Is the Goan Party Scene dead ?????

AnnieG · May 22nd, 2005, 16:48

The number of parties last season was a fraction of the 'normal' ... Many venues were closed for months, at least since New Year. Even private parties were hassled by the police (if they saw a group of bikes outside a house and heard music, they'd go in and demand money to allow the gathering to continue).
There are rumours that the serious party animals and the top DJs are abandoning Goa for other places where the police don't make it so hard.

Can this be true?

Has anyone else any experience of the fizzling end of the party scene in Goa?

GoanCanuck · May 23rd, 2005, 05:18

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Originally Posted by AnnieG

Can this be true?

Has anyone else any experience of the fizzling end of the party scene in Goa?

The party scene in Goa is pretty much finished. The outdoor parties which used to take place were actually illegal and were only allowed to proceed the last few years due to the local politicians getting hefty bribes from the party organisers. Earlier this year President's rule was imposed in Goa. Under President's rule the local politicians have no power and the day to day administration comes under the Federal(Central) Government's control. President's rule will most likely be lifted after the forthcoming elections but the chances of the outdoor parties returning are very slim because of the vigorous oppostion to these parties from the Goan media and NGO's.

AnnieG · May 23rd, 2005, 14:33

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Originally Posted by GoanCanuck

The party scene in Goa is pretty much finished. The outdoor parties which used to take place were actually illegal and were only allowed to proceed the last few years due to the local politicians getting hefty bribes from the party organisers. Earlier this year President's rule was imposed in Goa. Under President's rule the local politicians have no power and the day to day administration comes under the Federal(Central) Government's control. President's rule will most likely be lifted after the forthcoming elections but the chances of the outdoor parties returning are very slim because of the vigorous oppostion to these parties from the Goan media and NGO's.

Hurrah !

LaContessa · May 23rd, 2005, 19:40

We can live in hope!!

cyberhippie · May 23rd, 2005, 19:54

I honestly think that the "party scene" as in the one Goa is famous for has lived on since the early 90's only in the minds of tourists!
I think Anjuna and vagator may have continued the trend for a while but the big happenings seem to have died out some years ago!!
I'm often amused by what I read about the party scene in Palolem there never has been a major party scene in Palolem apart from the 2003 eason where people tried to get the whole rave scene off the ground thanks to the police the idea was short lived!

Parties bah humbug glad to see the back of them! (warning old codger at work)

Want to party come to the Apha Bar on Saturday night and watch some live music!
Yeah real musicians, playing real instrument, and singing real songs!

LaContessa · May 23rd, 2005, 20:14

Here, here. I remember going to so called "full moon" parties on Colva Beach in the early and mid 90's.

What actually existed was little more than 20 or so people, sitting at tables, drinking beer and smoking pipes, talking and listening to a bit of music.

Oh yeah, and the obligatory bonfire.

LOL.

passingby · May 23rd, 2005, 20:15

I will be really disappointed to find out that the Goa party scene is really over. I've had the best parties of my life in Goa. I couldn't imagine Goa without the parties...

Quote:

I honestly think that the "party scene" as in the one Goa is famous for has lived on since the early 90's only in the minds of tourists!
I think Anjuna and vagator may have continued the trend for a while but the big happenings seem to have died out some years ago!!

I partied in a lot of places in the world in my life and I can honestly say that the best parties were in Goa, much better than the popular Full Moon parties in Koh Phangan in Thailand. I don't think the big happenings were over long ago. I was in Goa in Dec 2003 and the parties seemed to happen two or three times a week, but you had to know the right people to bring you there. The parties were secret, but if you knew how to get there you would have had a great time. The parties were really cool, lots of people who came together from different parts of the world wanting to have a great time.

I wonder if the Goan parties are really over, or they are just held in greater secrecy now-days....?

cyberhippie · May 23rd, 2005, 20:26

Passingbye in my defence I can only say I warned you I was in old codger mode!
I have been told that the parties in the 70's 80's and early 90's were a bit bigger and more spontanious but of course that might have been nostalgia talking!
This is what I meant by happenings,
Like people who will say the first Acid house parties the illegal ones were much better than the newer organised parties that we now see around Europe. Less commercialisation more heart and soul.
Anyway come to the Alpha Bar I owe you a drink!

For an interesting article on this see here!

The Goa Rave Scene

seventies'hippy · May 23rd, 2005, 20:49

The original Anjuna & Nth Goa parties had real people playing real music,
The most famous being 'The Big Dipper Band' but there was also the 'Anjuna Jam Band' & the 'Chapora Music House Band' Apart from the big beach parties the rest were very spontaneous, but all were free.
Most went on from early evening until late morning next day, You could hear the throb of the Bass all the way to Vagator from sth anjuna. The police were'nt a problem as it was all new to them too, sometimes they'ed send a posse of half a dozen cops along the beach to check it out but they only stood on the side lines and smiled, It must have been something in the air,,,,,,,,

cyberhippie · May 23rd, 2005, 20:54

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It must have been something in the air

I wonder what that could have been

!

passingby · May 23rd, 2005, 21:07

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Like people who will say the first Acid house parties the illegal ones were much better than the newer organised parties that we now see around Europe. Less commercialisation more heart and soul.

I can agree that everything that is in its early age of popularity is much better than when it gets to its full stardom.

But now-days, the world is changing. The plane industry has developped a great deal in the last thirty years, which makes it much easier to travel to far-away forgotten beaches than it was thirty years ago, when the hippies start travelling to India, Thailand or Nepal.
The world is changing due to the fast evolving technology and there is nothing we can do to stop it. More people will go to Goa or Thailand and the parties will turn into Ibitza like club scenery. Thailand and India are fast evolving countries who would take advantage of their touristic spots.

But at this point, Goa is still not as popular as Ibitza. A great majority of people in North-America haven't even heard of Goa... so Goa might be safe for at least fifty more years..

GoanCanuck · May 25th, 2005, 04:50

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Originally Posted by passingby

I wonder if the Goan parties are really over, or they are just held in greater secrecy now-days....?

The only way anyone can organise these "parties" these days is by having them indoors. This type of a "party" would not have a good atmosphere and of course there would not be too many revellers due to the limited space. There are no large sized halls or warehouses in Goa where such a "party" could be organised.

crvlvr · May 25th, 2005, 05:49

Every time I've been to Goa, the party scene is very much alive. It is just more organized. Either at the clubs (where the cover charges are exhorbidant) or on the beaches -- if sponsored by the beach shack.

The unauthorized illegal parties are being busted due to the drugs and related nuisance. I am sorry, but, if the locals cannot make money on these illegal parties, why should they support it?

Ikuru · May 25th, 2005, 06:30

I think the partys reached their peak about 92 or something like that (thank my lucky stars thats when I was there first time around

)...

This is when you could still hear such things as Orbital, Underworld, and Sven Väth, I dont recall If they where playing Astral Projection...

When I came home I was listening to Prodogy and No one over here knew about the goa partys.

They did not have a clue.

This is before the Internet existed. India still felt like a remote and ditant and fantasticly different earth than the side of the planet I knew so well...

Well a year or two later the Goa Trance became a household item, The collections started to pop up.

Soon enough everyone knew.
And the two week packige tours started occuring.
I belive all this was the beggining of the end.

Decorations started fading and comercialised collorfull flyers etc started showing up.

Nowdays That ennergy just aint there at all.

If good parties exist they are beeing held elswhere then Goa.
The "real" established tourism hasen taken over the major moneyflow. The Party/trance/hippie culture in goa is not needed, nor wanted anymore.

People who look for something genuine, don´t go to Goa.
etc, etc...

There might be amazing partys in russian forests today or elswhere Finland maybe... somewhere that people feel they can be left alone and remain comfortable at the same time. Im sure if they do exist, they are beeing kept secret enough. I know the music is developeing (listen to Logic Bomb, or Hux Flux for example (both swedish by the way))

machadinha · May 25th, 2005, 06:42

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Originally Posted by seventies'hippy

You could hear the throb of the Bass all the way to Vagator from sth anjuna.

Glad to have missed that one. Sounds a bit like Dahab, sort of a little Benidorm on the Red Sea. Kind of fun... for a day or so. Hey to each their own though before y'all start off. I'll never forget Cheb Khaled's "Aïcha" blaring down the bay out of so many speakers (along with the ubiquitous Bob Marley and The Eagles of course -- oh and the Macarena and the Spice Girls that year, I wanna huh I wanna huh I wanna huh.) Romantic times, esp. if you managed to find some relief from it. What did the really old farts listen to anyway? I'm sure the deadheads had something to do with it all no? And how come punk never happened there? Because we were too skint, or because The Sex Pistols's "Holidays in the Sun" made too much of an impression?

May 22nd, 2005, 16:48	#1
AnnieG Senior Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Goa and Penzance, Cornwall Posts: 152	Is the Goan Party Scene dead ????? The number of parties last season was a fraction of the 'normal' ... Many venues were closed for months, at least since New Year. Even private parties were hassled by the police (if they saw a group of bikes outside a house and heard music, they'd go in and demand money to allow the gathering to continue). There are rumours that the serious party animals and the top DJs are abandoning Goa for other places where the police don't make it so hard. Can this be true? Has anyone else any experience of the fizzling end of the party scene in Goa?

May 23rd, 2005, 20:49	#9
seventies'hippy Maha Guru Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: UK Posts: 2,127	The original Anjuna & Nth Goa parties had real people playing real music, The most famous being 'The Big Dipper Band' but there was also the 'Anjuna Jam Band' & the 'Chapora Music House Band' Apart from the big beach parties the rest were very spontaneous, but all were free. Most went on from early evening until late morning next day, You could hear the throb of the Bass all the way to Vagator from sth anjuna. The police were'nt a problem as it was all new to them too, sometimes they'ed send a posse of half a dozen cops along the beach to check it out but they only stood on the side lines and smiled, It must have been something in the air,,,,,,,, __________________ . . . My Photo Gallery

May 25th, 2005, 06:30	#14
Ikuru the only "end" is "you" Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: infront of the screen Posts: 1,913	I think the partys reached their peak about 92 or something like that (thank my lucky stars thats when I was there first time around )... This is when you could still hear such things as Orbital, Underworld, and Sven Väth, I dont recall If they where playing Astral Projection... When I came home I was listening to Prodogy and No one over here knew about the goa partys. They did not have a clue. This is before the Internet existed. India still felt like a remote and ditant and fantasticly different earth than the side of the planet I knew so well... Well a year or two later the Goa Trance became a household item, The collections started to pop up. Soon enough everyone knew. And the two week packige tours started occuring. I belive all this was the beggining of the end. Decorations started fading and comercialised collorfull flyers etc started showing up. Nowdays That ennergy just aint there at all. If good parties exist they are beeing held elswhere then Goa. The "real" established tourism hasen taken over the major moneyflow. The Party/trance/hippie culture in goa is not needed, nor wanted anymore. People who look for something genuine, don´t go to Goa. etc, etc... There might be amazing partys in russian forests today or elswhere Finland maybe... somewhere that people feel they can be left alone and remain comfortable at the same time. Im sure if they do exist, they are beeing kept secret enough. I know the music is developeing (listen to Logic Bomb, or Hux Flux for example (both swedish by the way)) __________________ http://www.ikuru.se My art.

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LaContessa Diabla Supreme Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 122	We can live in hope!!

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cyberhippie Account Closed by User's Request Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: the Netherlands Posts: 6,012	I honestly think that the "party scene" as in the one Goa is famous for has lived on since the early 90's only in the minds of tourists! I think Anjuna and vagator may have continued the trend for a while but the big happenings seem to have died out some years ago!! I'm often amused by what I read about the party scene in Palolem there never has been a major party scene in Palolem apart from the 2003 eason where people tried to get the whole rave scene off the ground thanks to the police the idea was short lived! Parties bah humbug glad to see the back of them! (warning old codger at work) Want to party come to the Apha Bar on Saturday night and watch some live music! Yeah real musicians, playing real instrument, and singing real songs!

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LaContessa Diabla Supreme Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 122	Here, here. I remember going to so called "full moon" parties on Colva Beach in the early and mid 90's. What actually existed was little more than 20 or so people, sitting at tables, drinking beer and smoking pipes, talking and listening to a bit of music. Oh yeah, and the obligatory bonfire. LOL.

May 23rd, 2005, 20:26	#8
cyberhippie Account Closed by User's Request Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: the Netherlands Posts: 6,012	Passingbye in my defence I can only say I warned you I was in old codger mode! I have been told that the parties in the 70's 80's and early 90's were a bit bigger and more spontanious but of course that might have been nostalgia talking! This is what I meant by happenings, Like people who will say the first Acid house parties the illegal ones were much better than the newer organised parties that we now see around Europe. Less commercialisation more heart and soul. Anyway come to the Alpha Bar I owe you a drink! For an interesting article on this see here! The Goa Rave Scene

May 25th, 2005, 05:49	#13
crvlvr Guru Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Hollywood Posts: 4,498	Every time I've been to Goa, the party scene is very much alive. It is just more organized. Either at the clubs (where the cover charges are exhorbidant) or on the beaches -- if sponsored by the beach shack. The unauthorized illegal parties are being busted due to the drugs and related nuisance. I am sorry, but, if the locals cannot make money on these illegal parties, why should they support it?

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