Party report from Digital Symposium '92 1992

Published in: Sledge Hammer #10e
Written by: Dark of LSD
Date: December 1992
 
Interview
I arrived at the party place, Rotherham leisure centre at about 10:30 am After handing my ticket to the door-men (whoever they were?) I walked into the main hall, I saw a few groups setting up the Amigas for the day round the edges of the hall and I just walked around looking at the projects people were working on, then I noticed the LSD corner with brilliant airbrushed logos by Fish!, So I went over to speak to Pazza, after a brief chat and introduction to other group members moved around and started chatting to USM/Delicious designs who was looking through some source on Baa Baa/?'s Amiga, after talking to him for a while I decided to see the LSD demo that was to be released there, "Jesus on E's" (27 min Techno demo, Cool!)
After that I went off to meet one of my contax, Delbs/LSD except I thought it was him except for some reason, USM/Delicious designs (The tall one) was wearing a sticker saying Delbs was him so I got very confused when they both said they were Delbert!
When Elwood/Delicious designs appeared with the other members I went over to his amiga where USM (the coder) wanted to show me Elwood's pic which he assured me was going to win the GFX Competition (Which it did!) Anyway, the day progressed and I met some more cool guyz and mainly leeched around on Elwood's amiga playing 'Pinball fantasies' and going through his GFX disk (hehe)
Not much more to say really, the day went by really quickly and the hall gradually got fuller until there was a few hundred freaks present and everyone's screen on the whole either had Pinball Fantasies or X-copy loaded!
Later in the afternoon the tug of war competition was held, I can't remember who beat who but I know 'The Northern Bastards' won with LSD coming a close second I think(!)
In the evening the demos, music and GFX were shown, but where was the large screen?? Instead we got a monitor on a table on the stage, Not very professional Digital? So Everyone was standing on chairs getting a not very good view!
When the results came in, I noted 'em down so here they are:

DEMO:
1: Anarchy - Flower power
2: Silents - Enjoy the silents
3: Slipstream - Soul contamination

GFX:
Joint 1: Elwood/Delicious and ?/Rebels

Music:
1: Nuke/Anarchy

Overall quite a fun party for my first ever but in my opinion there was quite a severe lack of organisation, as usual, no P.A system, no big screen, Ah well it was fun and it didn't claim to be a 'Party '92' Challenger! All the same well done Digital!

Just to end it off, hi to everyone I met at the party including: Everyone in Delicious designs, Pazza, Delbs, Maximan, Watchman/LSD, Ghost of DMX and also Gemini of DMX who said he'd write! and Suicide/Doom! Greets to: Headcrash,Overide/BB UK, Fester/A!, Paz, Fish, Delbs/LSD, Kurax+Jake. Also hi! to Melon Dezign for saying nice things about our demo!!!