{"id":50819,"date":"2026-11-11T18:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/hackney-police-lose-bid-to-prevent-pop-up-rave-from-viral-black-cab-duo\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T18:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T17:34:44","slug":"hackney-police-lose-bid-to-prevent-pop-up-rave-from-viral-black-cab-duo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/11\/hackney-police-lose-bid-to-prevent-pop-up-rave-from-viral-black-cab-duo\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackney police lose bid to prevent pop-up rave from viral black cab duo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Metropolitan Police have been unsuccessful in their bid to halt a pop-up rave from taking place in Hackney from a TikTok DJ duo.<\/p>\n

Boys In A Taxi, AKA DJ Boyblue and MC Dean C, have appeared across London in recent weeks, hosting impromptu street events in which they play UKG and dancehall anthems from inside a repurposed black cab.<\/p>\n

The pair have received increased attention for recent video clips shared online, in which they appear to be accosted by police officers, subsequently going viral via TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read this next: Hackney Council launches “Night Map” of borough-wide nightlife amenities<\/a><\/p>\n

According to the Hackney Citizen<\/i><\/a>, the pair submitted a Temporary Event Notice (TEN) to Hackney Council in order to host a pop-up event outside Hackney Wick Station between 8:PM and 10:PM Saturday (November 14).<\/p>\n

Hackney Police objected to the plans, urging the council to issue a counter notice to ensure the event could not go ahead, claiming that a lack of control over attendance – which the application had listed as 400 people – in an “unrestricted public space” could lead to excessive noise and prove a risk to public safety.<\/p>\n

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The Metropolitan Police have been unsuccessful in their bid to halt a pop-up rave from taking place in Hackney from a TikTok DJ duo. Boys In A Taxi, AKA DJ Boyblue and MC Dean C, have appeared across London in recent weeks, hosting impromptu street events in which they play UKG and dancehall anthems from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":50820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpai_generated_summary":"","wpai_meta_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[100],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-50819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-djzone","tag-mixtv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mixtv1.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}