As we talked about final week – in really stunning prose, written by me – it’s Online Ticket Queue Season right here in London. The skies are blue, the timber are getting their leaves again and seemingly each festival is asserting its comeback for 2021.
The pre-sale tickets for tiny Peckham indie festival Gala bought out in a matter of minutes. Defected, an electronic weekender on the Drumsheds, bought out in 90 minutes. Mighty Hoopla bought out in report time.
Now it’s time for a contemporary addition to the scene. Waterworks is a model new festival, on account of arrive in Gunnersbury Park on Sat Sept 25. An electronic music utopia, the occasion actively has no headliners, it’s only a decide’n’mixture of among the greatest DJs and artists in the sport proper now – each regionally and internationally. Expect appearances from London nights like Adonis and Body Hammer in addition to beloved artists like Craig Richards, Ben UFO, Midland, Moxie, Josey Rebelle, Saoirse, Novelist and masses extra.
Organisers say they picked Gunnersbury Park as a result of they liked the concept of placing on ‘the sensory expertise that correct dance music deserves; unparallelled in London’ in the center of fairly woodland. They additionally mentioned they had been eager to pressure East London dance music lovers to get first-hand expertise of the exhausting weekly battle West Londoners face in regular occasions – having to journey miles throughout town every weekend to attend what typically finally ends up being a mediocre birthday celebration – in order that they might lastly study to select extra central assembly factors. Only joking, the completely didn’t say that, however they did promise high tier staging and sound. (Something London one-dayers battle with.)
Can you belief them to ship? Welllll, we’d say so. Namely as a result of the occasion’s the work of the individuals behind Croatia festival Love International and Time Out faves Percolate. (They’ve been placing on a few of London’s high underground events since 2012 – we’ve beforehand described them as ‘gloriously sweaty dancefloor odysseys’ – launched their very own festival in 2017 and have been curating the line-up at Brixton Courtyard throughout the pandemic.)
Tickets go on sale tomorrow (Thurs March 18) and 10 am and price £49.50 – £59.50.
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