Good LORD it's gone tits up. There are various offers being made on Twitter to people with Bloc tickets / wristbands which, maybe because I'm a Lahndahnerrrr and feel slightly guilty, I may as well slap down here in case anyone's roaming around looking for things to do:
London Fields Brewery offering free beer to anyone with a Bloc Wristband
Hello Cosmonauts @ The Nest = free admission to anyone with a Bloc Wristband (don't know who they are, they might be some shit fey indie band for all I know)
Google Maps guide to shit that's going on now Bloc's been cancelled - I believe whoever's doing this is hoping some of the DJs will get alternate venues to play in which seems a bit optimistic but stranger shit has happened... and doubtless some fast-thinking entrepreneurs will be hoping to make some quick cash out of people with bags of drugs to eat and nowhere to eat them. This will hopefully be added to over the course of the day:
https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?m...=0&ll=51.50336,-0.08229&spn=0.010846,0.033023
EDIT: PLEX look like they're doing a good job of hauling together DJs who ain't playing at BLOC - they're on Twitter at @PlexLondon ... they have a 1000 capacity venue sorted, apparently, free to people with wristbands or printouts of their tickets. It could turn out to be fucking amazing.
Obviously this is just random shit I'm pulling off Twitter so don't blame me if you turn up to 'Orbital playing at 2am on Hackney Marshes' and it's just kids on BMXs looking to tax you.
Angry people slagging them off on their FB page, which was then deleted (link to screengrab) >
http://twitpic.com/a4pei0
I'm really sorry it's gone to shit after he dropped so much money on flights, accommodation and entry but I'm genuinely looking forward to reading PTCH's bile-filled descriptions of the chaos.