Sonar approached the end of its teens in June this year with yet another week that reaffirmed its place as one of the go-to festivals in Europe for lovers of electronic music. Despite the region being in the midst of turmoil, and Spain suffering worse than most, the week still saw the...

  A music journalist, it’s taken as said that writing in the first person is a fracture of protocol, a flaunting of the rules. Definitely frowned upon. But then sometimes circumstance dictates that playing straight isn’t the appropriate action. To the average cinemagoer, indeed to the...

127 days is a long time in dance music. That’s a whole summer. Over four months. 1524 hours to fill as much as possible with DJs, doormen, dancefloors, drinks and dancing. And for Space in Ibiza, it’s time to booked the season with its gargantuan closing fiesta. Over the years the...

SW4SW4 has been a staple part of my summer for a while now and this was my third time of attending the festival. I am not alone, it has long been seen as one of the main ingredients of that all important summer bender commonly known as the August Bank Holiday weekend for clubbers from London...

When you run a party with a reputation for putting on events on some of the capital’s weirder and more wonderful dancefloors, on roofs, on terraces, and beer gardens, how do you choose to celebrate a decade? Back at the beginning, at 93 Feet East in 2001, Sunday afternoons were an alien...

Weds 6th July: Landing in Serbia for the first time, the effects of the 5am start in London wearing off with the endless blue skies and uninterrupted sunshine, I realise I don’t really know what to expect from the Exit Festival. A spur-of-the-moment decision made in April means I have...

It was in 2009 that Cocoon in the park made its debut, and at the time it was quite innovative to organise such an event in Leeds, but after only three years it has firmly established itself in the North’s Electronic music calendar. Much a fuss had been made in the upcoming months prior to...

Once again the isle of Ibiza’s annual Summer reawakening was welcomed by the arrival of the International Music Summit to the Ibiza Gran Hotel. Now in its fourth year, the conference brings together icons from every branch of the industry to share expertise, new ideas and business values...

With the festival season about to kick start, we thought we would give you the A to Z of the 4clubbers teams favourite festivals for 2011. A is for… Amsterdam which plays host to the legendary Pink Pop festival, where you can see the likes of Wolfmother and the White Lies. 11-13 June,...