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Castlemorton 1992: photographing the Illegal rave that changed UK dance music forever

2022 marks the 30th anniversary of the biggest and the most infamous illegal rave that ever took place: Castlemorton – a week-long, 20,000-person party deemed so anarchistic that it shook Middle England to its core. Here, photographer Alan Lodge tells his story of capturing a week changed UK dance music forever

It started on a particularly sunny bank holiday weekend, on the 22nd May 1992. A ramshackle convoy of vehicles, which served as the rag-tag homes...

DJ Mag delves into the history of dance culture’s Woodstock...

In 1992 there was a festival in the UK that changed the course of dance music history. A culmination of the acid house explosion, it...

He made up one half of DJ duo Digs & Woosh

UK free party pioneer Pete 'Woosh' Birch has died.

Birch, who was part of DJ duo Digs & Woosh, and a founding member and influential...

The promoter is often credited with helping 'invent' the dance music mix CD

An inquest has ruled the death of Fantazia co-founder Gideon Dawson as drug related. 

The rave promoter is thought to have succumbed to health complications...

Illegal rave Cornwall

The gathering was organised to celebrate the 30th anniversary of notorious UK free party Castlemorton

Thousands of people travelled from all over the UK last weekend for an illegal rave in an old airfield that lasted three days. According to...

Iconic UK rave locations and clubs celebrated in new “road map” style prints

Castlemorton, The Haçienda, Shoom and Glastonbury all get nods in Dorothy's new Road To Nowhere collection

A new collection of road map-style prints celebrates the legacy of UK festivals, clubs and illegal raves. UK creative agency Dorothy has added four new...

DiY sound system

Throughout the ’90s, the DiY Sound System put on countless free events, ran a recording studio and two record labels, and took their hedonistic parties around the world. Here, Harold Heath speaks to co-founder Harry Harrison about his new book, Dreaming in Yellow: The Story of the DiY Sound System, and the collective's trailblazing legacy in the free party movement

The origins of DiY Sound System date back to a mid-‘80s England that was a very different place to how it is in 2022. In...

The history of Spiral Tribe, the UK’s most notorious travelling sound system

Spiral Tribe were ‘90s Britain’s hardest hardcore techno crew –  a travelling party troupe of anti-authoritarian acid-adventurers, and a scourge of the establishment. With co-founder Mark Harrison in the midst of writing a book on their story, and PRSPCT Recordings recently releasing a collection of classic cuts from live Tribe duo R-Zac, Harold Heath dives into their history, legacy and vow to 'Never Stop'

In the 1970s, a teenage Mark Harrison and his younger brother would hitch-hike to free festivals, the country-wide network of large-scale, outdoor music events which...

New exhibition documents the evolution of music photography

Iconic photos of Sade, Erykah Badu, David Bowie, John Cage and more will be on display in Manhattan this summer

A new exhibition exploring the evolution of music photography is coming to New York City this summer. Studio Stage takes over the Pace Gallery in...

We sat down with Groove Armada's Andy Cato...

Groove Armada's Andy Cato looks back on the life behind his new 'Times & Places' album for R&S' Apollo imprint — a musical travelogue of his time touring the globe...

Andy Cato looks back on the life behind his new 'Times & Places' album

"They were so much better when they first started," is the cry of dyed-in-the-wool hipsters over the world. But in the case of Groove Armada, the...

We speak with an associate of the 'Rave Six' regarding their charges

At the end of May during the bank holiday, some people threw a party. No big deal, just a few thousand people dancing next to...

Book cover

A Darker Electricity is out next year through Velocity Press

The cofounder of UK rave soundsystem Spiral Tribe is writing a book about the '90s free party scene. Written by visual artist Mark Angelo Harrison...

Set-times for Glastonbury 2022’s dance stages announced

Block9 has also revealed a new collaboration with Notting Hill Carnival

Glastonbury has just revealed the complete schedule for its 2022 festival next month. Ahead of the Worthy Farm festival's first edition since 2019, running from...

‘90s rave crew Spiral Tribe’s live duo R-Zac reissue 1993 album of Free Party anthems: Listen

"These tracks represent the pivoting point between the music we recorded with Spiral Tribe in the UK, and what was to come," said the duo

‘90s rave crew Spiral Tribe’s live duo R-Zac have reissued their 1993 album of 'free party' anthems, 'Trailer Trax'. On July 8th, the UK production...