Sunrise/Back to the Future

Sunrise/Back to the Future were acid house promoters in the UK, one of the most widely publicised.

Sunrise/Back to the Future
GenreElectronic music
Years active1980s–1990s
Founded byTony Colston-Hayter and Paul Staines

One commentator states "Over the course of 1989, promoters such as Weekend World [Tarquin de Meza], Biology [Jarvis Sandy, Tarquin de Meza & Michael Jump], Energy [Jeremy Taylor & Tin Tin Chambers], World Dance [Anton, Chris & Jay] & Genesis, succeeded in setting acid house nights free of the urban core's constructions, staging ever more elaborate Orbital parties in borrowed and rented fields, the odd warehouse, or some other similarly vacant structure".[1]

Run by Tony Colston-Hayter and Paul Staines, the organisation was occasionally front-page news. In 1989, Colston-Hayter evaded imprisonment for organising an unlicensed party (Sunrise: A Midsummer Night's Dream at White Waltham Airfield aka "Ecstasy Airport") by claiming that he issued membership cards for Sunrise and it was a private party.[2] Shortly afterwards, on 8 July, he appeared in an After Dark television programme about gambling, alongside Victor Lownes and Al Alvarez among others.[3]

In 2014, Colston-Hayter was imprisoned for hacking several banks in London.[4][5] In 2018, after release from his previous sentence, he was convicted of further fraudulent activities and sentenced to 20 months.[6]

Sunrise along with Weekend World were instrumental in organising the Freedom to Party demonstrations and the free parties that followed alongside Biology, Energy and Genesis.[7]

See also

References
  1. Clover, J. 1989: Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about. p. 64
  2. Collin, M. ' Altered State: The Story of Ecstasy Culture and Acid House. p.108.
  3. Production company website
  4. Barclays Bank computer theft: Two men in court over £1.3m haul - BBC News
  5. Cyber gang leader Tony Colston-Hayter jailed for bank scam - BBC News
  6. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-46559433
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-07-23. Retrieved 2015-07-22.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)


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