Over 1,000 illegal ravers took to Dorsetâs Lulworth this weekend, which has since jokingly been compared to the Partygate scandal, in defense of the all-night ravers. The day-long event began in the early hours of Easter Sunday when ravers descended upon Lulworth Ranges in southeast Dorset which was subsequently shut down some 21 hours later by police.
A man who went on a solo adventure through the Yorkshire Moors over the weekend said that he accidentally ended up at an illegal rave.
Leeds-born Oliver Broome was hiking on Saturday, April 2, after solo camping in Bradford, Yorkshire Live reports.
An illegal rave in the small Welsh town of Llandovery brought together hundreds of people over the weekend, ending only after police were given extra force to break up the event, South Wales Guardian reports. The illegal rave reportedly began on Saturday and continued until the afternoon of Sunday, March 27th.
Regarding the illegal party, Inspector Dawn Fencott-Price expressed, “social media was used to disclose the location at the last possible minute in order to prevent law enforcement taking preventative measures.”
The multi-talented Idris Elba has reached a critical creative juncture. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the Golden Globe-winning actor said he intends to “lean away from the acting work” and pursue his career as a DJ more concertedly.
Idris Elba’s upcoming year on the big screen is slated to be a busy one. Elba is set to star in George Miller’s fantasy romance film, Three Thousand Years of Longing and Beast, which will see him portraying a widowed father who must fight to protect the lives of his children against a wild lion on a South African game reserve. Elba will also voice the part of Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, out in April.
Perc returns to Perc Trax with an EP designed to capture the energy and chaos of rave without relying on the same classic sounds that have been in constant use since the early ’90s. Greed Dance is Perc’s first full EP in 14 months. It comes after Fire In Negative (Perc Trax) released in September 2020. Since then Perc has pushed through lockdown with an intense production regime resulting in tracks being signed to Lebendig, Possession, RAW, and Rote Sonne.
China has long been known, sadly, as a place for counterfeits. Unfortunately, this particular news will not help improve the country’s reputation, although it comes with a bit of a side chuckle or two.
Mixmag has reported that Dutch DJ and promoter Bram van Ravenhorst, who operates an underground club called Echo Bay in Chongqing, recently discovered a club in the city called fabric. Not only does this Chongqing club share the same name as that of the iconic London nightclub, the former also has the logo that is almost identical to the one used by the latter.
It’s Domestic Violence Awareness month and while the media’s focus has been on sexual predator and recognized American film producer, Harvey Weinstein, people on Facebook and Twitter have been sharing personal sexual assault stories with the hashtag #MeToo.
Unfortunately, the festival culture has contributed to this problem. In 2015, a Coachella festival attendee proudly wore an âEat, Sleep, Rape, Repeatâ shirt while he posed with a grin and the peace sign. In 2017, one rape was reported at Glastonbury festival in the UK. The BrĂ„valla Festival in Sweden reported four rapes and 23 sexual assaults over the course of the four-day event and was consequently canceled for 2018. These are a few of the recurring tragedies in our community.
To confront what happened at BrÄvalla Festival, a Swedish comedian and radio host, Emma Knyckare, proposed an idea on Twitter:
Vad tror ni om att vi styr ihop en asfet festival dit bara icke mÀn Àr vÀlkomna som vi kör tills ALLA mÀn har lÀrt sig hur en beter sig?
â Emma Knyckare (@Knyckare) July 2, 2017
“What do you think about putting together a really cool festival where only non-men are welcome that we’ll run until ALL men have learned how to behave themselves?”
The idea spread like wildfire and Knyckare created a Kickstarter to crowdfund Statement Festival, “the worldâs most awesome music festival – without cis-men” where her goal is to, â…create a safe space for the people who want to attend a festival without feeling scared for their personal safety.â The fund surpassed its goal of 500,000 Swedish Krona, which is approximately $61,630, by 3,300 people who funded the campaign.
Regrettably, this voluntary gender segregation implies that men and women cannot coexist peacefully. It reminds me of the commonplace gender segregation that occurs in places like India and the Middle East.
Besides creating a safe space during the festival, the rash decision to bar cis-men doesnât address the root of the problem: sexual assault education.
According to a 2013 report by the United Nations, rapes and sexual assaults are a direct result of sexual entitlement, seeking of entertainment (who knew) and as a punishment. These are the areas where men need to be educated.
Take the hashtag #MeToo. It was extremely powerful for men to see the amount of sexual harassment and assault stories that it caused several of themâin my very own communityâto self-analyze and really look at what is happening around them.
Men do not need to be told that the only way women can be kept safe is through segregation. They need to understand the consequences of their actions from an early age; they need to be taught about consent by their guardians, parents, teachers, and peers. They need to be taught the importance of basic human decency, respect, and love. And most importantly, they should lead by example to influence their male counterparts.
While Statement Festival may solve the assault issue in the short-term, it wonât help solve anything long-term. It reinforces the ideas that men and women cannot live in unison, and that all men are sexual offenders, even if they arenât. It does not present innocent men the opportunity to teach their male counterparts how to respect women and how to be conscious of their actions. After all, donât we want to be as inclusive as we aim to be included and treated fairly?
Deep in the Lincolnshire forest, magical beings and mythical beasts gather together to dance for three days under the green canopies to the electronic sounds of Lost Village. From May 27 to 29 this coming spring, the sounds of the United Kingdom’s underground prevail in the search for Alice’s Wonderland with a combination of beloved DJ and live musical acts like Ben UFO, Floating Points, Mind Against, Mano Le Tough, KiNK, Ăme, and more kindred spirits in Phase 1 and upcoming announcements. Read more
