UVA Festival: Spain’s boutique disco and house haven

Barnhowl & Samuel Baron, Main Stage

What’s great about the type of festivals where you aren’t running between stages missing the first 15 minutes of all your favourite artists’ sets, is discovering the hidden gems. With the line-up consisting mostly of friends and affiliates of Moody Collective, it meant there were plenty on display. DJ duo Barnhowl & Samuel Baron took to the decks at 8pm on the first night and proceeded with a set of summery house and disco slammers such as Norma Jean Bell’s ‘I’m The Baddest Bitch’, Lou Vega’s edit of ‘Bourgie Bourgie’ and Street Player by Chicago.

All of those tunes could have made it on to this list, but it was Taxi C.A.B’s funky sample fest ‘Chunk-A-Nova’ and Herbert’s ‘People That Make Music’ that lured punters sipping red wine and Fanta (not as gross as it sounds) on to the dancefloor and replaced the setting sun with a lift in energy levels.