OVER 1,000 people attended the illegal UKTEK 2018 free party in west Wales over the Bank Holiday weekend.
The annual event, which takes place at surprise locations, was this year in a clearing in the Brechfa Forest in Carmarthenshire. It is the third time the event has been in west Wales in recent years.
It is well organised ‘teknival’ event comprising of multiple sound systems from all over the UK which join together to celebrate dance sub culture.
But the events are not popular with police, or local residents – who complained for hearing low bass noise and repetitive beats many miles from the remote location.
One resident said, having been there on Sunday morning, that there must have been more than 1,000 people in attendance at the peak of the event – this number has not yet been confirmed by police. However, photographs from people at the event show multiple sound systems, and large crowds of people at the gathering.
A police helicopter was deployed above the site on Sunday as the authorities undertook reconnaissance to understand the scale of the event taking place.
The party start on the Saturday, it lasted for three days.
One raver, who was also DJing at the event explained to The Herald how on Monday there was a mass litter pick at the event.
He told The Carmarthenshire Herald: “There are often parties at this location and we always respect the site.”
Police have been at the scene since around 1am on Sunday morning and were in attendance until Monday evening.
Officers in four police cars, created a roadblock to the rave site to turn people away so crowd numbers would not grow.
As the main road into the rave has been blocked, more and more people have been parking on the sides of the road, abandoning their cars and trying to gain entry via other routes, after police admitted that the number of people inside makes it virtually impossible for them to make a safe attempt at dispersing the crowd.
The UKTEK in 2009 took place on a remote hillside near Brecon at an abandoned pub called The Drovers Arms, used by the MOD as a training location. In 2010 UKTEK was at Dale Aerodrome in Pembrokeshire, Wales again with approximately 2,500 attendees and police forced most people off site by the Sunday.
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