Homelands (festival)
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| Genre | Electronic music, dance music |
| Dates | 1999 - 2005 |
| Location(s) | Matterley Bowl, England Royal Highland Showground,Scotland New Cumnock,Scotland County Meath, Ireland |
| Founded by | Mean Fiddler |
| Capacity | 50,000 |
Homelands was a music festival run by Mean Fiddler Music Group (now known as Festival Republic) which consisted mainly of dance music, both live acts and DJs. The festival was held in locations in England, Scotland and Ireland in the period 1999 to 2005. The organisers of Homelands were also behind the Home Nightclubs chain including Home Nightclub in London and Sydney.
The English festivals were held at Cheesefoot Head near Winchester, Hampshire, and was one of the most popular British festivals of this genre.
The Scottish festivals were held in Royal Highland Showground near Edinburgh in 1999, and was held close to New Cumnock in the south of Scotland in 2000.
The Irish festivals were held at the Mosney Holiday Center in County Meath in both 1999 and 2000.
Yearly editions[]
1999[]
Homelands festival was on 29 and 30 May 1999. It took place in 'The Bowl', Matterley Estate near Winchester, Hampshire – the site of the 'Creamfields' festival the previous year.
There were nine themed arenas, as follows, with an amazing mix of performers. There are a few acts [Roni Size, Basement Jaxx, Jungle Brothers] that I cannot recall where they performed.
The Home Arena – had the first live Chemical Brothers plus Asian Dub Foundation, Monkey Mafia, Paul Oakenfold, Fatboy Slim, DJ Shadow and Paul Van Dyke.
The MixMag Arena – had a live set from Underworld, plus Faithless, Red Snapper, Dope Smugglaz, DJs Carl Cox, Deep Dish, Gilles Peterson and Darren Price.
The Essential Mix Arena – featuring Radio 1 DJs Pete Tong, plus Paul Oakenfold, Sasha & John Digweed. Radio 1 did a live broadcast from this tent featuring Judge Jules, Danny Rampling and a 4-hour Essential Mix.
The End – hosted by the London club – had two arenas.
The End 01 – a deep house tent, featuring Terry Francis and The End Sound System (Mr C, Layo and Mathew B) plus Darren Emerson, Dave Angel, Stacey Pullen, Laurent Garnier and Carl Cox.
The End 02 – a drum’n’bass arena with DJ Hype, Andy C, Krust, Bryan Gee, Fabio & Grooverider.
Slinky - Bournemouth's "superclub"
US house club Lyall - featuring New York DJ Danny Tenaglia playing a 10-hour set
There were also two arenas hosted by alcohol sponsors
2000[]
The 2000 festival took place on a very wet Saturday 27 May 2000. The line included BT, Moby, Public Enemy and Leftfield.
Tents[]
- Ericsson @ Home Arena
- Leftfield
- Ian Brown
- Moby
- Public Enemy
- BT
- Paul Oakenfold
- Armand Van Helden
- Paul Van Dyk
- Scratch Perverts
- David Holmes
- Dope Smugglaz
- Dave Seaman
- Jeremy Healy
- Adam Freeland
- Radio 1 Essential Mix Arena
- Slinky & MTV Dancefloor Chart Show Arena
- Judge Jules
- Paul Van Dyk
- Brandon Block
- Alex P
- Graham Gold
- Hybrid feat. Chrissie Hynde
- Ferry Corsten
- Lisa Lashes
- Gordon Kaye
- Guy Ornadel
- Subterrain & Ultimate Base Arena
- Carl Cox
- Sven Vath
- Mr. C
- Darren Emerson
- Layo & Bushwacka!
- DJ Sneak
- Trevor Rockcliffe
- The End's Drum & Bass Arena
- Back2Basics/Deep South/Highrise Arena
- Romanthony
- Danny Rampling
- Jon Carter
- Justin Robertson
- Junior Sanchez
- Steve Lawler
- Adam Freeland
- Jacques Lu Cont
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- Ministry House Party
- Darren Emerson
- Nick Warren
- Danny Howells
- Lottie
- Yousef
- Future Shock
- Bent
- Ericsson MYH Arena
- Robert Owens
- Juan Atkins
- Kevin Saunderson
- Sister Bliss
- (DJ set)
- Evil Eddie Richards
- Richard Grey
- Bud Ice Bus
- Richard Fearless
- Norman Jay
- Jon Carter
- & Justin Robertson
- (Utah Saints)
- &
- (percussion)
- Bacardi B-Bar
- Gilles Peterson
- Faze Action
- Patrick Forge
- Ross Allen
- Radio 1 Outdoor Sound Stage
2005[]
Officially called "We Love... Homelands" it took place on 28 May 2005 from 1pm to 5am, and had a capacity of 50,000. Headliners included The Streets, Beck, Roots Manuva, Mylo, The Bravery, Audio Bullys, Babyshambles, John Digweed and Dimitri from Paris. Medicine 8 performed in the festival's 'Strongbow Rooms'.[1][2]
See also[]
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- List of electronic music festivals
- List of music festivals in the United Kingdom
- Workers Beer Company
References[]
- ^ "2005 line up". Archived from the original on 18 January 2006. Retrieved 29 August 2005.
- ^ "We Love... Homelands 2005". eFestivals. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
External links[]
- Music festivals established in 1998
- Music festivals disestablished in 2005
- Music festivals in Hampshire
- Electronic music festivals in the United Kingdom