Le Tour de Trance

Waiting for the phone call to say where the rave is going to be is just the beginning. When the phone call comes we know we are heading to Epsom Common, which station is that? Oh yeah its ....... so we all head for this point. The last train is leaving too so me and Adrien grab a ticket for Nick too and we run for the train .... it seems we aren't the only ones, what is normally a quiet station at this time of day has a whole hord of people charging for it. These are the people in the know. When the train (eventually) gets going you can feel the buzz of excitement of everyone on the train as we head for Epsom, then at the station a whole swarm of people swamp this small platform and start heading randomly towards the centre of Epsom with no-one sure where they are going. There are swarms of police around and they heard everyone up a dead end road so it's time to split the main group and follow our noses. Walking away from the main bunch we stick out like a sore thumb so inevitably the pigs stop us 2 ask whether where we are going and obviously we are just 'visiting a friend'. Not that he believes us but he only threatens to arrest us if we carry on, so we do of course. Heading up into a quiet residential area we wonder around aimlessly for a while, no sign of life apart from the occassional passer by in their car 'where's the rave mate' 'dunno' is the sum of the convos. After more wondering around suddenly we hear a police helicopter, initially this seems like a bad thing until we realise that its hovering over a specific location for a reason so we start heading towards the beam of light that it's using then as we round a corner we hear the distinct sound of deep base in the distance. Following the sound its gets louder and louder until we come to a wooded area, now more people are appearing from the left and right so we start heading for the centre, we stumble across some glow sticks in trees and realise they are marking the route so following them we spiral inwards until we start seeing the lights and can hear the psy-trance very clearly by now. Going through a line of trees and suddenly here is a small clearing buzzing with hard trance and everything else u expect at a rave :P. So immediately we get stuck into the dance floor after picking up some drinks, a bargain at Â£2. The best thing about this kind of night is everyone is here to have a good time, theres no trouble, plenty of people enjoying the dance floor and loads of room to chill on the outskirts ... no prizes for guessing whats going on there :P. We just carry on enjoyin the music and it gets better and harder through the night until it starts getting light. It very surreal after a few hours of light when most peopl r sitting chilling but the music is still pumping as hard as ever. And a small pilled up group are still goin ... and us 3. The sound systems great, music is great all night, beers cheap, everyones havin a good time, this is the place 2 be .... so whens the next one? :P

Stage	Year	Night	Venue	Location	Promoter
4	2009	Rave	Epsom Common	London