There’s a new wave of anarchic raves in the unassuming outskirts of the city. The police don’t seem happy about it.
The Nigerian city is world-famous for Afrobeats and slick party culture. Now, a growing community of liberally-minded young people are flocking to impromptu venues for hard-hitting house tracks.
In her new exhibition, Hidden Tracks: A decade of free parties, which opens on 10th April at Gallery46, Seana Gavin draws from her huge archive of photography and diary entries to give us a first-person peek into the sweaty, heady days of peak rave culture.
THE FACE has teamed up with Beyond The Music to throw a party in a Northern Quarter car park.
In Andrew Finch’s new exhibition, Mark Leckey, Vinca Petersen, Jeremy Deller and emerging filmmakers present shorts showcasing the best of British raves. Nice one, top one, sorted.
Last night, the British-Jamaican designer mashed-up rave, new wave and punk for an SS23 show that paid homage to Britain’s community centres – part party, part political, all killer.
