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South Wales Police said officers attended to ensure everyone went home(Image: Google)<\/p>\nSouth Wales Police said that officers remain at the scene<\/p>\n
16:04, 19 Oct 2025Updated 11:26, 21 Oct 2025<\/p>\n
South Wales Police said officers attended to ensure everyone went home(Image: Google)<\/p>\n
Residents living in valleys communities were unable to sleep on Saturday night as the sound of a “hardcore techno rave” could be heard coming from a nearby mountain. Officers from South Wales Police<\/a> attended what they have described as “an unlicensed music event” that took place on Saturday night and into the early hours of Sunday.<\/p>\n It is understood that the illegal rave, which took place near the small village of Croeserw in Neath <\/a>Port Talbot<\/a>, was held on a mountainside. Police said they remain in the area at this time.<\/p>\n Locals claim that they met attendees at the local train station, who had travelled from as far as Bristol to attend the event.<\/p>\n The nearby communities have described being kept awake until the early hours of the morning.<\/p>\n A local resident said: “It started just after midnight, I felt it before I heard it! The noise drove us nuts for hours and the dog was barking like crazy.<\/p>\n “It sounded like a hardcore techno rave coming from over the mountain somewhere, or maybe the country park – not sure. Think I must\u2019ve got to sleep well past 2am, with my earplugs in. Nightmare.”<\/p>\n There are multiple reports on social media that people living in Cwmbach, Treorchy, Abernant, Mountain Ash, Landare, Cwmaman, Cwmdare and Aberdare<\/a> heard the noise.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for South Wales Police said: “Officers attended a report of an unlicensed music event taking place near Croeserw last night.<\/p>\n “Officers remain at the location to ensure the safe dispersal of attendees.<\/p>\n “Enquiries are on-going in relation to any criminal offences which may have been committed.”<\/p>\n It’s not the first illegal rave held in Wales, which has seen people travel from across the UK.<\/p>\n Back in the summer, a large gathering took place in a remote Ceredigion forest <\/a>which led to concerns for the environment and wildlife in the area.<\/p>\n Dyfed Powys Police said in August that due to the number of people there, they decided to prioritise disrupting and stopping entry of any further vehicles and people under a Section 63 notice.<\/p>\n In June, the same police force had to break up an illegal rave in a forest in Brechfa, Carmarthenshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n A spokesperson said at the time: \u201cThere is little doubt that these types of events are very well planned, organised and that local knowledge is important in drawing down the main group to a particular field, or area of land.”<\/p>\n Get daily breaking news<\/strong> updates on your phone by joining our WhatsApp community here<\/a>. We occasionally treat members to special offers, promotions and ads from us and our partners. See our Privacy Notice<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Wales Police said that officers remain at the scene 16:04, 19 Oct 2025Updated 11:26, 21 Oct 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[101673,748,18114,4884,54902,45501,14317,14884,141376,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-518553","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-aberdare","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-cynon-valley","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-mountain-ash","13":"tag-neath-port-talbot","14":"tag-rhondda","15":"tag-south-wales-police","16":"tag-treorchy","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115415558437658937","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518553","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=518553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}