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Police trying to shut down Grime/Urban events
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:33 am
by harkaransg
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/ ... rage-music
I actually thought stuff like this didnt happen any more. Going backwards again.
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:36 am
by deamonds
fucking shitbags
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:38 am
by d+
they've been getting locked off for years now mate
police locking off the grime rave scene killed the genre
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:39 am
by Pistonsbeneath
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..
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:40 am
by harkaransg
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.
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:45 am
by Pistonsbeneath
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!
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 10:53 am
by kulture
Babylon will always try this shit. Meant to be serving the public, not parenting us. Police are the biggest mob in world...
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:16 pm
by grievous_angel
Big up Mos Dan. He wrote about this in Woofah first, glad to see him getting the issue coverage in the Guardian.
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 12:50 pm
by whineo
please tell me you signed the 696 petition!
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:37 pm
by thinking
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.
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:53 pm
by abs
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!
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:56 pm
by [b]racket
same deal when jungle was king
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:58 pm
by breakbait
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:03 am
by ammo
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)
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 3:52 am
by .spec
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?
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 10:59 am
by dubberanonymous
fucking ridiculous, hopin it'l die out any never spread
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:15 pm
by ufo over easy
big up mos dan all day
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 12:34 pm
by somerandomguy
rename all the genres.... itll probably take em another 5 year to figure out what happened
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:00 pm
by abs
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.
Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:08 pm
by spiderman
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.