I was going to write a huge amount here about the upcoming Phat2 party. But to be honest, I'm getting tired tonight, and the text has already been written and emailed to me. So I'm going to be lazy. Yes.

" P.2 is a copy/demo/muzik party taking place in Riga, Latvia (exact place - 3-floor building in huge industrial territory of radioelectronics factory) starting with 20th september and going on for 3 days and 3 nights. P.2 is not "8 bit only" party anymore however its not much PC oriented too - it's here to support ALL platforms, doesnt matter how exotic they are (besides c64/c128 we'll have machines like zx spectrum, amiga, mac, trs80, atari65/130xe, nes, snes, dreamcast, psx, atari2600, apple ][ and more).
compos? gfx, music, demo, 1kb intro, ascii/petscii, logo, (crack)intro, photo, wildemo and more.. all in several categories. you can also take part in compos by sending your entries to organizers.
the music part is also really special there with over 30 latvian bands and DJs performing and also special-star-guests (mostly scene related and some using c64s for their live-sets!), just watch this:

• lackluster aka distance/tpolm (defocus/merck - finland)
• tero aka deetsay/dcs (rikos - finland)
• goto80/hack'n'trade/up rough (bleepstreet/penpal records - sweden)
• role model/hack'n'trade (bleepstreet - germany/sweden)
• lektrogirl (rephlex/micromusic - uk)
• i-f (murdercapital/viewlexx - holland)
• manou (wmf/monika records/micromusic - germany)
• focus (narva records - estonia)

not to mention ~10 latvian VJs + those:

• zden/satori (message/no such - slovakia)
• copenhagen brains (musicsystem - denmark)

all this is divided in 5 main areas:

• demohall with seats and bigscreen + audiosystem
• scenetown: area with rooms - group-HQs where you can sleep, booze, code etc, reserve room for your group now!
• musichall#1
• musichall#2
• outside for trips and additional action - industrial area and park within it

entrance is free, donations accepted though.
more info to follow soon indeed.
PHAT stands for PHreedom and ATmosphere. "

Thanks to Egons for saving me some time <g>
Website should be up soon (hopefully) here and mirrored here.