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Such a violent confrontation': Love Decade, the Leeds rave that prompted 836 arrests

As word had spread that the building was surrounded by police, a young DJ who was on the decks at the time, Rob Tissera, decided to take action. I got on the microphone, and very stupidly and regrettably, said: If you want to keep the party going, we're gonna have to fight the bastards.' People did just that. Everybody turned into bloody hooligans, he says. It ended in a three-hour siege and got pretty nasty.
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