Streaming is available for Free Party: A Folk History, one of the best documentaries ever about the history of raves.

Presented in 2023, Aaron Trinder's film tells the story of the birth of the British rave scene and especially the legendary Castlemorton festival, one of the largest raves of all time.

Free Party: A Folk History, one of the most beautiful documentaries ever made about the history of raves and underground culture is finally streaming, at the price of £6.50, until June 21 on the Eventive platform.

World premiered on May 21, 2026, on the occasion of the 34th anniversary of the legendary Castlemorton festival, the film is now accessible for a special event on the Eventive platform. There is time to watch it only until June 21, the day of the Summer Solstice, at the price of £6.50 (once unlocked, you have 7 days to watch it), after which you will have to wait for the official release expected at the end of the year. Winner of the audience award at the Doc N Roll Film Festival, the documentary, directed by Aaron Trinder, tells the story of the birth of the free party movement in the UK, starting from the late ’80s. It all begins in the last days of Margaret Thatcher’s government, thanks to a meeting between young ravers from the cities and the new age travellers, the “nomads” who traveled around Britain in old vans.

Most of the documentary retraces the years leading up to the legendary Castlemorton Common festival in May 1992, which went down in history as the largest illegal rave ever seen in the UK, a party with over 20,000 attendees, who stayed there dancing for an entire week. An epoch-making event that scared the British government so much that it provoked a harsh repressive response, the introduction of the infamous Criminal Justice Act of 1994, a law that effectively criminalized outdoor gatherings and even music characterized by “repetitive beats“. The peculiarity of Free Party: A Folk History is that the story is told directly by the protagonists of British rave culture, historically distrustful of the media. Director Trinder managed to gather testimonies from key collectives of the time, from Spiral Tribe – the nomads of hardcore techno, hated by the government of the time – to the DiY of Nottingham, who combined punk anarchism with deep house, and then the Circus Warp, famous for turning raves into true traveling circuses.

The digital streaming ticket includes a bonus, a package of 5 special contents. In addition to the feature film, included are: a conversation focused on free parties and the myth of Stonehenge between artist Jeremy Deller and director Aaron Trinder; a recounting of the photographic archive of Alan “Tash” Lodge, who documented forty years of counterculture and nomadic life; a meeting with the people who managed the sound systems of the time and a debate with filmmakers who filmed the golden era of raves challenging the rain and police checks.