Homelands

Homelands was a large dance festival taking place near Winchester, Hampshire. It was organized by “Live Nation UK”, the same people behind Home club in London and Sydney, and was considered one of the most popular British festivals. It was licensed for about 35000 people with big name DJs and live acts playing just about every genre of dance.

In the last few years it tried to be a little more diverse and broaden its appeal beyond the dance addicts and was renamed as from 2003 as “We Love Homelands”. There has also been a Scottish Homelands Festival that was held in Edinburgh with great success. “We Love Homelands” was also renamed as “HiFi Festival” and was last held in 2006. 

Homelands was always considered as a giant Mecca, with many people travelling from all around the world to take part in an unforgettable 17-hour marathon of incredible live music and quality tunes that would soon become the soundtrack of the summer.

Overall, Homelands was definite been a big success, though perhaps it was trying too hard to be all things to all people. Homelands was a well-intentioned nod to the ever growing diversity of dance music and the musical open mindedness of its fans. The all night dance party is essentially, what Homelands should be all about. Nevertheless, there was always a cracking atmosphere throughout the night and enough quality music to take people through six in the morning each year…