  Last night was something a little different. Rather than spending the night in a string of pubs, bars and a club at the end I took a risk.
A couple of mates and myself went on the search for an illegal Warehouse party being held in Manchester. I found out about it last month via email from a Hardcore mailing list. You can join the mailing list at the urlLink Hardcore Mission website.
We were led from Oxford Road, around a housing estate to the venue, a dis-used Timber yard with numerous buildings on the site. It looked like an ideal place for the event, dirty - piles of rubble around etc. The main "arena" looked like it had been used for similar events in the past, the back wall had an array of speaker boxes graffiti along the back wall. We were part of the first group to arrive on site so everything was just being set up. Padlocks being hack sawed off to let vans full of equipment in, lights being enabled etc.
All quite exciting stuff - but they certainly took their time getting everything rolling. We must have been standing around for an hour. For free, the event was more than good enough. Pitty we didn't have more time to get drunk earlier in the evening. It all happened a bit last minute for us. 
