The Castlemorton Common festival, which ran for seven days in May 1992, was by no means the sole cause of the government's full-blown assault on the free party scene, but it was certainly the excuse.

What happened and when at the illegal rave on Castlemorton Common near Malvern in 1992. The rave started on the May Bank Holiday weekend in 1992. It was publicised through a recorded message on an ...

It was the chemical generation's Woodstock: May bank holiday weekend 1992, four years after the Summer of Love and the arrival of ecstasy, upwards of 20,000 revellers alight on Castlemorton Common in ...

Never has there been a more turbulent time in UK politics than in the 1980s. Through a new era of young ravers discovering evolving variations of electronic music, political restraints tightening, and ...

Listen to the answering machine message which spread the news that an illegal rave was being held on Castlemorton Common, near Malvern, Worcestershire. The phone message that started a rave. Video, 00 ...

SINCE the end of the Second World War, we have lost an estimated 95 to 97 per cent of the wild-flower meadows which then still remained in England, so any effort to protect existing meadows or create ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Blue Spring is a concept album themed around a reimagining of the illegal free festival held in Castlemorton ...

LONDON (WKRC) - The designer of the iconic acid house smiley face, which also became synonymous with rave music, has honored old venues on the anniversary of a protest in London. George Georgiou, a ...