Ok folks this is the *OFFICIAL* report by HaVoK & Ezy for the Anarchy party held on the 23-Feb-1991. We (Ezy, Havok, Slayer/Subway) first had to travel about 200 miles to get to this fucking party, so we expected this party to be worth the trip up (what with Anarchy being the *best* in the U.K and all that).... Well we arrived at the *party-place* and found it to be a old hall which smelt like a public lavatory. The entry fee was 10p in the slot. Oopps sorry, I meant 3 english quid. Was it worth it?....FUCK NO.... We sat around outside the main hall for about 30 mins before going in bcoz: A) It looked fucking lame inside, and B) why the fuck should we pay?!!! Come one their had to someone who WASN'T lame their! So all in all it started in a pretty LAME way. And carried on in a pretty LAME way too. Naaa, but really, the power going off every 2 minutes didn't really do much for our enthusiasm, and when it DID work, every lamer was playing Lemmings or using X-Copy ALREADY (at about 11a.m!)... Soooo nothing too hot so far. Now the people who managed to pop up to this *meeting*.. Well, most of Anarchy were their of course, Sabbath, Magnetic Fields, Anthrox, Ecstasy, Slipstream, Quartex, Crystal, Betrayal, Ipec, and maybe some others... And here are some of the other groups that turned up, if anyone knows or has heard of any of these, please write to us!.. BattleTech UK ("the Ultimate in Spreading" (apparently)), Arena UK ("whats Pubic hair mum?"), Ex-Scoopex UK (no comment), and all the other groups that insisted "their demo is coming out soon".... As we went walkies around the, erm, room, we decided to do some nice quiz questions.. "excuse me, do you have any calling cards?"... reply to this stupid question?: "what? well, no, but I can lend you ten pee.*... another one was "Anything new?".. reply: "Well, I've stopped swapping recently, but I bought, er I mean, got Lemmings!".. Well, at that point we decided to move onto the "demo" scene of the party. And boy were their some brilliant ones! We saw, a sine scroll, a line vector routine (with hidden line removal of course!), lots of bobs, and some coloured starfield effects...... Ohh dear. Their WERE some good demos though, from Magnetic Fields, Anarchy and some others, Anthrox's demo should have won what there was of the demo-competition, it was pretty nice. The prize for the competition was a "simulated gold thing" (Ezy's own wild description). Being a bit fairer to the party, their were some cool guys their, you could tell them because they left early. The power thing was not Anarchy's fault (hmm) but having 2 plugs for the whole hall was not a good idea. Slayer brought along his 14400 modem for use by the party (for wares) unfortunately no one knew what a at&t card was, and only half of northern England have phones! Needless to say the party place thing didn't have a phoneline for the parties use... Mr.Big / Anarchy did all he could for saving the party from total disgrace, I think he was the only person who actually REALIZED something was wrong with it all, regards for trying anyway. Actually the weather was shit so that might have had something to do with it. The competitions were A TOTAL WASTE OF TIME. NO-ONE knew what was going on, a monitor was being used for "viewing" the entered demos, there was no grafix comp (no surprises there), the music competition was a COMPLETE fuck-up, I think their were only 2 entries, and only ONE of them got listened to. And the judges? what judges? The bar didn't open till 7p.m, anyway the drink was too expensive, so we used our initiative and visited the local off - licence. So, generally the party wasn't too hot. What were the good points? Well, it was nice to speak to some of the cool people there, but of course we knew them already from previous partys etc etc.. But overall the attitude was of a computer-club where the main aim was to copy as much stuff as possible in the shortest amount of time before the power went off. However I believe I saw a few groups coding things, but they did not enter the comps far as we know. The top three were coded well in advance so no worries for them. Ok I know so far it seems as we have just slagged the party off. Well ok so let's look at the facts (no disrespect to the organisers): A) It was held where few elite guyz live! (The North) B) No adequate power supply-MAJOR FUCK UP HERE C) It was in a fairly small place with no signposting D) The demo/musak comps were a shambles, no-one knew shit.. E) No Phone line. Ok it costs but it's nice to have one! F) It was Xcopy Xcopy Xcopy all the time! NO events! G) No-one had a sense of humour AT ALL (Havok and his *Hat*) H) NO BEER! I) It was, to be honest, full of lamers! Some guyz were kool. Ok so I know it sounds like a slag off so far but thats the way it happened. But congrats must go to Mr. Big who at least tried to save the party from total boredom but, I'm afraid, did not quite pull it off! Oh well maybe next time huh? Well now onto a lighter subject. Of course I am talking about BEER. The best. The bar at the party did not open till 7.p.m so we had to go out in search of refreshment. And we found it. Lots of it. In bottles. Well for a short while anyway. So we drank and drank until we fell over. We were of course Ezy, Sabbath, and some guy we met there! Well ok enuf of our drunken moaning. So after the party finally ended we all went off to a hotel to try and get some sleep. But Ezy and Havok had noooo money for a hotel room so we tried to sneak into a room. So with HaVok in the car outside I sneaked in. So I got in the room and Slayer and some Crystal members went out again, but I had to stay locked up in the room. Ok I turned out all the lights and hid in the wardrobe for about 15 mins. Till I got cramp and got onto the bed. About 10 mins later the wanker of a manager searches all the rooms and finds a Mr.Ezy spread out on one of his beds and, yep you guessed it, threw me out. Wanker. So I looked like I was destined to sleep in the car where Havok was listining to the in-car CD system. We were both pissed about having to sleep in a car in the NORTH OF ENGLAND. Not a toilet in sight. But I think we must have seen more drunks in that night then in our whole lives. The number of prostitutes going in that hotel was amazing. I think most of them were ordered by members of a group that shall remain nameless (yeah Morph, I know all about it, and the straps too!) In the morning we were woken by some wankers banging on the windows. Wankers So we woke up, went to a motor-way cafe and FUCKED OFF HOME. Overall I suppose we did have some fun but I'm afraid most of it took place while we were zonked or not at the party. By the way, nice prize for the raffle Anarchy, did anyone claim it in the end? OK well thats all then folks. Have fun and come to the Ecstasy Copy-Party in September over the CES show. Later's from HaVok Industries & Ezy/Ecstasy Well, there you have it, the truth behind the party of the year, a few facts were wrong though.... the demo competition prizes were 100 pounds for first place, 50 pounds for second, and 25 for third. There was not a music competition, because of the lack of entries I gave the medal for the music comp to NIGHTSHADE of XTC, but HE DID NOT WIN, simply because there was no else around at the time to give the medal to... Also there was actually EIGHT power points, but so many fuckin lamers turned up, the power just kept blowing out... Apart from those couple of mistakes, what you have here is the most honest party report that anyone could have written. So all i can say is APOLOGIES TO ALL MR.BIG / ANARCHY