The Mirror finally picked up on the story of Danny Hall, the 35 year old chap who went missing a couple of months ago following a Full Moon Party. What really gets me about these kinds of reports, are how they always manage to fit in a few cop out phrases, let’s take a closer look at this one shall we?

Firstly we have the "possibly used recreational drugs" part, this is the first get out option we have, the second is the "was on sedatives after a split from his girlfriend", which is another blatant doorway to excuse the fact he is missing.

Well guess what? Thousands of people use recreational drugs at these parties, and they don’t go missing? God knows how many are going through a break up with their significant other? Again, they don’t go missing.

If we look at the amount of people that go missing, are injured or murdered at the Full Moon Party each year, it is plain to see that something needs to be done to improve the safety at the event. Reports like this, coming from a major source of UK news, which is doing nothing more than giving excuses as to why this guy may have gone missing, are just not helpful.

Instead of printing a sob story about a drugged up 35 year old who was upset about his girlfriend leaving him, why not print a story that has some damn meat for a change? Why not question the authorities? Ask why there are so many "accidents" each year? Ask for a statement from the Thai ambassador to the UK? Instead of printing this useless drivel.

Pretty surprising to see it rating above Glastonbury Festival though, or maybe that’s just my misplaced English patriotism bothering me. Definitely less rain than Glastonbury though for sure!

I’ve never even heard of the party sitting at number one on the list, La Tomatina in Valencia Spain, has anybody ever been? They say that 30,000 people attend, that’s huge.

Also kind of strange to see Songkran mentioned, it isn’t exactly a party in the traditional sense of the word, although I guess it does have the usual mixture of intoxicated people, madness and deaths.

We went along during the afternoon to set up our mobile audio streaming rig, as this was going to be the first event that we were going to stream live, to the entire world, across the internet. I have to say, the place was buzzing as the promotion staff from the sponsors and the technicians setting up the sound system and light show were really busy.

Now I want to mention somebody briefly, this somebody is named Brandon Block. I had met Brandon down at The Fridge on new years eve, and had already decided he is a total tosser. So it came as no surprise, to find that after being billed as the headliner for the Temporary Insanity Party for almost two months, with all the flyers, posters and event promotion materiel that had been produced and given out, the wanker didn’t bother showing. Seriously, anybody who rates this fat, burned out, once played a couple of good tunes, complete and total tosser as a decent DJ these days, needs to stop watching Eastenders, stop wearing Chav clothing and get a freaking life. What a loser.

A young lad named Paul opened the event, and did a damn good job considering the sound system was being built around him as he played. But the total star of the show just had to be Ed Kurno, what a class act this guy was, he did a great job of getting the crowd jumping, even though the party was a little quieter than expected. Rob Marmot was a little disappointing, and from my position standing next to him in the DJ booth I could tell his heart wasn’t really in it. Lastly, local DJ, Mr A, performed the usual kind of flawless set he has become famous for.

All in all, it was a fantastic event, definitely something never seen on the island before, the mixture of well set up venue, and hired gun DJ talent had the possibility of making this an awesome night. Unfortunately it has to be said, that there were just not enough people at the party, even the best DJ can do only so much with a half full dance floor. This was in no way the fault of the organisers, Koh Phangan is fairly quiet at this time of year, they took a great risk in setting this event up.

Here are a few recordings we took straight off the mixing desk, they are a little raw in a few places but they are not too bad, feel free to download them and see what you think.

Right click any of these links, and select "Save As".

DJ Paul

Ed Kurno

Rob Marmot

Mr A

Good luck to the guys at MTF and thanks to them for letting us stream the event live for them, we had been itching to try out our mobile streaming rig for ages.

I’m currently working on the downloads section, and have everything back in place in a few hours, so check back then.

We will also be making the recordings we made at the Temporary Insanity party available, these feature Ed Kurno and Rob Marmot, as well as some local DJ talent such as DJ A.

We will also post the long awaited review of that party, talk about late, how many months ago was that? Anyway, better late than never, and it will be posted tomorrow.

Another major reason why the site has been quiet, is quite simply because it doesn’t make any money, it was never really intended too, it was more a labour of love, but I do have to work and unfortunately, my fun projects like this site, have to take second place to my paying work load.

But we are going to change a few things, the format of the site is changing extensively, no longer will it be just myself and a couple of friends bringing you party reports. We are going to start pulling in party information and reviews from the general public, via syndication.

This means that there will soon be plenty of new content, although not so many Koh Phangan Parties style reviews.

So thanks to those of you who still keep coming back, this site is mostly for you!

You may have also noticed some strange things happening as each DJ stepped up to the decks, the first thing they all seem to do is adjust just about every setting on the mixing desk, which of course, screws up our recording levels so they have to be tweaked again for optimal performance.

Overall things went very smoothly, and we are very proud to be the first to stream a party live to the whole world from Koh Phangan. We will be posting a complete news item on the Temporary Insanity party tomorrow, along with 8 hours of recorded music for you. This will include the amazing 3 hour set played by Ed Kurno, Ed did an incredible job of switching the dance floor on, not an easy task last night at all.

Here are the stream details, just click the link which matches your preferred media player and off you go!

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So that’s the international talents of Ed Kurno, Brandon Block and Rob Marmot plus the local Mr A being bought to you live from www.phanganparties.com, this is a first for Koh Phangan, be one of the first ever to hear a live dance party broadcast directly from the island!

Paul (UFO Crew)
Ed Kurno (Reel House Records)
Rob Marmot (Pacha, Ibiza)
Clive Henry-DC10 (Peace Division)
Brandon Block
Mr A

I don’t think there has ever been such an impressive list of talent present at a party on Koh Phangan EVER! If you are on the island then you have to be there, if you are not on the island then this website will be streaming the party live across the internet. Pop back tomorrow to get the links for the audio feed.

Temporary Insanity will be presenting Brandon Block and Ed Kurno at their Ibiza style party garden from early evening until early morning. Rumours abound of an after party in a nearby club that will see the whole event run through 24 hours of non stop music and dance!

We suggest you get to the party early, entry before 10pm is only 400Baht, with promotions from both Singha and Chaing on the same beach it should be quite cheap to buy your drinks!

Check back tomorrow for live lings to our streaming server so that you may listen in even if you are not on the island, never before has an event been streamed live from this remote location!