Creamfields
Band form
1998
Creamfields is a one day dance festival that takes place in Merseyside. The only festival of its kind, Creamfields has become the UKs number 1 dance festival & the djs/acts picked to perform are always guaranteed to impress.
Creamfields Steel Yard 2017 - Live Review
By Adam Holden in Music Reviews on 15 June 2017
The Steel Yard returned to London for a second bank holiday two-day weekend extravaganza, with Axwell n Ingrosso and Eric Prydz headlining the evenings. With the latter also debuting his latest Epic Show 5.0, he would steal all the headlines and plaudits - for what was witnessed was pure wizardry and never seen before.
This feat was magnified by the fact that it was held in Creamfields' very own Steel Yard, a purpose built edifice that holds 20,000+ (the size of a football field) - its sole purpose to showcase events of this exact nature. It was used at Creamfields 2016 and again by Axwell n Ingrosso in Liverpool. Fortuitously for Londoners, Eric Prydz was about to give his Epic Show the once over on the Steel Yard - and it will be a long time before being forgotten.
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Creamfields Festival 2015 Live Review
By Adam Holden in Music Reviews on 03 September 2015
Bringing Ibiza to a field just outside Liverpool, Creamfields was back again, with a plethora of headline disc jockeys, showcasing Creamfields as the powerhouse of UK-electronic festivals. With as many headline acts and big room DJs as Ibiza, the only thing the Daresbury site cannot guarantee is the Mediterranean weather, though after years of being unfortunate to receive bad weather on a biblical scale, it was about time the festival punters fell serendipitously to some great weather.
Despite being a three-day festival, Saturday is the main attraction, as tents stay open long into the morning, providing that Ibiza like mentality. From 5pm-4am, the choices were overwhelming and this was the crowds' predicament. Annie Mac or Dannie Howard? Above And Beyond or Armin van Buuren? Chemical Brothers, Avicii or Jooris Voorn? Maya Jane Coles, Laidback Luke or Hot since 82? Alesso, Seth Troxler, Pete Tong or Steve Angello? Knife Party or Gorgon City? The set clashes were inevitable, though the positive outcome to this is that the stages never seem chaotically rammed to the extent of ruining the music and atmosphere, like with the Swedish House Mafia in 2011.
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Creamfields 2015 - Preview
By Adam Holden in Music Reviews on 26 August 2015
It's that time of the year again. Bank Holiday weekend in August. The time of the summer when Ibiza crash lands just outside Liverpool all because of a three-day weekender. We are of course talking about the UK's most sought after dance festival - Creamfields.
With more festival exclusives than anyone else, whilst impulsively pumping much money into production and expansion, the festival has now firmly cemented itself as the go to premiere electronic-music festival, and will undoubtedly go off with more pyrotechnics and fireworks than a Chinese New Year.
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Creamfields 2013 - Preview
By Ian Russell in Music Reviews on 16 April 2013
It's only April but Contactmusic already have one eye on the summer. specifically towards Creamfields 2013 which will be taking place at its usual venue near Daresbury in Cheshire over the August Bank Holiday weekend (Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th August). And while much of the UK's music press will be off to Leeds and Reading, we're looking forward to something that bit more adrenaline-fuelled, weird and wonderful over at Creamfields.
Onto the Sunday (25th August) and the big name is undoubtedly David Guetta - arguably the biggest name in the world of electronic music right now - heading up the North Stage with a selection of tunes that have pretty much been resident on radios across the globe over the past few years. Though, he does face a little competition from Tiësto on the South Stage, as well as Groove Armada giving one of their ever-excellent and eclectic DJ sets in the Nation tent, and Sebastian Ingrosso proving that there is life after Swedish House Mafia as he fronts the All Mixed Up stage. Frankly, Sunday is full of mouth-watering clashes, with Richie Hawtin's intelligent Techno jacking the Enter stage around, Laidback Luke and Eddie Halliwell getting hands up in the air at the Super You&Me stage, Kutski, Andy Whitby and Alex Kidd pushing it hard and fast at the Goodgreef X-Tra Hard stage and Subfocus and Modestep bringing the bass tremors in the Speakerbox tent. And frankly, if you've got any energy left after that little lot, you're a stronger man than I am! An impressive line-up all round.
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Creamfields 2012 Line-Up Announced
Posted on06 March 2012
Creamfields, 10th Anniversary 2008 Live Review
By Ian Russell in Music Reviews on 04 September 2008
Creamfields
10th Anniversary
2008
Cream @ Amnesia, Sunshine at Last, Ibiza, July 5th 2007, Review
By Ian Russell in Music Reviews on 10 July 2007
Cream @ Amnesia - Ibiza July 5th 2007 - Well, the weather boffins have been telling us for years now that the climate is changing.. we've been promised Mediterranean sunshine and never having to buy another umbrella or pair of Wellingtons as long as we live. Bloody scientists, what do they know?