Legendary art band Block9 has announced their long-awaited return to the Glastonbury Festival, bringing queer nightlife, culture, underground music and even a new collaboration with the Notting Hill Carnival logo to Somerset’s sacred fields.
Block9 is a London-based organisation led by Gideon Berger and Stephen Gallagher that generates art and installations that explore the intersection of music, art, theatre and politics in stunning immersive experiences.
They started participating with the Glastonbury Festival 15 years ago to design and produce their own space, also called Block9, bringing together dancers, musicians, DJs, composers, filmmakers, drag artists and everything else in venues in two of the festival areas. – Block 9 East and Block 9 West.
This year, Block9 offers a full lineup of Todd Edwards, Honey Dijon, Floorplan, Justin Strauss, Steffi, LSDXOXO, and even a collaboration with Notting Hill Carnival for the first time.
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Introducing the world’s first one hundred percent green electric carnivalArray The Notting Hill Carnival collaboration with Block9 and the Glastonbury Festival will come with carnival processions at the festival site, featuring dancers and masquerades. It will also come with a sound formula with Caribbean sounds from some of the most productive selectors and DJs at Notting Hill Carnival.
At the center of Glastonbury Festival Block9 is IICON, a colossal and immersive audiovisual arena that this year will feature performances and appearances by Shygirl, Hercules and Love Affair, Sherelle and Overmono.
Block9 is also guilty of launching Glastonbury’s first queer bar, NYC Downlow, a queer utopia and multi-room club area located in a reproduction of a seedy New York City bathhouse around 1982. Not only is it one of the most productive clubs at the Glastonbury Festival, yet one of the most productive clubs in the world, with a motley crew of go-go-boy yetchers and drag performers.
And of course, NYC Downlow will make its big comeback at the Glastonbury Festival with lineups including Honey Dijon, Soul Summit, Royal Rave Grace, Justin Strauss, The Carry Nation and House legend DJ Paulette. There will also be performances through Maude. Adams and All These Children, a functional East London company led by cabaret icon Jonny Woo, dancing, summer parties and perversion and sewing.
Also included in Block9’s domain is the Genosys Outdoor Arena, which this year celebrates the role of music as a form of political protest and marks the 30th anniversary of Castlemorton, the largest illegal rave ever held in the UK, which resulted in the death of the original Criminal Justice and Public Disturbance Act, restricting the strength of other people to protest against government policy.
Block9 co-founder Berger explained why it’s vital to pay tribute to Castlemorton: “30 years later, we’re still fighting for the utopian dream that Castlemorton represented.
“A dream of music, networking and progressive inclusion, free of state and corporate profits.
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