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…

Coachella

Coachella is a three-day annual music festival held at the Empire Polo Club in California by Goldenvoice. The event features many genres of music as well as large sculptural art. It started in 1999 and about 25000 people attended the event, supporting headlining acts of The Chemical Brothers, Jurassic 5, DJ Shadow, and Underworld. The event went smoothly, with the biggest complaint being the blistering heat. The Coachella Music Festival has a desert setting with daytime temperatures frequently rising to over 38 °C. The festival enjoys little cloud cover or shade. The temperature drops drastically after sunset.


















After 2002, Coachella began to generate large-scale interest, and the 2003 festival drew the largest crowd yet. The 2004 event, featuring Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, and a number of other major bands, was the event's first sellout, with 50000 tickets sold for each Saturday and Sunday.

In 2003, Coachella started to include tent camping as an option for staying at the festival. The campground site is on an adjacent polo field next to the venue grounds. At 2007 festival, it was reported that camping attendance was in upwards of 17000. 2010 festival introduced many new features to camping such as re-entry from the campsite to the festival grounds, parking your car next to your tent and a limited number of recreational vehicle camping spots.

















Coachella tries to reduce its carbon footprint on the environment every year, which involves not just employees but also attendees. The festival highly promotes carpooling for its attendees, which include rewards for people who participate. Attendees who choose to carpool with four or more people in one car and have the word "carpoolchella" displayed somewhere on their car have a chance to be selected by a secret spotter to win VIP tickets/pass for life for everyone in the car. Therefore, as you can see, you can have this great opportunity for lifetime VIP pass only by carpooling and helping the environment, no matter if you own a priceless BMW or a sweat old Ford. Just help them to help you.



Now as regarding on how much fun you will have there, just have a look...

CREAMFIELDS

Creamfields has established itself as the “crown jewel” of dance festivals and continues to be in the Top 5 festivals in the UK. It began in Winchester in 1998 and since then it has been the greatest UK festival and one of the biggest in the world. It is the festival organized by the “Cream” brand. After the big success of the club, its people thought to expand their businesses with organizing what later became “the most anticipated dance event in UK”.

It takes place everyAugust in Daresbury, just outside Liverpool and after some years started to grow so big that other cities hosted Creamfields in their land with great success. Some of them are Abu Dhabi, Buenos Aires, Andalucía, Punta Del Este, Istanbul, Rio De Janeiro, Lima, Lisbon and many others.

Famous for bringing together genre breaking pioneers from across the DJ and live music spectrum, the structure of the festival features the enormously successful Live Outdoor Stage and between 8-10 DJ only arenas. The amount of technology equipment used to fulfill the requirements of the festival is enormous and such is the power consumption so as to cover the needs of such a great light and laser show.

The festival’s producers have been very cautious about the facilities for the people and the safety regulations. There is special place where one can camp and along with Camping Shops, First Aid, Bars, Foods and Beverages shops everything you might need is well taken care. There are locker facilities, regular security patrols and CCTV monitoring to make sure that everyone will enjoy the festival without further thoughts or troubles.

Be one of the lucky ones to participate in such a great event and look for the upcoming Creamfields 2012 to have the ultimate dance experience of your lives. 

Dance Events

 

The fast growth of House Music industry gave birth to many dance events in many countries. The leading countries were England, United States and Ibiza. People were asking for big events and many DJs playing in the same stage all night long. This need was quickly covered by the first dance events all around the world where people travelled far from their origins to experience the true party feeling and vibe.

There was also a major help from many big brands in creating the whole events and advertising it worldwide, like Coca-Cola, Adidas, BMW, Nike, Pepsi and many others. This helped the producers of the shows to overcome all the financial costs which were forbidding at that time and led to greater stages, better sound equipment and bigger DJs line-up. The terraces were enormous and each time the parties grew bigger and bigger.

The whole industry flourished in no time and it became a quite profitable and entertaining job to setup and organize Dance Events. Apart from the Dance Clubs people’s “thirst” for this music, made them follow the DJs wherever they performed and became loyal supporters.

The lights, the sound and the show itself made the crowd more demanding year by year. Side by side with the discography companies DJs found themselves with great profits and glory in very short time.

I will later analyze each event separately and tell you the best hints and tips as far how to enjoy and have a good time in such an event. Be prepared and “stay tuned”.