So yesterday I booked a last minute flight to Budapest, Hungary leaving this Sunday! Some of you may have read my ‘Summer Festival Series’ of blogs, featuring various festivals I hit last summer while gallivanting around Europe for four months. For those that followed that series, you may recall my Exit Festival edition. Exit Festival was by far my favorite music festival. In fact I liked it soo much I decided to make a trip out of it this year. In addition I figured I’d blog the shit out of it, so at least those that can’t make the festival/trip can live vicariously through me.
So I’m heading to Eastern Europe for 12 days, as I couldn’t afford to take off any more time without losing my job’s (I know shitty excuse but I am working towards bigger and better things, mainly a year long international adventure, but that’s another story). The trip as it stands will consist of Budapest (Hungary), Novi Sad (Serbia),Belgrade (Serbia), and possibly a trip to the Baltic Coast in Croatia if I can manage to squeeze it in.
As I mentioned, the main event for the trip is the 10th Anniversary of Exit Festival in Novi Sad, Serbia. This festival is one of the biggest festivals in all of Europe, with upwards of 250,000 party-goers in attendance each year!
The festival is 4-days long (Thursday the 9th- Sunday the 12th) with additional pre-party and after party on the beach, the day before and after the festival. It all takes place inside a17th century military fortress, which might be one of the most unique and cool things about the entire festival.
This years line up is stacked beyond any event or festival I have ever seen before. The line-up is as follows;
Main Stage:
The Prodigy
Arctic Monkeys
Lily Allen
Moby
Korn
Manic Street Preachers
Kraftwerk
Madness
Patti Smith
After 2am(main stage turns into D&B/Jungle/Dub step);
Fabio & Grooverider & MC Rage
DJ Marky & MC Dynamite
Andy C & MC GQ
Bryan Gee & Kenny Ken & MC Skibadee
Chase & Status
Caspa & Rusko & MC Rod Azlan
Sub Focus & MC Jakes
Dance Arena: Celebrating a Decade of Dance!
With exclusive b2b sets from;
Carl Cox vs Green Velvet
Sasha vs Digweed
Richie Hawtin vs Dubfire
Eric Prydz vs Adam Beyer
Sander Kleinenberg vs Darren Emerson
James Zabiela vs Nic Fanciulli
Steve Lawler vs Lee Burridge
Steve Angello vs Sebastian Ingrosso
Loco Dice vs Magda
Kissy Sell Out vs Alex Metric
Paul Woolford vs Yousef
Heidi vs Justin Martin
Hannah Holland vs Tayo
Live;
Etienne De Crecy
Gui Boratto
Japanese Popstars
Reboot
And those are just the two main stages. There are about 15 stages scattered throughout the fortress with just about a stage for every genre of music, from folk, to hip hop, to reggae, to trance, to electro, and the list goes on.
Anywho, this is just to let you all know that you can follow this 12-day eastern-European debauchery all on partypm.com via pics, vids, and stories that I’m going to try to update on a daily basis, so keep checking back!
Aaron
“Getting down to business, so you can get to the business of getting down”