"2018 Review - EDM Authority Creamfields Creamfields is a major dance music festival series founded and organised by British club promoter Cream, with its flagship UK edition taking place on August Bank Holiday weekend, with a number of international editions held across various territories worldwide. First held in 1998 in Winchester, the festival moved to Cream's home city of Liverpool the following year, taking place on the old Liverpool airport, before moving to its current location on the Daresbury estate in Cheshire. Having initially begun as a one-day event with 25,000 people in attendance, the festival is now a four-day"
"new development. Wolstenholme Square the location of Nation is getting redeveloped and a new subterranean music venue will be developed on the same footprint as the legendary club venue. Cream also hosts the dance music festival Creamfields each year in Daresbury, Cheshire, England on August Bank Holiday weekend. Creamfields has won the award for Best Dance Event at the UK Festival Awards a record 6 times since the awards began 10 years ago, they celebrated the win once again in December 2014 when they scooped the award once again. In 2010 they also won the highly coveted Music Week award"
"contingency plan was put in place for wet weather conditions. 2013 Following adversity last year, Creamfields comes back bigger than ever. With an even bigger capacity of 60,000 people per day, the festival site now includes a spectacular new main stage, interactive FX towers, explosive pyros and a gigantic firework finale. 2014 Creamfields continues to go from strength to strength, with the festival becoming a three-day event for the first time. Headliners include EDM giants Calvin Harris, Avicii and Tiesto. It has been held since 2006 annually on the August Bank Holiday weekend in Daresbury. The festival began as an"
"Ampfield Ampfield is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Test Valley in Hampshire, England, between Romsey, Eastleigh, and Winchester. It had a population at the 2001 census of 1,474, increasing to 1,583 at the 2011 Census. Ampfield lies on sands and clays of Eocene age near the northern edge of the Hampshire Basin. Ampfield Wood on the London Clay to the north of the village is crossed by the Monarch's Way long distance footpath. The parish includes the hamlets of Knapp and Gosport. The Potters Heron Hotel, renowned for its thatched roof, is situated in Ampfield Village."
"Blissfields Blissfields is an annual music festival in Hampshire, England founded by Paul and Mel Bliss in 2001 at Bradley Farm, Bradley, near Alresford. In 2011 the festival moved to a new site in Vicarage Farm, Woodmancott near Winchester. The festival is currently 2,500 ticket capacity and has previously seen appearances from Mumford and Sons, Bastille, Laura Marling, Super Furry Animals, Tricky, Dizzee Rascal, Years & Years, and Wolf Alice. It's a winner of the ""Best Small Festival"" award at the 2007 UK Festival Awards, and a winner of the ""Most Unique Arena"" Award at the 2015 Association Of Independent"
"North West Region. Cheshire Constabulary is responsible for policing the annual Creamfields dance and music festival that takes place over the August bank holiday weekend every year at Daresbury in Halton, close to Runcorn and Warrington. In December 2001 Cheshire Police began operating a Britten-Norman Islander fixed-wing aircraft, registration G-CHEZ. This model of aircraft is used worldwide in a variety of roles. It was particularly suited to police aviation as it was able to carry a wide range of equipment and stay airborne for long periods of time. This equipment allowed it to operate during the day or night, in"
"as part of the waterfront development. These are the first custom built dance facilities in the east of England at a cost of around £8 million. Spill Festival of Performance was launched in Ipswich in 2007 and alternates between London and Ipswich yearly. In 2018, Clarion Call is the signature installation in the Festival <ref> Ipswich Ipswich () is the county town of Suffolk, England, located in East Anglia about north east of London. The town has been continuously occupied since the Saxon period, and its port has been one of England's most important for the whole of its history."
"Winchester in Hampshire, England. For its second edition in 1999, Creamfields moved to the Old Liverpool Airfield, where it remained until 2006. By 2004, the festival's attendance had largely increased, reaching as much as 200,000 attenders each year. For the third event in 2000, Creamfields released a double DJ mix album on Virgin Records, simply titled ""Creamfields"", which reached number 5 in the UK Compilation Chart. The compilation was a studio mix but commemorated the event. For the fourth event in 2001, Creamfields released another album with the same name mixed by Seb Fontaine and Yousef, who appeared at that"
"Bromfield, Cumbria Bromfield is a village and civil parish in the Allerdale district of Cumbria, England. It is about five miles north-east of Aspatria. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 530, decreasing to 510 at the 2011 Census. It has 2 farms, a church dedicated to St Mungo, and a pub. Bromfield is located in the north of England, Cumbria. According to one source the origins of the name of Bromfield (Brounefeld) comes from the old English brun + feld, meaning 'brown open land, or open land where broom grows'. The old ecclesiastic parish of"
"Heavy, The Japanese House, Tom Grennan, Pumerosa, DJ Luck & MC Neat, and Bonzai. The festival will take place on the 6th, 7th and 8th of July at the Vicarage Farm site in Hampshire. Blissfields Blissfields is an annual music festival in Hampshire, England founded by Paul and Mel Bliss in 2001 at Bradley Farm, Bradley, near Alresford. In 2011 the festival moved to a new site in Vicarage Farm, Woodmancott near Winchester. The festival is currently 2,500 ticket capacity and has previously seen appearances from Mumford and Sons, Bastille, Laura Marling, Super Furry Animals, Tricky, Dizzee Rascal, Years &"
"The Lichfield Festival The Lichfield Festival is an annual multi-art-form festival held in Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, which aims to combine high quality, challenging and diverse events of an international calibre, alongside community-based, locally sourced activities. Performances include drama, dance, film, literature, visual arts, jazz, folk, classical and world music. Performances take place principally in the medieval Lichfield Cathedral and the 21st century Lichfield Garrick theatre, alongside non-traditional venues across the County. The Festival also incorporates free community events such as the Festival Market and the Festival Fireworks. The Lichfield Festival was founded in 1981 by the then Dean of Lichfield"
"Prodigy, Placebo (band), Who Made Who, David Guetta, 2 Many DJs, David Morales, Tom Novy, Sander Kleinenberg. The 2016 edition of Creamfields saw the debut of the Steel Yard stage at the main event in Daresbury, Cheshire. The stage is a 15,000 capacity super structure designed and built by Acorn Events, and when standing is one of the country's largest all standing music venues, as well as one of the largest temporary structures in the country. Due to the mobile nature of the structure, combined with a high degree of customisation options in the design, it can be sited in"
"Creamfields outgrows the Speke airfield and moves to its current home in Daresbury. 2007 The Chemical Brothers headline Creamfields in Daresbury, which sees its capacity increased to nearly 50,000 people. 2008 Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Creamfields becomes a two-day event for the first time. The diverse line-up includes the likes of Kasabian, Tiesto, Ian Brown and Fatboy Slim. 2009 Creamfields sells out for the first time in its history, smashing the 60,000-people barrier. It is also named ""Tourism Event Of The Year"" by VisitLiverpool. 2010 Creamfields' capacity in Daresbury is increased to 40,000 people each day, and the option of"
"attracts 70,000 attendees each day. Creamfields is now one of the largest electronic music festivals in the world in terms of attendance, number and size of stages, and size and depth of lineup, regularly featuring headline performances from a wide range of mainstream and underground DJs and performers. 1999 Creamfields returns to its spiritual home of Liverpool - taking over the Old Liverpool Airfield in Speke. Over 50,000 people flock to the first Creamfields in Liverpool to see performances from the likes of Basement Jaxx and Pet Shop Boys. 2000 Creamfields introduces the Live Outdoor Stage to its Liverpool festival,"
"offshoot from Liverpool's Cream nightclub. Other Creamfields festivals have been held in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Almería (Spain), Malta, Punchestown (Ireland), Punta del Este (Uruguay), Alcala de henares (Spain), Istanbul (Turkey), Vilnius (Lithuania), Mexico City (Mexico), Moscow (Russia), Prague (Czech Republic), Lima (Peru), Santiago (Chile), Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Florianopolis, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Wrocław (Poland) and Asunción (Paraguay). Creamfields Lisbon (Portugal) was held for the first time in May 2007. Creamfields Australia has been held annually since 2010. The first Creamfields festival was held in the UK on 2 May 1998 at Matterley Estate in Winchester,"
"The Love Reaction, John Otway and The Cribs' first band Wrinkle. Clarence Park Festival Clarence Park Festival is the longest running free music festival in Yorkshire, England. Known initially as Clarence Rocks Off it has been held annually at the bandstand in Clarence Park, Wakefield since 1991. It is the flagship event for Wakefield Music Collective, a non-profit community group with open membership. Estimated attendance of the festival ranges between 2,000 and 8,000 depending on weather, and it is funded largely through grants, corporate sponsorship and other fundraising events throughout the year. The 23rd Festival is taking place on the"
"The first KFC outlet in the UK was on Fishergate in Preston in May 1965, opened by the entrepreneur Ray Allen. Oldham claims to be the site of the first fried potatoes in the UK in 1860. The UK's biggest dance music festival takes place on the August Bank Holiday at Creamfields on Daresbury Estate. Ingvar Kamprad's IKEA opened its first UK store in Warrington on 1 October 1987; the UK was the 20th country at the time that IKEA had been established. The International Cheese Awards are held at the end of July in Nantwich. Liverpool and Manchester, the"
"Knowsley Hall Music Festival Knowsley Hall Music Festival is a music festival based at Knowsley Hall in Merseyside, near Liverpool. It is commonly abbreviated to 'KHMF' or 'Knowsley'. It was created by the CEO of Cream and Creamfields, James Barton, and Lord Edward Stanley the Lord of the Manor for Knowsley Hall. The first festival was in 2007 and the headline acts were The Who and Keane. James Barton of Cream wanted to create a rock music festival in the North West to rival that of the other great festivals across Britain after the success of his Creamfields dance music"
"traditions still exist in some festivals in Northumberland, and are danced to the traditional music of the area. Clog dancing is also still practised in parts of Lancashire, Cheshire, Yorkshire, Cumbria and Derbyshire and there are teams dancing the Northern traditional dances (and newer ones) in many other parts of England. Clog dance competitions currently held in England include the Lancashire and Cheshire Clog Dancing Contests (focussing on Lancashire style clog dancing) held every September as part of the Fylde Folk Festival in Fleetwood, and the Northern Counties Clog Dancing Championships (focussing on Durham and Northumberland style clog dancing) held"
"The author of the ""Thomas the Tank Engine"" series of books, Rev. W Awdry, was born in Ampfield Vicarage. Ampfield Ampfield is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Test Valley in Hampshire, England, between Romsey, Eastleigh, and Winchester. It had a population at the 2001 census of 1,474, increasing to 1,583 at the 2011 Census. Ampfield lies on sands and clays of Eocene age near the northern edge of the Hampshire Basin. Ampfield Wood on the London Clay to the north of the village is crossed by the Monarch's Way long distance footpath. The parish includes the"
"Green Fields area of the Glastonbury Festival. The Bath International Music Festival, also known as the Bath Music Fest, is held each summer in Bath. Inaugurated in 1948, the festival includes many genres such as orchestral, contemporary jazz, folk and electronica. There are also small festivals with a music focus within the county such as the Farmfestival, Frome Festival, Sunrise Celebration, Stogumber Festival, Trowbridge Village Pump Festival and the Two Moors Festival. The Trowbridge Village Pump Festival, originally based in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, sat partly within the Somerset border at Farleigh Hungerford for most of its life and will continue to"
"popular apple and pear derived alcoholic beverages, many of which are made in this area. The Three Choirs Festival is a festival of sacred choral music which has been held since 1724. It rotates between the three county towns (Worcester, Hereford and Gloucester). It often features music by local composer Edward Elgar. Three Counties The Three Counties of England are traditionally the three agrarian counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. Including towns and cities such as Worcester, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Hereford, Leominster, Stourbridge, Evesham, Malvern and Kidderminster, they extend from the southern boundaries of Birmingham in the north to Bristol in"
"the Suffolk countryman's life. Bradfield St George Bradfield St. George is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England, about south of Bury St Edmunds. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is 'broad field'. The ""Domesday Book"" records the population (including Bradfield Combust and Bradfield St Clare) to be 76 people in 1086. In 2001, the population was 386 people (not including Bradfield Combust and Bradfield St Clare). The village has a village hall built in 1955 which among other events holds the annual village barn dance. The village also has"
"Charsfield Charsfield is a small Suffolk village of 355 residents,(2011) from Wickham Market, from Woodbridge and from Ipswich and is located near the villages of Debach and Dallinghoo. A Civil Parish in East Anglia, Charsfield was famously used as one of the key locations in the 1974 film Akenfield, based loosely upon the book Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village by the historian Ronald Blythe (1969). Charsfield hosted the first Greenbelt festival - an annual festival of arts, faith and justice - on a pig farm just outside the village over the August 1974 bank holiday weekend. Famous Charsfield residents"
"was reprieved after the jury had rendered their judgment. Dame Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, a stage actress of the early- and mid-20th century, lived in Stambourne in later life, dying in 1992 at the age of 101. The parish church of St Peter and St Thomas Becket dates from the 11th century and is a Grade I listed building. Every year a bonfire and fireworks display is held in the village playing field. The event attracts people from surrounding areas (including Great Yeldham, Hedingham and Halstead). Stambourne Stambourne is a village and civil parish in the Braintree District in north Essex, England."
"Limpsfield Limpsfield is a village and civil parish in the east of the county of Surrey, England, by Oxted at the foot of the North Downs. The town Oxted merges with the village's westernmost area, Oxted railway station being within 300m of the residential East Hill (on the A25) in the village and under a mile from Limpsfield's conservation area High Street. The English composer Frederick Delius and orchestral conductor Sir Thomas Beecham are both buried in the village churchyard and there are 89 listed buildings. The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon Tandridge hundred. Limpsfield appears in Domesday Book of"
"Bradfield St George Bradfield St. George is a village and civil parish in the St Edmundsbury district of Suffolk, England, about south of Bury St Edmunds. According to Eilert Ekwall the meaning of the village name is 'broad field'. The ""Domesday Book"" records the population (including Bradfield Combust and Bradfield St Clare) to be 76 people in 1086. In 2001, the population was 386 people (not including Bradfield Combust and Bradfield St Clare). The village has a village hall built in 1955 which among other events holds the annual village barn dance. The village also has a public house (pub)"
"Shrewsbury Folk Festival Shrewsbury Folk Festival is an annual festival of folk and world music and traditional dance held in the town of Shrewsbury in Shropshire, England. It takes place over four days on and around the UK Late Summer bank holiday weekend (usually the last weekend in August). The first Shrewsbury festival was held in 2006, but it was a direct successor to the Bridgnorth Folk Festival, which was first held in 1997. The 2006 Shrewsbury event was staged at The Quarry, but in 2007 a move was made to the larger West Midlands Showground, where all subsequent festivals"
"in cities such as Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Andalucía (Spain), Punchestown (Ireland), Punta del Este (Uruguay), Alcala de Henares (Spain), Istanbul (Turkey), Vilnius (Lithuania), Mexico City (Mexico), Moscow (Russia), Prague (Czech Republic), Lima (Peru), Santiago (Chile), Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba, Belo Horizonte (Brazil), Malta, Wrocław (Poland) and Lisbon (Portugal). Creamfields Australia Creamfields Australia is a dance music festival held in major cities throughout Australia and is a spinoff of the UK festival Creamfields. Events company/brand Totem Onelove, who also produce Stereosonic, brought the brand to Australia in 2010 until it was cancelled in 2012. In 2017,"
"attention to the joys of jazz and classical music. Whinburgh and Westfield Whinburgh and Westfield is a civil parish in the English county of Norfolk. It covers an area of and had a population of 307 in 134 households at the 2001 census. 10 years later it has a population (including Brakefield Green) of 342 according to the 2011 census. For the purposes of local government, it falls within the district of Breckland. The civil parish is located south of the nearby town Dereham and is formed from the two ancient parishes which centred round the churches of St Mary's"
"as varied as Buenos Aires to Moscow. The company now stages over 100 events annually and its international activity has gone on to become one of the company’s greatest achievements. Buoyed by the growth of the brand, the company decided to organise its first outdoor event, and in 1998 Creamfields was launched into the UK festival market. Over the last 15 years Creamfields has gone on to become the world’s biggest dance festival, staging events from Spain, Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Russia, Chile, Brazil, Australia and Argentina where it has become the biggest 1 day dance festival in Latin America."
"of festivals, including Kendal Calling (actually held in Penrith since 2009) and Kendal Mountain Festival. Cumbria Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's county city is Carlisle, in the north of the county, and the only other major urban area is Barrow-in-Furness on the southwestern tip of the county. The county of Cumbria consists of six districts (Allerdale, Barrow-in-Furness, Carlisle, Copeland, Eden and South Lakeland), and in 2008 had a"
"Clarence Park Festival Clarence Park Festival is the longest running free music festival in Yorkshire, England. Known initially as Clarence Rocks Off it has been held annually at the bandstand in Clarence Park, Wakefield since 1991. It is the flagship event for Wakefield Music Collective, a non-profit community group with open membership. Estimated attendance of the festival ranges between 2,000 and 8,000 depending on weather, and it is funded largely through grants, corporate sponsorship and other fundraising events throughout the year. The 23rd Festival is taking place on the weekend of 26 and 27 July 2014. During the two days"