Yeah, I fully endorse dour festival to be honest.
Camping ground is pretty chaotic and filthy, but unless you are terribly unlucky, you're usually surrounded by cool and alternative minded people. And if you're into drugs, you just gotta shout and someone's bound to have what u need. Don't expect to return with all your gear though, theft is common. But I only take the bare essentials with me anyway. Because of the drugs and booze, I rarely eat anything in those 4 days but the 'pain boudain' come highly recommended.
The line-up this year is quite disappointing so far, but I reckon there will still be a few additions in our little spectrum of the music.
Thursday, traditionally caters to the
drum & bass heads, with usually one tent reserved for d&b exclusively.
They've got
Danny Byrd and
Fred V & Grafix so far, so there will be 2 or 3 big names added to that tent surely. Headliner is
Squarepusher which should be a good laugh, and so far, as well on Thursday, there's
Adam Beyer, so I'm expecting a few more
techno names as well.
Friday will feature an
R&S Records Label tent, with
James Blake (dj set),
Space Dimension Controller (dj set) and
Lone confirmed so far. Apparently, two more R&S names will be announced later so that tent is a must see. Elsewhere on Friday, we'll have
Pinch and
Ikonika as well, so I expect one or two more quality dubstep/bass names to be added to that bill.
Saturday, there's going to be, unfortunately, a
Circus Label Night in one of the tents, featuring pretty much the entire
tear-out/filth/bro crew (gemini, flux, doctor p, funtcase, cookie monstah, Bar9...). So for me that's a huge disappointment. Last year they had very good balance between filth and proper dubstep but this year the balance, so far, is leaning heavily towards bro.
The good news is,
Mosca is also playing a separate tent on Saturday, so I reckon he'll get some company from some other quality bass producers who are as of yet, unannounced.
Haven't really checked out Sunday but the most obscure shit is usually on Sunday, and also a lot of stoner rock/doom/sludge.
So far I'm unimpressed by this years line-up, but I reckon there will be at least another 5-6 interesting bass acts confirmed later.
Would be cool to see some of you heads there, I've not received word whether I'll receive holidays for this yet, but I'll deffo be there Friday/Saturday either way. Otherwise, it's the regular Wednesday-Sunday rampage
