Dance Day (Saturday)

Newest Review: ... Marquees. The main Essential Stage is the place to find all the large name live acts. This year headlined by the Stereo MCs and Public Enemy. Whilst the other stages support a large range of current dance/electronic music forms from the mainstream chart orientated Ibiza trash to the experimental and leftfield world of the underground. My day kicked off with a visit to the Wax/Flux tent to catch a DJ set from the legendary baldy techno boffin Richie Hawtin (aka Plastikman). His set of minimalist techno went down well with the majority of the crowd who seemed ... more

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Dance Day (Saturday): Dodgy DJing and Joy Division? (1205 words)
by - written on 15/07/01 (Very useful, 32 readings)
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With Glastonbury off the menu due to the foot and mouth crisis ,last year’s crowd problems and the tragic events at Rosklide. The V festival turning even more into corporate hell with Richard Branson cast as the devil. Reading/Leeds Carling Weekend offering the most derivative and unchallenging line up since the year of Meat Loaf, Bonnie Tyler and Starship. Things were looking bad for the UK festival circuit. Praise then to the organisers of the Essential Festival for producing the most eclectic and interesting festival line up of the Summer. Initially things didn’t look good for the Essential festival, forced to relocate from Brighton (foot and ... Read the complete review

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