![]() On Saturday, it was the turn of the cosmic rave squadron - from James Holden to Daphni to Floating Points to Four Tet - to give a sense of a common thread, a community, running through the day. ![]() On Friday afternoon you could zip between Nubya Garcia, Sons Of Kemet, Zara McFarlane and Ezra Collective, across three of the four main stages, and revel in the joys brought to us by London’s current sprawling and magnificent jazz scene. They didn’t have the option of throwing whopping piles of cash at massive names, so they put together a juicy, exciting and thoughtful lineup: Fever Ray and Erykah Badu were the big, and brilliant, headliners but the real winning move was to dig right into two of the richest, ripest music networks in the UK. Meanwhile Field Day spent untold hours negotiating with local council officers and massive logistics spreadsheets, and found a new, smaller home in Brixton.įield Day is a bit too big and successful to really be the underdog in this story, but they did come out victorious last week after a few worrying months. So Hackney got All Points East last weekend, with Nick Cave (yay!) and Björk (yaroo!) but also (apparently) a pretty clunky corporate vibe and a stall offering temporary tattoos advertising the event’s sponsors. This year, Field Day (aka David) relocated to Brockwell Park after festival behemoth AEG (Goliath) steamed in with its massive wallet and took over Victoria Park, which had been Field Day’s home for the past decade. ![]()
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