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2. SNOWBOMBING MAYRHOFEN, AUSTRIA Sunday 29/3 – Friday 3/4
WE’RE not done with snow yet! When it comes to utter lunacy and deprived tomfoolery, Snowbombing is right up there with the best of them! One of the spanking joys of the club scene is that a party can happen pretty much anywhere in the world and come March and April we do so love to descend on the snowy resorts of Austria. This being their 10th birthday, it’s bound to be their best yet thanks to a line-up that takes in Dizzee Rascal, Fatboy Slim, Grandmaster Flash, Fake Blood, Justin Martin, Skream, Justin Robertson and Layo & Bushwacka!, to mention just a few. This is the very bomb indeed! As ever, the line-up is diverse and hectic with underground promoters and artsy organisations given the chance to add their particular blend of experience and hi-jinx to the proceedings. East London hipsters Urban Nerd open up with dubstep star Oneman, sick new graff crew ATG and the promise of a massive snowball fight! 4pm – 8am £329
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The white stuff
LEON ‘THE QEMISTS’ HARRIS
Head for the slopes and party!
1. SNOWSIDE FESTIVAL NASSFELD SKI RESORT, AUSTRIA Monday 23/3 – Sunday 29/3
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one,” grins Eddy. “I’m so into it that I’ve decided to do a different set in each room — even the terrace. Bring it the f**k on!” Intimacy will be one of the key factors to the success of this newcomer. It’s a seven-day party for just 1000 party fiends and the aim is to give each and every Snowsider an incredible experience that they will never forget. And that’s a very likely story, especially when you consider that The Qemists, Metronomy, Kissy Sell Out, Vitalic, Evil Nine, Shy Child and The Infadels are all recruited to get us rocking.
“Snowside is going to be BIG! We’re returning from our gigs in Japan at the beginning of March and shipping straight out to Snowside to spend a week boarding before we play. Fortunately, we’re doing a three-man DJ set, so we have two spare people in case one of us gets injured on the slopes! “If we survive Japan we will be going for broke in Austria!”
WHEN you see the word ‘festival’ don’t you just get all over-excited and ahead of yourself? And when the word ‘snow’ comes into it too, then we’re reaching breaking point in anticipation of icy hedonism and crisp debauchery, which come wrapped in truly angelic surroundings. Making their debut on the scene, Snowside is the bouncing baby of the £289 infamous Secret Garden Party and Eddy snowside.co.uk Temple-Morris’s The Remix — a generous HEADS UP: Tickets are on sale now for this collective, happy to share the love. summer’s Secret Garden Party, which takes place between “Take the brilliant music of Thursday 23rd and Sunday 26th July. Enchanting is the Snowbombing and combine it with the word for this lovely bash. For more information log onto jaw dropping wow factor of Tignesfest, secretgardenparty.com/2009 throw in Xfm’s The Remix rocking dance music programming and Secret Garden Party’s charm,” says Eddy TM of this new creation. “We’ve got a drum & bass room,” he ● Australian heartthrobs CUT continues. “A live bands room and Global COPY have got the right idea. an electro-indie-dance-filth room, Knowledge After rinsing their homegrown each with some of the best artists festival scene they’re embarking in their respective genres. There’s on a US tour that rather tidily even an outside terrace where DJs completes at the WMC. It’s a from bands will have après ski slots. massive trip and our money’s on “I don’t think I’ve ever looked their gig at New York’s Terminal forward to a gig as much as this 5, on Saturday 21st March. If 118
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3. FUTURE MUSIC FESTIVAL RUNDLE PARK, ADELAIDE, AUSTRALIA Monday 9/3
FROM one extreme to another. The sunny festival season in Australia reaches a crescendo with Future Music, which launches off boldly for its first-ever flight. Hitching up skirts and taking the show on the road, FM knocks at five party towns including Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne and today’s touchdown in Adelaide. Massive headliners N*E*R*D join Basement Jaxx, CSS, Steve Angello, Oakey, Grandmaster Flash and Richie Hawtin. A garden of unearthly delights indeed. 12am – 10pm $75
futuremusicfeèstival.au HEADS UP: The swarthy Angello then recharges his batteries for his appearance at the Ultra Music Festival, in Miami, on Friday 27th March.
you get the chance make sure to bag yourselves one of their cool T-shirts, available on the tour and also at cutcopy.net/store/ ● Yikes! TRANCE ENERGY is on the horizon. It all goes off on Saturday 7th March, at Utrecht’s JAARBEURS, in Holland, from
10pm. PAUL VAN DYK, ARMIN VAN BUUREN and MARCEL WOODS headline. Prepare to dance as if your life depended on it. FFI trance-energy.nl ● News up that the second INTERNATIONAL MUSIC SUMMIT will be taking place from
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