Party report from Drammen Megaparty

Published in: Fourth Dimension #02
Written by: Blackstar of Cryptoburners
Date: 29. May 1990
 
Interview
Once upon a time, a long time ago, a Norwegian crew decided to hold a copy party. Norway hadn't actually been crowded with cool copy parties, and it seemed to be about time someone tried to change that fact! That group was: CRYPTOBURNERS!!!!

We quickly decided that we couldn't do all the work ourselves. We needed at least one other group to help us. Our thoughts went to Visual Arts, who had, quite some time earlier suggested a CRB & Visual Arts party in Bergen, something we didn't do at that time. The two groups agreed about Drammen as an ideal place, being close to both Sweden and Denmark. We went ahead, got the school and fixed all practical things, whilst Visual Arts would take care of an invitation demo. Rumours began to go about a great party in Norway, and soon everybody knew! One day we got a phone call from a member of IT. They asked if they too could be one of the arrangers. "Sure" we said, "as long as you do your part of the job and if most members would come!" They agreed and said that at least 10 guys from IT would come.... Time passed, and everything looked cool. We hadn't got any problems at all. Then, just a few days before the party, we got a letter from a member of IT, and he said: "Only two guys from IT will be present at the party!" Ok, there was nothing we could do about that. The two guys were TEC and POWERFLY.  The day before the party, some guys from Visual Arts had announced their arrival and the next day the rest of them came.

Everything was ready and it all had great aspects of being the No.1 party ever! Even the weather was great! People started to come, and the school quickly got filled up. Over 400 people was inside the school when the police suddenly raided the place. They stopped the party and took three guys back to prison. They were all released a few hours later, but the party had been brutally stopped. This was bad, really bad. Many people came after the party had been shut down and some Danish guys from Humaniods arrived Saturday night only to find the party cancelled. Still, the most irritating part was to find that one of the arranging groups had left. Surely we had seen them and talked to them during the raid but we didn't think it was necesseary to say that the arranging groups stayed behind. I realize everything happened fast, but I was very surprised to see that Visual Arts left so soon. This is critics they'll just have to take, we were stuck there, all members of CRB and TEC and POWERFLY from IT. And we had an entire school to clean up. Now that was really hard work.

I wish to send warm thanks to all members of FRAXION who stayed behind and helped us a great deal. It is worth mentioning that the help Fraxion gave us was more than the help we recieved from Visual Arts and IT added together (Except for Tec and Powerfly's assistance). This may seem like a harsh text against the two groups (IT and Visual Arts) and the truth is that we are quite bitter about having to do all the work ourselves and watching the other groups take the credits for it. Both groups and other readers may very well express their feelings about this. We will publish everything (uncensored of course!).

Afterplay: We (Cryptoburners) fortunately didn't suffer any financial loss after this party. We did not lose any members and, at present, no charges have been made against us. If there are anyone having questions about this party or article, call me at: +47-57-23672 (Oddgeir)