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The biggest stress of Global Gathering was getting in. You are trapped in a huge press of sweaty people all carrying a weekends worth of gear and chanting to be let in. Whoever designed the gate policy was an idiot. If they had searched every person, like they were doing at first, it would have taken 2 full days to let everyone in. The police seemed totally focused on finding people who had small personal quantities of gear and taking them away. Super boring. I mean is it really a good use of a police dog?
Once we got through the whole security thing it was much smoother. None of us were even searched in the end. They just started letting people through in waves. Throughout the weekend I ran into probably 20 dealers. Holy crap dealers in this country are creepy as fuck. I mean they all seemed like child molesters or worse to me. And the police behavior probably forced a lot of people to keep these dudes in business.
Once we got through and set up our 3 tents, things were ok. Lady Jaye took over my tent. So I was going to have to share with YumYum. We all changed and chilled out a little bit. Needed to relax to recover from our longass car journey. That was beyond brutal. We thought it was take around 2 hours, but it took closer to 4. On the way we discovered that YumYum sucks at giving directions. It took us ages to find him and we ended up trying to go through the gate at a military base. That was a little disconcerting.
He didn't even have a tent or any supplies. So we hit the Argos near his house. We somehow managed to leave Argos with the cheapest tent in the universe and a giant Stormtrooper helmet. That was fun since I wore it most of the way to the festival. I learned that a lot of people in the UK are so lame. So many average looking girls gave us dirty looks. But some cool people waved and YumYum even passed a beer to a car passing us.
So back at the festival we ground our way through a ton of gear and I was rocking a serious smile for two whole days. It took some of my crew two weeks to recover from all the partying. Sometimes you just run out of seratonin. Hehe. Honestly it was an awesome festival.
We didn't talk to too many strangers as we had a good crew. We split up into twos a lot. Mostly it was me and Lady Jaye as a twoset, since the other guys didn't really know her. We hit all the stages and had so much fun. We tried not to get split up too often, but when you're all smiles it's hard you know?
We had a ton of fun and the crowd vibe was really cool. YumYum's girlfriend was there and that was really exciting. Just the other day I was talking to him and it turned out to be her on his facebook. I feel like that is never ok, but I guess some people feel that in a relationship you need to be able to pretend to be the other person.
The highlight of the festival was making my first new rave friend in ages. He lives in Birmingham and is super awesome. It was so random but we chilled for 3-4 hours on Sat night in the progressive tent. I randomly ran into him on saturday in London and finally got his number. Lady Jaye recognized him and saved the day.
The end of the fest was terrifying as YumYum tried to set the tents on fire and then he tried to kiss me. It was great because it lasted for the entire drive home too. That was beyond terrifying. I kept falling asleep in the car and he launched a never-ending assault.
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