TRIBAL GATHERING VENUE CHANGE:
DANCE FESTIVAL RETURNS TO ITS ROOTS
DANCE-ROCK NEWCOMER JULIET, HIP-HOP EXTRAORDINAIRES SCRATCH PERVERTS AND
SEMINAL PRODUCER DERRICK MAY ADDED TO OUTSTANDING LINE-UP
Tribal Gathering are set to announce this week that this year’s event, which
takes place Saturday 16th July 2005, will move from its initial location in
Leeds, to Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire.
The move to Luton Hoo has been prompted by the overwhelming support that
Dance artists have shown for Tribal Gathering and the Playing Alive
Foundation, particularly with the additions of new girl on the scene Juliet,
hip-hop DJs Scratch Perverts and Detroit pioneer Derrick May. They join the
already impressive line-up of celebrated acts such as Groove Armada, Audio
Bully’s and the recently confirmed Derek Carter, DJ Zinc, A-SKILLS, Mylo and
Tiga.
As the festival is returning after eight years for the sole purpose of
bringing global awareness and to fundraise for the humanitarian crisis in
Sudan, Tribal Gathering is delighted to make this change, in order to
accommodate for a higher number of attendees at the event and to raise as
much money as possible.
Luton Hoo will not be an unfamiliar site for those who have followed Tribal
Gathering throughout the years – and it also has the honour of being the
last site that an outdoor event by Tribal Gathering was held. The first time
Luton Hoo was visited by Tribal Gathering was in 1996, when over 30,000
people attended the event. The line-up was as good then as it is this year,
with acts such as Black Grape, Chemical Brothers and Goldie. The following
year, again at Luton Hoo, saw Kraftwerk emerging from retirement to play
after a 15-year absence, to an even bigger crowd of 40,000.
Riding high on the success of her first single ‘Avalon’ Juliet will be
performing a hybrid of melodic electronica and 1980’s influenced new wave,
with songs taken from her debut album ‘Random Order’, which is out July 4th.
Having been hooked up with Stuart Price, aka celebrated producer Jacques Lu
Cont of Les Rhythm Digitales, Juliet has been able to work with an
impressive array of producers and arrangers such as Guy Sigsworth (Bjork,
Madonna) and Mark ‘Spike’ Kent (Depeche Mode, Massive Attack) and grown into
a style that incorporates the current interest in 80s inspired music with a
progressive and contemporary take on electronica. Juliet is expected to join
Groove Armada and Mylo in the Starship Universe Arena.
Scheduled to appear in the Planet of the Bass Punks arena alongside Bugz in
the Attic and DJ Yoda, will be the progressive and hugely successful Scratch
Perverts, who will be demonstrating their creative energy and enthusiasm to
win over the Tribal Gatherers. Famous for their battle DJing, which garnered
them various titles such as two World DMC Team titles, they have now moved
into a more eclectic area of hip-hop, incorporating influences from the Red
Hot Chili Peppers to Aphex Twin.
The addition of Derrick May to the line-up will undoubtedly light up the
faces of all who find themselves in the Tribal Sessions arena, due to his
incredible reputation as one of the early Detroit producers that changed the
face and scope of electronic dance music. One of the first American techno
artists to tour England, May’s single ‘Strings of Life’ was central to the
1987/ 1988 house explosion, and his label Transmat is widely recognised as
one of the most respected techno labels world-wide.
Over 30 acts have been confirmed so far, which include, Groove Armada, Audio
Bully’s, Danny Rampling, Mike Pickering, El Presidente, Infadels, Krysko,
Layo and Bushwacka, Zero 7, Francois K, Plump DJs, Krafty Kuts, Victor
Calderone, X-Press 2, Chicken Lips, Joey Negro, Norman Jay, Unabombers, Bugz
in the Attic, DJ Yoda, Dave Beer and Bez, 20:20 Soundsystem, Stanton
Warriors and more.
Exactly 20 years after the legendary Live Aid concert, Tribal Gathering
returns for the first time in eight years in a huge fund-raising venture
organised by David Vincent and the Playing Alive Foundation. All profits
from the event will go to the Playing Alive Foundation, an organisation that
will then pass it on to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) in aid of
the massive humanitarian disaster in Sudan.
Tribal Gathering will be held in Luton Hoo on 16th July 2005. Tickets for
the event can be purchased from www.ticketline.co.uk or by phoning the
Tribal Gathering hotline on 0161 832 1111. For more detail about the event,
or about the Playing Alive Foundation, please visit
www.tribalgathering.co.uk, or www.playing-alive.org. Galaxy FM have been
appointed as radio partner for the event, for more details about the network
please visit www.galaxyfm.co.uk
