Like coffee shops and vintage clothing boutiques, UK festivals are cropping up all over the place. The modern day music lover is literally spoilt for choice in terms of who they want to see perform in a muddy field. While festivals such as Glastonbury, T in the Park and V offer a mixed bag of artists, more genre themed events have emerged that include rock at Download, indie at Reading & Leeds and electronic at Global Gathering.
Now in its tenth year, Global Gathering has always pushed the boundaries of innovation to make sure it tops the previous year with an ever expanding range of electronic genres are being for catered for.
Well known and underground artists from the world of dubstep, drum & bass and electro have been recruited to make sure that no-one attending is standing still for more than five seconds. If you missed out on tickets, fear not, we've got our grubby paws on a pair and we really want you to have them.
On Friday 29th July and Saturday 30th July, Global Gathering offers a selection of established artists, mixed up with new producers and musicians who?ve injected something new and exciting into electronic music. As a result, some notable headliners have been pulled in.
On Friday, legends of electronic music, Underworld take to the stage to perform tracks from their extensive back-catalogue that spans over twenty years. Elsewhere, Pendulum grace the main arena to make people jump up and down.
Saturday sees newcomers such as the ace Yasmin rub shoulders with DJ?s such as Carl Cox and Tinie Tempah.
So what do you have to do in order to join the thousands of ravers who?ll be dancing away at Long Marston Airfield in Stratford-Upon-Avon? Normally we?d ask an easy peasy question, but this time, we want you to get creative.
Fans of electronic music know that all sorts of sub-genres emerge all the time, so keeping in the spirit of genuine genre names such as witch house and chillwave, we want to know the following:
What would you call a brand new genre of music if a gun was pointed at your head?
We don't care what it would sound like; just amuse us with your suggestions. The best name will win a pair of tickets to Global Gathering for absolutely nothing.
Enter by tweeting us over on @hecklerspray,?scribbling on our Facebook wall or leaving us a comment on this here article. As per any competition, we have to let you know the following:
1) hecklerspray will provide you with a pair of tickets for Global Gathering. Transport and accommodation is up to you. We take no responsibility if you set up camp in a bog and drown. We will however, write an article mocking you.
2) Entries close on Wednesday 20th July at midnight. If we don't forget, we?ll nag you for contact details the next day.
3) UK residents only, sorry it's nothing personal. Except it is.
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Kylee Bell says
PRETTY PLEASE enter me into the Global Gathering comp!! =)
Jason Tasker says
Turkish Psy House!Diverse Psy beats featuring tanbur long-necked plucked lutes and ney end-blown flutes!
Sam Johnston says
Sheer Banging!!
Please enter me in this, all my friends are going apart from me and we will all be travelling all the way from scotland!
Arthur ASCii says
“Please-don’t-do-this-I-have-3-kids-and-my-wife’s-got-spinabifida-step”.
Laura Schrader says
Wanton dog rutt step
Laura Schrader says
or pro celebrity goat felch house
phil roberts says
Sparklefairy death electro. I wanna go, please!
Tilly Price says
Highly Gabberpsychlassie.
sarah preston says
pysco frilly tech dub disco stepping rappy dapster
Allied Carpets Sale says
Flaccid core
Carlos Estefez says
High-Speed Dub
Lionel says
Widespread Knife Grime
John Johnson says
Cowboy Garage
Audley Harrison says
Who won?