BLOODSTOCK goes pink; reveals more bands

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Some of BLOODSTOCK HQ’s favourite festival moments are wandering amongst their metal brethren at Catton Park and seeing someone become a fan of a new band. Elevating the best upcoming heavy metal talent is one of the chief aims of Metal 2 The Masses, and as finals continue, we’ve details of a few more winners you’ll be able to see at BLOODSTOCK this August, alongside the first of the Jagermeister stage bands to be announced! 

First though, BLOODSTOCK also wants to take a moment to celebrate and elevate the work of an amazing woman. 2022 saw the very tragic loss of Sylvia Lancaster OBE, the pioneering fundraiser & educator who established The Sophie Lancaster Foundation, as well as of course being Sophie’s mum and a dear friend of everyone at BLOODSTOCK HQ. 

At Sylvia’s funeral earlier this year, she had requested that everyone attending wear something pink, as this was her favourite colour.  So in honour of Sylvia, at this year’s festival on the Sunday, we’re mirroring the sentiment and asking BLOODSTOCKers to please wear an item of pink in acknowledgement of her truly phenomenal work, which has been life changing for many in alternative subcultures.  Perhaps you’d like to don a pink shirt or hat, or maybe plump for a full pink outfit!  Let’s see a sea of pink for Sylvia on Sunday, and don’t forget to drop by The Sophie Lancaster Foundation stand in the arena and make a donation if you can. 

With Metal 2 The Masses finals well underway across the country, BLOODSTOCK is excited to share a few more of the winning bands, who’ll be performing on the New Blood stage. Essex champions EXISTENTIALIST are set to impress with their blackened death metal on Friday, alongside immersive goth rockers FYRESKY, who won the Kent heat. Milton Keynes victors VERMINTHRONE add some sludgecore flavour (imagine if EyeHateGod, Lamb of God, and Mastodon had a child) to Saturday’s bill, ably assisted by alt metal crew NOVACROW, who took first place for Merseyside.

Joining them on Saturday are Stoke’s brutal metal vanquishers HEADPRESS, Norwich heavyweights COLLAPSE THE SKY who crushed the competition in East Anglia, plus the kings of the London final, blistering thrashers IMPERIUM, who were so stoked to win, they also sent this message: “It goes without saying… the highlight of our music career so far. Winning has blown us away and we can’t wait to walk on that New Blood stage and do our thing! Getting to this point has been a winding road, but M2TM has humbled us, improved us and now given us this incredible opportunity to play Bloodstock Open Air. We can’t thank our fans enough for the support over the last year pushing us on and making our shows what they are. Thank you so much to everyone out there, you are a huge part of Imperium.” 

Sunday welcomes Leicester’s conquerors SULVAIN, four devotees of NOLA grunge from Northampton, with more bands yet to be revealed as the MT2M finals continue! BLOODSTOCK can also reveal some of the hotly tipped talent who’ll be ripping up the Jagermeister stage this year, so why not grab a cold one and go check out what could become your new favourite band.

Friday brings Rotherham’s SWAMP COFFIN, offering up a slab of nihilistic, metallic sludge for your eyes and ears, and good-humoured, Scottish rap/thrash n rollers, CERTAIN DEATH, whose music you may recognise from numerous extreme sports videos including the ‘Thrasher’ skateboarding series (or even just their ‘Jailbait’ single from colossal video game Grand Theft Auto VI).

Saturday now includes doom/thrash/groove fans BOZ, riff-worshipping Dundee trio SOLAR SONS, and rock doomsters MASTER CHARGER, hailing from the blackest heart of the Midlands. If you’re still head-bangin’ by Sunday, head over to catch balls to the wall, ground-shakers DEADLOCK SAINTS (think Motorhead meets Led Zeppelin) as well as some filthy sludge – by way of some grindcore, prog, psychedelia, and stoner doom too – from Limerick City’s TOOMS.  

Don’t miss BLOODSTOCK’s latest Facebook Live (and also on Instagram) TONIGHT at 7pm for the latest news, gossip, giveaways, and more. Get excited with your fellow BLOODSTOCKers and ask any burning questions direct to festival management.

KAS:ST & Gordo come together for new track “Leaving Earth” on Cercle Records 

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KAS:ST at the Cercle Festival 2022
KAS:ST premiered their new track “Leaving Earth” released on June 23rd on Cercle Recordsduring the Cercle Festival 2022.

“Leaving Earth” is a hypnotic, aerial track mixing melodic and powerful techno. The track offers a well-worked break, accompanied by Ki’s spellbinding vocals and co-produced by Gordo, the alter-ego of the successful producer Carnage.The emotion expressed through the track is gripping, at the border between melancholy and a certain darkness. Quite used to the cosmos theme, KAS:ST inspired themselves through Ariane Rocket stage, where they premiered track at the Cercle Festival 2022. The superb ‘Leaving Earth’ is a big room cut with rolling drums and bright, trance-like synths that bring a subtle sense of euphoria. The mood is epic and the emotions from the futuristic vocal that is deeply buried in the mix is spine tingling.Each KAS:ST track released is a journey bringing together dark and melancholic emotions without ever losing touch with the clubbing aspect of techno. KAS:ST never cease to push their music beyond techno boundaries, they create an atypical and avant garde blend of electronic music. Presenting on the world electronic circuit as both DJ and Live duo. Producing and directing their own music videos they have cumulating over 15 million plays, 30 million Spotify streams, 80k instagram followers, sold out merchandising. They have remixed legends Moby, Monolink and NTO and also been remixed by renowned artists at the polar opposite of the techno sphere, like 999999999 or Tale Of Us. KAS:ST bring their own synth laden and stylish yet emotive take to the genre each time.

Both acts started sending beats and vocals to each other some months ago. It all came together for this special occasion. Their desire to gather different aspects of the musical prism led them to exchange with the renowned producer Gordo. It all came together for this special occasion. Gordo is one of the few artists to ever dominate both the hip hop and dance music charts. He recently co-produced half of Drake’s last album which already break the most first-day streams for a dance album on Apple Music. Cercle Records is a Label that produces live electronic music in-person events from unique locations around the world

After breathtaking livestreams, Cercle has launched the Cercle Records label signing with talented and worldwide artists. The French label is dedicated to promoting artists and venues with an exceptional production. Cercle Record’s goal is to raise awareness around art, cultural heritage sites and great sceneries through a unique music journey. The year 2022 marks the launch of a new concept for the label: exclusive in-person parties which will not be streamed. To have the chance to live these special episodes, it is necessary to go on the unique spots finely selected following the Cercle and Cercle Records’ DNA.

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Claptone’s Masquerade at Pacha Ibiza Review

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One of Ibizas iconic nightclubs Pacha was our choice of destination in our visit over to the White Isle this week. Pacha is steeped in history hosting some of the biggest nights on the island week in and week out over the primetime summer months.

This year, every Saturday night, the masked legend that is Claptone, hosts his Masquerade evening at Pacha. Walking through the door, we gladly accepted a gold venetian style mask, much like the one Claptone wears, and headed through the foyer and into the famed dance floor.

Supporting the German DJ on the night are Lovra, Dom Dolla and Jacques Lu Cont. Strolling in early, Lovra is on the wheels of steel, getting the crowd warmed up for the evening. Her energy behind the decks is infectious and the dance floor fills before Dom Dolla takes to the decks. The house music producer from Australia treats the crowd through an uplifting set, full of hands in the air tracks right before the main act for the night arrives.

Arriving in his Masquerade attire, Claptone’s gold mask shines beneath the amazing lighting system Pacha has installed on its ceiling. With the main room, now full to the brim and the surrounding VIP tables packed, Claptone takes us on a journey through some of his biggest hits and remixes. Professional dancers wearing all sorts of funky outfits take position on the various podiums around the room and across the DJ booth and groove as Claptone kicks off his set. The headline set starts as expected with a banging house hit Lauren (I Can’t Stay Forever) by Oden & Fatzo, the crowd erupts into cheers, fists are pumping, heads nodding and bodies grooving. This really sets the scene for the rest of the evening, Claptone’s two hour set has the crowd reacting to every single tune. I, along with pretty much everyone else on the dance floor, remain dancing for the entire set, and that is testament to the quality of music that Claptone provided on the night. Towards the end of his set the music was taken up a notch, Claptone’s tech house sound rounding off what I can only describe as musically one of the most entertaining sets I’ve heard live in a long time!

If I’d recommend a night in Ibiza this summer, I’m most definitely going to recommend Masquerade at Pacha. The crowd, the music, and the atmosphere where just right for a night to dance away too.

Claptone is playing every Saturday evening until the 6th of October. Huge thanks to the Pacha PR team for accommodating us on the evening.

Decibel Open Air Completes Lineup that includes Paul Kalbrenner, Caribou, Amelie Lens and more

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2manydjs, KAS:ST, Solardo and more added

September 2022
Saturday 10th / Sunday 11th
PARCO DELLE CASCINE
FLORENCE, ITALY

Decibel Open Air announces the full program of its 4th edition, spanning 10th and 11th September 2022 (noon-midnight) at Parco delle Cascine in Florence, Italy.

1979, 2manydjs, KAS:ST, Klaus, Kommando, Malandria Jr, Mattia Trani (live) and Solardo are added to complete an already impressive lineup that offers something for everyone of an underground persuasion.

Decibel Open Air is one the most highly anticipated summer festivals in the European calendar. The highlights? A new location, three stages (one brand new), more than 40 international artists (live and DJ sets), plus the immersive universe of elrow and Terminal V. Decibel Open Air line up will see superstars Paul Kalkbrenner, Caribou, Cosmo, Reinier Zonneveld and Vitalic (live), and Amelie Lens, Fisher, Marco Carola, Michael Bibi, Nina Kraviz, Peggy Gou and Richie Hawtin (DJ sets).

With the announcement of the full lineup and daily splits, fans can begin to get excited about the latest edition of Decibel Open Air.

Decibel Open Air daily full line up

Saturday 10th: Amelie Lens, Fisher, Marco Carola, Richie Hawtin, Giorgia Angiuli, Fideles, Stephan Jolk, Malandra Jr. (DOA stage); Kölsch, Wade, Marc Maya, Toni Varga, Viviana Casanova, Dimmish, Kommando (elrow stage); 2manydjs, Caribou (live), Overmono (live), Jessy Lanza, Elkka, Giulia Tess (Amphitheatre stage)

Sunday 11th: Peggy Gou, Paul Kalkbrenner (live), Nina Kraviz, Michael Bibi, Solardo, KAS:ST, Pôngo (live), 1979 (DOA stage); 999999999 (live), Adiel, I Hate Models, Pan-Pot, Reinier Zonneveld (live), T78, Mattia Trani (live), Sara Mozzillo (Terminal V stage); Cosmo (live), MACE (dj set), Vitalic (live), Tamburi Neri (live), Klaus (Amphitheatre stage)

Tickets and info:
www.decibelopenair.com

Volta XR’s immersive visual experience playing a pivotal role at the Gas Tower & Greenpeace stage during Glastonbury 2022

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Bonobo, TSHA, Jamie Jones, HE.SHE.THEY and more will be utilising Volta’s XR technology at the festival

Free, self-service XR creation platform Volta XR is to play a vital role in heightening the experience of many festival goers at this year’s Glastonbury. Already being used by artists such as Imogen Heap, DJ Yoda, Maceo Plex, The Blessed Madonna and more, this year the game-changing technology will be front-and-centre at the Gas Tower, Shangri-La as well as on the Greenpeace stage with the HE.SHE.THEY party. It will offer immersive visuals for a handful of artists including Bonobo, TSHA and Jamie Jones.

Volta has previously been highlighted as One of TIME Magazine’s Best Inventions of 2021 and has been enabling creators to broadcast ‘metaverse-reaching’ immersive experiences. The innovative platform means live streaming artists can employ any audio source from desktop audio to MIDI controllers and DAWS like Ableton to automate various visual effects in sync with their music in real time.

The Gas Tower at Shangri-La is considered to be one of Glastonbury’s most iconic after-hours venues. It’s a place where technology and art, activism and education all come together in collaborative fashion to offer a glimpse of the future. Volta XR are amongst a world class list of VJ and AV artists including Chinese icon Ai Weiwei. The technology will also be used at ​​the Greenpeace stage with international house and techno party series HE.SHE.THEY.

Artists confirmed to be using Volta XR throughout Glastonbury include Bonobo, Jamie Jones, Grove, Potter Payper, TSHA and Fumez The Engineer.

Volta will also be powering the visuals for Greenpeace’s iconic “rave tree” as part of He.She.They’s takeover on Friday evening. Artists in question are: Elkka, Syreeta, Chloe Caillet and Maze & Masters!

Whilst Volta is powering a number of high-profile artists at Glastonbury, Volta can be used by any artist no matter if they’re: playing at Glasto or a club night, making a music video or social media content, or streaming from their bedroom to Youtube or Twitch.

NIN – The Eden Sessions 2022, REVIEWED!

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© Anna Hyams for Summer Festival Guide

It’s one of the hottest days of the year, we’re edging up against the solstice, and we’ve decided to spend the day in a giant greenhouse. Yes, we’ve finally made it back to Eden Project Cornwall, for The Eden Sessions – a series of gigs held in arguably the world’s most beautiful venue. This year so far, Eden has hosted the likes of My Chemical Romance and Noel Gallagher but tonight we’re down for day one of the iconic Nine Inch Nails double-header.

Along with your ticket for one of the Sessions, you are able to visit The Eden Project itself on the day of or the day after your event. Given that standard tickets are around the £30 mark, this is a great way to experience the biomes as an added bonus. We take a tour of the Mediterranean biome first, which is full of citrus, herbs and grapevines – it smells absolutely incredible, but good grief is it hotter than the seventh circle of hell today. There’s so much to see and learn about, but our favourite occupation is lizard spotting.


The bigger Rainforest biome is actually slightly cooler (owing to the canopy and the humidity, we did learn something) and there are water stops all the way around. We took the treetop walk, found some cooling mists and marveled at giant bamboo. Actually, the best bit was all the black-clad gothic types sweating it out, and having a lovely time taking selfies in the daylight for a change. Dipping out of the biomes into the central café, we recharge with burrito wraps and Cornish Cola (yes, it’s a thing) – followed up with ice-cream in the sunshine and a look around the outside garden area. There’s a tipi bar (with special commemorative Sessions cups on offer) and a regular bar, either side of the arena.

Heading into the arena area, a banked-sided perfect bowl amphitheatre, it’s obvious that everyone is going to get a great view from wherever they stand tonight. With around a 6,500 capacity, it’s a smallish venue which definitely makes for an intimate show. Despite the still sizzling heat of the day, the crowd of black tshirts is amassing ready for support act Nitzer Ebb.

 © Anna Hyams for Summer Festival Guide

Nitzer Ebb (sans Doug McCarthy), 80’s Brit-EDM with a very industrial sound, are raucously good fun – and vocalist Bon Harris’ gives a convincing portrayal of dingy-club-basement-rave, in the Cornish sunshine. I think they’ve managed to secure more than a few new fans tonight.

Nine Inch Nails are hailed in with a wall of smoke so dense that it takes half of intro track ‘Somewhat Damaged’ to even see the outline of Trent Reznor, but when we do – an almighty roar goes up from the arena. It is wild that a band who sell out huge stadiums all over the world, are here tonight in the sleepy leg of England, but there are some die-hard fans here who have travelled great distances for it.

Reznor and bandmate Atticus Ross take no time at all to bring the fury, the full force of Reznor as a performer – backed by an incredible line up of talent (Finck, Cortini, Rubin), it’s already everything we were waiting for. Dressed in a beaten leather jacket and a muscle-hugging black tshirt – it’s clear Reznor has left behind the angsty teen pvc-gloves and visible ennui behind, and is giving off big John Wick vibes. The huge lighting rigs behind beat to the heart-stopping wave of sound for ‘The Day The World Went Away’, and the crowd goes absolutely beserk.

© Anna Hyams for Summer Festival Guide

‘Mr. Self Destruct’ and ‘The Frail’ are stunningly epic, and we are treated to a rare outing of ‘Love Is Not Enough’. ‘Wish’ buries itself deep into your soul, but it’s ‘The Perfect Drug’ that just has the entire arena bouncing with wild abandon. There’s a visceral freedom in NIN’s music that allows for chaotic expression, and it’s clear this crowd has come to let it out – the nihilistic need for post-pandemic self-destruction.

Grabbing up a guitar, followed by a saxophone, followed by a tambourine, you get a glimpse of the passion Reznor has for music in all forms – and I can’t help but giggle that he’s basically screaming the iconic lines (you know the ones…) from ‘Closer’ across the sleepy Cornish countryside. I wonder if he finds the juxtaposition as amusing as I do, this certainly isn’t your standard insulated concert venue.

‘Copy of A’ has the whole arena singing/shouting along, and the show is absolutely relentless, with the band taking hardly any breaks between song after heavy song, Reznor is a machine. However he does have time to quip “We love this place, but does the sun ever goddamn go down?! Feeling exposed up here, there’s too much light” – which in retrospect of the following night’s weather, might have been a touch too close to tempting fate.

© Anna Hyams for Summer Festival Guide

Referencing our dear friend the global pandemonium, Reznor confides “It’s been disorienting to come out and play shows, but it’s also been fucking great” hitting on the nerve I think many are feeling tonight, before going full grunge cover in homage to late friend and mentor David Bowie, with ‘I’m Afraid of Americans’ and ‘Fashion’.

The night finally descends over Eden, in time for ‘Head Like A Hole’ to absolute bury us in the ecstasy of pure live music joy. The biomes are lit in time with the music, rippling through blues and purples to pure white matching the stage lights. The encore, ‘Everything’ and ‘March of the Pigs’ are amazing, but there may be nothing that comes as close to a perfect concert moment as closer ‘Hurt’ does tonight. The air is vibrating with anticipation as Reznor lines up those opening lyrics, and then it becomes the most gut punching dirge outro you can imagine. We wish there was more, we will there to be more, but it’s over. This one goes down in my personal history of one of the most iconic shows I’ve ever seen. Both the venue and the music, will be hard to live up to.

© Anna Hyams for Summer Festival Guide

Truck Festival 2022 Preview

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With the past few years being affected by covid its great to know that in just a few weeks time Truck Festival is going to be back again for the weekend with a huge lineup for its 25th anniversary!

This year’s lineup is being headlined by Bombay Bicycle Club, The Kooks, Sam Fender and Kasabian. Over the weekend there are a huge amount of great acts performing aswell on various stages.

Summer Festival Guide have been covering the festival for many years and are always on the lookout for the best acts to check out. Below is a few of the acts that we think you should try and see.

YARD ACT

ALFIE TEMPLEMAN

THE MURDER CAPITAL

GRANDMAS HOUSE

TOM LUMLEY & THE BRAVE LIASION

SAM RYDER

PHOEBE GREEN

CRYSTAL TIDES

For all information on the festival you can visit their website https://truckfestival.com/

Also if you download the official Truck Festival App you can get more information and stage times for the whole weekend. We hope you have a great weekend and will see you there!

Below is some photos from previous years by Kane Howie Photography

Isle of Wight festival – 2022 review

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With the 2021 festival delayed and taking place late in September, less than nine months have passed since the crowds last cruised onboard the Isle of Wight for the legendary festival. It is understandable why the huge crowds flock back to the island each year and the event is often nominated for the best International Music Festival.

Festivals are no longer three day events, and those lucky enough to arrive on Thursday saw Rick Parfitt Jnr, son of the late Quo guitarist open this year’s festivities with a crowd-pleasing mix of classic covers from Kings of Leon, Prince, to his late dad’s classic singalong Rocking All Over The World.

Later and with considerably less energy, Shaun Ryder and his Happy Mondays headlined the opening night. While Shaun was no longer the energetic Madchester frontman, Bez made up for it, looking in unbelievable health with his freaky dancing and his trademark classic maracas.  Happy Thursday indeed.

FRIDAY HIGHLIGHTS

Allowing everyone a nice lie-in and a great opportunity to check out the mix of cabaret, circus, dance and theatre at the Cirque de la Quirk, The Vaccines began the main-stage on Friday at a lofty 4pm with their 3-minute indie-rock singalongs.

Later, Sigrid travelled from her native Norway to warmer climates, getting the crowd dancing with some fantastic new pop tunes, with great messages emphasising in her lyrics that “when the world is on your shoulders…it’s just a bad day, not a bad life…”

Sigrid – © Graham Tarrant

Shortly afterwards, the Red Arrows flew in, before Nile Rodgers & Chic took over the party. Nile was asked how his music should be described – a heady mix of soul, funk, disco, pop and rock good tunes was the broad answer. Who needs to define musicians by genres and pigeon hole when it is this enjoyable?

Nile Rodger © Graham Tarrant

Both Nile Rodgers and the next band, Madness, could easily have been headliners, as they have taken the top-slot at many other festivals in recent years.

But this year, Lewis Capaldi took the final billing of the day. He stated his own surprise to be booked in his first ever festival headlining slot after a two year absence of new material and his previously cancelling TRNSMT summer festival to write new material – but it surely won’t be his last with his breathtaking voice. Despite the often melancholy nature of his songs, his charming warm chat in between each song showed his sense of self-defacing humour, despite his top-selling songs of loss, including “Someone You Loved” and “Hold Me While You Wait”…

SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS

The main stage on Saturday included a mix of classic bands from The Fratellis with their Chelsea Dagger singalong reverberating throughout Newport, to The Proclaimers through to Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott, better known as the voices from the Beautiful South.

However, the Big Top hosted an assortment of exciting new discoveries. 

Mark Owen © Graham Tarrant

Mark Owen, of Take That fame, ensured that getting anywhere near the tent was an impossible task for many in the early afternoon. As well as his new single ‘You Only Want Me’, he played what everyone wanted to hear – those old TT songs including ‘Rule The World’ and ‘Shine’ – in the front row, devoted fans had travelled all the way from Glasgow just for the day to see their pop idol up front and close in his orange suit, and he certainly showed why he’s had such incredible success with singalong tunes, smooth dance moves and one too many thrusting hips.

Later in the Big Top, Griff proved to be a highlight of the weekend. Having collaborated with the previously mentioned Sigrid, it’s clear why she won the Brit Award for Rising Star in 2021. Watch this space, as she is going to be huge – she deserves to be anyway…

Griff © Graham Tarrant

Headlining the main stage on Saturday evening were Kasabian, led now by former guitarist Serge, who took over when the band fired Tom Meighan following his domestic abuse conviction two years ago. After a false start due to faulty microphone, the band launched into Club Foot – the skies opened for their set and there were frequent technical issues, but they blew the rain away, finishing with anthem “Fire”. Legendary footballer and friend of the band, Peter Crouch, joined the band onstage to pogo around, sadly no robot celebrations were demonstrated.

Over in the Big Top, Shaggy brought the night to a close. Describing himself as a reggae superstar, it was surprising just how many songs he had. As well as his “Boombastic”, “Angel” and “It Wasn’t Me“, for some reason known only to himself, he’s decided to release an album of Frank Sinatra covers in his own in inimitable style, playing “Come Fly With Me” and “Fly Me To The Moon” – entertaining, tongue in cheeky but very odd!

Shaggy © Graham Tarrant

SUNDAY HIGHLIGHTS

Sunday also started with some classics from the likes of Del Amitri and Toyah, who defied her years by looking fantastic in a gold sequine dress.

Toyah © Graham Tarrant

Local Isle of Wight band Wet Leg played to possibly an even bigger audience than Mark Owen. Clearly incredibly nervous at possibly their biggest gig to date, the band defy the claim that music on the island is 20 years behind the rest of the UK mainland. At the end of Ur Mum they finish with the ear splitting

‘OK, I’ve been practicing my longest and loudest scream, OK, here we go, 1, 2, 3, ‘blood-curdling shriek”

Later, fresh from his goal-scoring and man-of-the-match appearance at Soccer Aid, Tom Grennan hobbled on stage on crutches and kicked it out of the park with his set. Stating himself he looked like a cheesy-puff in his orange shirt, the crowd loved his pop tunes, even though they all sounded as forgettable as the last. 

Tom Grennan © Graham Tarrant

Throughout the day, it was impossible to avoid who everyone had come to see close the festival – the mighty Muse. T-shirts were seen on the young and old throughout the day and they didn’t disappoint. 

Coming on dressed in matching masks, Devon’s finest blew away the crowd with anthem after anthem. If you’ve never had chance to see Muse play live, they are without doubt one of the top live acts in the world. Beginning with glam rock swagger and playing crowd favourites “Hysteria”, “Plug-In Baby” and “Time Is Running Out”, the stage show was incredible, complete with the usual stereotypical pyrotechnics and streamers. Going one further, Muse transformed the stage with a huge ‘Will of the People’ mask coming to life from the new album – very 1984! Finishing with Knights of Cydonia, they brought the festival to a dramatic close singing:

Don’t waste your time
Or time will waste you…

This festival certainly wasn’t a waste of time, judging by the shattered faces on the ferry home the following day…book your ferries early next year as the island is sure to host an incredible line up again as it does each year. 

Words and photos: Graham Tarrant

Joseph Capriati Presents Metamorfosi Announces Headliners

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He is joined at three parties by the likes of Michael Bibi, Len Faki, Reinier Zonneveld live, Ben Klock, Sven Väth, Markantonio and more

Tickets: amnesia.es. / https://ra.co/events/1532178

Joseph Capriati Presents Metamorfosi is just around the corner and today the highly anticipated events reveal their line-ups. Playing at Amnesia across July 22nd, August 5th and August 19th will be global tastemakers including Sven Väth, Michael Bibi, Len Faki, Reinier Zonneveld live, Ben Klock, Enrico Sangiuliano, Indira Paganotto, Adiel, Markantonio, Francesco Squillante, Gianni Callipari b2b Flavio Folco, Bobby Shann and more.
Tickets are limited and are on sale now at amnesia.es.

These three special parties are set to bring a widescreen musical experience to Amnesia. They will be headed up by Joseph himself who is in constant evolution and will play across a broad spectrum of house, techno, and plenty in between.

For the first party on July 22nd he will be joined by the edgy and new school star Michael Bibi, a leader of the tech house sound who has his own fresh perspective. Italian Francesco Squillante also plays on the Terrace while the while the Club Room features Len Faki, the German techno mainstay and a regular at Berghain with his own darkened grooves. Filth on Acid label boss Reinier Zonneveld brings his rave and traces tinged hard techno with a special live show and Romanian Mahony who is a regular at BPM and Sonar, completes the line up.

On August 5th, Joseph plays all night long and will take a deep dive into his own collection and explore every facet of his sound on the Terrace, while Nine to Zero label head Enrico Sangiuliano, who is fresh off the back of a huge remix of Age of Love with partner Charlotte De Witte plays The Club Room. Young Spanish star and KNTXT and Second State label associate Indira Paganotto also plays, and completing the line up is a special back to back between Italians Gianni Callipari and Flavio Folco.

The final party on August 19th is another irresistible one with Joseph joined by Cocoon boss and underground icon Sven Väth who introduced the White Isle to techno more than 20 years ago with his famous label party and continues to lead from the front. Bobby Shann also plays the Terrace, while the Club Room brings Ben Klock, the Berghian associate and a master of high tempo sounds and powerful grooves, plus Italian favourite Markantonio and Adiel, who steers crowds into ecstasy with her hypnotic sets at the Goa Ultrabeat parties in Rome.

These three Joseph Capriati Presents Metamorfosi parties are bold and adventurous showcases of the most cutting edge techno sounds in the world’s most celebrated club.

July 22nd
Terrace:
Joseph Capriati
Michael Bibi
Francesco Squillante

Club Room:

Reinier Zonneveld

Len Faki
Mahony

August 5th
Terrace:
Joseph Capriati (All night long)

Club Room:
Enrico Sangiuliano
Indra Paganotto
Gianni Callipari and Flavio Folco.

August 19th
Terrace:
Joseph Capriati
Sven Väth

Club Room:
Ben Klock
Markantonio
Adiel
Bobby Shann

Otto Knows Drops New Single ‘Lover’ on Tomorrowland Music 

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https://tomorrowland.lnk.to/Lover

After finally stepping back into the electronic music industry with his mesmerizing single ‘Pyramids’ three months ago, the highly renowned Swedish progressive house sensation Otto Knows is now following up with his second single ‘Lover’ on Tomorrowland Music, released today!

Presented as a tailor-made house release for festivals and dancefloors, ‘Lover’ won’t fail to amaze you at all, given its uplifting melodies, hypnotic vocal sequences, smooth funky leads, and a sweet combination of ‘future vintage’ vibes.

After ‘Pyramids’, Otto has again been joined by trusted studio companion Alex Aris on vocals. Also joining Otto on ‘Lover’ is fellow Swede Dice Of Nights also known as Enzo Ingrosso younger brother to Swedish House Mafia’smember Sebastian Ingrosso, whom he collaborated with on the track ’Time (feat. Mapei)’ taken from the trio’s recently released and first ever studio album ‘Paradise Again’.

Music fans across the world know the Swedish DJ & producer for ‘Million Voices’, his iconic progressive house anthem and worldwide hit from 2012, which dominated charts in numerous countries and has been mesmerizing people for over a decade.

Otto Knows will be making his tremendously awaited return to the Holy Grounds of Tomorrowland this summer

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