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Colne warehouse rave plans rejected by Lancashire Police

VENUE BID The warehouse unit was earmarked for the rave VENUE BID The warehouse unit was earmarked for the rave

PLANS for a New Year’s Eve rave in Colne have been refused after strong objections by Lancashire Police.

Promoters Small Trees wanted to stage the event at an industrial unit off Burnley Road, Primet Bridge but PC Mark Driver, Pennine policing division licensing officer, raised concerns on how an expected crowd of up to 500 could be managed.

Further worries centred on internet promotional promises of £2 drinks for everything except spirits.

The borough’s licensing committee issued a counter-notice against the event.

Comments(19)

gutterpress says...
2:21pm Fri 2 Dec 11

Well done the killjoys, and Mark Driver, judging from the recent riots, the security for Small Trees would probably make a better job of managing the crowd than the police ever could.

Say it Right says...
2:29pm Fri 2 Dec 11

Totally agree with gutterpress.

What's the problem with drinks @ £2?? It says spirits aren't included in this. Certain pubs/clubs offer drinks cheaper than this in town!

Lifeinthemix says...
2:52pm Fri 2 Dec 11

take note here ther police are now running Lancashire, they have a secfret agreement that any and all private security can assault you without any recourse from the police.

they own the entire asset base of LCC which means our assets, controlled via the blues and twos credit union.

are we having this treason?

The Elephant says...
4:07pm Fri 2 Dec 11

A REAL rave doesn't sell Alcohol at all.
A REAL rave doesn't need police presence or intervention.
Do it like we did in the early 90's. If you can't do it legit' pick a field or empty warehouse. Bang some tunes on, job done. It'd be all over by the time the rozzers gathered enough force.
Ah sweet fuzzy memories.

Cha'mone MF says...
4:29pm Fri 2 Dec 11

Good, common sense finally prevails. These people will have to find somewhere else to have their ecstasy fuelled antisocial behaviour fest.

......Well done PC Driver

Cha'mone MF says...
4:43pm Fri 2 Dec 11

gutterpress wrote:
Well done the killjoys, and Mark Driver, judging from the recent riots, the security for Small Trees would probably make a better job of managing the crowd than the police ever could.
Well let's get small trees on the street next time there's some large scale civil disobedience, or maybe get them to Police the Burnley v Blackburn fixture that will undoubtably be happening next season? Then we'll see how good they are in public order situations..........
...you tool

useyourhead says...
4:56pm Fri 2 Dec 11

killjoys!!

akon says...
5:03pm Fri 2 Dec 11

To the Rave organisers,

Just tell the authorities you are having an anti-british ,muslim male only,poppy burning, non-white party.
PC Driver would fill his undies haha

juanbbien says...
5:54pm Fri 2 Dec 11

What's wrong with staying at home with a drink or three and doing the Hokey- Cokey,and then a game of blind mans bluff,waiting till twelve o,clock and wishing everybody a better year than the last one

DJ_Jaybee says...
5:56pm Fri 2 Dec 11

Promoters will look at this case and decide it's better not to let the police know then about any organised events and just do secret - or now called "illegal" ones.

Just like when anyone who was a pirate radio station got shut down when they tried to go legit - they would have been better telling the authorities nothing.

Health and safety regulations and charges for "security" are already crippling small independent events so it's easier to just put on events under the radar that a downsized police force will just leave to themselves - as they usually never have any trouble at anyway, because they are for people in the know and not town-centre idiots.

Anyone with any knowledge of the club scene - and therefore, so should the police - would know in many cases getting a registered "security" firm involved doesn't mean you are actually protecting anyone at the event, as they don't always employ saints and in many cases is an invite to some of the most unsavoury characters you'd ever not like to meet - that get let in due to being the doormen's "off-duty friends".

Putting the squash on a new year's event won't be doing the police any favours, and will make sure other organisers don't let the police get to know about any of their planned events in advance in the future.

gutterpress says...
6:04pm Fri 2 Dec 11

Hm, Cha'mone MF must be Mark Driver's mum.

Jack Herer says...
6:11pm Sat 3 Dec 11

Cha'mone MF wrote:
Good, common sense finally prevails. These people will have to find somewhere else to have their ecstasy fuelled antisocial behaviour fest.

......Well done PC Driver
As opposed to the alcohol fuelled antisocial behaviour fests that blight every single town centre in the country, every single weekend.

If all those fests were ecstasy fuelled instead, you'd see a fraction of the trouble you actually do from our current nights on the town. In fact they'd be no trouble.

Ironically one of the reasons this got banned was because of the cheap drinks they were planning, which they presumed would therefore cause more trouble.

You don't get trouble with ecstasy. It remarkably has completely the opposite effect. It's what made the original parties so amazing. Proper thugs, tops off, hugging instead of battling.

Hard to believe now, but Blackburn was completely at the epi-centre of the acid house revolution in late 89 / early 90. No-one came close to doing what the boys from Blackburn were doing then. No-one. Not any other town or city in the country.

They make films and write books about it now.

Cha'mone MF says...
11:26pm Sat 3 Dec 11

Jack Herer wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
Good, common sense finally prevails. These people will have to find somewhere else to have their ecstasy fuelled antisocial behaviour fest.

......Well done PC Driver
As opposed to the alcohol fuelled antisocial behaviour fests that blight every single town centre in the country, every single weekend.

If all those fests were ecstasy fuelled instead, you'd see a fraction of the trouble you actually do from our current nights on the town. In fact they'd be no trouble.

Ironically one of the reasons this got banned was because of the cheap drinks they were planning, which they presumed would therefore cause more trouble.

You don't get trouble with ecstasy. It remarkably has completely the opposite effect. It's what made the original parties so amazing. Proper thugs, tops off, hugging instead of battling.

Hard to believe now, but Blackburn was completely at the epi-centre of the acid house revolution in late 89 / early 90. No-one came close to doing what the boys from Blackburn were doing then. No-one. Not any other town or city in the country.

They make films and write books about it now.
You might see a fraction of trouble but an increase in deaths from contaminated compositions within controlled substances that you see in this day and age due to dealers wanting to make as much per cut as they can without giving much regard to the recipient of the drug. yes alcohol isnt exactly a great substitute but in the short term whe did you ever hear of anybody dropping dead because of a "dodgy" pint?
Well I must extend my belated congratulations to the wanna be "city" of Blackburn for being the Epi centre of ecstasy for the late 80's / early 90's. What an outstanding accolade for the gown , one that every resident should be proud of. In fact the drug scene would appear to be going through a revival in "Hacienda-burn" in that Steve Kean thinks he's gonna have a job this time next week!

....Jack Herer = 80's / 90's drug role model - 2011 bellend

Jack Herer says...
9:28am Sun 4 Dec 11

Cha'mone MF wrote:
Jack Herer wrote:
Cha'mone MF wrote:
Good, common sense finally prevails. These people will have to find somewhere else to have their ecstasy fuelled antisocial behaviour fest.

......Well done PC Driver
As opposed to the alcohol fuelled antisocial behaviour fests that blight every single town centre in the country, every single weekend.

If all those fests were ecstasy fuelled instead, you'd see a fraction of the trouble you actually do from our current nights on the town. In fact they'd be no trouble.

Ironically one of the reasons this got banned was because of the cheap drinks they were planning, which they presumed would therefore cause more trouble.

You don't get trouble with ecstasy. It remarkably has completely the opposite effect. It's what made the original parties so amazing. Proper thugs, tops off, hugging instead of battling.

Hard to believe now, but Blackburn was completely at the epi-centre of the acid house revolution in late 89 / early 90. No-one came close to doing what the boys from Blackburn were doing then. No-one. Not any other town or city in the country.

They make films and write books about it now.
You might see a fraction of trouble but an increase in deaths from contaminated compositions within controlled substances that you see in this day and age due to dealers wanting to make as much per cut as they can without giving much regard to the recipient of the drug. yes alcohol isnt exactly a great substitute but in the short term whe did you ever hear of anybody dropping dead because of a "dodgy" pint?
Well I must extend my belated congratulations to the wanna be "city" of Blackburn for being the Epi centre of ecstasy for the late 80's / early 90's. What an outstanding accolade for the gown , one that every resident should be proud of. In fact the drug scene would appear to be going through a revival in "Hacienda-burn" in that Steve Kean thinks he's gonna have a job this time next week!

....Jack Herer = 80's / 90's drug role model - 2011 bellend
Lol - love it. If only because you are completely wrong.

Ecstasy is far far safer than alcohol. That's just an undeniable scientific fact. No-one dies from dodgy pint because it's legal, therefore regulated. If ecstasy were legalised and regulated, no-one would ever die from a "dodgy" pill either, because it would be then be regulated.

Plenty of people die from normal pints though. Hundreds, if not thousands, of people will have died in this country alone, only this week through alcohol. Liver disease is set to overtake heart disease by 2020 as the UK's biggest killer. Way to go booze!

That's not to mention all the tramps and fights our towns and pubs are awash with.

You don't get any of that with ecstasy. Yes there are downsides, but even accte poisoning which are a downside to pretty much all drugs (apart from cannabis), ecstasy sees less deaths than paracetamol for instance. It's certainly safer than alcohol in that respect. Families up and down the country will be devestated this Christmas from loved ones dying from drinking too much.

There are no ecstasy addicts living in hostels, degrading themselves to the lowest we can imagine in society. That's alcohol that.

Blackburn was never Hacienda-burn btw. Blackburn stamped it's mark so hard on the scene that they came to us - it was called Hacienda Blackburn, it was at Manhatten Heights. They had the best DJs in the world there. It was Sasha's first residence, and he wasn't even the best one.

You carry on believing your old fashioned view of the world though. Booze is great isn't it?

Lifeinthemix says...
10:06am Sun 4 Dec 11

I was involved in the 90's club scene and previous to that involved in bands as a manager and musician. I have to say the early 90's was a far better scene than that of drink. I am however surprised that ecstacy is still being used because in 1997 ecstacy was demolished in order they could force cocaine. Ecstacy has not been ecstacy since 97, so i know not what people are taking today believing it to be ecstacy.

it was all about the musical journey which died in 97 as music became course in order they could shift into the gangaster garbage and the high speed high pitched vocal garb.

what we need is a shift back to music that meant something which comes from real writers not X factor talant singing some major labels idea of what we want.

the public want what the public get, it has always been so. the public need to take back music and to hell with the corporate police having any say.

licences need to be scrapped so we can entertain as we like, and as for alchohol, until the flouride is removed you are not actually getting drunk, you are comfy on the flouride depressant.

the police are clearly moving way outside their mandate, they do this because you allow it, until you realise the corporate empire dictates to the police in order they can destroy the nation and implement full blown fascist communism, ergo, no fun, no music, and absolutely no arts of any worth, things will not change.

who are this country? is it a bunch of psyachotic elites, or is it we the population?

we outnumber them so whay are we divided?

Cha'mone MF says...
10:49am Sun 4 Dec 11

Lifeinthemix wrote:
I was involved in the 90's club scene and previous to that involved in bands as a manager and musician. I have to say the early 90's was a far better scene than that of drink. I am however surprised that ecstacy is still being used because in 1997 ecstacy was demolished in order they could force cocaine. Ecstacy has not been ecstacy since 97, so i know not what people are taking today believing it to be ecstacy.

it was all about the musical journey which died in 97 as music became course in order they could shift into the gangaster garbage and the high speed high pitched vocal garb.

what we need is a shift back to music that meant something which comes from real writers not X factor talant singing some major labels idea of what we want.

the public want what the public get, it has always been so. the public need to take back music and to hell with the corporate police having any say.

licences need to be scrapped so we can entertain as we like, and as for alchohol, until the flouride is removed you are not actually getting drunk, you are comfy on the flouride depressant.

the police are clearly moving way outside their mandate, they do this because you allow it, until you realise the corporate empire dictates to the police in order they can destroy the nation and implement full blown fascist communism, ergo, no fun, no music, and absolutely no arts of any worth, things will not change.

who are this country? is it a bunch of psyachotic elites, or is it we the population?

we outnumber them so whay are we divided?
There I was beginning to actually agree with you for once upon reading the first part of your post which for some strange reason was making sense.......then it degenerated into your ususal bizarre rant (possibly drug enduced)
There isn't a huge conspiracy theory going on mate, it's just the way it is.

Lifeinthemix says...
3:13pm Sun 4 Dec 11

I as always speak to those who know, clearly you do not.

when i was in the mystery school the one thing the elites kept on telling me was waste no time with the profane, they cannot understand big concepts, of course i was not going with that, but lately I am coming to understand their wisdom

Cha'mone MF says...
9:08pm Sun 4 Dec 11

Lifeinthemix wrote:
I as always speak to those who know, clearly you do not.

when i was in the mystery school the one thing the elites kept on telling me was waste no time with the profane, they cannot understand big concepts, of course i was not going with that, but lately I am coming to understand their wisdom
And a wise man once said; "man with hand in pocket feel cocky all day".

Lifeinthemix says...
4:39pm Mon 5 Dec 11

no i think was a perverted mind for freaks

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