Croatia - Electric Elephant

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So its lineup time, couple of DJ's still to be added and the live lineup is still being completed, but read on for a little taster of what's to come at Electric Elephant 2009...

Website goes live tomorrow
The Lineup 2009
DJ’s
Andrew Weatherall (Rotters Golf Club) http://www.myspace.com/twoloneswordsmen http://www.rottersgolfclub.co.uk
Jesse Rose (Dubsided/Get Physical) http://www.myspace.com/jesseroseandcontent
Joakim (Versatile/K7) http://www.myspace.com/jimibazzouka http://www.joakimikaoj.com/
Daniele Baldelli (Cosmic) http://www.myspace.com/djdanielebaldelli http://www.danielebaldelli.com
Motor City Drum Ensemble http://www.myspace.com/motorcitydrumensemble
Soul Jazz Soundsystem http://www.myspace.com/souljazzrecords http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk
Bullion http://www.myspace.com/bullionness
Idjut Boys
http://www.tirk-recordings.com
Disco Bloodbath http://www.myspace.com/discobloodbathdisco
Andy Votel & Dom Thomas (Finders Keepers) http://www.finderskeepersrecords.com
Horse Meat Disco http://www.myspace.com/horsemeatdiscolondon
Lowlife: Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, Matthew Burgess, Michael Cook
http://www.djhistory.com
Aficionado: Moonboots & Jason Boardman http://www.myspace.com/aficionadomcr
Basement Boogaloo: Nick Shaw & Ed Cotton http://www.myspace.com/basementboogaloo
Emma (Chibuku)
http://www.myspace.com/emma_mcguigan http://www.chibuku.com/djs
Dave Walker (Electriks/Piccadilly Records) http://www.electriks.co.uk http://www.piccadillyrecords.com
Pablo (Downtown Sounds/Nightflight) http://www.downtownsounds.org
Andy Peek (C'mon Feet)
http://www.myspace.com/andypeek
tothebone
http://www.tothebone.co.uk
External Sounds DJ’S (Drogheda) http://www.externalsounds.com
El Tomo & Nic Keane (Fatty Fatty) http://www.myspace.com/fattyfatty2
Billy Scurry (Dublin)
Rob Butler (Piccadilly Records) http://www.piccadillyrecords.com
Benway (Downtown Sounds) http://www.downtownsounds.org
Matt Ward (Detroit Public Radio) http://www.myspace.com/detroitpublicradio
Plus more to be announced.....
LIVE Stage presented by Electric Elephant & The Local
We're still finalising the live lineup, but we thought we'd treat you to a taster.... Expect the full lineup during the first couple of weeks of April... We're over the moon though to have the amazing Four Tet headlining this year!
Four Tet http://www.myspace.com/fourtetkieranhebden http://www.fourtet.net
One Little Plane http://www.myspace.com/onelittleplane http://www.onelittleplane.com
Beth Jeans Houghton http://www.myspace.com/bethjeanshoughton http://www.bethjeanshoughton.co.uk
David Thomas Broughton http://www.myspace.com/davidthomasbroughton http://www.davidthomasbroughton.co.uk
The Local http://www.the-local.org.uk
Electric Elephant Tickets available now from: Ticketweb: www.ticketweb.co.uk / 08444 771 000
Electric Elephant Ticket Prices Adult Weekend Tickets - £69.99 Age 12 & Under Child Weekend Tickets – FREE ENTRY NO TICKET REQUIRED
NB: All under 18s must be accompanied by a Ticket-holding parent or guardian over the age of 21.
All Tickets: - will incur a booking fee. - include entry to nightclub (capacity permitting) - do not include entry to boat parties - are non-transferable and cannot be re-sold. - there will be no day tickets for Electric Elephant
Please also come and join us in the social networking world
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Electric-Elephant-Festival/8992097695
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/electricelephan
Myspace http://www.myspace.com/electricelephantcroatia
YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=P00B3AM21HY
Boat Party Tickets
There will be 2 Boat Parties each day Friday/Saturday/Sunday. Tickets will be £6 each. Full details of the Boat Parties how and when to obtain Boat Party tickets, will be announced soon.
 
all booked up - well, apart from accomo, which is turning into a bit of a headache, whilst various mates prevaricate over whether/when they're going. Camping is the nuclear option if all else fails, but the mozzies are likely to be a nuisance as is the potential heat. :confused:

Anyway I can't wait 8) Lineup is sheer class - I know a lot of those guys through djh and various parties here and they're a lovely crew. I think I've reached that stage where I'm over full on raveups and really just want to do balearic stuff now - although the wevvers party will obv be fierce :D
 
Look forward to seeing you there! A couple of parties look like they could be quite full on though, with a nice mix of soulful, disco, deep, eclectic and Balearic thrown in!

Cant wait!!!! Be like Ibiza in the eighties!
 
still need to sort out accomo

can't decide whether to chance it camping - heard a rumour about snakes.. :confused:
 
Some seven kilometres from the beautiful and historic town of Zadar is the equally beautiful village of Petr?ane, nestled into a cove on the Mediterranean Sea on the Croatian Dalmatian Coast. One of Petr?ane’s main landmarks is the large Hotel Pinija complex that, for the last three years, has had its families of German tourists ousted for much of the summer in favour of legions of, mostly British, clubbers looking for a slice of more authentic dance culture than Ibiza can offer them.

The ‘Ibiza in the old days’ vibe at Garden Festival is frequently commented upon, and with good reason. The festival is, essentially, a Mediterranean getaway for a small group of in-the-know people who, annually, trot off, without much fuss, to an out-of-the-way peninsula to wear sunglasses and dance to a selection of retro-inspired but progressively contemporary DJs and live acts. These are all people who just want to have a good time, in the old-fashioned club sense: who want the Space terrace or Café del Mar like it used to be; who want to hear disco and electro-funk all night long; who want the 12-minute version of ‘Dirty Talk’.

They get all this and more. From start to finish the festival delivered on all of its potential in unassuming but assured style. It would be hard, given just how many good-time vibes were floating around the festival site, to really pass any negative comments – the sea was a bit warm, the people too beautiful, the usual festival dramas nowhere to be seen – it’s kind of pointless, so I’ll drift straight into a slightly awestruck description of an incredible festival site.

A few hundred yards from the main lobby of the Hotel Pinija, the festival site proper begins. Walking along a short outcrop of rocks by the sea on your right, with regular steps down to bathing platforms, you first reach a small terrace with a bar selling champagne. Following the curve of the beach round there’s a wooden deck stage under a lighthouse, big enough for a few hundred people to dance, with a handful more on a short platform below at the sea’s edge. Backing onto this stage is a Tiki bar serving cocktails. From this it’s a few yards to the main stage, which is comprised of a sprawling set of paddling pools, sunken dance floors and curving pathways pointing up at a both a stage area and a palm-fringed DJ hut.

The stage is right next door to Barbarella’s, the festival’s after-hours nightclub which, I can genuinely say, is one of the best looking club venues I’ve ever been in to. Perfectly circular, inside it’s an incredibly well emulated ‘70s discotheque, with, however, a bang up-to-date Funktion-One sound system.

Oh, and did I mention the other stage is a boat… a bloody boat that takes you out onto the sea while you listen to Greg Wilson, Rub N Tug and Todd Terje. You get what I’m saying; from first impressions, it’s a little hard to complain about.

We stayed in a small, cheap, but very nice apartment a stone’s throw from the site entrance, and were well looked after by our Croatian landlord’s family, who seemed to be enjoying the buoyant tourist trade off the back of the festival without complaining too much about the loud music. Garden Festival runs over the first two weekends of what is, in total, a two-month festival programme operating under the loose title of The Garden Petrcane. Following on from Garden itself are Soundwave, Airbound, Likeminded, Electric Elephant, Disco 3000 and Exodus festival weekends. In between these main events there are several Barbarella’s clubnights to keep long-staying punters entertained, and it was one of these that we stumbled into on our first night to watch, with modest fanfare, Maurice Fulton and Crazy P absolutely rip it up.

Big name DJs, like those mentioned above, playing highly intimate shows was a big feature of Garden. The headline DJ sets on the three days of the second weekend of the festival – Greg Wilson, Gilles Peterson and Henrik Schwarz respectively – all gathered big crowds of people. But then there was also the beach stage, close to the lapping waves at the water’s edge, shaded by evergreen trees, where Prins Thomas, Todd Terje and Mark E cranked up the disco vibes to highly appreciative crowds of just 100 or so. The Haggis Horns and Overproof Soundsystem live shows filled up the main stage pools with enthusiastic dancers, but there was always room to flail without fear of smacking someone in the face. It was refreshing not to be sweaty and jostled and angry seeing these people, à la any London Friday night. It did rain on the Friday night of the Garden weekend, meaning the sound was knocked down significantly on the beach stage, but we danced on to Greg Wilson in slippery conditions, jumping treacherously onto low walls to pretend that we were at the Hacienda in 1988.

The weekend’s highlights were, for many people, the boat parties. Two a day, these left from a jetty across the Petrance peninsula, one in the early afternoon and one in the early evening. The idea was simple: music, alcohol, boat. It worked for all those onboard, although after four hours we were regretting not bringing our own sandwiches, and squeezing our bladders to avoid the 20-person queue for the boat’s one toilet. An unfortunate girl ended up being urinated on by a group of chancing men trying to piss off the top deck, but it all added to the piratical spirit.

In truth, despite this glowing review, Garden might not be for everyone. I enjoyed it, but it was on the borderline of my tolerance for the more excessive elements of club culture – people raving about the ‘vibe’, girls ‘on tour’ in matching miniskirts exposing burnt red flesh, pilled-up show offs aimlessly gurning at crowds and waving their arms like dance conductors. Instances of these things were few and far between, it was much more of a celebration of quality dance music, played out in excellent conditions, than anything else, but still if you’re not a fan of endless flesh, or endless disco, or sand in your knickers you might want to retreat to the chilly fields of an artier, more angular festival, for your more awkward kicks.

For my part, I loved it. The music was great, the people endlessly friendly, and while not outright cheap, the food and drink had a price-to-quality ratio it’d be hard to top. In all, this was a festival done well, and done for a select few who were able to get tickets for an event the organisers had deliberately kept low in size. This made all the difference, keeping that early Ibiza, in-the-know feeling strong, and making sure none of the facilities were over-run. As someone who has become accustomed to complaining about festivals, basing my reviews on how few times I felt the need to complain over a weekend, to have really nothing bad to say is quite a coup for Garden. Well done.
 
When you are in Manchester, come to Chorlton and go to Elektrics bar, owned by Luke Unabomber & a great place to pick up flyers etc & get hold of whats going on. You may even see me in there.:p
 
Confirmed set times :

http://www.electricelephant.co.uk/downloads/settimes.pdf

Board parties below, now all sold out - I got two for Theo!!!!!

FRIDAY
Boat Party No 1 : Friday 28th August
Sailing Time: 13.00 - 17.00
Presents:
Theo Parrish, Phoreski & Bad Passion Project
Buy Tickets

Boat Party No 2 : Friday 28th August
Sailing Time: 18.00 - 22.00
Aficionado featuring:
DJ's: Moonboots & Jason Boardman with very special guest Daniele Baldelli
Buy Tickets

SATURDAY
Boat Party No 3 : Saturday 29th August
Sailing Time: 13.00 - 17.00
The Folk Boat featuring:
DJ's: Andy Votel & Dom Thomas + live acoustic sets (TBA)
Buy Tickets
Boat Party No 4: Saturday 29th August
Sailing Time: 18.00 - 22.00
Electric Chair Saved My Life featuring:
DJ's: The Unabombers
Buy Tickets

SUNDAY
Boat Party No 5 : Sunday 30th August
Sailing Time: 13.00 - 17.00
Basement Boogaloo V Downtown Sounds & External Sounds featuring:
DJ's: Basement Boogaloo, Downtown Sounds & External Sounds DJ's
Buy Tickets
Boat Party No 6 : Sunday 30th August
Sailing Time: 18.00 - 22.00
Lowlife featuring:
DJ's: Bill Brewster, Frank Broughton, Matthew Burgess & Michael Cook
Buy Tickets
 
What can I say? Brilliant week had!

:D Brilliant crowd!

:D Brilliant music! Jesse Rose and Kenji Takimi particular highlights along with hearing Josephine (La Version Francais) by Chris Rea!

:D £1.50 - £2.50 a 1/2 litre of beer, a little bit better than £10 a drink in Ibiza clubs.

:D The Croatians are the nicest people you will ever meet, friendly bar staff made a change

:D Funktion One Soundsystem throughout and even on the boat

:D No lager louts being sick or fighting in footie tops

:D Barberrela Club is fantastic!

If you fancy something different next year, check it out. Dancing outside listening to Balearic Classics. At one point we thought we were in Amnesia in 88!


Jesse Rose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub-IIeu-FMw

Friday Afternoon Boat Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaSkeHsv-4

Night Boat Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gxQpiBFwTs

Main Outside Bit - Last Tune!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYMuuCgdCUw
 
Dirk Bigler said:
What can I say? Brilliant week had!

:D Brilliant crowd!

:D Brilliant music! Jesse Rose and Kenji Takimi particular highlights along with hearing Josephine (La Version Francais) by Chris Rea!

:D £1.50 - £2.50 a 1/2 litre of beer, a little bit better than £10 a drink in Ibiza clubs.

:D The Croatians are the nicest people you will ever meet, friendly bar staff made a change

:D Funktion One Soundsystem throughout and even on the boat

:D No lager louts being sick or fighting in footie tops

:D Barberrela Club is fantastic!

If you fancy something different next year, check it out. Dancing outside listening to Balearic Classics. At one point we thought we were in Amnesia in 88!


Jesse Rose
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ub-IIeu-FMw

Friday Afternoon Boat Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzaSkeHsv-4

Night Boat Party
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gxQpiBFwTs

Main Outside Bit - Last Tune!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYMuuCgdCUw
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gutted beyond words to miss it :cry: check DJH for more reviews.

that Jesse Rose clip looks NUTS! :D
 
yeah, I go on there quite a lot. An extremely valuable resource for balearic/underground dance music. I generally go on Faith for deep house, + RA and a trillion blogsites for the mixes and cheeky rips, and more recently, started frequenting SLAM for the out and out comedy. I used to go on the Defected forum for a while but it got overrun by muppets. (see also the BBC forums) Also Big Chill and Sunday Best occasionally during the festie season, the Giles Peterson and Erol Alkan boards get some good bearded debates going, and the open UK Police forum is good for a laugh too.

There really isn't time in the day... I need a computer banning order
 
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