Silent Rave Strikes Back! (Event Over)

It has been nearly 4 months now since New York's first Silent Rave, and finally the time has come for its second!

Due to the enormous success of the first rave I was tempted to leave it at that and quit while I was ahead, but after reading so many messages from so many happy people begging for another rave, I decided enough is enough: It's time to disco.........silently!

Please look at the info provided by the Silent Rave New York official group: http://hs.facebook.com/group.php?gid=...
and also by the event page from the previous rave: http://hs.facebook.com/event.php?eid=...

This set of instructions should comprise answers to most people's questions:

The basic premise is thousands of people turn up in a public place, plug in their own ipods, listen to their own music and dance and rave for hours!

The prospect of raving like you really don't care about what other people think, with thousands of fellow dancers, is a bloody brilliant one I think you'll agree!

The OFFICIAL start time to the event is 5:28pm! IGNORE WHAT THE FACEBOOK TIME SAYS (it doesn't let you put minutes like 28 in.) Please control your dancing urges until this exact time!

- NO THE MUSIC WILL NOT BE SYNCED FOR EVERYONE. The main point of Silent Raves is that people have freedom to listen to whatever they want, plus this way we get people from all backgrounds, and don't lose people who wouldn't like the music we'd play.

- HOWEVER, you are very welcome to coordinate something with your mates/make playlists/set up FM transmitters, but that'll all be via your own efforts. The official Silent Rave stance is people listen to anything they like.

- There will be a huge countdown started by your's truly, please no raving before this time! Then its time to go crazy.

- Please respect the other people dancing around you, and also the park! No-one wants a load of litter and bollocks to clean up afterwards, so just use common sense and don't be a muppet.

- Dress up in whatever you want to, your fellow ravers won't judge you!

- Show people they should be dancing in the streets, not in their rooms!

Silent Raves are supposed to be entirely non-destructive activities. As far as I know, no rave-related arrests were made back in April at the first, so let's keep it that way this time too!
I love this city more than any place I've ever lived, and I'd quite like to be able to come back in the future, so please be responsible ravers so I don't get sent to Guantanamo!

All in all we want everyone to RAVE and DISCO till your legs fall off or your mp3 battery runs out! (Trust me I've gone for over four hours before, those buggers have long battery lives!) and just have a bloody good time because things like this don't come around too often.

I hope you all have a wonderful time and absolute buckets of fun, because that's the sole intention of these events, for everyone to just have a bloody good time!

Invite all your mates to this event and I'll see you by the Washington Statue on the 17th at 5:28!