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The Castlemorton Common Festival was a week-long free festival and rave held in the Malvern Hills near Malvern, Worcestershire, England, between 22 and 29 May 1992. [1] The media interest and controversy surrounding the festival, and concerns as to the way it was policed, inspired the legislation that would eventually become the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
Bang Face began as a monthly club night in London and quickly became increasing popular with a resurgence in electronic dance music.Event organiser, James Gurney, was interviewed by The New York Times in 2007 and said the dance-music scene has been “snowballing” and the crowd is “getting younger and younger.” [11] It gained attention early on with a video endorsement from Ozzy Osbourne ...
UK Tek 2008. In 2002, the tenth anniversary of the legendary Castlemorton rave was celebrated at Steart Beach, where around 16,000 people turned up over the course of the weekend. [15] [16] In 2005, there was a UK Tek in Wales [17] [18] and also a teknival known as Scumtek that happened twice in London. The first Scumtek was stopped by the police.
Raves are events where dance music is played by DJs and occasionally live performers. The genres of electronic dance music (EDM) that have been prevalent in the United Kingdom since the late 1980s have been played at raves.
The Second Summer of Love was a late-1980s social phenomenon in the United Kingdom which saw the rise of acid house music and unlicensed rave parties. [1] Although primarily referring to the summer of 1988, [2] [3] it lasted into the summer of 1989, when electronic dance music and the prevalence of the drug MDMA fuelled an explosion in youth culture culminating in mass free parties and the era ...
Fuelled by the drug MDMA (Ecstasy), nightclub goers in London were desperate for events that catered to their needs and went on until the early hours of the morning. Genesis’88 found empty warehouses in London and transformed them into state-of-the-art dance arenas that consisted of professional lighting rigs, sound systems and colourful decorations.
DJ Slipmatt's brother, Paul Nelson, was one of the original promoters. The original idea to hold a rave came from Slipmatt himself. [3] But, by 1993, with pressure from the authorities (Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) and the rave music scene splintering into different dance genres, Raindance took a break from holding mass events ...
The NME New Rave Revolution Tour was a tour that took place throughout September to October 2006. [22] The line-up consisted of bands who were closely related to the "new rave" music scene which appeared throughout 2006. Klaxons would go on to headline the Indie Rave leg of the NME Awards Tour in February 2007