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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At the moment, the genre that gets savvy media types and scene kids all whipped up in excitement is the electronic offshoot known as dubstep.

Made popular to the commercial masses since Burial gained himself a Mercury music prize, this brand of lazy sounding music has continued to grow in terms of producers and fanbase.

With the good comes the bad and annoyingly, comes the utter gash. Sifting through the offerings, Mount Kimbie are a break from the releases we’d rather use as CD coasters.

Instead of presenting a bass heavy melody and shoving it through the wobble effect filter on fruity loops, the duo create elements of songs that could be released on their own before weaving extra elements in.

Added touches of synth or extra drum kick with a dash of vocal makes the listen that little bit better. Mount Kimbie are ones that you will hear about, it just might take a while before they get picked up.

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With plenty of high profile hits and even a divorce behind him, Paul McCartney can literally do anything he wants.

Let’s say he wanted to swing in through your living room window dressed as an octopus. Nobody would call him a mentalist. It’s because he’s flipping Paul McCartney from The Beatles. You have to be polite to him; he’s not a Sir for nothing.

It’s well known that when The Beatles were locked away in a Liverpool studio many moons ago, they were under the influence of the mindbending drug LSD. So will Paul decide to swallow a couple of ecstasy pills so he can make more druggie inspired music? Who knows, but we expect him to don bright neon clothing and dance around like a twat with a couple of glowsticks. You see, he’s going to bring the party to YOU with an album full of electronic treats.

Paul McCartney hasn’t been in the spotlight for his musical ability recently. Firstly he had to deal with his second wife Heather Mills, who accused him of all sorts of wrongdoings. Once she was disposed of, Paul got all kissy kissy with a millionaire called Nancy Shevell. The two have been spotted together regularly and have probably caused all sorts of embarrassment for their children as they are forced to watch their parents eat each other’s face off.

Lately it was all about Paul McCartney and Israel. Not taking to peace and freedom that well, terrorists threatened to blow him up and force everyone to burn their Stella McCartney designer burkas. Triumphantly, the nasty Middle Eastern men didn’t attempt to disrupt the gig and, instead, they got their asses kicked off an old man. Take that you pesky terrorists! We have the weapon of music.

Now Paul’s back to release more records that will probably be crap, but bizarrely lauded because he used to be in The Beatles. Instead of writing more terrible love songs about coconuts or coyotes, or producing cringe-worthy classical music, Paul is instead going to rave it up big style. It’ll be the perfect record to get wasted to as all your mates come round to have one of those Skins parties where everyone wears clothes from Topshop, gets pissed off a can of cider and ends up shagging everyone else by the end of the night.

So what will be the end product of Paul McCartney’s dance direction sound like? How about a bit of early house music sounding house music? Or does he want to mash up our ears and record an entire album of 200bpm gabba colliding with some jungle influences for shits and giggles?

Either way, we are genuinely interested in seeing what he comes out with. No seriously, after this album we look forward to his ghetto rap album where Paul McCartney collaborates with Snoopy Dog, Kanye West and Lil Wayne. There can’t be that many other genres he hasn’t had a stab at.

But wait! The pesky Scouser is trying to throw you by releasing this record under a pseudonym. Going under the guise of The Fireman, Paul must be pretty sure this record will be hot stuff when it’s released. Ouch, our hands will be burnt after touching the CD, and our speakers may just melt from the heat emitted from the album. It should really carry a health warning.

Now, we always thought a lot of care and thought went into a song from an ex-Beatle. But as the BBC reports, it seems that he found the process quite an easy one:

“Each song was written by Sir Paul and recorded in the space of one day.”

As we said, it won’t matter if the end product is gash. They’ll be plenty of people telling him it’s the best thing since Brian Eno and early works of Aphex Twin.

Or maybe we’re jealous that our album of rubbing elastic bands against cups hasn’t been snapped up yet.