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Illegal rave Cornwall
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Thousands attend illegal rave at former airfield in Cornwall

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


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

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...

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

DiY sound system
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How DiY Sound System blazed a trail for the '90s free party movement

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...