A sound engineer who organised dozens of free parties and festivals has died.

Dennis Sherez, 29, known by clubbers as The Good Doctor, was one of four founding members of the Bust the Box Brighton dance night.

The night was an eclectic mix of styles that could not be heard anywhere else.

It was partly inspired by a set Brighton-based DJ Norman 'Fatboy Slim' Cook played for Skint Records at the Hobgoblin pub in London Road, Brighton, in 1998.

Mr Sherez, pictured right, helped launch the Rocket Festival in Andalucia, Spain, last year, attracting an estimated 3,000 clubbers.

He also worked with the Innerfield Soundsystem and Glastonbury Festival.

Bust the Box put on free outdoor events where people could carry on dancing until they were ready to stop as an alternative to nightclubs where they had to pay admission fees and would be asked to leave when it was time to close.

Tim Lincoln, another of Bust the Box's founding members, said he would be sorely missed. He said: "He was a good friend and an inspiration to hundreds of people in Brighton and elsewhere.

"He had a great imagination and sense of humour.

"Diplomacy wasn't really him, he had a dedication to speaking his mind all the time."

Mr Sherez travelled the world working as a diving instructor and spent a lot of time in Utila, Honduras.

He grew up in west London and moved to Brighton in 1998.

A Bust the Box night in his memory was held at the Concorde 2 club in Madeira Drive on Friday, April 4.

The event raised about £3,000 for Ockenden International, a charity helping refugees and disadvantaged people overseas to rebuild their lives.

Mr Lincoln added: "It was a night in his memory but it wasn't maudlin."

He said Bust the Box was scheduled to play a series of events and it was likely the group would carry on. Mr Sherez had no children but left behind family in London and Israel.

He died in his sleep on Wednesday, January 18.