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1990s Urban Free Festival in Fordham Park was a major London event, bringing together people from what at the time was a big free party/squat/punk/rave scene. 20 years later (13 September), similar sounds were to be heard in the same place at the Party in the Park - including Back to the Planet who were on the bill there in 1992. Quite a few of the people organising sound systems etc. were also veterans from that scene, as were some of the crowd. But there were also lots of new young bands in the event organised by New Cross Learning, the Madcap Coalition and others.
Unlike last year's Party in the Park which was cursed by bad weather, this year it was sunny enough to bring out what may well have been the biggest crowd in the park since the final Urban Free festival in 1995 - nothing like on the scale of that event, which attracted about 30,000 people in very different times, but a decent free community festival.
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| Shocks of Mighty |
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| Siren Sound System |
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| Step 13 on the Siren stage by the Moonshot - great breakbeat anthems |
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Cool, wish I could have come. I thought those parties would just go on forever - now that they're gone I appreciate them more.
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