‘The spirit of Love Parade’: organisers to bring techno event home to Berlin

Politics, electronic music and 25,000 people expected at Rave the Planet Parade this weekend, 12 years after fatal Duisburg crush

Neon bodypaint, string vests and no-nonsense four-to-the-floor beats will return to the streets of Berlin this weekend as the legendary Love Parade techno event makes a comeback in the German capital after a hiatus of more than 15 years.

Saturday's daytime outdoor event carries a new name - the Rave the Planet Parade - but is being organised by some of the same people who put together the first Love Parade on the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall.