Aren raves illegal?
“The cops are catching up and shutting us down and the media is constantly going on about sex-and-drugs orgies,” says Sheri of Minneapolis techno store Cynesthesia. She was arrested at Love Generator in St. Louis for “taking a picture of a cop busting the party”, manhandled, charged with ‘interfering with an officer doing his duty’ and thrown in jail. –from an uncredited newspaper article, reproduced in the book that accompanies the Trance Atlantic 2 American techno music compilation. The first raves are said to have been impromptu, clandestine parties in warehouses around the English countryside, in the outskirts of London, and the Manchester area, all with no permits, happening around 1987-88. Things have chang ed and grown a lot since then. Raves and rave-like parties are now occurring in nearly every country in the world. The majority of raves today are organized responsibly and legally, usually with local permits and adequate, though not always ideal, sa fety precautions. Excepti
