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DJ collective and soundsystem formed in 1989 and based in
Nottingham. Put on free parties around the country in 1989-1990
including some at Pepperbox Hill near Bournemouth in conjunction
with that town's North & South
Soundsystem as well as promoting their long-running club night
Bounce at Nottingham's Venus. At the Glastonbury
festival 1990 DiY to hooked up with the so called New Age
travellers and from this meeting of minds and resources a new scene
evolved around travelling sound systems at illegal free festivals.
Spiral Tribe
& Circus
Warp swiftly followed suite. As these were free festivals the
recently formed police 'pay party unit' had no powers. The scene
peaked with the infamous event at Castlemorton in the Malvern Hills in May
1992.