{"id":31295,"date":"2024-09-28T08:43:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-28T08:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=31295"},"modified":"2024-09-28T08:46:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-28T08:46:31","slug":"castlemorton-picture-in-the-guardian-again-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/31295","title":{"rendered":"Castlemorton picture in the Guardian again today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Castlemorton Common rave, 1992<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

By <\/strong>Alan \u2018Tash\u2019 Lodge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photograph: Alan \u201cTash\u201d Lodge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This snapshot of gurning ravers was taken at the largest illegal rave in UK history. Alan \u201cTash\u201d Lodge had been attending free festivals since the 70s. On a sunny bank holiday weekend in May 1992, he joined about 30,000 partiers gathered beneath the Malvern Hills. It was meant to be a small event for new age travellers, but the news had spread. A crackdown followed, resulting in the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994, which famously targeted events with music \u201cpredominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive beats\u201d. GS<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2024\/sep\/28\/elton-john-stormzy-madonna-britney-41-era-defining-music-photos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Castlemorton Common rave, 1992 By Alan \u2018Tash\u2019 Lodge This snapshot of gurning ravers was taken at the largest illegal rave in UK history. Alan \u201cTash\u201d Lodge had been attending free festivals since the 70s. On a sunny bank holiday weekend in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[568,192,130,435,128,16,29],"class_list":["post-31295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-castlemorton","tag-festival","tag-free","tag-guardian","tag-party","tag-photography","tag-tash"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31298,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31295\/revisions\/31298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}