The Shamen Warriors

Way down deep in the South West of the country amongst the beautiful surroundings of Devon operate,  "The Shaman Warriors".  They are an underground organisation whose morals are as fine as the Devon air.

They first started off basically as a group of people who were into dance music and were pissed off with the club scene in their area (no late licenses, commercial DJ's, and bad atmospheres) so they decided to start putting on their own events with equipment pooled together.  The six main people in the organisation are Simon, Stuart, Martin and three DJ's - Steve (Crossy), Liam (EB - GB_ and another Steve (Steve Barber).  The ball started rolling with their first free party which was held in June 1992 and they have continued to mainly operated in the Torbay area, although they did manage to get to the Glastonbury Festival in 1993.  Unfortunately the PA blew up on the Saturday night but this was only a minor set back.

The Shaman Warriors have held most of their events in empty houses and are now planning to put on some outdoor parties for summer 94, as their following is getting too big for house events.

The last four parties which they have held have been in a large house on the edge of Dartmoor where they use two sound systems with Techno / Trance upstairs, and House / Garage downstairs.  At this venue they had about 800-1000 people turn up (talking about fucking gate crash!!).

Guest DJ's have always been welcomed with open arms to play and have included the likes of Mach One,  DJ/MC Ribbs, The Producer and Aphosure.

Between them they have gathered a fair amount of equipment together and Stuart had made most of the backdrops, which are very unique.

The Shaman Warriors did hold a legal club event but felt that they didn't have enough control (having to work by club rules) so they decided to stay underground.  There has never been any trouble at any of the Shaman Warriors events and the police have generally left them alone - that is until now.

Now they have started to take an interest in The Shaman Warriors and tried to stop their New Years Eve party by putting up a road block.  This resulted in over 300 cars being turned away.  The police gave up at 3am, after the Shaman Warriors redirected many cars via another route.  The party went on until 12 noon New Years Day.  Although the police are obviously on a mission to stop the Shaman Warriors I have been assured that more events are being planned.  The Shaman Warriors have stated that anyone who is in the scene is a friend of theirs and is more than welcome to attend future events.  They love what they do and believe that the free party scene is something worth fighting for - I feel proud to be the first to second this statement.