Berlin Loses Its Love Parade

Organisers of Berlin's Love Parade have cancelled this year's event after failing to reach agreement on production costs with Berlin city authorities.

"With great sadness, we have to inform you that there definitely won't be a Love Parade in Berlin this year," they said in a statement posted on their website this week.

"With three months before the scheduled date, the financial structure still hasn't been secured, so we've been forced to cancel this year's parade."

The outdoor techno party was attended by well over a million revellers in 2000, though numbers tailed off to just 500,000 revellers by last year, a drop Swedish DJ Adam Beyer attributed to its over-familiarity.

"The Berlin Love Parade has become old news," the techno star told Skrufff last year.

"It has been going for twelve or thirteen years, nothing new has come along, so people perhaps prefer to go elsewhere or even staying home."

Berlin based electro producer DJ Fetisch from Terranova attended the very first party when just 100 revellers took to the streets in 1989, though told Skrufff last year's he's long since avoided the event.

"I think it's amazing the way it's developed into such a force with such an energy, gathering people from everywhere, but I never go to the parade," he admitted.

"There's too many people and it's too crowded, so the best thing to do is to watch it on TV then go out clubbing at night," he suggested.

Fellow Berlin based electronic producer Andre from PET was even less enthusiastic, declaring 'the Love Parade is just for tourists.'

"When they Love Parade is on everybody normally leaves town or you just stay at home and don't go out for the weekend," Andre told Skrufff.
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