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*shrugs lightly* I guess my naturally strong writing style is because I'm a professional writer/journalist! Hehe, a Pagan journalist, now there's something you don't see every day!
I actually have no political affiliation. At all. Which is also rare for a journalist, but there you go. To me, politics is just a load of rich men sitting around comparing nuke buttons. If anything, I am a paid-up member of the Let's Have Common Sense and Respect Each Other and the Environment party.
Well, technically I'm a soon-to-be journalism student, but I've done semi-pro in the past. I just took two years out of the education system... confused? You would be, if you were in my shoes!
I didn't know about the ghetto blaster thing, probably because I was stuffed up in about 1ft square of space inside the stones. Live music at the event would be great - they could put thick tents or something up around the area where the food thingies were. Lots of Celtic music and so forth. That might satisfy the kids and reduce the numbers of people trying to party on the monument itself.
The only information given on amplified music was on the Conditions of Entry pdf available to download from the English Heritage website a few weeks before was: None. None in the car park, none in the stone circle, none on any of the fields.
I agree, this should also have been written on the leaflet we were all given with the plastic bag.
Then again, the same was said of... if I can just find the leaflet... here it is (copied verbatim from the leaflet, including emphasis):
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Respect
Stonehenge is seen by many as a sacred site - please respect it. Drunken, disorderly or anti social behaviour will not be tolerated - please respect each other.
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Basically, all I see from those who were there simply to party hard is a desire to defend their rule-breaking. It's like a bunch of kids who won't admit they're in the wrong. And worse: they're my age. What happened for me to develop such a gap from these ravers? That, my sweets, is scary. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a good party as much as anyone, and I love to go to my local nightclub and spend some time tearin' it up on the dancefloor, but for some reason I just can't see the Summer Solstice Access as a big open-air rave.
Was it just me, or did the stewards mysteriously vanish from the stone circle at 11pm? The behaviour was at the worst from between 11 and 3. Maybe if there had been a heavier security presence in the stone circle, problems would be reduced.
I sort of wish I'd taken video footage, too. Naturally (I am Murphy's Law personified) my dodgy camera battery had decided to blow up and I was relying on my mobile phone camera. Not good. Not good at all, which is why I have no photos of anything that went on that night.
Sigh, guess the students and the religious just have completely different motives and wishes on this one.
It's kind of sad, when you think about it.
Bright Blessings,
Aeryn
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road