Free party: a folk history
If you're not anti-government in 2023, who even are you?
I saw this yesterday - just the most moving tribute to the concept of peaceful anarchy.
We hear the middle-class, Balearic / acid house story all the time... By contrast however, the time when the traveller communities and ravers collided at Glasto 1990 never seems to get as much airplay.
It was (arguably) way more interesting and politically charged. Plus we'll probably never see this level of social progress again in my lifetime. Who knows? Could happen.
Give me a DIY marquee full of crusties over a night at Shoom any day!
It's a documentary that should've been made years ago. A hugely important moment in film and Aaron Trinder completely did it justice!
The Romany Travellers - another community torn to shreds by the Tories in the aftermath of the battle of the beanfields.
Spoiler alert: the ones being persecuted are not the ones committing violence (really chimes with the backdrop of today).
Go see - if you can...it's sold out everywhere.