Now you've had Likets version and I thought that it might be interesting to have my views on the matter as well. First of all, Icing 95 was one of the best computer parties ever held (maybe ever to be held in my own humble opinion) and none of this would have happened with out the help of Liket and the rest of the hardworking Icing staff. It was from Likets initiative we could rent the party place, and frankly without him there hadn't been any parties at all.. Now, the reason that I said: "Never again a party" was that we had been awake for 3 days and just finished some 7 hours of cleaning the place up. And on top of that we had some real problems with the personnel at Vättlehallen right before we left (that have been a problem now for two years as they are as far from co-operative as one can get) and I was feed up with it all.. This was not because of Liket (or at least he's not the only reason ;). Before Icing 96 took place we had some stupid plans about having a big party in Borås together with some of the scene in Skene (famous for their mini party events summer 93-95) and as I recall it actually sounded like a good idea at the beginning as "someone" knew someone and it meant that we could rent the party place for virtually nothing.. That later turned out to be nearly 140 000 SEK or something as stupid as that and of course we didn't have that kind of money. So we decided to have Icing'96 at the same place as the last year (despite the difficulties to get along with the janitors) and we held the party. The problems at this party was that we, as Liket stated, were too few with too much responsibility.. It's pretty hard to come up with funny surprise compos at the same time as you have to handle a water shortage, funny local talents who wanted to pick a fight with the whole scene, bands that were obviously to many, a DJ that came from nowhere and wanted to play really loud tekkno at 3 o’clock when everybody else wanted to sleep (and to deal with his extremely stupid girlfriend, aargh!), find out what the hell had happened to the electricity, why the pizza delivery guy suddenly wanted us to pay 2000 SEK more than we had a deal on and about a billion other really annoying things. I guess Liket had a quite similar experience as the PC demo compo was 8 hours late.. After Icing'96 I said to myself "never ever again a party".. But then me and tOj / citron. bicycled to the summer party 96, and I got really inspired and found a great deal of things that would make THE best party ever held. And then (as suggested in RAW) me and Snuskis from the remedy party thought that maybe we could join forces and thus make THE best party ever held. Well, things didn't go as we planned them and it was at the annual trip to Denmark and the Party 96 that I really lost my interest in the scene. I had a really boring time. The Party in whole was pretty OK organised but the contributions were boring and the so called sceners really disappointed me. The only dudes actually doing anything else than watching porno movies or trading porn over the network seemed to be old friends of mine.. During the PC compo I actually sat right beside some idiot German who spent the whole demoshow trading "chinesegirlsinextrembondage" type of pictures over the local net.. My idea of a great time? No! And after that I practically didn't give a damn about the scene and parties, we broke up with the remedy staff, Liket started his work on Icing 97 and I'm quite trough with it all.. I don't know if the scene really was like this all along and I didn't notice or if it is the Doom - network gaming, trading, irc.. that changed the whole scene into something I can't enjoy.. Might be both.. And regarding the fact that I practically kicked out Liket from the Icing board 96.. well. I guess I did.. sorry. I guess that was pretty mean. But then again I guess me and Liket just have some great problems to
get along at all, it has something to do with me thinking him to be unrealistic,
stubborn, and in a general way impossible to speak to. For example Leif
spent the 40 minutes bus trip to a meeting trying to convince me that we
didn't have to rent a bigscreen as he could built one himself with just
the help of some sheets and a overhead. Another golden moment was the first
year were he nearly scared the people from vättlehallen from renting
the place to us, when they said that there could only be 500 people in
there at the same time he started to talk about
But I guess Leif regards me as being pessimistic, stubborn, and in a general way impossible to speak with. Back to the subject.. This year the Icing party will be held by a fraction of the original organisers, nevertheless I really hope that Liket will succeed in making this party the best Icing ever. Especially as I think that many people still will remember me as an Icing organiser.. |