Rural Raving at Henley Regatta
Words: Joe Bish
2014
Our cities are being swallowed by money. The natives are being priced out, and the rich are moving into our houses. We can't stop gentrification, so why not fight it the only way we know how? By flocking en masse to the country with our booze and our drugs, until one day we're all going berserk in farmers' fields again like the good old days of rave, Thatcher and football violence?
The Henley Royal Regatta is a five-day-long rowing event held in the mostly inert town of Henley-on-Thames. Having known nothing of the Royal Regatta, and going on its aristocratic name alone, I thought it would be a hyper-exclusive event attended only by minor royals, Clare Balding, canapes and people who'd be dead by now if they didn't have so much money. Henley is a town that probably has more blue plaques than police officers, a town that creates Olympic champions rather than suffers Olympic legacies.
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