This interview is taken from VICE magazine, v29n2: THE REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL ISSUE. To subscribe to four print issues each year, click here—you’ll need to subscribe by Friday, August 29 to ensure the summer issue is the first one you’re sent.

Over the course of 18 months, friend of VICE and esteemed photographer Yushy Pachnanda went to more than 80 illegal squat raves held in one-off venues across London.

Each party pulled in between 100 and a thousand people, and many of them ended with the fresh-faced attendees getting charged at by screaming riot police. Now, Yushy has gathered all his pictures into a new photobook called Section 63. A reference to the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act of 1994 that was designed to kill these kinds of shenanigans stone dead, the book is exhilarati

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