All Gone Wrong - Episode One: BLOC

It’s a two-part special:

Episode 1: The Vision & The Rise. We go back to the living room in Brighton and the DIY idealism that birthed the ‘Bloc-mentality.’ We track the transition from niche Norfolk raves to the the Butlin’s years, Bloc then at the peak of their power, a massive cultural machine that came to define a generation.

Then in Episode 2: We’ll go inside the night of Bloc’s 2012 festival at London Pleasure Gardens. An hour-by-hour timeline of that infamous 2012 event. From the technical pressures of the site to the moment they made the decision to ‘pull it’ was finally made. And then comes everything after...

This is the anatomy of a crisis, the fallout of a collapse, and the hard yards of brand rehabilitation.

It’s vulnerable, raw, and at times pretty dark-humoured, because that’s usually what it takes to survive.

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