Castlemorton Common
About Castlemorton Common
The Castlemorton Common Festival was a week-long free festival and rave held in the Malvern Hills near Malvern, Worcestershire, England, between 22 and 29 May 1992. The media interest and controversy surrounding the festival, and concerns as to the way it was policed, inspired the legislation that would eventually become the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994.
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That followed a couple of years of national panic, moral panic about raves and rave music. There was a thing called the rave at Castle Mawton Common in 1992 where people danced for five days and it was a free illegal festival basically for about 20,000 people and the police was just so worried about it. The same year they broke up a party by using a JCB Digger to smash through one of the walls of the party.
from No Such Thing As Dance Floor Book Club, 2025-08-14 at 00:18:21 · read transcript
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