The move was a comment on the gentrification of New York, and night-space closures in London due to the forces of capitalism. One of the collective of artists in the Block9 network is Honey Soundsystem, who first came to the Downlow with Horse Meat Disco back in 2008, before opening Block9 last year alongside Prosumer. An audio/visual translation of Olivier Messiaen’s masterpiece “Quartet for The End of Time”. Jun 27 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Heidi Genosys Electronic. “It’s a massive privilege to play the Downlow,” Berger explains. A multi-roomed temporary club space housed inside a life size film set replica of a seedy New York bathhouse-cum-meatpacking warehouse circa 1982. It’s dark and sweaty, and has that sense that a moment could explode at any point — it still blows me away every time I go. Jun 27 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Norman Jay Maceo's Electronic. The pair also started their own London-based night at East Bloc, where Gideon has regularly played, and pulls on the values they believe the electronic music scene’s foundations were built on: hedonism, sexual freedom, unity and variety. The temporary queer autonomous zone that is the Block9 field at Glastonbury Festival — comprising the amazing NYC Downlow, Genosys and London Underground venues, plus more besides — celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. We’re presenting music, but on another level, we’re creating an environment that forces people to make a decision about something, instead of just placidly spectating and consuming it. We invented it, motherfuckers’. “It’s absolutely unique,” Berger says of the festival. Copyright Thrust Publishing Ltd. Want more? “It really doesn’t exist. After being hit by the intense heat of the party, da Cunha looks around at Glastonbury’s dark underbelly, and sees an X-rated disco careering willfully out of control. Previous Livestreams. daily capacity: 203000. last updated: Mon 20th Jun 2016. Dancers at Block 9 at Glastonbury festival in 2014.  |. set timezone. “I mean, it is relatively unusual to see a post-apocalyptic bombed-out three-storey New York tenement building landed in the middle of a muddy field in Somerset, but word had spread and it was fucking rammed from the second we first opened its doors. “I’d been going to Glastonbury since I was 13 or 14, at the illegal Lazy House and DIY raves outside the licensed festival — the founding soundsystems that Block9 is based on — which were amazing. This month, one of the world’s wildest clubbing spaces opens its doors again — for one long weekend only. “If the music’s wrong you’re not going to get it, if the staff are wrong you’re not going to get it, and if the drag troupe isn’t there, you’re definitely not going to get it.”. Created to explore the birth of analogue electronic music and its lasting legacy, artists this year include ANTHONY PARASOLE, JOSH WINK, HAAi, HONCHO, HANNAH HOLLAND, RANDOMER and LEEON. The Downlow began with Horse Meat Disco at its side and a musical cut-off point of 1979 — so disco, soul and funk prevailed. After that first visit in 2010, Tristan da Cunha went on to form Dungeon Meat with fellow house maniac Brawther in 2013 — a duo whose slightly sleazy, fully raucous and proudly sexualised house music is the perfect fit for NYC Downlow. “It’s an act of defiance, of wrenching minds open. Discover (and save!) “People still play for fuck-all, though. “They’re dressed as an expression of liberation. DJ Mag meets Berger and Gallagher at their east London design studio just weeks before they head on site at Glastonbury to prepare to celebrate their 10th anniversary, but a lot’s changed. Having introduced the London Underground in 2010, which Berger describes as the “older, straighter, slightly more ASBO-y big brother of the Downlow” and hosts sounds across the spectrum of music from London, as well as Genosys, the field’s epic outdoor arena that belches harder electronic music from acid house to techno (not forgetting Maceo’s, the unofficial Glastonbury crew bar that seems to never close, and the Meat Rack, the dark second room of NYC Downlow where anything goes), the Block9 duo and their team are responsible for changing the face of UK festivals. The heat wave over Europe turned this year’s edition into a proper summer festival, with 28-plus degree temperatures prompting constant reminders by big LED signs to rehydrate and refill water bottles. herunter. Make social videos in an instant: use custom templates to tell the right story for your business. “And something that’s beyond the imagination. “The field at Glastonbury works as a 360-degree Block9 design, and we keep upping our game, wanting to out-do ourselves and every other fucker that’s trying to catch up with us at other festivals.”. Block 9 Glastonbury Festival 2016. published: Tue 10th May 2016. “Culturally, socially, politically and musically it was exciting, but I felt isolated as it seemed really hetero to me. Glastonbury’s beloved late-night hub Block9 is being “doubled in size” for the 2019 edition of the festival.. Block9 co-founders Gideön Berger and Stephen Gallagher revealed the plans, which have been four years in the making, in an interview with Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC 6Music.. , the Downlow, ” Gallagher smiles Berger explains that we ’ d just be in a club playing music... 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