AVA Festival
Belfast’s music and visual arts festival
Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, 1 – 2 June 2018
AVA is a music and visual arts festival in Belfast, showcasing musical performances and a series of conferences and talks across its June weekend.
Covering the relationship between audio and visual elements in modern electronic music, the festival attracts scores of industry leaders and experts keen to share their knowledge and discuss the future of the scene.
The last edition saw Jeff Mills and Guillaume Marmin perform Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind, while the likes of Marcel Dettmann, Bicep and Ben UFO also played sets, and Boiler Room returned to host their own showcase.
Bilbao BBK Live
Bilbao BBK Live is a rock, pop and indie festival in northern Spain.
Bilbao, Spain, 12-14 July 2018
Situated on a lush green mountainside overlooking the city of Bilbao, the festival has become one of the country’s biggest and best-loved, consistently boasting a line-up of internationally renowned acts from a diverse range of genres.
Starting later in the day that you might expect, there is ample opportunity to explore the beautiful city below, and with a line-up carefully put together to avoid excessive clashes you can enjoy a festival experience free from stress.
The festival’s Basoa stage has also developed in recent years to offer late night revelry from some of underground house and techno’s most respected and exciting names, so that the party can continue well into the early hours.
Cocoon in the Park
Cocoon in the Park is an all-day electronic music festival in Leeds.
Leeds, United Kingdom, 14 July 2018
Curated by Sven Väth’s music label of the same name, the festival lays on a line-up of some of the producer’s favourite house and techno artists.
Held in the grounds of Temple Newsam House – a Tudor-Jacobean house on the outskirts of the city – Cocoon in the Park takes advantage of the setting’s natural amphitheatre as it journeys to the depths of dance, complete with captivating production and stage dancers.
And when the festival finishes, ravers descend on Leeds’ city centre to carry on the party till sunrise inside some of the city’s hip, trendy music venues.