REBELLION PARTY REPORT


We have recieved 3 Rebellion party
reports, so we have joined them
together, to give a balanced view!


     BY BAABAA AND BERNARD SUMNER


The day started when Tripper, Merlin,
CD and me (BaaBaa) arrived at
Bernard's house at about 6:55 on
Sunday morning.  Bernard was still in
bed, so I had to wake him up and get
him ready to go.  We had packed all
our equipment in mine and Sumner's car
the night before, so we were ready to
go.  We decided that I would follow
Sum in his car as he had the map. As I
pulled off from his drive, I thought
"fuck that I am going", so I sped off
into the distance.

I headed down the A38 in my dad's
Sierra Cosworth at around 120mph with
Bern in hot pursuit in his dad's
2.0iCRX vtec at around the same speed.
It was O.K. because nothing was on the
roads at this time in the morning.
When we arrived at Stoke, we both
switched on our special Rebellion
party maps and dispite me and Bern
hitting the same bollard at around
40mph we got there in one peice at
8:15am.

The place was an old cricket club,
with a sign welcoming persons to a
private party hosted by Mrs. Gibson!
We thought we had the wrong time and
place, because there was no-one else
there.  We went around the building to
check the place out, and discovered a
big fuck off stadium which looked a
prime place for a Rave!

We had been waiting about 15 minutes,
when Rebellion crawled up to the place
in S.J.E.'s Fiat 127 (cool car dude!).
They all piled out and we started to
chat and talk about the party and how
we got here. The building was locked,
so everyone was shouting at the
cleaners inside to let us in !
Eventually at 8:50am the guy with the
grey hair let us in and we carried all
our equipment into the room.  It
looked very smart with all the
Christmas decorations still up and
there was a small platform at the
front of the room, opposite the bar.

Bern was shocked to find that when he
unpacked his Synth, it was soaking wet
because the silly twat left his synth
in the boot of his car over night!  He
must of emptied at least a pint of
water from it, before he dare turn it
on.  Despite this it worked fine. I
had a little trouble as well, as
evryone knows my hard-drive takes a
little bit of time to warm up (15
minutes), so I was getting a bit
cross, so I pushed the personality
module into it's port while it
was turned on!  This had no effect,
but when I eventually got the machine
warmed up, the left-mouse button was
perminantly engaged, so I couldn't do
any work.  At first I thought it was
the mouse buttons, but after trying
several mice, it still didn't work, so
I ended up swapping my Amiga for CD's
as he has 2meg as well!

After all this fuss and bother, we got
settled in, and watched the rest of
the people trickle in at around 9:30.
Ultimate Warrior came over to us, and
took some snaps of us, which he said
would be appearing in his Wizzcat
magazine. Nice talking to you at the
party, keep up the fishing.

Digital and Anarchy(all one of 'em)
turned up at about midday, and set up
just in front of us.  Bern would like
to apologize to them for making a loud
inferior racket in front of them
(Sorry!)

It was obvious that Digital would win
the demo comp.  They put their demo on
and around two thirds of the room
gathered round to drool over some red
hot coding.  However, I'm sure you can
understand why they were mad when they
found out that rebelion had fuck all
prize money left!  It was dead funny
watching No.5 and Mr Big Bollocking
the whole of Rebelion (It was like two
head masters telling little children
off for raping the girls!).  Anyway
they manage to scrap up a few coppers
to award the comp winners.

           DEMO COMPETITION

         1st.  Spook/Digital
           2nd.  BaaBaa/LSD
       3rd.  2cool/Dimension X


          MUSIC COMPETITION

       1st.  Bernard Sumner/LSD
          2nd.  Nuke/Anarchy
          3rd.  Yaz/Digital


         GRAPHICS COMPETITION

        1st.  Rasputin/Anarchy
        2nd.  ???/Dimension X
          3rd.  Watchman/LSD


         KICK OFF COMPETITION

      1st.  Assasin/Dimension X
           2nd.  Psico/???


           TWAT OF THE DAY

     1st.  Merlin/Foul Critters
       2nd.  Merlin/Dimension X
  3rd.  Merlin/The Special Brothers

All in all it was a good day, and I
think everyone enjoyed themselves. I
know me and Bern did.
...oh no you didn't.  This is Bernard
Sumner here to add my little bit to
this review.  Not much really
happened!  I got asked several times
to join TFC and they wouldnt
understand that I wasnt looking for a
new group (Hi fellas!!)  I spent most
of the morning drying my synth, which
as you already know was full of water.
My Amiga's keyboard had fucked up and
still is!  Help...

The competitions were a bit of a joke!
I thought Yaz had done a far superior
tune than mine, yet he came third!
Nuke or Rasputin wasn't even there and
Mr Big was well pissed off with me
because I was judged higher than his
musician Nuke (sorry, It wasnt my
fault, I didnt judge the fucker!) and
as for the demo competion went,
Digital didn't really have any
competition at all.
   
However it wasnt all bad. I met a few
musicians including Sync/Digital (Hi!)
and Ultimate Warrior/Wizzcat
(He He!), I got interviewed for the
Eclipse video by that bloke with the
spiky hair(Hi!) and the only real
downer of the day was that I had to go
back to college again the following
morning!



          BY FAZE T.S.B.U.K.


This will probably be the only
optimistic report of the party so
please read it and try to comprehend
my point of view.

I arrived at the party at around ten
thirty in a minibus with some mates;
the club wasn`t to hard to find but
other groups did have problems. The
car park was a little small but ample
for the turnout.  Groups represented
were: -ANARCHY-LSD-TSB-FOUL-CRITTERS-
DIMESION X-IDIOSYNCATRIS-WIZZCAT-
DIGITAL-ADDONIC

The part of this article that will
differ from other reveiws, is one
point which in my opinion made the
whole thing more enjoyable than the
DIGITAL 1991 party, (Of which it will
no doubt be compared to) was the fact
that its was more relaxed.  For
example at the DIGITAL party there
were a lot of lamers running round
pestering everone asking for new warez
and nobody stayed in one place for
very long.

At the REBELLION party, however,
people were sat talking and generally
having a good time.  So the message to
the people who will more than likely
moan about lack of releases and small
turnout is that you went for the wrong
reason.  Hopefully the next party
(rumoured to be ANARCHY's on APRIL
4th) will be a cross between the
DIGITAL and REBELLION party's.  I had
a sodding good time at both partys (as
anyone who has seen the video will
have guessed) and hope the next
meeting will be as good.

Before I sign off I would like to say
a quick message to MERLIN of THE FOUL
CRITTERS, your actions at the party
are the way to start group wars.  We
let it drop because we couldn`t be
botherd to be so frivolus.  SO STOP
STIRRING NOW.

Anyway thanx for reading this report
in defence of REBELLION (which, RUMOUR
has it are splitting up) and I hope
that I haven`t offended anyone.



    BY MERLIN OF THE FOUL CRITTERS

     Despite the rumors and hype, it
did go ahead. But what happened, and
who was there? MERLIN of THE FOUL
CRITTERS tells you about his day.....

     Sunday the 5th of January, 1992
was the day of the REBELLION party.
It was held in a pub in Stoke on
Trent, England.  At 6 o`clock that
morning, raining and pitch black, BAA
BAA of LSD came round to my place to
pick me up.  I grabbed my stuff and
went out to the car.  Inside was
TRIPPER (TRIPPA!) of Amnesia.  We set
off towards Uttoxeter and hoped for
the best.

     About 2 hours later we arrived at
the party place.  As with the Digital
party, we were the first there. Also
with us but in another car were
BERNARD SUMNER of LSD and CD (Ind).
Then some Rebellion guys turned up and
let us in.  All the lads I`d come
with started to set up their
equipment.  I just stood around
waiting for the rest of my crew to
arrive.  After a while, people started
arriving.  Some FUSION guys arrived
and I got talking to COAXIAL and FIRE
& BRIMSTONE of FUSION.  A few hours
went by and still no sign of my crew.

     Then the lamers started arriving.
We had some old woman come up to us
and ask us for ROBOCOP III (nearly 3
weeks old) and one chap asked us for
SUPAPLEX (nearly 2 months old(!)).  It
transpired they were profesional
pirates who sell(?) games for a
living.

     I met plenty of people I swap
with and here is a list of the groups
that were represented there: LSD, THE
FOUL CRITTERS, DIMENSION X, WIZZCAT,
TSB, FUSION, PLAGUE, DIGITAL, ANARCHY,
ADDONIC, ECLIPSE (Send the Video M8!),
REBELLION (ofcoz!) - Sorry if you were
there and I missed you!

     Well time went by, and still TFC
had not arrived, and I was getting
worried.  The party was not hot in
releases either.  Here is a releases
list:
THE FOUL CRITTERS - An intro.
DIMENSION X - A cool shintro.
WIZZCAT - nothing (only one swapper
attended).
TSB - An intro.
FUSION - a board intro screen.
DIGITAL - not sure (sorry).
ANARCHY - not sure (sorry).
ECLIPSE - Again they filmed the event.
REBELLION - nothing.
I`m not sure about DIGITAL and ANARCHY
because by the time they arrived and
got sorted I was busy.

     At about 3 o`clock THE FOUL
CRITTERS arrived!!  I went over to
meet them and find out what was
goining on.  They told me they had
over 500 disks to get shut of.  So,
with me being a bit drunk I went
around shouting at everyone to buy our
disks!  Guess what?  They did!  In
their hundreds!  There was a queue
reaching half way down the hall!  We
made about 250 quid!

     Then it was time for me to go and
talk properly to all the good crews. I
went over to DIMENSION X (my old crew)
and got chatting to DELTEX of
DIMENSION X.  From what he told me it
seems as though DMX are getting very
good at everything.  They are getting
good demos together (get their party
shintro!).  I`m just sorry it had to
end the way it did lads.

     Next there was TSB (another one
of my old crews, and I`m not proud of
it either.) ABH wanted to know what I
was upto nowadays, I told him and he
sort-of went quiet.  Next was WIZZCAT
and I started chatting with The
Ulitimate Warrior about this and that.

     Next came FUSION (again!) I had
been talking to them on and off all
day. After that I got nattering with
FUT, CHAP and ZIPPY of NEMESIS. We
talked about modem, postal swapping,
coding, cracking, blue boxing and
lotsa other things too. You are cool
people, shame N.O.M.A.D couldnt come,
p`raps next time.

     I didn`t talk to ANARCHY becoz
whenever I walked up to Mr.Big he
always found somthing else to do. I
Couldn`t find the DIGITAL guys when I
wanted to find them, their machines
were there but they were not.  I also
got talking to plenty of lamers who
wanted games from me. If you were one
of these, then go away, or I`ll call
FAST on ya!! (hehehe!).  The next task
was giving out our contact number
cards.  I just went around everyone
and gave them out.

     Mr.Big of ANARCHY was quite rude
about it.  He accepted one of our
cards and then mumbled "I`ll find
SOMEONE who wants it".  Mr.Big - You
may not have wanted it, and you may
think you are far better and more
elite than us, but politness costs
nothing and even if it did, we could
have a whip round and buy you some.

     REBELLION promised lots but
delivered little.  It was said the
demo comp prizes were supposed to be
100 pounds, I think only ten pounds
was given for the first prize.  The
KICK OFF II comp was won by ASSASIN OF
DIMENSION X and PSICO of ECLIPSE (2nd
again M8!) was the runner up.  The
game was a real corker with some great
goals scored by both players.  After
full and extra time it was 4-4.  It
finally went to penalties before
ASSASIN won.  I dont have the full
result for the others but I know
BERNARD SUMNER of LSD won the music
comp with a great tune called `NEW
YEAR` and I think the DIMENSION X
SHINTRO came 2nd in the demo
comp.  The realtime demo comp was
scrapped because there were only two
entries.

     As it got later, people started
to filter out to catch trains and the
like.  At about 8:15 pm there were
only LSD, DMX, some old chaps in no
group, the REBELLION lads and me left.
I found TRIPPER and found out he had
joined DIMENSION X -- Good luck with
them M8!  BAA BAA and BERNARD SUMNER
were still in our little alcove in the
wall, BAA BAA playing LLAMATRON
(AAAARRRGGHHH!) and BERNARD playing on
his keyboard.

     Altogether it wasn`t a bad day, I
mean, it could have been worse, but it
could have been far better, and it
didnt compare with the DIGITAL party
in October. I gave the DIGITAL party
7/10 when I was asked on video, I gave
REBELLION 4-5/10 because of the bad
management (even the swappers selling
the tickets thought it was off) and
because of all the lamers there.

    The cool groups attending and
deserving credit for it are : -
Anarchy - Addonic - Digital -
Dimension X - Eclipse - Fusion - LSD -
Nemesis - Plague - TSB - TFC -
Wizzcat.  Thanks again to all the guys
from these groups who attended for
jolting a practically dead party to
life!

    Hi to all those I met there (TUW,
F&B, COAXAIL, DELTEX, ALL TFC AND THE
REST)  See ya all again soon!

Last note: No disrespect or offence is
meant or should be applied to any
people or groups mentioned in this
article.  Especially towards ANARCHY
or Mr.Big inpaticular.  This article
was not written as a slagging to
ANARCHY or Mr.Big, its just a true
report of what happended to me on the
day.


Well there you have it, 3 reviews, and
how many can we bring you from the
Anarchy party?  Send them!         end.