tbh while I really enjoyed myself there I think they need to think seriously about how this will work if they intend to run it again at Clockwork/BM
1) the queue (or lack of one). When me, Tanky, Moggy and strung_out walked past at about 9:45 there was an enormous scrum of people outside Clockwork, easily numbering in the hundreds and spilling out into the road so that there was one lane entirely blocked immediately outside the club. When we returned at around midnight to actually go in, the police had arrived to keep the crowd off the road but getting into the club was chaotic. Simply, there was no management of the crowd outside the door at all - there should have been two queues, one for tickets and one for payers. Set a few barriers up to keep it orderly, get a few more security guys to keep it sensible. Job done. Instead it was almost a free for all, not helped by the sort of nobheads who think that just because they've got guestlist they can try and force their way through the crowd.
2) movement between the venues. There simply wasn't enough room out the back to make life comfortable when trying to walk down the alley between Clockwork and BM. To make it workable they'd need to take over the whole of Moon Street - OK so this would mean applying to close the road etc but it's the only safe way. I was worried at one stage that there were going to be injuries as people decided to push through without any regard for other people's well being.
3) how many people were there inside? I never made it to the Blue Mountain side of things but it seemed to me that things were seriously overcrowded. Were numbers properly monitored because it was fucking dangerous at times.
I had a great time because I found the one room I wanted to be in (DMT/Dissident room) and stayed there pretty much. Other people wanted to see what else there was or have a chill space outside to smoke/cool down and this was practically impossible to do comfortably. It spoiled the night for some and can't have been good from a health and safety angle.
I know nobody coins it in from these nights as money is split between 17 different rigs but hire of enough security etc to ensure everything remains safe and happy has to be a priority. Possibly they were taken slightly by surprise at how much momentum has been built up by the night as I can't remember madness on the same scale as last night at previous gener8rs - the sheer numbers of people around Stokes Croft, numbers of people who'd travelled from out of town etc were well up on the other ones in the last couple of years. But if they're intending to do another one (legally that is - the advertised new year bash at a secret venue may not fall into this category
) they have to make damn sure this is sorted properly or they risk things going badly wrong.
Serious bit over, fucking great night that made me proud of Bristol
Props to the DJ who played a load of nasty dark dnb and then dropped Bodyrock in straight afterwards, cheeky fucker.
I'm sounding old aren't I ?
By 3am I just wanted to have a nice mug of coffee and a natter. So headed back to JTG's and did exactly that! 
