i just got back from there!!!

it was on saturday night in caracas !! we played on friday in caracas and were out of town on saturday.
it was a revenge shooting because a guy got dumped by his girlfriend
so he shot her and her new bloke and a few others too at the party ,it was nothing to do with carl cox at all.
how pathetic

the barrio gangs in caracas are using these big events to settle drug scores regularly now and the promoters know but they still don't have metal detectors on the door , or hightly trained security
jst a bunch of thick blokes who have no idea how to control crowds or administer first aid or anything like that
in fact there's a good chance security were in on it.

it's insane , but it is limited to certain types of events , namely big ones where people think they can get away with it
and events that are promoted with posters in the barrios ( slums ) will obviously attract the poorer people which will bring the gangs and the guns

this venue had a history of violent problems too , you'd think they'd at least try to tighten it up on the security.

but to be honest its all about money , same old same old
the guys who run the gig don't seem to give a shit about anything except counting the coins someone posted on a venezuelan forum a picture of 2 handheld metal detectors and underneath a quote saying
" 3 tickets would have bought these 2 machines "

crazy isnt it?
and we have metal detectors here even , shows how ****ing paranoid we are eh?

i had a shock at the airport a couple of times over there with the cops and their corrupt way of working , so has chris, and everyone else since without exception pretty much.
including venezuelan mates of ours who have moved away because the violence and the corruption.

a dangerous place to live for sure
beautiful and friendly and fun , but essentially dangerous and you can never forget that.


it's interesting to observe the human condition
but man , it is nice to get home after!