Creamfields 2015
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Evolution
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Hadn't heard about that. Definitely needed IMO.
Ikoda
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Yeah, no GG this year. Long Marshton Airfield has been sold off to a private development company from what I'd heard.
Ah really. Interesting. I found the announcement v.abrupt. I went last year and they were working on the assumption they would be back in 2015 as usual. Then a few weeks later they made the announcement and took their website & social media accounts down. Very odd.
Not checked to see whether they're back up and running recently to be fair.
Ikoda
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It'd be good if they could find another site outside of Stratford Upon Avon, that way they can have those stupid drinks rules revoked forced upon them by the police.
I hope they don't stay off the radar too long. So much competition shooting up all over the place now. There's pretty much a decent-sized electronic music festival somewhere in the UK every weekend over summer now.
We Are FSTVL gets bigger year-after-year. Creamfields may still be king for the time being, but not sure that'll remain the case.
SW4 is good alternative for southerners, but no camping, and noise limitations make the main stage underwhelming imho.
JoshMags
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Parkelife and Outbreak have announced very strong lineups. I've done Global and Cream for the past 3 years and visited EDC at MKB last year, that was good.
But Global is easily my favorite UK festival.
Fancied a change this year, We Are FSTVL, Parkelife and Timewarp all booked up.
But Global is easily my favorite UK festival.
Fancied a change this year, We Are FSTVL, Parkelife and Timewarp all booked up.
Good choices!
Bit of a cheeky plug here - but anybody looking at UK festivals, I can get genuine 1st hand tickets for most cheaper than through ticket websites like RA, Ticketmaster etc. (actually, Creamfields is about the only one I don't do).
But We Are FSTVL, SW4, EDC - and can make enquiries for others. Can save you up to a £10 a ticket. If anyone's interested, inbox me. Also potential to earn free tickets for group bookings
***plug over***
Bit of a cheeky plug here - but anybody looking at UK festivals, I can get genuine 1st hand tickets for most cheaper than through ticket websites like RA, Ticketmaster etc. (actually, Creamfields is about the only one I don't do).
But We Are FSTVL, SW4, EDC - and can make enquiries for others. Can save you up to a £10 a ticket. If anyone's interested, inbox me. Also potential to earn free tickets for group bookings
***plug over***
Ikoda
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Good choices!
Bit of a cheeky plug here - but anybody looking at UK festivals, I can get genuine 1st hand tickets for most cheaper than through ticket websites like RA, Ticketmaster etc. (actually, Creamfields is about the only one I don't do).
But We Are FSTVL, SW4, EDC - and can make enquiries for others. Can save you up to a £10 a ticket. If anyone's interested, inbox me. Also potential to earn free tickets for group bookings
***plug over***
Problem for me with a lot of festivals is that they've forgotten trance, which is still a huge genre (though maybe not as 'in', 'hip' and 'cool' as deep house or tech house is currently) but the scene is still pretty big for the right lineup. Yes I spend a lot of time at festivals at other tents (and will do at Creamfields, should I do it), but I always like to fall back to a bit of uplifting \ hard stuff every now and then.
It's will get it's second-win at some point, I'm sure. Trends tend to go in cycles. Won't be long until the scene is bored of having "underground" tech house shoved down it throats. No reason why trance can't be popular again, in some form or another.
I think the regional festival in the south east do quite well to accommodate trance. Maybe not prominently, but they get a stage/tent. SW4 normally does I think.
Ikoda
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SW4 is usually a good hit for some form of trance (usually Anjuna-esque, as they work pretty closely with LnL), as was Global Gathering (Being powered by the Godskitchen team) and Creamfields (The Cream team). Actually pretty happy to see two hard dance days at Creamfields this year. HD Festival I think has a trance lineup with Eddie Halliwell playing a 'trance set'.
Are we at a point where there's just too many festivals though? I can't keep up with them all anymore.
Ikoda
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Agreed. Another quiet summer as everyone is off to a party island or festival. Club land in the UK very much feels like it now runs Sept - Mid December, Feb - May. Every club night not falling into that gap is destined to have, well, a very hard time.
Ikoda
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Yeah, a lot of normal trance folk find Psy-trance just a bit too much. Well... a lot of trance folk are infact very narrow minded with their genre and will only listen to that.
Been to a few Psy trance parties. Full of absolute nutters but are some of the soundest people I've ever met.
jackmontandon
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Psy trance parties are nothing short of unreal albeit very strange
albeit very strange