sucks! the most that happens here in Seattle Washington is the police will come in.. and shut off the party if it doesnt have proper permits for an all night "show"
most times they will just walk around to make sure the venue is not over capacity and has proper fire control such as estinguishers and sprinkler systems.

if its underground like tunnel or bridge partys things of that sort

they can cut it off without reason.. but normally dont.

i have heard of some parties in the states being rioted and police even military having used overly harsh force and commiting more crimes then the mostly peaceful party goers.. i am more than sure that as it is here in the states you scene might contain a few more loud mouth idiots then any of us ravers as a whole who go for the music and friends.

i wasnt there so all i can say is my heart goes out to those who had to see such a seemingly ugly and repulsive reaction to something such as a f*&cking rave


from the us to the uk and beyond.. keep the beats droppin and the vibes good.

dance safe~
Jerron_C

I have to say the police were a bit out of order but it wasn't all the police, I saw fireworks flying in there direction and people ran back towards the police when they charged at us.

Fight The Power!

As the last reader says about the advertising on myspace, yes castlefield is crawling with cctv..a very stupid thing to do, and I do believe the myspace myspace.com/mrsa23 gives you a partyline to ring. This is another stupid mistake who is to say the police did or did not ring it and was this the same crowd that organised the hyde road event..Who can say...

I can't believe this is happening in this day and age..another rave was stopped last nite by the police,,however the organisors are careless and stupid and should me more carefull about were they advertise on my space.com..they were going to hold this one in the city centre sat 5th may and rumour has it they all got pulled in castlefield..and the rig got confiscated..yes these things happen..the most sillyist thing police accidently pondered on this crowd via CCTV..so if the organisors are Reading this then youll know where you went wrong..meet someware less public if you want a sucsesful evening like a park..And never hold the event in a city area you are putting the inocent people at Risk..also your selves..thank God nobody got injured last nite and probably having your rig confiskated was for the best..It made me shudder to think of the danger you put people in holding the tunnel in mancs city centre...

i dont know y the police did that it was just a rave and they act like it is so good wen the burst in on 1 i hav been to plenty raves and never had any police burstin in so dont be put off by wat haapened that night.

1st of all i cant spell very well so excuse it haha.
I arrived at the venue at around 11:30ish with a large group of people on either side of the road. Many of them were 17 - 18 year old girls laughing amongst one another. Howmany 17-18ry old girls do you know that go around manchester at about midnight looking for violence eh? Anyway, crowds gathered and there was alot of confusion over what was happening in terms of if the party was being closed or not. Then all of a sudden, seemingly random if you will, the police which had formed a line drew there batons and charged at the crowed. This caused a mass panic and the crowed began to run, there was alot ov screaming and shouting and thoes who had fell down were lucky not to get trampled. The police then moved forward with the dogs and allowed them to openly attack random people who were either getting back to there feet or stopped to help someone else. Anyone the police deemed not to be moving fast enough was either beated with batons, attacked by dogs or manhandled. That was as much as i could gather from the riot as i was myself running from the police dogs. However because i do not live in manchester i when to the trainstation and there i overheard agroup of about 4-5 police officers laughing about and disgusing the unnessesary force they had used on the peaceful party goers. Of course there was the exception for both the police and raves but on the whole it was basically a group of officers turning up to a party and (pardon by french) kickin the sh*t out of anyone they selected from the crowds. I can also say that the person who threw a brick at the ambulance was not acting out of the crowds interests and there wer many people who saw it and challenged him about it.
Ps. I was at that whoever you are Mr "Ardwick resident" and not once did i see a loudspeaked, and secondly not everyone there takes drugs so your generalisation of people you know nothing about is not nessessary. Anyway your story about someone calling an officer a nazi or watever is bollocks, it was to loud and chaotic 2 hear anything and to be honest im begining to doubt you were even there.

Ardwick resident was obviously somewhere else, as I was at this party from just after the police showed up. Firstly, they ignored the fact that the building was legally someone's home, and had a section 6 served by clambering over the gates and giving a lot of mouth to the residents.

There were a large crowd outside but doing exactly what the police tell you without question is a quick and easy way to forfeit all of your rights. I'm not sure who you saw with a megaphone, because there were no officers on the front row with one, only those with batons at the ready. Not to mention that I saw some people who were simply trying to walk away from the party and the crowd down side roads be chased down by an officer and shoved back into the general throng.

One girl was also roughly thrown to the floor in front of me for telling an officer to take his hands off of her.

Then, after they charged the crowd who arguably were being less aggressive than the police themselves, they chased down those who were trying to be civil and walk away rather than run through the streets rioting; their reward for being peaceful? Batons round the BACK of the legs and the neck.

As for Manchester being a "no-go" area Mike, you've obviously not been to many parties over the last year or so. There was one in a tunnel next to Victoria Station before Christmas, where several officers were present and no heavy handedness was in action. There was polite discussion with them, and a shutdown time was arranged. The music went off on time, and the police left peacefully, allowing all partygoers to leave.

There have been numerous other occasions where similar arrangements have been made. Sadly, this was a situation where a squad who specialise in harsh tactics were present from the Manchester City match earlier that day, and they charged into a large crowd with little respect for safety or tactics, resulting in a riot.

I'm sure that there'll be other parties in future, and the police will turn up to those as well. A rave is illegal and nobody is under any illusions to that, but as long as everyone is civil and nobody is hurt then I don't see the problems.

Police yourselves for once.

Manchester is well known throughout the free party scene as largely a "no-go" area due to the heavy handed response of the police! The location of this party was also within a quarter of a mile of the police divisional headquarters at Beswick which will have upset them even more! I have been to parties throughout Cheshire Derbyshire and Yorkshire and Manchester is the only place the police turn in force, most places 1 or 2 cars a a quiet word with the organisers is enough to either control the event, the plocice have powers to seize equipment and keep people away without the need for riot police tactics! I think the comment about partygoers being "tweaked on meth" is a bit of a generalisation, the drug of choice would probably be e or ketamine neither of which really leaves the user in the frame of mind to take on baton weilding police with dogs!

What a shame that happened. I've been to some pretty good raves that didn't live up to the usual expectations and went off peacefully.
Where did you hear about this one?? Make sure you let me know if you hear of anymore, I'd love to go.

Hang on, back off the mic a bit here.

By chance I was in the area and saw this. I distinctly heard the police on at least three occasions, over loudspeakers, say "Please disperse and go home" or something to that effect. The use of such tactics only became necessary after it was established that the people left were either too stupid, too tweaked on meth, or both to shift.
Also, I witnessed one police officer ask one person to move on. The reply was, and I quote, "fu*k off you fu*king Nazi pig b*stard".
All of a sudden the use of police dogs and baton charges seems quite restrained. I'd have tear gassed the lot of you and turned on the water cannons. Then done the dogs and the baton charges.

I was at the rave on saturday night, and as soon as i arrived i got told the police had barricaded the whole place.
Me and my friends found it pointless to wait around for nothing, so we just went back into manchester.
I think it was stupid for the police to ruin the night it would have been a night i could have remembered for the rest of my life.

That pretty much sums it up... Also the Police chased the 'revellers' into two busy main roads, causing other people to be hit by motorists. The Police also let dogs off in the middle of the streets, where one girl was savaged and fell to the floor. When people tried to help her, they were beaten back by armed Police.

This could so easily have been an illegal yet peaceful night, instead the Police use bully boy tactics and people are mauled, beaten and hit by vehicles. Then they wonder why people retaliate and show them no respect.

At first people just wanted to know what was going on... But the Police were 100% spoiling for a fight and just charged us after letting dogs into the venue. It was sick...