My brother got tickets for an event on Saturday in a semi-legal event space behind Peckham Library. It's basically an abandoned workshop - think what a Kwik-Fit or similar would look like if you removed all the equipment and interior partitions.
When you get there the first thing you see is a great big pile of broken office equipment and kitchen goods like so:
The second thing you see is a bull pen made from railings, and a table with hard hats, safety goggles, gloves and loads of hammers, pipes and crowbars...
The rest of what happens should be obvious, but just in case anyone isn't sure:
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There were about a hundred people there so it gets split into 10-minute sessions with about 8 people in the ring at a time. Here's my brother taking a filing cabinet to task:
and me following up on it in the very next session (I'm the one in mid-swing):
There wasn't much left of it by the time we were done with it:
All of this was accompanied by a live electro-band making weird deconstructed industrial ploinking and blooping noises on some rewired keyboards. I got some video as well which I'll post as soon as I've bothered to set up a YouTube account.
The whole thing was very odd. Once you get into full flow you kind of lose track of what's going on around you - there's just you, a hammer and whatever you're hitting. You sort of zone-out and get obsessed with smashing up whatever your target is, and you end up with a stupid grin when it's all over.
They only do a few of these events a year, so check the site for the next one. I'll be keeping an eye out for it and trying to get tickets for sure.
http://www.scrapclub.co.uk
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