I think the British equivalent of Woodstock 99 is Leeds festival, but instead of one event descending into utter carnage, at Leeds fest the weekend has devolved into chaos a number of times over the years. It's seen riots, looting, riot police being dispatched, police helicopters hovering above, infrastructure set alight, gas canisters exploding, and there’s even been a court case over it all. Chapters:0:00 Chaos 0:35 Leeds Festival1:20 Rite of Passage2:00 19992:10 20012:40 20023:15 £250k Damage 4:00 The Battle of Leeds Fest4:30 Camera Phones Were Very New 5:00 Investigation6:10 Court Case 6:40 Kicked Out of Temple Newsam7:06 50 Cent7:44 20058:07 Love Not Riots Campaign 8:40 “💩Girl” (2009) 10:26 2022

This seems to be an all too common occurrence at Ibiza Rocks. So many people have lost their lives there that the British tabloids have now called it "The Death Hotel". RIP to everyone who passed away, my thoughts are with their loved ones. You can check out The Secret DJ's books here: https://thesecretdj.net/product/secret-dj-book-two

Chapters:0:00 Deaths at Ibiza Rocks3:15 History of Ibiza Rocks 4:11 Pikes Side Quest5:38 Why is This Happening? 7:00 Balcony Hopping 8:02 What is Pink Tuci?10:30 Balconing 11:20 A Man Explains How He Fell From a Balcony13:12 “Vast Amounts of Booze”15:51 Content Creation and Partying on the Balcony 17:00 Climbing on Balconies #SimonDoherty #Ibiza

This is the disastrous story of how some of the most vulnerable communities in the UK (the prison population, the homeless community, and children at school) became gripped by 𝙨𝙮𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙞𝙙𝙨––an increasingly potent and unpredictable family of 𝙙𝙧𝙪𝙜𝙨 often referred to collectively as ‘spice’. Scientists, working out of the University of Bath in the UK, recently analysed 2,000 '𝙏𝙃𝘾 𝙫𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙨' that were busted by teachers in 114 schools over the past two years. The results were published by Drug Science last week: 13% of all samples actually contained 𝙨𝙮𝙣𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙘 𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙤𝙞𝙙𝙨. In some regions, the number was as high as 27%.NOTE: This video is for journalistic and educational purposes. Music: Purple Planet Music/http://www.purple-planet.com / Music by CreatorMix.com

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In 2006/07, a number of public health warnings were released in the UK about what people were calling "grit 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙙" – 𝙘𝙖𝙣𝙣𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙨 contaminated with tiny glass beads, sand, or other small particles. What is perhaps even more remarkable than the fact that people were contaminating it in this way, was the bizarre set of circumstances that led to that situation. The years 2001-2009 was an absolutely bonkers period for British policy around the plant. The "grit" problem peaked in 2006/07, but the events that caused it, the ripples in the pond each one giving rise to the next, started around half a decade before. This video is about how that ripple effect played out.

𝘊𝘰𝘬𝘦-related deaths in England and Wales are up by more than ten fold since 2011. 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘥𝘦𝘳 in the UK is now cheaper (everything else has got up in price with inflation, but not that), more people are in treatment for it in recent times, and purity is also up in recent times. So, how did the UK get so 𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘯 coke-y? I had a look at various sociological factors driving this...

Is Talk to FRANK (the UK’s Government drug education campaign which has been running for over two decades) a useful resource? Or is it simply an agent of prohibition? I tried to find out. Talk to FRANK is the UK's longest-running government d̶r̶u̶g̶s̶ education campaign. They’ve published some hilarious ads and they run a website and phone helpline that they say "educate and inform" young people about d̶r̶u̶g̶s̶. But they have been criticised for having call handlers that "don’t know what they’re talking about", publishing “propaganda” that’s “not based on real evidence”, trying to reach young people but not having social media channels, and exaggerating the harms and implications of casual d̶r̶u̶g̶ use.

The PINGER Pod: Hazy tales from the frontline of British drug culture. Come down the rabbit hole, with Simon Doherty.

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Chapters

0:00 FRANK-ly Speaking

1:13 A History of Talk to FRANK

2:00 Launch 2003

3:00 Is it Honest?

4:00 Lacking in Harm Reduction Information

6:30 The Hilarious Ads

7:40 "Propaganda"

8:30 Pablo the Mule Dog

9:20 Prank Calls

11:00 Did Talk to FRANK Make a Difference?

12:30 The Fall Off

13:20 I Called Talk to FRANK

20:43 What Did I Learn From Calling?

23:22 Should Talk to FRANK's Funding Be Re-Directed?

24:00 More Funny Ads

The guest on this episode of the podcast is Chris Knowles, better known as acid techno pioneer Chris Liberator. One part of the Liberator trio (alongside Julian and Aaron Liberator), he is credited with being one of the pioneers of acid techno in the early ​’90s; an uncompromising sound defined by the squelchy, screaming resonance generated by the Roland TB-303 synth.

I wanted to know about his anarcho-punk roots, how the acid techno sound came about, how the Liberator trio met, and the crossover between the values of the punk movement and underground electronic music culture.

Published randomly and sporadically, The Simon Doherty Podcast features off-piste chats with electronic music's characters and people who work researching drug culture.

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An editorial version of this video was published in Huck: https://www.huckmag.com/article/chris-liberator-virtual-rave-in-pursuit-repetitive-beats-interview