{"id":1159745,"date":"2026-08-20T18:16:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1159745\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T18:16:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T18:16:14","slug":"inside-londons-illegal-rave-renaissance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1159745\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside London&#8217;s illegal rave renaissance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By 3am, there might be 2,000 people inside \u2014 more than many licensed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/clubs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">clubs<\/a> can legally hold. Sometimes police stand outside while organisers invoke squatters\u2019 rights. Sometimes they never arrive at all. The conventional night out might be dying a slow death, but the free party movement is thriving, whether inside London or in fields, forests or barns outside the city. Forget the polished, Instagram-friendly sound dominating much of today\u2019s club scene. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">music<\/a> you\u2019ll hear at these <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/topic\/parties\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">parties<\/a> will span donk, psytrance, techno and tekno, a raw, fast-paced electronic music genre born out of the free party movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By 3am, there might be 2,000 people inside \u2014 more than many licensed clubs can legally hold. Sometimes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1159746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,8915,393,4884,2348,257,315062,269,19606,20361,315061,182,16,15],"class_list":["post-1159745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-britain","tag-clubs","tag-england","tag-great-britain","tag-history","tag-london","tag-ministry-of-sound","tag-music","tag-nightlife","tag-parties","tag-printworks","tag-social-media","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1159745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1159746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1159745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1159745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}