Free Party: A Folk History | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The film follows the inception of the movement, a meeting between ravers and the new age travellers during Thatcher's la | dG1fWUd5X2xERHFPOUU

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00:00it was a coming together of very large events the times have been so repressive and so unfunky

00:21the all it took was a little crack in the dam for the dam to explode

00:25factures era unemployment a lot of industry was closing down lots of empty warehouses

00:33acid house orbital raves died a death we can do better than this do it yourself you thought

00:42fuck this we're going to do it ourselves we decided that all things were possible especially

00:46with nothing let's do a rave in that big old warehouse over there and get 5 000 people in there

00:51underground illegal free warehouse spaces outdoor we met these travelers at glastonbury 1990 and it

01:04just clicked that pivotal glastonbury changed a lot it was sort of a life-changing moment there

01:09was a free festival circuit the existing traveling community would would do every year each festival

01:13more and more ravers were coming in it was a real eye-opener seeing this whole other subculture ravers

01:19and the travelers crossed over and that whole thing grew and grew and you could dance the night

01:23away under the stars and no one's going to fucking stop you ecstasy and the ravers reinvigorated the

01:28whole free festival scene i could see why the press got hold of it new age travelers not in this age

01:35not in any age things started to happen when the police were becoming aggressive and seizing equipment

01:42the riot police come and smash through the wall of the party with a jcb and then came in to whack us

01:48it was absolutely shocking they were following us around with helicopters we were being watched the

01:53new age travelers and rave party goers as you get the army or as a change in the law may be needed

01:58people on site at the present time it is now a containment operation chipping somebody one year

02:03was 3 000 people aim of a vessel next year it was castle more from the air the sheer scale of the

02:08invasion of the common can be seen achieving the dubious record of being britain's largest ever illegal rave party

02:15it was our woodstock the police were powerless our utopia had arrived it was that point you

02:23realized well what's going to happen now things started changing from that point

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