Tale of Us

Wellies at the ready, it’s time for a festival (or three)! The summer has returned, or at least as much as it ever does in the UK, and with it comes swathes of festivals across the nation, continent and, you guessed it, the world. As per, we’ve trawled through the listings and put together a definitive list of the ones you really need to know about. So biros at the ready, get circling or risk kicking yourself come October...

Can you imagine Cocoon without Sven Väth? How about Paradise without Jamie Jones? Or Music On without Italian techno don, Marco Carola? Ibiza’s biggest club brands rely on the star power of their founders to make bank, but what happens when these legends eventually want to retire? DJ Mag’s digital editor Charlotte Lucy Cijffers investigates who will inherit dance music’s most powerful empires...

World Club Dome outdoes itself once again with yet another unique experience, turning clubbers into astronauts (sort of) on the ‘Vomit Comet’. We made our dear Ben Hindle take an ECG heart scan and shipped him off to learn just what it’s like to rave in zero gravity….