Police trying to shut down Grime/Urban events

harkaransg · Post by **harkaransg** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:33 am

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/ ... rage-music

I actually thought stuff like this didnt happen any more. Going backwards again.

deamonds · Post by **deamonds** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:36 am

fucking shitbags

d+ · Post by d+ » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:38 am

they've been getting locked off for years now mate

police locking off the grime rave scene killed the genre

Pistonsbeneath · Post by **Pistonsbeneath** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:39 am

this has been around for more than 2 months...just ask all the guys that played my event last august...yep ive still got my copy of the form here...the eq bashment, r&b, garage bit is shocking..

the police are out of touch as per usual...i don't think they mean to be bad with this kind of form but it's just gonna rile people up...i wanted to book someone with an innocuous connection to grime last year but could not as the venue said no...largely because the police would know from the form..

harkaransg · Post by **harkaransg** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:40 am

D+ wrote:they've been getting locked off for years now mate

police locking off the grime rave scene killed the genre

Yeah i knew about the whole garage and grime thing in the past. thought they had calm down abit on this.

Pistonsbeneath · Post by **Pistonsbeneath** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:45 am

thanks for the article btw...

spot on the last bit about you seeing the same level of violence down the pub.....problem is in croydon (prolly one of the first boroughs to welcome this draconian treatment of music) there has been the odd incident....uzis dwn valley park & thornton heath outside bashment events etc....but then croydon is just home to a lot of scummy people....they are perhaps drawn to these events but then the police should be able to protect the event from the people....

ive seen guys fighting outside reflex ffs!

kulture · Post by **kulture** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:53 am

Babylon will always try this shit. Meant to be serving the public, not parenting us. Police are the biggest mob in world...

grievous_angel · Post by **grievous_angel** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:16 pm

Big up Mos Dan. He wrote about this in Woofah first, glad to see him getting the issue coverage in the Guardian.

whineo · Post by **whineo** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:50 pm

please tell me you signed the 696 petition!

thinking · Post by **thinking** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:37 pm

Grievous Angel wrote:Big up Mos Dan. He wrote about this in Woofah first, glad to see him getting the issue coverage in the Guardian.

was gonna say, this was covered in Woofah, certainly not a new phenomenom unfortunately.

abs · Post by **abs** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:53 pm

I remember being told about all this shit when So Solid Crew were still around, not good news for a scene when you can't even put on a night in cities like London, it also encourages artists to stop writing hype tunes, theres nowhere to play them!

[b]racket · Post by **[b]racket** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:56 pm

same deal when jungle was king

breakbait · Post by **breakbait** » Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:58 pm

http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t ... +cancelled

ammo · Post by **ammo** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:03 am

yeh not feelin this. it's the same for bhangra nights (altho i do c bare beefs at them, whereas mne less at grime/dubstep raves)

.spec · Post by **.spec** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:52 am

Damn that is some bullshit. I thought we had it rough out here in Seattle at times but it's NOTHING like what that article outlined. Are people working on finding a way around that form requirement. IS there a way around it?

dubberanonymous · Post by **dubberanonymous** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:59 am

fucking ridiculous, hopin it'l die out any never spread

ufo over easy · Post by **ufo over easy** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:15 pm

big up mos dan all day

somerandomguy · Post by **somerandomguy** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:34 pm

rename all the genres.... itll probably take em another 5 year to figure out what happened

abs · Post by **abs** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:00 pm

somerandomguy wrote:rename all the genres.... itll probably take em another 5 year to figure out what happened

not quite, i'm pretty sure they realised quite quickly that bassline house was actually the same as niche, so they closed down everything to do with that aswell.

spiderman · Post by **spiderman** » Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:08 pm

D+ wrote:they've been getting locked off for years now mate

police locking off the grime rave scene killed the genre

exactly.

the police will always look at grime negatively. its not even the lyrics, its just the reputation the nights earned back in the day for slight beefs which then got blown up.

it hasnt changed now, why should it? the police dont care for the context they just know it by reputation and stereotypes.

grime is pretty much dead now anyways so this dont even matter tbh.

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