this place has always been friendly and informative since it first started in the mid 1990s – before the messageboard there was a page of e-mailed party reviews (still here somewhere?) – I used to download these and show them to my friends in sound systems as many were in squats and shared houses which didn’t have internet access – these were great morale-boosters to some of the crew people!

whilst people are always going to have differences over what music they like and how parties should be put on there’s no need to stir up further conflict when there are many forces against us these days like politicians and locals, and the issues that sometimes cause disruption to wider communities or bad event at parties can only ever be solved by crews working together…

Quite simply, If we are not united, our enemies will be….

Didnt realise pv had been going since 90’s i first came here 2001 when i first started going to parties and i found this site extremely useful back then, learning all about the ethics of the scene and what i’d been missing out on all my life! i’d been going to clubs like slamminvinyl etc at the time and some mates started section 63 system and after there first party i was hooked! been going most weeks since. i remember reading the party reviews drooling over them!!!
Totally agree with your last paragraph, i’ve been getting sick to the back teeth of the constant london v bumpkin etcetc threads which are just causing scene to be split up even more. it should be london & bumpkin vs the OB, Gov & council threads! i think i’m not gonna go on sj much anymore, this site is full of decent content and decent people , and people here beleive in the ethics which i learnt about when i first started going to parties. and thats what i used to love so much about partying, everyone has such strong beliefs and sticks together to fight for the right to party. i beleive a lot of sjer’s lack knowledge regarding our scene either that or they just dont care.
maybe if they read some of the info on this site their views would be different. i’ve been glued to this site since 1pm and not seen a single negative comment, i really didn’t think that would be possible on a internet site.

ps- thanks for posting on our forum , we are a new system and have only held a few parties so very much appreciate any support / feedback we receive. (your the 2nd person to mention the forum colour so i will get it amended to something more readable!) We don’t like advertising ourselves or site etc but we want to get the word out about our parties to the right people. 🙂