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If you were worried about a Block9-shaped hole in your life this summer, worry no more. London’s cult queer rave Adonis is filling that hole with a brand new queer festival, taking place on what would normally be Glastonbury weekend.
Happening from June 26-28, Runway Festival will be the UK’s first LGBTQ+ camping festival. And just like Adonis’s famed club nights, it’s set to be a gloriously hedonistic affair fuelled by techno, house, acid and everything in between.
The three-day, 5,000-capacity party is taking place on a disused runway at a (so far undisclosed) working airport in the south of England. At the centre will be a fantasy street named ‘Runway Boulevard’, which has been inspired by the ‘gay neighbourhoods’ of every major world city. Organisers say that it will be a ‘deliberately disorienting’ space, with punters feeling like they could be anywhere from 1970s Castro to 1980s Soho to a futuristic vision of Tokyo’s Ni-chōme.
The event’s main arena, a ‘modern, techno-futurist utopia’ will be at the end of the boulevard. This is where you’ll find all the live music and performance art.
The first wave of acts for the festival has already been announced. It includes the likes of Roza Terenzi, Aurora Halal, BASHKKA, Cormac and Clarisa Kimskii, as well as Adonis residents Seb Odyssey, Marie Malarie, Byron Yeates, Hannah Holland, Gideön and Grace Sands.
Shay Malt, founder of Adonis and Runway, said: ‘The idea of doing a festival appeals to me because it’s creating a whole world that we’re not actually able to do in a club. We’re creating a full fantasy, showcasing and collaborating with queer talent to build something from start to finish, as opposed to being confined by the venues that we work with.’
Tickets for Runway Festival are on sale now from £200 each via Dice.
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