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by **Sperge** » 30 Jul 2006, 15:20

And you thought the security at Glade was over-zealous...

FESTIVAL CRIME 'SLIGHTLY UP'
Twelve people have been arrested and around 350 cautioned over drug offences at the Global Gathering music event, police said today.
Crime at the festival, near Stratford, Warwickshire, was slightly up on last year, according to a spokesman for Warwickshire Police.
Only one serious crime was reported in which a man, in his late 20s, was assaulted near the outside arena during the early hours of today.
He was taken to Alexandra Hospital, in Redditch, with injuries to his head, face and body.
The spokesman said overt policing and some covert intelligence-based police work led to high policing of the festival.
He said there had been a 40% increase on drug possession cautions compared to last year.
Most of the offences were detected by sniffer dogs at the entrance to the site, where officers policed lines of visitors waiting to go into the event.Several people were arrested in relation to a stolen vehicle, disqualified driving and also drink and drug offences and a number of uninsured vehicles were seized.
A total of 80 crimes were reported, mostly relating to thefts from tents and a small number of thefts from motor vehicles.
Chief Inspector Chris Lewis, from Warwickshire Police, said: "Overall the festival has gone well, with the vast majority of young people behaving themselves and with only a small number of crimes being reported.
"However, there has been a serious assault early this morning and detectives would like to hear from anyone who has information to help with police inquiries."
Anyone with information about the assault should call Stratford CID on 01926 415000.
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by **rymalco** » 30 Jul 2006, 15:32

Niiice. Managed to get two weekend tickets for £100 off some girl at work and headed down for the Friday night. Only went to see Daft Punk and Groove Armada live sets.
Nasty crowd. Absolutely no friggin way I would ever dream of camping there. Girls walking around in their underware.
Saw a massive fight with guys running in from some distance to get a punch in. Wonder If that was the fight where that guy had to be taken to hospital??

Was very happy to have caught the sets that I wanted, but no intention of heading to G-G ever again.

by **salx** » 30 Jul 2006, 15:37

i can believe it. theres no comparison to glade though as it seems festivals like that only exist to boost arrest statistics. see how the C.I said overall it had gone well. major :roll:

from me. how much back-handerage do they have to give the O.B? & most the folk that go, quite young & naiive, too balant.

i thought glade were pushing it by mixing up breaks with psy & idm & ambient & stuff. luckily, older (in general) better behaved crowd & music that's nearly, but not quite, opposites kept it all together. now look at globals line ups. to me it looks like they're asking for trouble.

by **Bigby** » 30 Jul 2006, 19:01

We need to re educate some people on the whole Peace Love Unity and Respect ethos.

by **salx** » 30 Jul 2006, 19:11

i thought that was an american candy-raver thing!? lol

glade crowd is mint, i get a bit biased sometimes & put it down to age groups, but there was plenty of younger folk who are dead friendly, cool people on site, so maybe i need to review that one!

by **Sperge** » 30 Jul 2006, 21:38

rymalco wrote:Absolutely no friggin way I would ever dream of camping there. Girls walking around in their underware

Sounds good to me!

Actually, we went last year and had a great time. If there was any trouble last year, it was confined to certain tents and we found the atmosphere great. We initially only had Friday tickets and actually came to see Underworld more than anything else.

Astonishingly, and disappointingly, Underworld did a shit set.

But we loved the feel of the festival so much that we ended up sleeping in the car and buying Saturday tickets off a tout in the morning, then spent most of the day and night in the breaks and Carl Cox tents. One of our mates did stay in the campsite, which was seriously overcrowded last year, and he ventured into the DnB tent once or twice and that was chav central. I guess the Godskitchen tent would have been bloody awful too.

by **buzzingtalk** » 30 Jul 2006, 22:35

rah not good

got offered a ticket to this but not my scene - only woulda truley enjoyed the d n b tent, too many chavs there aswell

by **fletcher** » 31 Jul 2006, 12:13

used to go when i was at warwick uni, was a stones throw from my student digs. Was fun when we had a mini-bus of us going along, Bedrock / prog arena's were always fun. But yes, chav filled crowds but never quite as bad as creamfields :wink:

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by **rymalco** » 31 Jul 2006, 13:34

Fair Point about the crime numbers/total punter numbers.

Well after weekend of mixed luck (story for another thread) here is a Global related story...Girlfriend lost her phone on the Friday night...got a text from it today from whoever has it offering to post it back to her! They didn't want money, just asked for a donation to the NSPCC. Did not expect that from someone of the Global crowd...

by **Sperge** » 31 Jul 2006, 17:07

Just had this text from Lucy, who I went with last year:

"GG was bloody brilliant. Far better than last year. Barely any chavs! Quite an older crowd too, prob cos of Daft Punk. It was really good. Got lots of vids. Me x"

Only goes to show how people can go to the same event and leave with totally different impressions. :lol:

Gutted I didn't go now.

by **salx** » 31 Jul 2006, 17:31

well yes, we're all grown ups & you can simply bypass these things. some say no chavs, some say loads, depends where u at i guess. it's something i'd only think about after the event... the globals & homelands i went to, i was more concerned with the mud & rubbish than worry about chavs - last time i went, 03, swamp! run across a mud lake to clean your legs only to run across it again :roll:

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great times but commercial trance & token house is very limited.... oh - jeff mills was on this year? dOH!!

by **evil999** » 31 Jul 2006, 20:02

Jeff Mills was a bit boring if i'm honest. His mixings got tighter but he's playing some really bland records.

Ben Sims was good, although I think he's being influenced by what Surgeon's been playing in the last couple of years.
Props to Varela and Rockliffe as well!

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by **Bigby** » 01 Aug 2006, 11:17

captain bloodclot wrote:off topic-ish, but friday and saturday nights at the id spiral, the ave age must've been at least 29/30 - chatted to lots of cool randoms

they got it right, cuz i dont think i can be arsed getting wasted 4 nights in a row (i.e. thu/fri/sat/sun) as it took me a whole week to recover from. fri/sat night stomper is prolly all i can manage nowadays. getting old shey.

Lightweight.
:wink:

by **DELETED** » 01 Aug 2006, 11:26

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by **El Topo** » 01 Aug 2006, 11:51

Next year I'm not taking a tent, apart from boiling in it for two hours it was completely useless

by **Breaksfish** » 01 Aug 2006, 12:11

I went to global last year and it wasn't half bad, dosen't meet glades standards but the line-up (breaks/prog/electro) was really good, the crowd was relatively friendly although loads more chavs about!! We had a quality time though, but the security was far too harsh, metal detectors and sniffer dogs?? bit over the top if you ask me, but i suppose they did stop chavs with weapons getting in!!

Slightly off subject did anyone see the odd group of chavs at glade on the saturday night?? that was the only time i noticed tham although they could have been around on friday, i was to wasted to notice!!! They stood out like a sore thumb though, you could spot them a mile off!!

by **davemac** » 01 Aug 2006, 12:32

Sorry to but in, but what's all this talk of 'chavs'?

This site turned into a enclave for middle-class tossers or what?

by **ogriff** » 01 Aug 2006, 12:47

davemac wrote:Sorry to but in, but what's all this talk of 'chavs'?

This site turned into a enclave for middle-class tossers or what?

Well said that man...

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