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Emerging from Nottingham in the summer of 1989, the DiY Collective were one of the first house sound systems in the UK. Merging the anarchic lineage of the free festival scene, the cultural and political anger of bands like Crass with the new, irresistible electronic pulse of acid house, they bridged the idealistic void left by the moral implosion of the commercial rave scene. DREAMING IN YELLOW attempts to distil the outrageous, electric and occasionally deranged stories behind the tumultuous beginnings and existence of DiY.

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Culturally, the most dangerous people in the country. Tony Wilson's In the City Music Festival brochure 1997 Full of wild tales from the highest of times, this is the story of an intrepid crew of idealistic hedonists whose quest for freedom and joy created some of the peak moments of Britain's rave counterculture. Matthew Collin, author of Altered State and Rave On

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In 1986, already a veteran of both the Hacienda and free festivals, Harry Harrison moved from his hometown of Bolton to Nottingham to study law, intending to become a human rights lawyer. Instead, he became a founder member of DiY, an ever-expanding collective of DJs, party organisers, clubbers, travellers and degenerates who achieved international notoriety in the early nineties following their involvement in seminal outlaw events such as the Castlemorton free festival.

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