Glastonbury ’15: our day-by-day review
We’re at Glasto all weekend. Here’s what’s going down
Thursday
Ibiza comes to Somerset, some on-point new talent and the second coming of Christ...
The Circo Loco crew stole the show
We all know Glastonbury is a place where anything is possible. There's no telling who you might see play and last night thousands of dancers were transported to Ibiza courtesy of Circo Loco. The DC-10 party took over The Blues in the Dance Village for nearly eight hours of bumping, chugging, sun-kissed house.
It was an all-star affair that featured some of the club mammoth's most beloved mainstays. Jamie Jones, Apollonia and Ellen Allien all appeared and we started our Balearic getaway with Nicole Moudaber. She laid a down a slew of thick, rolling tech-house cuts, good enough to warrant cheers and whoops at every breakdown and drop.
Fur Coat's pummeling remix of 'Sungam' by Stephan Bodzin provided the goosebump moment when those razor sharp, barb wire synths came slicing through the bass.
Despite all of this though the star of the show wasn't Nicole or any individual member of the Circo Loco camp (Damian Lazarus was also great btw) . Nope, it was the Mungo's Hi-Fi soundsytem. The Scottish system powers The Blues stage with its warm low-end and crystal clear highs and it was a treat to hear a night's worth of Ibizan selections on what's considered one of the best soundsystems in the world (especially among the dub community). It roared for most of the night, keeping a very large crowd moving from front to back.
We say most of the night because unfortunately it was the system (or, perhaps more accurately, the festival authorities controlling it) that soured the end of the Circo Loco session. Dressed in a Picachu onesie, Davide Squillace was all set to bring things to a frenzied close but as he started, the volume dropped dramatically. Whether it was sound restrictions, a loose connection down the line or an act of god, the glorious bass was done. Squillace was clearly upset but persevered regardless, dropping the new Dennis Ferrer remix of Sabb that we premiered last week, so all was not lost.
