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There the fun seekers discovered where they were set to dance the night away.
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Huge sound systems blasting out acid house music, professional lighting rigs all fuelled by an enormous boom in the use of ‘love drug’ ecstasy raves terrified villagers who feared one on their doorsteps, and left the police caught, initially at least, on the back foot.
As the party organisers were setting up, Chief Superintendent Ken Tappenden, divisional commander for north west Kent, could have cover samsung galaxy tab a6 amazon little idea of how this sub culture was about to change his life for years to cover iphone 6 napoli come.
Now retired, the former officer, who lives in Medway, remembers: “The first raves concerned us very much.
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“That rave went on for nearly 48 hours.
“Two days later we were still finding young people, in ditches around the area, still under the influence of drugs.”
It wasn’t the first time Tappenden had encountered this new breed of unlicensed events.
In the September of 1988, around 250 people had taken over a derelict house in Sevenoaks and started cover sbs iphone 6 to party. fantasy sword coque iphone 11 Hard.
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Calling cover custodia samsung on back up from the Met Police, it took 60 officers some two hours to restore order.
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The Pay Party Unit, dubbed the Acid House Squad by revellers, (“the government didn’t want us to call it acid or rave” he recalls) was up and running and it meant business.
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“The next thing was they were going to throw parties all around the M25. coque huawei band logos coque iphone 11 Kent was taking a real bashing.
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He would not have a weekend off for the next two years as the number of parties spiralled out of control.
At its peak, he remembers having 126 raves each weekend taking place anywhere from the Midlands down to Kent.