I love your posts
@thirdform but as a DIY veteran this city specific landscape you outline is very narrow. It can also align the “shires” as lost worlds, unworthy of representation too.
Nottingham owned House for a good ten years. We wanted out so we headed for the hills with a rig, fliers seeded across most of the country and music for every taste. Mixed with all manner of fellow sound systems whose musical range can’t be overstated, horizontal tents where as
@146 I.Q. Magical thinker states correctly, you could unwind. It wasn’t all hedonism. The friendships made then have lasted since. That’s no small plot line.
The single biggest dissolution was class. The few times I rubbed shoulders with public school people without battering them. My brother coming out one night was huge. Add free entry where money was excluded. Completely levelled the playing field. London only really figured (personally) with squat parties and if the Liberators showed, we’d bail. Fuck that nonsense.
Funny thread. Starts off one way and tangents hard. I don’t know how you’ve all held this discussion down while some of us have been repairing bicycle chains and retrieving a drowned Action Man from the toilet.