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.

I spent some of the early 90s in squats and fields dancing to acid house and early hardcore, and I spent the last few months chasing up some of the people who organised those parties for this Sunday's ...

Channel 4 is to screen a live six-hour house party to mark the 20th anniversary of an infamous rave. The programme, which the broadcaster hopes will 'turn the TV into the ultimate DJ booth', is ...

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 ...

The answering machine message that started the Castlemorton Common rave Castlemorton should have continued that theme, she said, a low-key gathering for roughly 400 travellers. What they hadn't banked ...

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 ...

HUNDREDS of schoolchildren across Worcestershire have taken up their pitchforks and trowels to create a beautiful garden for the Malvern Spring Festival. Five schools - Pitmaston Primary School in ...

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 ...

The open date and status above indicate when Castlemorton CofE Primary School opened or when it changed to its most recent incarnation, with a number of schools converting to academies in recent years ...

The open date and status above indicate when Castlemorton Church of England Primary School opened or when it changed to its most recent incarnation, with a number of schools converting to academies in ...

On a hot bank holiday weekend 25 years ago, 20,000 people descended on land in the shadow of the Malvern Hills. The word was spread by an answering machine message: "Right, listen up revellers. It's ...