Party Lines is also deeply concerned with how communal pleasure has been policed, suppressed and demonised across the last half century, from the Tories attempting to kill off rave culture with the 1994 Criminal Justice Act to the contemporary moral panic around drill. One party line hosted a wedding, where the bride, groom, and officiant were at different terminals in Manhattan. After being summarily informed that there was no such number and that I must be joking, I stuck to my guns.

The source in the answer we have now doesn't indicate it, and those four letters aren't particularly good distinctive rings (too similar to each other, and too long, especially J). One of the things that really drove attendance to the Castlemorton Common Festival in 1992 – possibly the biggest illegal gathering in British history – was the police and media loudly urging people not to go. It ran a housing co-op, provided employment and formed part of a much wider social and cultural infrastructure. As journalist Emma Warren emphasises: “Unless you tell your own stories then people who don’t share your lived experience – the material that underpins all culture – are likely to.

While football hooliganism has been a growing concern in some continental European countries in recent years, British football fans now tend to have a better reputation abroad. Hooliganism in the modern age has been attributed by some sociologists to the decline of the British Empire. Or would the white middle-class world and family have absorbed me back into some dreary bourgeois life? I also remember Mulberry was the Newark, NJ exchange and my grandmothers number in East Orange, NJ through the Orange exchange was Or-2-9306.

I listened in once, and I can’t even begin to tell you what they were talking about — with strangers! It then took time to convince exchange that Pony Hills was a sub-exchange out of Injune, which was a sun-exchange out of Roma, which was 500km west of Brisbane! Whatever RBKC might like to think, it’s not owned by anyone, so it can’t be bought outright, and attempts to exert overt municipal or corporate control provoke fierce community resistance. One of the things I was hoping to do with this book was to re-examine some of that history, taking into account the changes in society and culture that have happened since then.

My impression at the time was that the drug of choice for the lairy elements tended to be coke or speed, and definitely not E, so it strikes me that the myth originated from somewhere that wasn’t close to football crowds. Once again, Tappenden operated at the greyer end of legality, threatening companies supplying sound equipment, lighting rigs and marquees. This phone book mentions that "party lines are available" but gives no further information about them. The age of the super club and a compilation culture that aimed to capture all youth markets in one fell swoop.

Parents organized town meetings and protests, and wrote in to telephone companies demanding the charges be reversed. African rumba, juju, salsa/Afrocuban (particularly African expressions of it) would also be strong contenders. Gillett might have easily spun off the harrowing tale of a charismatic rave church known as the Nine O’Clock Service, whose mixture of dance music, community and liberation theology was bringing in so many young people that it received funding from the diocese of Sheffield. But one thing that gives me hope is that dance music is a bit of a cockroach – throughout its history, it has survived multiple attempts to kill it and existed in spaces which are fundamentally hostile to any form of culture. Rhythm and sweat, release and abandon, feeling rather than thinking, being yourself and becoming someone – or something – other.In writing about Liverpools Cream Club and it’s owner James Barton, there are valuable insights to be had.