for example) that it was a squatted venue, and known it was a bit sensitive. no one said that you *couldnt*, just that if you thought about it you might have some empathy for our situation and chosen not to put it in a paper with thousands and thousands of readers (though bring on the london paper types, lets convert 'em to dubsteppas... just not the police!). or as i say, if you weren't sure it was going to be headache for us, just sent a quick pm to ask.
i'm know you know the stress of putting on parties (out to all fellow female promoters) -- then add a level of uncertainty that comes with doing it in a illegit venue, where absolutely everything is DIY, and you'll know why the london paper thing just wasn't helpful. squat parties have fliers/forum postings all the time, but i've never known one to get a write up in a paper so its not something we took major precautions against. lessoned learned though, either dubstep is too big for squat parties or we're going to have to be super excloose next time!
anyway, i've got a million things to do! off with the politics, on with the music! see you all tonight.
