TRIBAL GATHERING VENUE CHANGE:
DANCE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO ITS ROOTS
DANCE-ROCK NEWCOMER JULIET, HIP-HOP EXTRAORDINAIRES SCRATCH PERVERTS AND SEMINAL PRODUCER DERRICK MAY ADDED TO OUTSTANDING LINE-UP
Tribal Gathering are set to announce this week that this year’s event, which takes place Saturday 16th July 2005, will move from its initial location in Leeds, to Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire.
The move to Luton Hoo has been prompted by the overwhelming support that Dance artists have shown for Tribal Gathering and the Playing Alive Foundation, particularly with the additions of new girl on the scene Juliet, hip-hop DJs Scratch Perverts and Detroit pioneer Derrick May. They join the already impressive line-up of celebrated acts such as Groove Armada, Audio Bully’s and the recently confirmed Derek Carter, DJ Zinc, A-SKILLS, Mylo and Tiga.
As the festival is returning after eight years for the sole purpose of bringing global awareness and to fundraise for the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, Tribal Gathering is delighted to make this change, in order to accommodate for a higher number of attendees at the event and to raise as much money as possible.
Luton Hoo will not be an unfamiliar site for those who have followed Tribal Gathering throughout the years – and it also has the honour of being the last site that an outdoor event by Tribal Gathering was held. The first time Luton Hoo was visited by Tribal Gathering was in 1996, when over 30,000 people attended the event. The line-up was as good then as it is this year, with acts such as Black Grape, Chemical Brothers and Goldie. The following year, again at Luton Hoo, saw Kraftwerk emerging from retirement to play after a 15-year absence, to an even bigger crowd of 40,000.
Riding high on the success of her first single ‘Avalon’ Juliet will be performing a hybrid of melodic electronica and 1980’s influenced new wave, with songs taken from her debut album ‘Random Order’, which is out July 4th. Having been hooked up with Stuart Price, aka celebrated producer Jacques Lu Cont of Les Rhythm Digitales, Juliet has been able to work with an impressive array of producers and arrangers such as Guy Sigsworth (Bjork, Madonna) and Mark ‘Spike’ Kent (Depeche Mode, Massive Attack) and grown into a style that incorporates the current interest in 80s inspired music with a progressive and contemporary take on electronica. Juliet is expected to join Groove Armada and Mylo in the Starship Universe Arena.
Scheduled to appear in the Planet of the Bass Punks arena alongside Bugz in the Attic and DJ Yoda, will be the progressive and hugely successful Scratch Perverts, who will be demonstrating their creative energy and enthusiasm to win over the Tribal Gatherers. Famous for their battle DJing, which garnered them various titles such as two World DMC Team titles, they have now moved into a more eclectic area of hip-hop, incorporating influences from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Aphex Twin.
The addition of Derrick May to the line-up will undoubtedly light up the faces of all who find themselves in the Tribal Sessions arena, due to his incredible reputation as one of the early Detroit producers that changed the face and scope of electronic dance music. One of the first American techno artists to tour England, May’s single ‘Strings of Life’ was central to the 1987/ 1988 house explosion, and his label Transmat is widely recognised as one of the most respected techno labels world-wide.
Over 30 acts have been confirmed so far, which include, Groove Armada, Audio Bully’s, Danny Rampling, Mike Pickering, El Presidente, Infadels, Krysko, Layo and Bushwacka, Zero 7, Francois K, Plump DJs, Krafty Kuts, Victor Calderone, X-Press 2, Chicken Lips, Joey Negro, Norman Jay, Unabombers, Bugz in the Attic, DJ Yoda, Dave Beer and Bez, 20:20 Soundsystem, Stanton Warriors and more.
Exactly 20 years after the legendary Live Aid concert, Tribal Gathering returns for the first time in eight years in a huge fund-raising venture organised by David Vincent and the Playing Alive Foundation. All profits from the event will go to the Playing Alive Foundation, an organisation that will then pass it on to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) in aid of the massive humanitarian disaster in Sudan.
Tribal Gathering will be held in Luton Hoo on 16th July 2005. Tickets for the event can be purchased from www.ticketline.co.uk or by phoning the Tribal Gathering hotline on 0161 832 1111. For more detail about the event, or about the Playing Alive Foundation, please visit www.tribalgathering.co.uk, or www.playing-alive.org. Galaxy FM have been appointed as radio partner for the event, for more details about the network please visit www.galaxyfm.co.uk
