UVA Festival: Spain’s boutique disco and house haven
Intimate vibes at a converted 15th century monastery
Sugar & Fonte, Jungle Stage
When you walk into UVA you’re presented with the main stage set-up in front of the main entrance to the monastery. It’s concrete and it’s functional, offering up the best views from where you’re dancing. But it couldn’t compare to the intimacy of the Jungle Stage set around the back of the building. Surrounded by shrubbery, it’s like a natural club with a small lawn as its dancefloor. On one side the hill drops down sharply to other walkways. On the other side is a bank of stone cut into the side of the hillside with a path running along the top.
The disco is appropriate in this area but as the darkness descends, mood lighting in amongst the bushes fires up and the creatures start to come out. Madrid duo Sugar Free & Fonte’s rolling house set captures the mood perfectly. They end it with this banger from Utrecht’s Locklead, a producer who has released on SlapFunk, Hot Haus and Unkown To The Unknown.
