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EDITORIAL > A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF CREAMFIELDS SOUTH

A COMPREHENSIVE

REVIEW OF

CREAMFIELDS SOUTH

BY: RYAN FORD PC: CREAMFIELDS SOUTH

onouring their 25-year anniversary, Creamfields branched
out to Hylands Park, Chelmsford, with the first-ever edition of
Creamfields South, across the bank-holiday weekend, 2-4 June.
Brandishing a star-studded lineup, fans in the South of England had
less distance to travel than if they were to go to the standard North
Hedition, with some of the finest names in dance music landing on
their doorstep in abundance.

Like the main edition of Creamfields in Daresbury, Creamfields South was also made
to be a camping festival, with punters able to stay on-site for all three days of the
festival, Thursday into Saturday. With it being the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend,
most had an extensive four-day weekend, which meant thousands were able to kick-
start the Creamfields celebrations in Essex on Thursday night.

Hylands Park is no stranger to festivals having previously hosted V Festival and Rize
Festival over the past decade and welcomed a few thousand back into its expansive
spaces for an action-packed first night of the festival. Only two stages were open on
Thursday night, but some esteemed names took to the stage across 6 hours of irre-
sistible live electronic music. The Cream stage saw the likes of Jack Wins, New Hype,
Kryder, and Olly James behind the decks (with a special mention to We Rave You’s
own Mike Davies who also performed). On the other hand, Cream Terrace champi-
oned established names such as Mollie Collins, Kideko, and FooR to see a captivating
first night through, to give us a first taste of what Creamfields South is all about.

For Friday, the number of stages increased 4-fold, with the mainstage area opening
up, along with all of FULL ON, Mega Arena, Nation, Paradise, Sub_Aural, and Warehouse
stages across the festival grounds. Event organisers wasted no time in gathering
some of the finest and freshest electronic acts across a plethora of genres, as
demonstrated from start to finish on this, the first full day.

In the FULL ON tent, fans welcomed the unrelenting sounds of Hardstyle with DJs
Wildstylez, Code Black, and Darren Styles filling the dancefloor with their heavy-hitting
tunes throughout the day among others. The bass could also be felt rumbling out of
the Sub_Aural tent, with intense bassline productions ringing out over the gathering
crowds, with established taste-makers Skepsis, Darkzy, and Holy Goof among those
taking to the decks across the afternoon, and into the evening.

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