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Best UK Dance festival?

Hi guys,

Posting from way down in australia im thinking of coming to europe over your summer. The only problem is that there 5000 festivals to choose from with absolutely crazy lineups (by Australian standards).

I mean theres GKGG, creamfields, homelands, coloursfest and thats just in the UK let alone holland and what not.

My question to you people is which ONE of these festivals is most worth it?

Imo i would pick global over the others as its 10x better imo i also go to coloursfest as its just down the orad from me,it has a good atmosphere.

GKGG is apparently going to be a two day festival from this year onwards, with camping and stuff.

For the majority of us, this doesn't bode well as we will probably have to share a campsite with lots of pikeys from the DnB arena, and after the stuff we saw last year, we don't want any of that shit happening!

Also if they split into two days, what are the odds of them splitting the lineups between two days, and thus making you spend more for a two day ticket

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Originally posted by dj_mdma Also if they split into two days, what are the odds of them splitting the lineups between two days, and thus making you spend more for a two day ticket

Also if they do that and you only want to do the one day then you might miss out on some djs you would have otherwise caught .. however i do believe they said the first day would be live acts and such and the second day would be dj sets as it was in the past in essence .. still i could be wrong ..

i'm an aussie working over here atm.. and after going to trance energy on the weekend, have to say, that it just doesnt compare to australia. you can't even imagine the scale.

sadly, i have to be back in aus for the start of july for 3 weeks, and as such miss out on sensation.. however, i will be going to GKGG.. going to be mental

i'll also hit up dancevalley hopefully.. which i think is a little later or something!

I think most outdoor festivals are commercialised piles of wank now, I'd stick with Dance Valley mate. I am sure that is far superior than anything the UK has to offer.

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Originally posted by Cru54d3r however i do believe they said the first day would be live acts and such and the second day would be dj sets as it was in the past in essence .. still i could be wrong ..

correct, none of the big named djs will play on friday night. Will be stuff like Chemical Brothers, Basement Jaxx etc. Supposedly talk of a future gods arena on the friday night tho

Re: Best UK Dance festival?

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Originally posted by Solstice Hi guys, Posting from way down in australia im thinking of coming to europe over your summer. The only problem is that there 5000 festivals to choose from with absolutely crazy lineups (by Australian standards). I mean theres GKGG, creamfields, homelands, coloursfest and thats just in the UK let alone holland and what not. My question to you people is which ONE of these festivals is most worth it?

which genres of dance music do you like?

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Originally posted by sykadelik I think most outdoor festivals are commercialised piles of wank now, I'd stick with Dance Valley mate. I am sure that is far superior than anything the UK has to offer.

i agree they attract the wrong sort of crowd i doubt ill go to any outdoor festival after the rubbish time i had at GG 2003 and the ticket prices r expensive

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Originally posted by slinkyhead which genres of dance music do you like?

A large variety : Tech/progressive trance, breaks, prog house, Slower DnB (high contrast, kiko, andy c), all sorts of house.

The only thing i hate is hardstyle/hardcore - pretty much everything else i like.

That being said i don't think i'd do a party like trance energy, last years lineup looked cheesy as shit.

Preferrably a lineup with the bedrock/godskitchen sort of stuff would be awesome.

Looks like dancevalley is getting the thumbs up from everyone though, any word on the lineup yet?

i haven't come across anything yet. from memory its in august or something.. so hopefully in a few months they'll let us know. it'll be big no doubt though

Global Gathering had around 100 Djs last year, so theres loads of different styles. Check out http://www.godskitchen.com/global/ you can check out which DJs were there.

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Originally posted by Solstice A large variety : Tech/progressive trance, breaks, prog house, Slower DnB (high contrast, kiko, andy c), all sorts of house. Preferrably a lineup with the bedrock/godskitchen sort of stuff would be awesome.

gotta be global then dude especially if you want to see the bigger named djs. Also Bedrock do the prog arena at Godskitchen Global Gathering

2 days will be kind on annoying tho.... hopefully everyone good will be playing 1 day or the other

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Originally posted by Solstice 2 days will be kind on annoying tho.... hopefully everyone good will be playing 1 day or the other

bands are playing on the friday night til 2am, the likes of Chemical Bro, Basement Jaxx etc.

Saturday has the djs. Probably a very similar line-up to this year.

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