20 iconic illegal rave photos
Nostalgia ultra
A vast industrial setting packed to the rafters in France, 1992 [Credit: P'tit Fred]
Cardboard city, a community of homeless people below London's Waterloo station, threw a final party before being turfed out by developers who turned the area into an IMAX Cinema [Credit: Molly Macindoe]
Castlemorton Common is the rave that changed the law. 20,000 rocked up to party in the West Country hills after an answer machine invite spiralled out of control. A £4 million trial and government crackdown, including the passing of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act, followed.
Dancers get hot and sweaty at Dune 4 in the Californian desert, 1997 [Credit: Michael Tullberg]
Where better to spend your New Year's Eve than a disused meat factory in Tottenham Hale? 1997/98 [Credit: Molly Macindoe]
Police in Melbourne shut down a Vibe Tribe event
Zebra crossing dancefloor at the Cars My Arse event held by environmentalists protesting mass automobile use, 1998 [Credit: Molly Macindoe]
Ravers invade a vacant office block in the heart of north London, 1999 [Credit: Molly Macindoe]
A woman looks over a sea of ravers at a Badalona New Year's event in Spain, 2000/01 [Credit: Molly Macindoe]
Proudly holding aloft a Section 63 police notice demanding a rave site is evacuated in Hampshire, 2001 [Credit: Molly Macindoe]
The fun police, Bristol, 2003 [Credit: Molly Macindoe]
You don't see many legal raves with fridge swings, hey? Middlesex University, London, 2004 [Credit: Molly Macindoe]
Dancing defiantly under threat of police water cannons at Czechtek, Czech Republic, 2005 [Credit: Molly Macindoe]
An impromptu party breaks out in Brixton following the death of Margaret Thatcher, April 2013 [Credit: Danny E. Martindale]
Geordies take to the sewers to blast some filthy beats, Newcastle, 2017
A message is branded on the walls of a disused B&Q during a police stand-off in Bristol, 2017
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