what I find is the biggest shame about East Anglia’s dance music scene is the people I have met are proper sound but the authorities have really clamped down!

TBH I was also a bit paranoid about getting ID’d even though I’ve been there a few times before, I should get one of them citizencards but I disagree with the concept of having to have one (after all that woman at bluenotes wanted to ID me :laugh_at:)

I’ve got a pic of you DJ’ing from last year and I think there was only a foot from the top of your head and the ceiling :laugh_at:

its a fucking nightmare the way this area runs tings, DSI pics look good, but S3 is a bit rinsed and I expect feds only let it carry on because people would do more illegals

heard about girls being chucked out and left to find their own way back which is IMO outrageous given the risks to their safety in most towns.

there has got to be another venue in suffolk,I can’t fucking believe a county this large has no suitable venues, its like we live in fucking 1600s still like puritans run everything..

probably for being seen doing drugs or just “looking” a bit too mashed

there’s loads of background to this..

in December some dealer sold a shit mcpp pill to a coppers son who got very ill and then grassed up to his dad.

Suffolk police have put the management on warning they might lose their license. This is no idle threat.

these cops have already closed down or discouraged virtually every dance music event in the entire county), they also help Norfolk shut down free parties and monitor the internet for info even if its out of their area.

They make all events here comply with the Metropolitan Police devised dance music licensing/management procedure (called Safe and Sound) which is intended for UK garage events where they have problems with guns. This means a zero tolerance approach to drugs in the venue, and often states security must not be well known to the promoters to stop them allowing “preferred” dealers to operate. (in London they even make DJ’s go through searches and PNC checks!)

Unfortunately because a club in Ipswich did get shot up by London gangsters last year cops feel justified in doing this and much of the normal population support them in doing so.

To make matters worse, two of the murdered prostitutes were found to have got into class A drugs via the “party drugs” networks, and were clubbers/ravers (I think the young mixed race one was an acquaintance of some of my younger friends, and two of the other girls are known to my older friends).

The first suspects (the innocent one who got released last year) would turn up to Norfolk outdoor parties, the second one (in Court today) ran a pub (in Norfolk) which I think tolerated a lot of “youth drinking” and perhaps a few dance music events.

the cops are still angry over the Leah Betts incident 12 years ago, and because this area is coastal (three if not four active docks and lots of other places to land boats) they feel they have to go in harder against drug culture. This combination of events has led the cops to go full on zero tolerance as they feel stopping dance music events is the first step.

FFS. what point is there in doing random searches on peopel if they are not causing trouble, unless that security firm is being encouraged by Suffolk cops to try and dig some dirt? if its them two who were leading each other through the streets of Lowestoft on a dog collar and lead then I can see how they might come across as a bit loud but that IMO no reason to eject them if they aren’t hurting anybody..

I think he was still serving with Essex at the point of the incident, and the stress from the media coverage (brought on himself!) may have caused him to quit the job.

Green Derek stood up to him (Betts) on Anglia TV and him to his face he was responsible for his daughter’s death.

A brave move but I wouldn’t be surprised if that is why to this day cops across all East Anglian Police forces hate the electronic dance music scene with a passion – Unfortunately despite being a muppet Betts still had plenty of friends in the force – to them they feel “the drug-friendly liberal do-gooders broke the spirit of a good copper”

and this was way before the airwave system which made it far easier for forces to work together. Its also a big fallacy that Norfolk police are more “tolerant” than suffolk, their lenience is merely due to lack of resources and they have merged their force support teams specifically to try and deal with “cross border” crime such as raves.