toenibbler
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deadly excitement?
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[VIC] Rainbow Serpent 2011 (21 Jan - 24 Jan)
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baysieguy1
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must make sure we catch up
Samadhi
Bluelight Crew
I hope that Beaufort can bounce back after the flooding 
toenibbler
Bluelighter
^ i concur, hopefully a week of sun helps
SpiritFolk
Bluelighter
I have few quesitons about doofs. I hope this is the right place to post, please correct me if it is not.
I gather that doofs are like outdoor rave/festival with mainly psytrance music. I used to rave/club to jungle drum n bass but have been out of the scene for a few years.
I have been recently tripping on LSD quite a lot but only really have one other mate who lives me who knows and is interested in tripping. So what i wanted to know was :
1. How do you find out where the doof is held? are they exclusive or hidden like the old call up on the day to find where the rave is?
2. Would going to one on your own if you didn't know anyone there be a good idea? I am a fairly open minded 28 yr old who loves psychedelic drugs and not an aggressive person at all.
3. How long do they usually go for? Looks like camping equipment is used from some of the posts.
4. What is the atmosphere like? Very hectic? Chilled? or is each event completely different?
As I said I have been to quite a few drum n bass raves and tripped/ candyflipped but i was with a crew of people I knew and probably would not go alone to check it out while dosed up on some LSD.
I gather that doofs are like outdoor rave/festival with mainly psytrance music. I used to rave/club to jungle drum n bass but have been out of the scene for a few years.
I have been recently tripping on LSD quite a lot but only really have one other mate who lives me who knows and is interested in tripping. So what i wanted to know was :
1. How do you find out where the doof is held? are they exclusive or hidden like the old call up on the day to find where the rave is?
2. Would going to one on your own if you didn't know anyone there be a good idea? I am a fairly open minded 28 yr old who loves psychedelic drugs and not an aggressive person at all.
3. How long do they usually go for? Looks like camping equipment is used from some of the posts.
4. What is the atmosphere like? Very hectic? Chilled? or is each event completely different?
As I said I have been to quite a few drum n bass raves and tripped/ candyflipped but i was with a crew of people I knew and probably would not go alone to check it out while dosed up on some LSD.
miss_goody2shoes
Bluelighter
mos def! we will find each other somehow (as phone reception will be ka-put)
we are amongst the big camping party that Kat is apart if that helps
I mean not dead nor excited
i meant high from the fumes off this Shower Power
nah excitedd
alas I am worried about this flooding caper. DNW wet muddy miserable weather that will put a real dampener on things (pun intended)
heard it should be ok coz its highish ground. and it's got nearly a week to dry up?..
sir pacman
Bluelighter
Fingers and legs crossed!
Samadhi
Bluelight Crew
The sight might be ok - but i just saw some photos of Beaufort town:
Other photos can be seen here of the Vic floods
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/photo-gallery/gallery-e6frf94x-1225987594880?page=29
Other photos can be seen here of the Vic floods
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/photo-gallery/gallery-e6frf94x-1225987594880?page=29
smaky_hampster
Greenlighter
Hello
Just in case it hasn't been mentioned yet, Rainbow have put up their latest news about the site on their front page, and it's goign to be updated again on sunday.
They sort of say that at the moment access to the site for setting it up in time is the main concern.
Never seen the setting up, but i've only just realised that of course there'd be some big mothers of vehicles needed to get into there and lots of them.
Hoping please please that it dries up quick.
Just in case it hasn't been mentioned yet, Rainbow have put up their latest news about the site on their front page, and it's goign to be updated again on sunday.
They sort of say that at the moment access to the site for setting it up in time is the main concern.
Never seen the setting up, but i've only just realised that of course there'd be some big mothers of vehicles needed to get into there and lots of them.
Hoping please please that it dries up quick.
Samadhi
Bluelight Crew
I think the main concern for SES, etc, is to get the actual town sorted out first - roads have been damaged, as well as homes and other buildings. The town itself is the higher priority.
If it does go ahead, it might be an idea for everyone going to make sure you buy up loads from the local foodstore, bottle-o. It may be a bit more expensive than getting stuff from Dan Murphy's and Woolies, but you'd be injecting much needed economy into the town.
I hope everyone in Beaufort is ok - I also hope RSF can go ahead - it's a corker of a party!
If it does go ahead, it might be an idea for everyone going to make sure you buy up loads from the local foodstore, bottle-o. It may be a bit more expensive than getting stuff from Dan Murphy's and Woolies, but you'd be injecting much needed economy into the town.
I hope everyone in Beaufort is ok - I also hope RSF can go ahead - it's a corker of a party!
If it does go ahead, it might be an idea for everyone going to make sure you buy up loads from the local foodstore, bottle-o. It may be a bit more expensive than getting stuff from Dan Murphy's and Woolies, but you'd be injecting much needed economy into the town.
This!
Last year we didn't even stop in Beaufort on the way in, we did end up there Saturday arvo though when we realised we didn't bring tea or coffee.
I'll definitely be stopping in there on the way in and try to make an effort to check out all the local stores which I'm sure could do with some extra money... I'm sure Rainbow is a massive cash injection for them, considering it's not really a tourist town compared to Ballarat or Bendigo.
it might be an idea for everyone going to make sure you buy up loads from the local foodstore, bottle-o. It may be a bit more expensive than getting stuff from Dan Murphy's and Woolies, but you'd be injecting much needed economy into the town.
Absolutely! I'd strongly suggest this flood or not! It's helps the town, and that helps us by keeping them onside
The staff at the IGA were all grinning from ear to ear last year, not only from the circus arriving, but my God they must have rung up a year's worth of sales in eight hours.
silentangst
Bluelighter
Damn, I'd kill to go to this. I wish I wasn't so lazy.
sir pacman
Bluelighter
There is still time. It doesn't start for five days!
Lovegrud
Bluelighter
Guys guys, I wouldn't stress about Rainbow I has a feeling in me bones that it will all work out, and hells yeah people support the local community they're all super friendly and it helps the town alot. Before arriving into rainbow for the first time when I went to their grocery store and saw all the hippies hugging and chatting away with one another and the locals loving it, I think I was more taken aback by it all then they would have been lol. And for a small town that's fricken rare to be so open minded and friendly.
baysieguy1
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My thoughts are with the local community that have embraced this festival for many years
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baysieguy1
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Lovegrud this festival means so much to the local community. I this this article says it all (from Jan 2009)
My thoughts go out to the people of Beaufort, some of the pictures and video coverage of Beaufort, although nothing like our poor friends in Queensland, are still devastating to see.
Fingers crossed and dry thoughts. I am sure that everyone involved will be doing everything to make sure this happens, but it is a big task ahead of them and the wishes of the local community need to be taken into account.
Residents wired for electro-dance festival, too
Carolyn Webb
January 21, 2009
NOLA Hains used to lie in bed at night and muse that the rhythmic "woom woom" noises she heard might be aliens landing near her property at Beaufort, west of Ballarat.
It was, in fact, the sound of the Rainbow Serpent Festival. In an unlikely but successful marriage, this conservative Western District farming town, where most of the population is over 50, becomes the country's electro-dance music capital each Australia Day weekend.
For four days from Friday, 8000 ravers will converge on Len Carey's sheep farm (the sheep have been moved), eight kilometres south of Beaufort.
Locals say the festival brings more than $500,000 annually to a town, population 1400, that has endured drought, economic downturn and loss of businesses including stock agents, a sawmill and a bank.
Mrs Hains says the op shop where she volunteers does a roaring trade selling clothes, crockery, handbags, hats and blankets to the "alternative lifestylers" who flock in. The shop extends opening hours for the festival and puts on more staff. Takings go to charities, and the local hospital and school.
Locals say the army of visitors with nose rings and tattoos were initially "a shock to the system — just totally different in dress to what we were used to here". But they have since found the visitors from as far as Costa Rica and Scotland to be so "pleasant and easy to get along with", and they are welcomed back each year.
Newsagent Jim Cox says the festival has put Beaufort on the map and made it a destination, rather than a blur in the rear-view mirror between "the two rats" — Ballarat and Ararat.
After initial disapproval of "the hippies and their lifestyle", he says locals realised the financial benefits, and came to accept them as "good, fun-loving people".
"They might go out and take drugs, drink and root, but if they do, they do it out there (on the site)," Mr Cox said. "They might be a little bit dirty and scruffy … some of them stink because they don't wash for days. But they'll come into town and dive in the pool and that'll do them for a few more days."
Festival director Felix Hamer said the event now takes up 60 hectares and includes: 150 food, clothing and bric-a-brac stalls; two dance floors playing trance, electro, house and ambient music around the clock; a performance stage for fire twirlers, stilt walkers or jazz bands; and a "lifestyle" wing for massage, yoga, craft and children's activities. In Aboriginal legend, the Rainbow Serpent created the world; at the festival there are indigenous storytelling, dance and craft.
The football club raised $15,000 last year helping out, and the festival has given two trucks to local Country Fire Authority units.
Beaufort police sergeant John Wallish said that in 10 years there had been very few problems and no arrests at the well-run event.
My thoughts go out to the people of Beaufort, some of the pictures and video coverage of Beaufort, although nothing like our poor friends in Queensland, are still devastating to see.
Fingers crossed and dry thoughts. I am sure that everyone involved will be doing everything to make sure this happens, but it is a big task ahead of them and the wishes of the local community need to be taken into account.
Residents wired for electro-dance festival, too
Carolyn Webb
January 21, 2009
NOLA Hains used to lie in bed at night and muse that the rhythmic "woom woom" noises she heard might be aliens landing near her property at Beaufort, west of Ballarat.
It was, in fact, the sound of the Rainbow Serpent Festival. In an unlikely but successful marriage, this conservative Western District farming town, where most of the population is over 50, becomes the country's electro-dance music capital each Australia Day weekend.
For four days from Friday, 8000 ravers will converge on Len Carey's sheep farm (the sheep have been moved), eight kilometres south of Beaufort.
Locals say the festival brings more than $500,000 annually to a town, population 1400, that has endured drought, economic downturn and loss of businesses including stock agents, a sawmill and a bank.
Mrs Hains says the op shop where she volunteers does a roaring trade selling clothes, crockery, handbags, hats and blankets to the "alternative lifestylers" who flock in. The shop extends opening hours for the festival and puts on more staff. Takings go to charities, and the local hospital and school.
Locals say the army of visitors with nose rings and tattoos were initially "a shock to the system — just totally different in dress to what we were used to here". But they have since found the visitors from as far as Costa Rica and Scotland to be so "pleasant and easy to get along with", and they are welcomed back each year.
Newsagent Jim Cox says the festival has put Beaufort on the map and made it a destination, rather than a blur in the rear-view mirror between "the two rats" — Ballarat and Ararat.
After initial disapproval of "the hippies and their lifestyle", he says locals realised the financial benefits, and came to accept them as "good, fun-loving people".
"They might go out and take drugs, drink and root, but if they do, they do it out there (on the site)," Mr Cox said. "They might be a little bit dirty and scruffy … some of them stink because they don't wash for days. But they'll come into town and dive in the pool and that'll do them for a few more days."
Festival director Felix Hamer said the event now takes up 60 hectares and includes: 150 food, clothing and bric-a-brac stalls; two dance floors playing trance, electro, house and ambient music around the clock; a performance stage for fire twirlers, stilt walkers or jazz bands; and a "lifestyle" wing for massage, yoga, craft and children's activities. In Aboriginal legend, the Rainbow Serpent created the world; at the festival there are indigenous storytelling, dance and craft.
The football club raised $15,000 last year helping out, and the festival has given two trucks to local Country Fire Authority units.
Beaufort police sergeant John Wallish said that in 10 years there had been very few problems and no arrests at the well-run event.
Samadhi
Bluelight Crew
Hehe, the last time I went we stopped at the Foodstore (bottle-o is joined). We had the best pies and pasties i'd eaten in many a year at the bakery and we stopped at the hardware store/emporium for some equipment we felt we needed. We actually found the prices to be comparable to Melbourne - which was great (especially when compared with Byron Bay prices arond Splendour time!). The locals were really friendly and kind
They always appreciate the business and I would imagine even moreso now.