The folks behind Tomorrowland, said to be the world's biggest dance music festival, have quite an announcement: The party is hitting the road.
Dubbed TomorrowWorld, the first iteration of a Tomorrowland-organized event outside of Belgium will take place Sept. 27-29, 2013. The destination has yet to be revealed, but the team has rolled out a website and guessing game for fans.
The news comes at a great time for the Tomorrowland team, which sold out 180,000 tickets in "just one second," according to press materials provided by the festival. Attendees from 214 countries will attend this year's main event, a higher number than those who participated in the London Olympics (204 nations). A number of festivalgoers will fly in on Tomorrowland branded planes and stay at discounted hotels.
Tomorrowland was founded by Manu and Michiel Beers, Belgian brothers who describe TomorrowWorld as "more exciting than anything we ever dreamed of when we started years ago as young music lovers and entrepreneurs."
"We see it as a big, fantastic and very unique opportunity," they said in a statement. "It will be an enormous challenge and a big step for our young, creative and vibrant team."
Though the location of the new festival has yet to be announced, the Beers brothers promise it will take place somewhere "that feels like a second home" that's "similar to our fantastic terrain in Belgium."
TomorrowWorld marks yet another step in the festival's attempts to include -- and monetize -- those who are unable to buy tickets for and/or travel to Tomorrowland. Last year, the festival partnered with YouTube to launch Tomorrowland TV, which offered seven hours of live-streaming on each day of the event.
UPDATE: Industry rabble-rouser Albert Berdellans has some more TomorrowWorld developments, which are unverified at this time. (Berdellans goes by The EDM Snob and is an employee of Ultra Music. He says the below tweets are wholly unrelated to his employment at Ultra.)
The folks behind Tomorrowland, said to be the world's biggest dance music festival, have quite an announcement: The party is hitting the road.
Dubbed TomorrowWorld, the first iteration of a Tomorrowland-organized event outside of Belgium will take place Sept. 27-29, 2013. The destination has yet to be revealed, but the team has rolled out a website and guessing game for fans.
The news comes at a great time for the Tomorrowland team, which sold out 180,000 tickets in "just one second," according to press materials provided by the festival. Attendees from 214 countries will attend this year's main event, a higher number than those who participated in the London Olympics (204 nations). A number of festivalgoers will fly in on Tomorrowland branded planes and stay at discounted hotels.
Tomorrowland was founded by Manu and Michiel Beers, Belgian brothers who describe TomorrowWorld as "more exciting than anything we ever dreamed of when we started years ago as young music lovers and entrepreneurs."
"We see it as a big, fantastic and very unique opportunity," they said in a statement. "It will be an enormous challenge and a big step for our young, creative and vibrant team."
Though the location of the new festival has yet to be announced, the Beers brothers promise it will take place somewhere "that feels like a second home" that's "similar to our fantastic terrain in Belgium."
TomorrowWorld marks yet another step in the festival's attempts to include -- and monetize -- those who are unable to buy tickets for and/or travel to Tomorrowland. Last year, the festival partnered with YouTube to launch Tomorrowland TV, which offered seven hours of live-streaming on each day of the event.
UPDATE: Industry rabble-rouser Albert Berdellans has some more TomorrowWorld developments, which are unverified at this time. (Berdellans goes by The EDM Snob and is an employee of Ultra Music. He says the below tweets are wholly unrelated to his employment at Ultra.)
I hope they bring all the production. Because to me that is the main draw of Tomorrowland. Either way I will be keeping my eyes open I was planning on going to Scotland for two weeks at the end of September. If it's all true, I'll be pushing forward my Scotland trip by a week to go to this.
iLLiE586
Atlanta is one of the last places I'd expect a pure dance music festival like this to take place in. Maybe the US version will be a trap music festival with guest appearances from Ying Yang Twins and Soulja Boy.:haha:
element-y
Wonder how legit the twitter posts are.
Didnt think they would bring it to the US this year. Figured from the previous interview it would be Mysteryland first in 2014 and Tomorrowland then 2015.
No way they can move the production. They would have to have a team build it here.
DJRYAN™
its been confirmed.. sort of.. MJ formally of HouseHold Mangement confirms that both Counterpoint and Tomorrowland will be hosted by Atlanta.. As far as the official announcement.. Stay tuned.. but it looks like this is "FACT"!!
Pantone199c
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Originally posted by element-y
Wonder how legit the twitter posts are.
Didnt think they would bring it to the US this year. Figured from the previous interview it would be Mysteryland first in 2014 and Tomorrowland then 2015.
No way they can move the production. They would have to have a team build it here.
Check out the Tomorrowland FB page. Seems legit since they have it as their cover photo.
element-y
yea just checked. But i read counterpoint is no longer happening and this is replacing it.
will apparently have same production standards (all trusses covered with decor) and camping.
DJRYAN™
iLLiE586
So this guy can just release non public info like it ain't no thing on a public Facebook page?
Pantone199c
The twitter account isn't even official and I'm sure that the guys from Tomorrowland wouldn't just let some random guy release the info like that.
DJRYAN™
Hey we're all looking out to make sure this is legit.. But when something as big as this pop's off, all of a sudden, and with reliable corroboration, then it only makes sense to show off that we're hosting one of the world's largest and most recognized events in Electronic Dance Music..
I think we're all awaiting official word from Tomorrowland. It seems like maybe we should expect something shortly, especially with all the buzz surrounding such an extraordinary event.
element-y
Whatever the case may be, if this is coming to the states, I hope the location is the right call. If it can handle a large scale event. If the city permits the pyro, fireworks, and lasers (though wont be angled at the crowds like in europe). And you can be sure stages wont be the same as those in Boom.
