> Last October was an utter shambles. See, what's supposed to happen is
> you turn up before 7pm with your ticket where it is exchanged for a
> wristband. This is your passport in and out of the event for the
> whole weekend. However, when we got there at 6:30pm they had stopped
> exchanging tickets and locked the doors but we were told to come back
> when they opened again. So, as we had only just arrived in Whitby we
> went and found our accommodation, got unpacked, showered, changed, ate
> something, etc, and back we went to exchange our tickets. We waited
> in a queue for an hour and a half and weren't allowed in until they
> had found another box of wristbands. We even tried to reason and said
> we had tickets which was proof enough we had paid for the event, why
> couldn't we come back and get a wristband later as we would need it
> for the rest of the weekend and they let us in there and then but they
> wouldn't. As it was, we missed two out of the five bands which were on
> that night and I was bloody furious. Apparently, it's not the first
> time something similar has happened, so I said I wasn't spending £80
> or £90 on another two tickets until they got their act together.
> Anyway, that was last October.
Strewth that's *awful*!
It says much for the basically downtrodden nature of your average goth
that there wasn't rioting :)
Now that I'd like to see ... a goth riot.
"Police said that more property would have been damaged, except none of
the goths could be bothered to break anything ... later, crowds were
dispersed by police playing Tiffany at maximum volume".
> Saturday morning, there was a very touching dedication to Sophie
> Lancaster, with a lovely gentle speech from Ade Varney and Sophie's
> mum Sylvia said a few words and thanked everybody. Lots of cameras
> and media bods around who kept getting in the way.
Yeah I've been keeping a small eye on some of that ... the whole sad
story has been hyped into something highly unsavoury, and not (from what
I can make out) by anyone that close to the victim, or at least not
deliberately.
Some of the pontifications on hate crime legislation coming from certain
sections of the more "alternative" end of the goth (and other)
communities have beggared belief.
> The rest of the weekend was a blur of drink fuelled dancing and
> parting till the early hours.
heh. Nice one.
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Bear
