Moby on how the UK invented rave culture

Moby has used one of his recent live shows to explain how the UK helped shape rave culture. READ MORE: Does Rock ‘N’ Roll Kill Braincells?! – Moby The electronic music icon made the comments during his landmark set at On The Beach Festival – closing out the 2026 edition of the live event with a huge headline set that marked his first in nearly 25 years. At the show, Moby broke out fan favourites including ‘We Are All Made of Stars’, ‘Extreme Ways’, ‘Porcelain’ and ‘Natural Blues’, and closed out the set with 1994 track ‘Feeling So Real’. Before the final track of the set, Moby took a moment to share how he was “such an Anglophile” when he was growing up, and “obsessed” with British culture from when he “was six-years-old, because I could watch Monty Python on Channel 13”. He added that his deep love for music came after discovering UK acts including Sex Pistols, The Clash, Public Image, Joy Division, Echo And The Bunnymen and more, and later saw how the UK helped invent rave culture. “You guys did something fascinating,” Moby shared, adding how while his friend, DJ and producer Frankie Knuckles, “invented house music [when] he moved from New York to Chicago,” it was “the originator...