Throwing unlicenced parties in the UK

[lethal_pizzle]

Too easy if you're ancient like us

[xs2man]

Yeah, too easy. I still have the gatefold 12" of this with that pic 3 (or 2 I cant remember)
x12" wide. Nice....

[Ross]

1000 internet points for naming band and album without inspecting the pic url

Love this picture, and the album it's from. Iconic.

[Crem Brule]

Doesn't the UK have specific anti-rave laws from the old acid house days, mates have told me stories of being chased by police helicopters after outdoor raves.

Now that takes me back, happy days.

[Nicky H]

Public Order Act 1936 and Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
Section 16 - Public Assembly - Means an assembly of 20 or more persons in a public place which is wholly or partly open to the air.

"The Anti-Rave Act".

Don't forget the 'repetitive beats' part...

Just play ambient all night

[keithace]

I think it was called the "crack house law" over here...let me do some of that google stuff..

[Timbo21]

They're not as hot on enforcing the act these days. The Sun made it into some kind of moral panic back then. However, do consider how a criminal record can affect you getting into the States and getting certain jobs, in the off chance they decided to nick you.

[malyatrax]

Public Order Act 1936 and Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994
Section 16 - Public Assembly - Means an assembly of 20 or more persons in a public place which is wholly or partly open to the air.

"The Anti-Rave Act".

Thanks Thatcher for ruining any chance I have at sharing in my parents massive house party days...

[xs2man]

Thanks Thatcher for ruining any chance I have at sharing in my parents massive house party days...

Aye, blame someone who hadn't been prime minister for 4 whole years for that one. Thats almost a whole term of government.

Of course, you could blame Thatcher for Acid House, and the boom of Rave Culture in the UK, as she was in power at the start.

Cheers Iron Lady

[djproben]

I think it was called the "crack house law" over here...let me do some of that google stuff..

If memory serves it was called the RAVE act, they made it stand for something like "Reducing America's Vulnerability to Ecstasy" (no joke). It applied previous laws that were dubbed "crack house laws" to raves, and "raves" were defined in terms that included something about "repetitive music". It didn't pass in that form though (thanks to some pretty politically engaged raver types and a letter writing campaign encouraged by drug legalization and free speech groups), but it passed a few years later with a different title. (It was ultimately passed under shady circumstances, being attached to a child abduction bill so that nobody would oppose it. Annoyingly, the Senator responsible for that deception was Senator - now Vice President - Joe Biden.) Probably more than you want to know about it