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Beats Cancer - Feeding the love through music. 

As an official old school raver circa summer 1990 when I was 16. The House music scene was officially underground then, I spent many a night roaming around Lancashire after an epic night in places such as #Legends in Warrington or #ManhattenHeights in #Blackburn the home of many an illegal warehouse party.

I had that familiar feeling when I entered #BeatsCancer over the weekend. Commissioned for the festival to photograph I felt quite ancient and when I spoke to a attendee who told me she thought she was fat at 25, I was like “I am 43, enjoy it”..........

The original scene was all about “letting go” not caring and being yourself in one accepted collective, the original Ravers thought they could change the world and create good. Beats Cancer met the brief of the “home grown” event and from the first year I photographed it, I was overwhelmed with its size!!! If only I was 18 again - but no matter as I can hide my face behind the camera. Big love Beats Cancer.