Bloc 2012

Slow day...

not going to check out Surgeon?

one of the best UK club techno DJ's, have been a fan since the first ever House of God

It's pretty much a close call between Ellen Alien, Kode 9 and Levon Vincent.. When I find out the distance between stages I'll know better. Depends how fucked I am.

no, SURGEON!

Just got 2 free entries. Snoop shizzle

Who's bringing the md?

I've got beans.
If you've got the moves.

I'm bringing my dancing shoes.
But Carl Craig..... Dude, we need fireworks. Call me.

be careful, allegedly people have been monitoring faithfanzine regarding garys

my moves tend to be better without

I have an artist and a crew pass, and I still left early. Shit shit shit

what was so bad? the crowd, the sound, the venue?

Just been closed down by the police due to over crowding.

Oh dear

still here, full report later, but yes. Major hassles. Way over sold. Queue for everything. We had to rush the back door at the dome with a dozen others to get to some music. Huge fuck up on many counts.

what was so bad? the crowd, the sound, the venue?

All of them. I got out just in time.

Complete Cock Bloc

Oh well, that's the end of it. Forever.

Cops shut it down, tomorrow cancelled.

By now everyone will have heard that Bloc 2012 was closed due to crowd safety concerns.

We are all absolutely devastated that this happened, but the safety of everyone on site was paramount.

Given the situation on the ground, we feel that it was the right decision to end the show early.

Bloc will not open on Saturday 7th July so please don’t come to the site.

Stand by for full information on refunds.

oh well. i'm glad i didn't go.

Same here, glad no-one got seriously injured though. The worrying thing is people were voicing concerns to the organisers a week ago over the venue and it seems nothing has been (or maybe could be) done. Apparently the same people who were involved in the first Field Day clusterfuck were involved this year. Shame for the Bloc people, they've destroyed any goodwill they worked for four years to build up by getting involved with these clowns.

Im surprised there wasn't a riot last night.

ah... just found out now.

any idea how much I can expect as a refund for the ticket for today?

(can't be fucked to read the small print right now)

Same here, glad no-one got seriously injured though. The worrying thing is people were voicing concerns to the organisers a week ago over the venue and it seems nothing has been (or maybe could be) done. Apparently the same people who were involved in the first Field Day clusterfuck were involved this year. Shame for the Bloc people, they've destroyed any goodwill they worked for four years to build up by getting involved with these clowns.

Pleasure Gardens is being run by shangri la with a few million pounds funding from Newham Council

Pleasure Gardens rented the site out to bloc

Bloc over sold.

The bad thing about the whole situation is that pleasure gardens will probably loose thir licence and 3 million + of tax payers money and some 3 years of very good and solid community based programming will be lost because of some greedy fuckers in BLOC over selling tickets.

I know the guy that runs the Pleasure Gardens, he's the one that got me the ticket... He's totally cool, nothing to do with Bloc's pricks.
FUCKING FIASCO, from the bloc side. Went there at nine, took me 2min to get in (VIP door), 1h to get in to the 1st venue (Dome) - absolute joke. You could chat on top of the music, my phone plays tunes louder. Then, around 23.30 the police decides to shut the main area. Too many folks, they say. And apparently Snoop never got to the show even.

Hey Bloc, fuck you.

HOw do I get a refund? :)

Pleasure Gardens is being run by shangri la with a few million pounds funding from Newham Council

Pleasure Gardens rented the site out to bloc

Bloc over sold.

The bad thing about the whole situation is that pleasure gardens will probably loose thir licence and 3 million + of tax payers money and some 3 years of very good and solid community based programming will be lost because of some greedy fuckers in BLOC over selling tickets.

Crowd Surge did the ticketing for the event.

Still, Bloc would have specified how many tickets they were to sell but surely this would have been in colloboration with LPG? Massive omnishambles all round.

Anyway, Plex are putting on an event for ticket holders tonight. First come first served (uhoh!) Should be awesome though.

Funniest shit. The amount of people tripping they're balls off, around 1am getting the shuttles back to central london.