BORED IN THE UK - RECREATIONAL RIOTING

A cry of rage against political impotence; an explosion of fury at institutional injustice; a misplaced celebration of unreconstructed masculinity - the riot can be all these things and more. But sometimes, there's no clear cause for an outbreak of civil disorder. Sometimes there's nothing tangible to protest against. Sometimes it's just for the pumping adrenaline, the knee-trembling excitement, the sheer fecking fun of it...

From the TWOCkers of the Blackbird Leys Estate to out-of-control boozers in Reading, we focus on the Rioters Without a Cause.

We pay particular attention to Northern Ireland where rioting has become so ingrained into the community that now Protestants and Catholics ignore their differences and join together for a bout of aggressive petrol bomb throwing against the police.

When society ignores the brain-numbing boredom that is the lot of the average ASBO-prone young male; or carefully promotes mindless materialism in his older brother, without providing the means with which to satisfy that desire: there will be a riot.

Events:
Belfast 2000- today - multiple incidents.
Reading city centre Jan 2005 - 200 boozed up clubbers fight with 100 riot police in city centre.
Oxford - Blackbird Leys Estate 1991.
Newcastle - Meadowell and Elswick 1991 (TWOC capital of Europe).
Cardiff '91 (argument between two shop keepers led to chaos).