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Swedish flash mob performing Thriller (new clip) click on the picture)

Promoters in Australia have warned that revellers using Facebook and Twitter to co-ordinate simultaneous mass gate-crashing attempts are threatening the future of the festivals.

Future Entertainments chief Jason Ayoubi told the Herald Sun the problem is the ‘worst it’s ever been’ while Stereosonic Festival chief Richie McNeill described how hundreds of youths started ‘howling like wolves’  and throwing bottles in December when security successfully prevented them from breaking in.

“These kids are coming military style, with overalls, caps and backpacks, with bolt-cutters and tools,” Mr McNeill told the Herald Sun, “They’re going out like SAS overnight fence-cutting Green Berets. I haven’t seen this level of organisation before,” he added.
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Summer Of Love Festival (Czech Republic) 15 August '09 (click on the picture to download my latest DJ mix)

Here’s the first batch of pictures from my third appearance at the Summer Of Love Festival: click on the picture for more snaps (via my Facebook): lots more to come:

Myself and skrufff DJ Fidelity Kastrow are attending and DJing at the Secret Island Festival in July, spinning alongside a host of Berlin / Sweden underground DJs including La Fleur, DJ Nibc, and stacks more. Scroll down for more pictures from last year’s event:

Fidelity @ Torture Garden (London) May 09

Chicks On Speed, Al Doyle from Hot Chip, Discobelle and Londoner Niyi have been confirmed as headliners at next weekend’s 72 hour Mid Sommar Festival, which this year takes place in the centre of Berlin on the banks of the river Spree.

The massively popular annual all night event started life at a former Soviet airbase outside the city, though this year takes places several hundreds metres away from the city’s geographical centre of Alexander Platz, said event organiser Bjorn.
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click on the picture below for a new ad detailing this weekend’s event in Bosnia: it’s outdoors in a castle and costs just €5: if you’re in the Balkans this weekend, come down;-)

live in Banja Luka, Bosnia: Friday Fidelity: Saturday: Jonty

Click on the picture for more details (including tickets)

“Secret Island is different from other festivals, there’s a genuine family feeling in an incredible beauty spot where you’ll have a great time even if you happen to not like techno music. It’s the overall concept of the event that people find appealing, it’s the entire package rather than the whole package, most people don’t care which particular DJs are playing.”

Sunset

Though Secret Island’s 2009 line-up includes Berlin DJs such as Salon Renate’s Peak, Gigolo’s Joel Alter, Tresor’s Fidelity Kastrow and live acts DOP and Yapacc, Secret Island organiser Bjorn is impressively blasé about the key pulling points of his week long event.

“Actually all the artists we book always put a lot of effort into their shows to impress, though as a matter of fact, no DJ will, and has ever been, paid a fee,” he reveals, “Nevertheless I receive way more requests than I could possibly fit into the timetable.”
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