Returning to Morden Park over Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th August, Eastern Electrics will include a pool party, vamped up VIP area and a host of top DJs.
These include heavyweights like MK, Goldie, Orbital, Skream, Claptone and more.
This weekend will again see the construction of the impressive Switchyard stage and a host of other arenas catering to varied electronic tastes.
With variety in mind, day two will have a garage vibe with legendary UKG jock DJ EZ leading the charge, joined by DJ Spoony, Matt ‘Jam’ Lamont and many more.
This year will also feature an after party at legendary London venue, Fabric, which will feature a DJ set from M25 rave icons, Orbital.
Weekend tickets are priced at £57.50, plus booking fee, Saturday-only tickets are from £39.95 and Sunday from £20.
A new book, by author Paul Christian, has revealed how a study of letters, said to have been written by Jack the Ripper, can solve the mystery of San Francisco's Zodiac murders.
The book 'Zodiac the Ripper' aims to provide California law enforcement with a blueprint to solve the brutal unsolved killings, which terrorised the San Francisco area in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Paul, 37, is the author of ‘The Inevitable Jack the Ripper’, which unmasked Jack the Ripper as artist Walter Sickert, last year.
Now he has turned his attention to the USA's most famous unsolved murder case.
The author, of Hemel Hempstead, Herts, said: “After the huge response to 'The Inevitable Jack the Ripper', last year, I immediately wanted to look at other famous unsolved cases -and they don't come more well-known than the sinister Zodiac killings.
“My book presents a clear roadmap for investigators to follow to crack the case. It involves an in-depth study of the letters written by the so-called Zodiac and the stark similarities between them and the alleged Jack the Ripper letters from 80 years earlier.”
He added: “This comprehensive new look at the case comes just over 50 years after the first canonical Zodiac murders and I believe we could now be tantalisingly close to naming the killer. The book also delves into a number of other fascinating parallels between the two cases. It is too late to get the Ripper, the next best thing would be to nail his apprentice.”
Elrow
Town breezed into London last weekend in a blaze of psychedelic
colour, animatronics and banging tunes.
It
is now a week since the second day kicked off and the hedonistic
musical mayhem is still fresh in the memory. Great
sets from Claptone, Fatboy Slim and Idris Elba were the order of the
day, seven days ago.
And
last Saturday saw Paul Kalkbrenner, Paco Osuna and Steve Lawler
entertaining up-for-it revellers across the Psychedelic Trip and
Sambodromo do Brasil arenas.
Both
main stages were incredible feats, with inflatable giraffes and other
critters looming over the dancefloor in the Sambodromo and awesome
‘walking’ praying mantises stalking the massive pyramidal
Psychedelic Trip.
The
event, in the shadow of the Olympic stadium, in Stratford, brought a
hefty dose of the surreal to this corner of East London, with smiles
on faces wherever you looked. It was a timely reminder not to take
life too seriously.
Here’s
hoping elrow Town is now a regular feature.
elrow
Town London details
an eye-popping array of captivating features, extensive food
programming and crazy characters for
Saturday
18 and
Sunday
19 August.
Famed
for its immersive production, elrow Town London will set the bar even
higher for interactive, audiovisual festivals when it once again
takes over the Queen
Elizabeth Olympic Park, in
Stratford, London.
The
crazy carnival atmosphere is set to fill the site of the 2012
Olympics with a different brand of fun and games.
elrow
Town London hosts two immersive themes: Psychedelic
Trip and
Sambodromo
Do Brasil.
The former transports townspeople to a hippy commune that's built on
peace and love while the latter plunges you deep into the rainforest
for hair-raising encounters with wild animals, lost explorers, samba
dancers and stranded DJs.
The
roving international two-day event will feature DJ luminaries such as
superstar Fatboy Slim, masked house honcho Claptone, Paul
Kalkbrenner, Paco Osuna and Luther star Idris Elba.
Two years after leaving Hatfield House, Eastern Electrics may finally have found a place it can call home, writesTopReviews4U editor Paul Christian.
The roving festival, which has previously pitched up at Knebworth as well as in Hatfield, seemed settled in its Morden Park residence, a year after moving there.
This felt like it belonged, with room to breathe, reasonably far away from residents and with a knowhow brought about by learning from previous experience.
Gone was the hated RFID pre-loaded payment system, which seemed to make the bar experience far more relaxed and leaving your stresses at the gate should be what festivals are all about.
Also this year a second day was added on Sunday, featuring more urban acts to compliment the underground house and techno fayre, as EE added a third 'E' - expansion.
But some things never change, thankfully.
The epic Switchyard arena was still a central feature and was packed full of up-for-it ravers under sunny skies.
Also the ever-present Star of EE 'pub' was still there and always busy.
The excellent new Defected tent was like a separate venue, with its entrance tunnel building anticipation, before a stepped dancing stage, the whole length of the marquee, came into view and quality house music filled the plush setting.
The main stage offered some of the cream of the crop including Hot Since 82 and Jamie Jones.
But it was in the plethora of side stages where EE really excels with variety both musically and aesthetically.
Everything just felt right at Eastern Electrics this year - long may it continue.
If
you have a beard you might not have thought about oiling it, I know I
hadn’t - but that was until I discovered the ZEOS signature blends of nourishing oils, writes TopReviews4U editor Paul Christian.
Now
I can’t even imagine my beard un-oiled, if you don’t have a beard
you should grow one simply to apply these awesome oils.
The
pair of fragranced follicle friends include the subtle and sweet
Inspire and the robust Radiance.
I
love both and have been wearing them daily on rotation
since they
arrived on Saturday.
I
don’t think I’ve ever stroked my beard so much – the sleek and
softened hairs are a joy to behold and the scent is fantastic.
The classy aromas make you feel confident and sophisticated and are surely set to become a grooming essential for the discerning gentleman.
They also come in hand luggage-friendly 30ml bottles, so you can wear them on your summer holidays.
My
straggly face furniture has become a well-tended and scented
accessory thanks to ZEOS’ superb oils.
As
well as the aesthetic benefits the oils are naturally loaded with
antioxidants, vitamin E, vitamin A, Omega-6 fatty acids and linoleic
acid to condition the hair and boost the skin’s elasticity and
sooth any irritation.
It
does all the hard work for you, putting your follicles through their
paces and leaving just a subtle scent, incredibly touchable beard and
healthy-looking skin with no annoying greasy residue.
South West Four continues to go from
strength to strength, with increasingly impressive light shows –
and DJ sets -making this wonderful event an audio-visual feast for
dance music fans.
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That is helped significantly by
headliners Luke deadmau5, whose entire schtick is the awesome
marriage of breathtaking incandescent stage decor and whomping
synth-laden aural fodder.
But support acts also pitched in, with
Markus Schulz's terrific Dakota concept bringing visual storytelling
alongside his riff and bass heavy neotrance madness.
On Sunday's headliner – deadmau5 has
maintained a bleeding cool edge in an era of throwaway EDM and a
proliferation of festivals – much like SW4 itself.
His set was a tour de force uptempo
crowd pleasers like Ghosts N Stuff were tempered with euphoric
dreamstates like Phantoms Can't Hang, and some hip-hop and DJ
tool-like samples were thrown in as the Mau5 pitched it up as well as
down.
Deadmau5 makes you work, he won't throw
you euphoric bones track after track and the overall effect is that
he creates a mood, a nose-thumbing meta journey, where occasionally
you're in on the joke and occasionally you're the butt of it – but
you don't mind either way.
His set here was quite simply
fantastic.
I also particularly enjoyed Ferry
Corsten's set in The Gallery tent, where the Dutch maestro appeared
to revel a greater freedom to play his beloved trance to an equally
ecstatic crowd.
Honourable mention must also go to Gareth Emery.
The main stage was also busy throughout
as top talents like Martin Soveig, Example and DJ Wire and Sub Focus veered closer to the
overground.
But is simply too much to list in terms
of the stellar line-up, so I'll concentrate on my overriding
impressions.
South West Four has never felt so sure
of itself to me, it is how an event like this should be – no unnecessary gimmicks, just solid entertainment aimed squarely at the punters.
