Castlemorton, May 1992
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- Castlemorton Common. May 1992
The annual Avon Free Festival which had been occurring in the area around the May bank holiday for several years, albeit in different locations. [Inglestone, Sodbury Commons etc]. However, 1992 was the year Avon and Somerset Police intended to put a full stop to it. As a result the thousands of people travelling to the area for the expected Festival were shunted into neighbouring counties by Avon and Somerset’s Operation Nomad police manoeuvres.
The end result was the impromptu Castlemorton Common Festival, another pivotal event in the recent history of festival culture. In the event, a staggering 30,000 travellers, ravers and festival goers gathered almost overnight on Castlemorton Common to hold a free festival that flew in the face of the Public Order Act 1986. It was a massive celebration and the biggest of its kind since the bountiful days of the Stonehenge Free Festival. West Mercia Police claimed that due to the speed with which it coalesced, they were powerless to stop it.
The right-wing press published acres of crazed and damning coverage of the event, including the classic front page Daily Telegraph headline: “Hippies fire flares at Police”. The following mornings Daily Telegraph editorial read: “New Age, New Laws” and within two months, government confirmed that new laws against travellers were imminent “in reaction to the increasing level of public dismay and alarm about the behaviour of some of these groups.”
Indeed, the outcry following Castlemorton provided the basis for the most draconian law yet levelled against alternative British culture. Just as the Public Order Act 1986 followed the events at Stonehenge in 1985, so the Criminal Justice and Public Order Bill began its journey in 1992, pumped with the manufactured outrage following Castlemorton.
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These were exceptional times. We were blessed and cursed simultaneously. Blessington.
Nice upload, i was there too, one of the first to pull on with Armageddon sound system. It was great, very messy, so much drugs, lawless off keyness, a perfect doo. I'm 50 now, i played my hardcore set for hours to thousands, makes me proud.
Diy tat you 👍
Fuckin still alive 😅
@@danielkelbrick7744 🤣just about.
A LOT of ket and acid
You know what bro if I never went on that journey best summer 😉 ever beginning 😜 left my legacy babies rave to the grave miss those days when we were young confused nicely 👍🌞
Wow 30 years ago. So glad to have gone, we will never see anything like this again ever.
We made history that week.
I know 🥰 30yrsx
Moved up to this from down south in my old Leyland Terrier . Broke down twice ,thought I wouldn't make .
Best week of my life and now ,looking back ,so proud to of been part of it all . x
Thank for sharing. i was their with Spiral Tribe. Such good memories,and so long ago!!!
My brother was there too with Sprial Tribe.. Make some fucking noise. Breach the peace
thanks for posting. I’d like to thanks central news for announcing the location on the 6 o’clock news. what a night !
Some wonderful photos that bring back some happy memories. Alan Lodge- you did a fantastic job of capturing a generation on camera. 🙂
Fuckin history 🤪
Got me on roads 😀
Bring it back 😊
Go t the love
Can we please go back there?!!!??? I fucking miss those days so much it hurts sometimes..... everyone who was going out back then knows exactly what I mean!!! Special doesn't even begin to explain just what it was like.....loveeternalpeople........Hard-core you know the score!!!
Thanks for uploading these great photos. Now off to spend hours scanning them to see if I can spot myself.
You Star!! Great photos presented really well. You really captured the energy. Brought back lots of memories for me of that weekend. Peace.
wow! i was there changed my life.... great shots!!
Some great photos . Thank you. I was there with a few mates. It was mad.
Best days of my life, never to be repeated.
I went to the 30 yr reunion in Cornwall davidstow, nothing like castle morton attendance wise but the systems we're far bigger and louder, rain stopped play, mud won but still had a good one 👍
Looks amazing... I'm in California and I use to throw raves here but that looks like so much fun ...So many people showed up. So cool. I wish I'd been there. Spent the mid 90's in Prague. Scene was hard techno. Some amazing parties/ raves there too. Soooo good!
i was there .. great memories .. thanks
nice one, great images. people havin fun way it should be.
Proud to say that I was there too. I say a big up to the old bill for assisting and directing the traffic hahaha.
Great pictures. I always look closely to see if i can see myself or any of the crew and even though i don't see them, i feel i recognise many people there.
Thanks for this mate🎚🎛🎹❤️🎼🎞
In all the photos of people dancing you can barely see a single crusty, but they seemed to get all the blame for all the bad stuff that went on there.
yep , I noticed this. It wasnt until it was on the News at Ten that it got overwhelmed by Cheesy Quavers
The crusty term was after Castlemorton from what I can sort of remember, only a few of us were dreading our hair in 92 after Castlemorton it seemed it became more fashionable.
Not the crusty element but the brew crew who were trouble
@@CheechScreechNah, the term crusty punk was already a thing in mid to late eighties.
Excellent. Great music aswell sir. You once photographed me playing percussion at a free party in Derbyshire, you asked if it was okay, I was like who the f##k is this, and everyone said its Tash, he's alright So I was like yeah, no problem. Still, thanks for asking
Great photos, I went to most free parties from 89 to 94, I'm still waiting to see us lot from Radstock in any photos, we were camera shy though!!!
Thank you spent ages trying to spot my self in these lol..sadly I didn't .. great memories :)
I was the 3rd car on common in convoy from stroud glos poilce led us there and I watched then cut the chain on the gate with bolt cropers,we thought it was a trap 😳 banging party.big up d.i.y and all the people there xxx
Were you at Stroud B n Q garden centre ,that too was televised on the local news
I'm 52 just gone and remember this well because it was messy in a privileged way whereas the event was tops and there was nothing that could be done to stop it.
That was the Best Fun Ever what a party/ tribal gathering that was.. and our free way of Life. Till the bastard public order bill squashed it all 4 good.. Happy days they were until that... i was there b4 during n after jad my hiab up on the air with some of the circus warp backdrops dangling off it @@ the Jack n Jills were fkn gd 2 from what i remember. LoL
Thanks for uploading this footage .. Blessings to all ❤❤❤
Little Dave n Merlin Dog..
i wasnt there ..ive no idea why , tho i did have 3 young kids so ...missing this is one of my big regrets.... great days.. no internet and not a smartfone in sight..id go back there in a heartbeat
i remember it well, i didn't go - i had broken my ankle a few days before, we were well into the scene. But my mates all went, one of them took so many drugs he had a psychotic episode and ended being sectioned. i remember because he turned up early to my house on what was probably the Monday morning, he was in a bad way. he thought people were talking to him through his car speakers and that he was being followed, i did not know what the hell was going on. in the end he drove off and i'm thinking shit what do i do? called my mate, they were looking for him and so were the police he'd been going crazy thinking people were trying to steal his car and threatening random people with an iron bar. After this the police clamped down like never before on free parties and it led to the criminal justice act, so it kind of ruined it really. i became a psychiatric nurse directly from my experience visiting him in hospital - he recovered but it took a good six months.
I was the best party this country has ever had
Awesome
On my birthday I was 23 ironically .
pulling onto castlemoton just to the left of rhe house i can see my fg -Sincerely Chicken!!!
We were there too with an FG school minibus, awesome event, never forget. shame we cant have a 30th anniversary bash!!
What I would give to jump into this screen now.... I was 19 when this took place, I wasn't there but fuck me the 90's were good
After 3 days, there was a lot of shit in the hedges and gardens...no port-a-loos 😆
yes, and a lot on my boots! i had to throw away when he headed back home on the Sunday evening 🤢🤣
6:33 the black guy on the right is my Dad!!
Lmao I was there with Sweat Sound System and the striped marquee fun eh! Badmansfingers
Thanks
Yeah baby......bedlam circus warp crew in the house 🤣🤣🤣🤣👍what a night......to big to stop
We must rise again....same enemy new battlefield 👍
Circus warp parties around Oxfordshire were my first and favourite parties. 😁
Yeah I landed in their area for a few hours Sunday morning 5/6/7am ish, having been around a few other systems earlier in the night. Ended up at DIY by about Sunday midday I reckon. I didn't land in Spiral Tribe much that night for some reason. I think there system was distorting too much so I sought other set ups out. I did lose my friends at one point and my brain started telling me i'll never see them again cos I'm stuck in this unknown field. It was just typical that I had to have the most trippy E ever at something like this. I thought all the car lights arriving through the hills were police vans and I was gonna be the only person nicked from the festival lol. When daylight came I realised how overactive my imagination had been.
@@mstowe1424done a few around there, bicester, little farringdon,barns. Great times
People want to be free.
We are not meant to be debt slaves just so the rich owners can enjoy freedom.
They are re placing you with new people for their system.
1:46 pretty sure i know this fella in the energy tee-shirt from Bournemouth!
BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE
Nevertheless still a great festival having been at the last stonehenge in 1984 this was probably the pinnacle of the free rave era
What a weekend, no mobile phones, no fat people , no entry price just everyone dancing their tits off enjoying themselves. Just look how sterile the world is now, can we rewind the clock back please .....great photos great memories!
No fat people so that?
He's got a point. Birds didn't have jubblies either tho, by the looks, so that's the price.
t'was a life changer!!
Fuckin yeah 👍
I was there
Pretty heroic some of us still being alive aye 😆
Me too 😊
I remember thinking £1.50 for a can of brew???!!!!
I'm 50 this year too.
Special Brew 99p😍🌞
@@danielkelbrick7744 That might buy arfa mouthful ; )
RIP Pete DiY @7:03
So pleased i was there
Now i listen to 80s early 90s rave sounds awfull , im sure my brain just filled the gaps back in the drug daze 😮😮it sounded epic ,but now i listen to dub tec and ambient tec and it sounds as good as what my brain imagined 30 years ago ,know wat i mean 😅😅😅😅😅😊
Yeah had a great time we arrived really early on the site but a mate of mine got busted with about 500 blotters leaving the site on the Tuesday and tried to tell the old bill that he knew nothing about them pleading not guilty all the way and ended up doing loads of time for it instead of just swallowing the medicine going guilty which he actually was and doing about 2 years less time..... Ah the good old days of the early 90s
The one that ended it all! Whatafuckintrip! It brought everyone together and the Man didn't like it. We've all got our stories, and I could tell you some...👊😎👍(nearly made off with the riot notice the pigs put up at each entrance but discretion was the better part of valour, DIY, SPIRAL, TRIBAL what more d'you want?.
I fuckin went with tekno travels ⭐👽👍🌞😭😭💕
The last days of the real mdma experiment
No mobile phones ❤
🙂
Proper times
Circus warp.....groove easy groove 🤣😉
@@bloodlinesoffire5633Dennis mirray
😁💜✌️
Time we had another no?
Cheap night out too