I’ve always enjoyed walking round the crazy art project rave town, sometimes it’s completely different and sometimes it’s the same as the previous year. What was it like in 2023?

  • smegOP
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    1 year ago

    Ah shame, I was a bit disappointed last year that Shangri-la is now just a couple of big stages instead of the weird shanty town it used to be,. Someone I knew who worked on the old one did describe it as “wildly unsafe” though, so not really surprising it’s changed!

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      1 year ago

      Almost like it’s got too busy and the focus has to be on moving large crowds around. I remember one year, a long time ago, queuing to get into a random small structure for quite some time to find that I needed to be “decontaminated” and then granted entry to a slumber-rave where everyone was given pyjamas/nightwear to put on and danced around oversized beds all night.

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        1 year ago

        I loved that kind of mad stuff, but yeah when you designate one area as “this is where the nightlife is” and a hundred thousand people all want to have a look, it gets pretty busy