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f2c01       THE PARTY IN A NEW ERA?
f1c02    by Curt Cool and Cytron/Depth

c03Once   again  it  has  happened.   The
eveninable  event at The Party stating
that 'this is the end - we'll miss you
soo  much',  and  three or four months
later,  the  oh  so happy announcement
that  The  Party  crew  rises from its
ashes  to  make  yet  another  beloved
party.   The  way  we  see it, this is
simply manipulating with the scene.

c01         A BITTER AFTERTASTE

c03By  announcing  'The Final',  'The End
of  an  Era',  'The  Ultimate'  -  the
slogans the Scene had to learn all the
way  since  1992 - the party-attenders
begin  to feel that although the party
hasn't  always  featured  the  best of
organization,  it's  still a legendary
party  which  they  have attended many
years  in  a  row  and  it  is thereby
connected  with  many  memories.   The
typical  scener will tend to say, 'OK,
the  organization sucks at this party,
the   organizers  are  unfriendly  and
don't  actually care about giving me a
good  time  here or helping me out, if
my     eg.     contributiondisk    had
I/O-errors.   Neverthless,  it  IS the
final party, and I'll really miss it'.
Imagine that it was announced from the
beginning  that there would definitely
be  a  'The Party' the following year.
THEN,   the   average   scener   would
probably say 'NO, there's no way, I'll
cope  with  being treated as a tourist
that  has  to  be  milked  for all his
cash.   I  am  NOT  going next year!'.
This   is  the  smart  move  from  the
organizers,  stating that 'this is the
end'   of   the   worlds  most  famous
strictly commercial scene-party.  They
have  accomplished  that  the  sceners
will    actually   MISS   the   annual
Christmas event.



c01        FIVE MEN AND FIVE TIES

c03Now,  all that there is left to do for
the  organizers  is to show up at some
big    parties   around   Spring-   or
Summertime the following year - either
dressed   as   members   of  NSDAP  or
bringing   some   'The  Party'  beers,
(t)-shirts  or  whatever - and happily
announcing  as  if  they  were the new
Messias  that they will make sure that
yet  another  party  will  be  held in
Jutland,  Denmark  from  the  27th  of
December and two-three days forth.

c01        THE FINAL... SALUTE!

c03Hail the organizers!

In  your opinion, this is probably the
lowest  that anyone has ever sunk just
to  make  a profit.  And please remark
that   the   entrance  fee  is  rising
rapidly  exponentially  - from 130 DKR
at  The Party II in Aars and up to 250
DKR  at The Party VI in Aars - exactly
the  same  place.   Of  course, we are
aware  that  more facilities and extra
events have been added from TP2 to TP6
-  neverthless,  it's  hard  to find a
scener that thinks that there has ever
been a better party than The Party II.

The  question is if the aforementioned
hard-to-find  average scener would not
be  better  off going to some smaller,
maybe  AMIGA-only  party?!  These tend
to be cosier, more well organized, and
most  importantly  more  personal than
those  big commercial parties like The
Party,  The Gathering or the Assembly.
Or,  to say it in another manner, have
those  huge parties not grown too big,
both   for   the   attenders  AND  the
organizers?   After  all, we have just
heard  that  the  Gathering  had  3300
attenders  this  year,  and only about
200 AMIGA owners.

Just  maybe;  maybe  this  is just the
time to think about an alernative.