Party Review for Arise Summer Conference
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A R I S E P A R D E Y R E P O R T By Dad-1916 of Quadriga. Saturday 8th of August 1992. And so it begins... I Had to wake up at 8am this morning as I had booked a train for 9.09 am. My train ticket cost me 99DM (33 Irish pounds or about 30 English pounds) so I hoped this was going to be a good pardey. When I got to the station I found out that the train was delayed by 15 minutes. If the train is that late i'm wont be able to catch my change- over train! Well Luckily the change- over train was on the same platform so I made it. I was now on the way to Koln where I would have to change again. Arrived in Koln and went straight to McDonalds where their international cuisine filled me up, before getting onto yet another train in the direction of Hellenthal (Pardey location). This train headed out in the country side, which was nice,but it was a bit like leaving all civilisation behind. At 12.16 pm. The train pulled into a station called "KALL" where I got off because Hellenthal is not on any train line (WHAT, an uncivilised Zone!). After buying a beer in the station (for 60p!) I meet Funky from Agnostic Front, who said he had being waiting for two hours for the bus to Hellenthal (by the way ,the temperature was around 37 Degrees Celcius!). We talked for a while and about an hour later we boarded a bus to our final destination. All the Phreaks had paper money and no coins so the bus driver took ages to get us all onto the bus. After a 20 minute trip we arrived in Hellenthal and followed the pardey signs until we got to the hall... P A R D E Y ! We paid our 15 DM (5 pounds Irish, same(ish) in STG) entry fee and after signing our names in the visitors book we headed up the stairs to the pardey. Well, it was a big hall and at this time (1.20pm) there were only about 50-60 phreaks present. The PA setup was very impressive, with Bose speakers and a load of technical warzes in the middle of the stage. Among this setup was a large screen (for demos and videos), a VCR, two Amiga's, a Hi-Fi system and about 200 cd's with the latest grooves! Remember this was only the STAGE! On the large floor there were about 7 Amiga's (all 1500's and 2000's with the exception of an 500) with all the Phreaks coding (most popular assembler was Asm-One! maybe this was because it was supposed to be a legal Pardey? [Asm-One ISN'T PD!]), copying and viewing the latest demos. The bar was open, even at this early stage, with a beer costing 60p and a coke 30p. Downstairs was a tagging/ piecing (graffiti) wall with most of the crews tags. Between 1.30pm an 6.00pm every thing was pretty clam with a load of new videos playing every one and a half hours. Somewhere around 6.30pm I headed out from the pardey to get stuck into some Nosh! Nice little pizzarea around the corner where I quickly consumed a fine Burger, fries and a Bit-Burger beer all for around 2 pounds! I headed back to the pardey to find the place getting pretty busy. Now there were about 150 phreaks and 25 Amiga's fired up. Beer drinking had hotted up now and there was a sense of excitement /anticipation around (What I meant was that the German beerz were now beginning to take effect!). I met up with the members of the German group U.D.O, with whom I was with most of the night. We got stuck into Xcopy and later after about 300 copies (that bloody "Boing" sample gets rather irritating after 4 hours hearing it every 48 seconds!). I again headed out to demolish another burger or ten (after all I had travelled over 150 miles and I was tired of "Bit-Burger" beer for the moment). The Disco was in all reality a bit lame due to the fact that there were 150-200 freaks and 0.00 women! The music was fine (quick tekno). I Assumed that most Phreaks would be getting a bit of sleep at around 2 am so I headed off about then. I was woke up a number of times (once by a guy who puked 20 yards away!) and I noticed that A lot of freaks were still up partying. I got up next day at 6 am (How can anyone sleep with a pair of Bose speakers at full volume, beats me!) and went out on a quest for food. Hellenthal is a very small village near the Belgium border and no place was open! Not much was happening this morning as everyone was waiting for the Competition that were due to begin at 11.00am. The bus to the station only departs once every four hours on the Sunday and I also had to get a 3 and a half hour train ride so I headed off at 11.00 am with the guys from Ferrox who were also leaving. Don't ask me who won the demo (etc.) competitions as I was on my way home when this was happening. GROUPS WHO ATTENDED (OR SENT REPS) ARISE, QUADIRGA, MEXX, NETZWERK, U.D.O., SUB VERO, EPIC, INTERACTIVE, FERROX, TRSI, DYNAMIC, HARDLINE, REALITY, XCESSIVE, SANITY, DELIGHT, GENETIC, AGNOSTIC FRONT, SANITY, GOTHIC, THE SPECIAL BROTHERS, PARADISE, BEYOND, MAGIC, ADDICTS, EAGLEFRONT, GRACE, SUICIDE, AMNESIA, CRYSTAL ICE, CENTURIONS, And a few others whom I can't remember! C O N C L U S I O N Overall an excellent party! A few small problems though. Firstly and most importantly no Guinness (an Irish Stouty "beer" was on sale. It was claimed that there would be a sleeping location and a place for equipment and bags which there wasn't. The disco was lame due to 0.00 women (all-right if your a bent faggot but I'm not (unlike a certain EX-Q.D.G member). Other than that everything was Brilliant! W E L L D O N E G U Y Z Now some addresses for trading latest: (It took ages to type this out-may as well get something out of it!) FOR AMIGA & PC & TEKKNO & BEER Dad 1916/Quadriga, 12 Bishopscourt Way, Wilton, Cork City. Republic of Ireland. FOR AMIGA Slaine/Quadriga 27 Harbour View Rd. Knocknaheeny Cork City Republic Ireland Stinger/Quadriga 24 Whitecliff Crescent Belfast BT12 7JR Northern Ireland Higgy/Quadriga, Phone voice after 6.00pm on: (N.Ireland Prefix)++0232++239164.. That's all for now but look out for Quadriga productions being released every few days including Packs, Demos Intro's etc. Watch out for Dad 1916 Party Reports (c) 1992 Discs and packs in the near forthcoming future! (Well the future is Forthcoming you know!) end.