{"id":6218,"date":"2022-05-23T21:02:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T21:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6218"},"modified":"2022-05-23T23:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T23:45:22","slug":"diy-sound-system-anarchist-ravers-of-castlemorton-vice-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/6218","title":{"rendered":"DiY Sound System: Anarchist Ravers of Castlemorton : Vice Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Including 25x of my pictures, supplied to illustrate the background to this material and interviews.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Someone called us 72 hour party people. It would start on Saturday and finish on Tuesday.&#8221;In the 1990s, no one partied harder than the raver. And no one raved harder than DiY Sound System. Pioneers of the UK&#8217;s house music and free party scene, DiY were known for their huge club nights and three-day-long countryside raves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They played a central role in the infamous Castlemorton Common Festival, which saw 20,000 people descend on a field for the biggest unauthorised rave in history, 30 years ago this week. Complaints from politicians led to the pivotal Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, which attempted to shut down free parties for good. In theory at least&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram wp-block-embed-instagram\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sli-oembed\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pioneers of the UK&#39;s house music and free party scene in the 1990s, DiY Sound System played a central role in the infamous Castlemorton Common Festival 30 years ago today, which saw 20,000 people descend on a field for the biggest unauthorised rave in history. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rUT4LAmfJu\">pic.twitter.com\/rUT4LAmfJu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; VICE UK (@VICEUK) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VICEUK\/status\/1528337376141008897?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 22, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Video also at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=5301477063236581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=5301477063236581<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Including 25x of my pictures, supplied to illustrate the background to this material and interviews. &#8220;Someone called us 72 hour party people. It would start on Saturday and finish on Tuesday.&#8221;In the 1990s, no one partied harder than the raver. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/archives\/6218\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[332,568,567,130,589,128,16,339,287,656,29,1337,305],"class_list":["post-6218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-anarchist","tag-castlemorton","tag-diy","tag-free","tag-freeparty","tag-party","tag-photography","tag-ravers","tag-sound","tag-system","tag-tash","tag-vice","tag-video"],"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\/6218","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=6218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6222,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6218\/revisions\/6222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanlodge.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}