NEWS: Global Gathering [Festival Fever]

NEWS: Global Gathering

Posted on May 1, 2008 2:58 PM
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Global Gathering
Friday 25th & Saturday 26th July 2008,
Long Marston Airfield, Stratford Upon Avon

Featuring Kanye West – Exclusive Festival Show

Global Gathering is the largest electronic camping weekender in the world attracting 55,000 dance and live music fans for a weekend of pure and unadulterated good times.
Check out the line-up:

Kanye West - exclusive to Global Gathering, the hip hop star will present his utterly electric, totally unmissable Glow in the Dark show, complete with a mammoth lighting rig, robots, holograms, a string orchestra, smoke machines and dancing girls.

Moby - it’s been seventeen years since he gave us his mega hit ‘Go’ but his recent new album has been exciting the media as much this year as ever before.

Mark Ronson - the Grammy and Brit award winning producer with devlish good looks disarms the dancefloor with his booty-loaded charm offensive live show.

Sam Sparro – the same name lead singer of this new electro-funk band has been labelled a raspier Stevie Wonder and is so good that even Chaka Khan is a huge fan.

More than sixteen giant arenas with monolithic sound systems and state-of-the-art production will house the finest DJ talent on the planet. Tiesto, Sasha, John Digweed, 2manyDJs and Erick Morillo all return to deliver unforgettable festival sets.

New for 2008:

Sven Vath - hosts his own techno arena named after his label, ‘Cocoon’
Roger Sanchez - presents the sound of ‘Stealth’ arena, his US House and Garage label.
Spectrum - the uber credible breakbeat-electro brand never disappoints.
Laurent Garnier - not just one of France’s, but also one of London’s number one techno maestros performs at Global Gathering for the first time.

All your favourite dance brands are back by popular demand including: Godskitchen who’ll host the biggest marquee tent in Europe with a gargantuan capacity of 15,000; plus Bedrock; Polysexual; Global; Random Concept and Mixmag.

Line-Up

Kanye West
Mark Ronson
Moby
Roisin Murphy
Robyn
Etienne De Crecy
Sam Sparro
Hadouken
Filthy Dukes

There will also be a huge host of top DJs including Erick Morillo, David Guetta. John Digweed, Sasha, 2ManyDJs, Roger Sanchez, Judge Jules, Lisa Lashes.