Global Gathering 2006
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Global Gathering 2006 took place on the 28th and 29th of July, at Long Marston Airfield
near Stratford-upon-Avon
, UK. The festival was promoted by Angel Music Group
, previously known as Godskitchen
(which completed a restructuring and rebranding programme in 2005), to reflect their wide range of music-related interests, although the Godskitchen Arena was the centrepiece of the festival's line up. Other arena hosts included Essential Selection, Air, Polysexual, Bedrock, Carl Cox
& Friends, Strongbow Ciderhouse, and others. The outdoor beach stage also returned for the event, and it was covered by BBC Radio 1
. Acts included, Daft Punk
, and Groove Armada
, among many others. Radio 1 also broadcast 4-hour extended Essential Mix
, which featured Fatboy Slim
, Deep Dish
, DJ Tiësto, and Ferry Corsten
.
Global Gathering
took place for the first time in the United States on 18 March 2006 in Miami, Florida
, at the city-owned Bicentennial Park
alongside Biscayne Bay
. This event marked the first time that the festival has gone across the Atlantic. Angel Music Group, parent company of Godskitchen, partnered up with United States-based companies Track Entertainment
, (which acquired AMG on June 5th, 2006), Bacardi and Club Space
, to produce and promote the event. Acts included Sasha
and John Digweed
, Deep Dish, Roger Sanchez
, Adam Freeland
, Murk
, and rock acts such as Nine Inch Nails
, Rob Zombie
, Lacuna Coil
, Avenged Sevenfold
, Shinedown
, and more. Although Tommy Lee was supposed to headline he did not show up.
With the success of the Miami event, Bacardi Global Gathering did a second Stateside festival in Las Vegas, Nevada
, on Labor Day
Weekend in September 2006. Performers included Tiësto
, Papa Roach
, Uncle Kracker
, and more. The event took place at The Palms resort in Las Vegas over the course of the holiday weekend.
Angel Music Group
presented HI-FI (EIRE), which took please over the 4th-5th of August in the grounds of Belvedere House and Gardens
, Co.Westmeath. This festival follows in the successful footprints of Global Gathering Ireland from 2005.
For the 2007 year, the festival will be taking a brief hiatus from the United States. However, the original UK festival is already being planned, and presale tickets are being sold.
Long Marston Airfield
Long Marston Airfield was a Royal Air Force base between 1941 and 1954, situated approximately 3 miles south west of Stratford-upon-Avon near the village of Long Marston in Warwickshire..It is now managed by Anthony Hodges, and is home to:...
near Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon
Stratford-upon-Avon is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England. It lies on the River Avon, south east of Birmingham and south west of Warwick. It is the largest and most populous town of the District of Stratford-on-Avon, which uses the term "on" to indicate that it covers...
, UK. The festival was promoted by Angel Music Group
Angel Music Group
Angel Music Group is a management company for various dance music groups in the United Kingdom, including Godskitchen, Global Gathering, Polysexual, and others. It was set up in 2005...
, previously known as Godskitchen
Godskitchen
Godskitchen is an international superclub brand which is associated with dance music and organises events, particularly in the UK and US. The company runs a club night of the same name at their nightclub AIR, in Birmingham, England and has an in-house music label...
(which completed a restructuring and rebranding programme in 2005), to reflect their wide range of music-related interests, although the Godskitchen Arena was the centrepiece of the festival's line up. Other arena hosts included Essential Selection, Air, Polysexual, Bedrock, Carl Cox
Carl Cox
Carl Cox is a British techno and house music DJ.-Biography:Cox grew up in Oldham, Lancashire, before attending Glastonbury High Boys secondary modern school on Glastonbury Road in Morden. Cox began his career as a hardcore and rave DJ in the mid 1980s...
& Friends, Strongbow Ciderhouse, and others. The outdoor beach stage also returned for the event, and it was covered by BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
. Acts included, Daft Punk
Daft Punk
Daft Punk are an electronic music duo consisting of French musicians Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter . Daft Punk reached significant popularity in the late 1990s house movement in France and met with continued success in the years following, combining elements of house with synthpop...
, and Groove Armada
Groove Armada
Groove Armada is an English electronic music duo from London, England comprising Andy Cato and Tom Findlay. They are perhaps best known for their singles "I See You Baby" and "Superstylin'"...
, among many others. Radio 1 also broadcast 4-hour extended Essential Mix
Essential Mix
The Essential Mix is a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 1 currently broadcast between 03:00 and 05:00 Saturday morning. Originally broadcast on 30 October 1993, The Essential Mix features contemporary DJs and music producers of electronic dance music....
, which featured Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim
Norman Quentin Cook better known by his former stage name Fatboy Slim, is a British DJ, electronic dance music musician, and record producer. He is a pioneer of the big beat genre that achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s...
, Deep Dish
Deep Dish
Deep Dish is a duo of DJs and house-music producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, D.C., Shirazinia and Tayebi are well known for providing house or dance remixes of tracks of famous stars such as Madonna, Cher and Gabrielle,...
, DJ Tiësto, and Ferry Corsten
Ferry Corsten
Ferry Corsten, also known under the alias System F, is a Dutch producer of trance music, in addition to being a DJ and remixer. He also hosts his own weekly radio show, Corsten's Countdown. He routinely plays at events all over the world with crowds in excess of tens of thousands. In 2009 Ferry...
.
Global Gathering
Global Gathering
GlobalGathering is an annual dance music festival by Angel Music Group. Festivals are held in countries such as the UK, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and feature leading electronica artists from across the globe...
took place for the first time in the United States on 18 March 2006 in Miami, Florida
Florida
Florida is a state in the southeastern United States, located on the nation's Atlantic and Gulf coasts. It is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the north by Alabama and Georgia and to the east by the Atlantic Ocean. With a population of 18,801,310 as measured by the 2010 census, it...
, at the city-owned Bicentennial Park
Bicentennial Park
Bicentennial Park may refer to:In Australia:* Bicentennial Park, Homebush Bay in Sydney, New South Wales* Bicentennial Park, Rockdale in the Sydney suburb of Rockdale* Bicentennial Park South Football Stadium in the Sydney suburb of Rockdale...
alongside Biscayne Bay
Biscayne Bay
Biscayne Bay is a lagoon that is approximately 35 miles long and up to 8 miles wide located on the Atlantic coast of South Florida, United States. It is usually divided for purposes of discussion and analysis into three parts: North Bay, Central Bay, and South Bay. Its area is...
. This event marked the first time that the festival has gone across the Atlantic. Angel Music Group, parent company of Godskitchen, partnered up with United States-based companies Track Entertainment
Track Entertainment
Track Entertainment is an entertainment and media company that connects brands and consumers through events, television, digital media, and lifestyle marketing...
, (which acquired AMG on June 5th, 2006), Bacardi and Club Space
Club Space
Club Space is a large nightclub located in the downtown area of Miami, Florida, owned by Louis Puig.In the nine years of operation, Space has resided in two buildings. was a one-story renovated warehouse, consisting of three rooms, as well as an outdoor patio area, which was one of the primary...
, to produce and promote the event. Acts included Sasha
Sasha (DJ)
Sasha is a Welsh DJ and record producer. Sasha began his career playing acid house dance music in the late 1980s...
and John Digweed
John Digweed
John Digweed is an English DJ, record producer and acclaimed actor.-Biography:John Digweed began DJing around age 4...
, Deep Dish, Roger Sanchez
Roger Sanchez
Roger Sanchez, also known as Roger S. and The S Man, is a Grammy award-winning American House music DJ who has scored many hits in the European and World Charts...
, Adam Freeland
Adam Freeland
Adam Freeland is an English DJ and producer associated with breakbeat based electronic music. He was a resident of Brighton, moved to Los Angeles where he recorded second album Cope™ but is now based back in Brighton...
, Murk
Murk
Murk may refer to:* Murk , Cuban-American house music duo* Murk , its 2004 self-titled release* Murk , 2005 Danish thriller by Jannik Johansen and Anders Thomas Jensen...
, and rock acts such as Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
, Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the...
, Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil
Lacuna Coil is an Italian gothic metal band from Milan. Formed in 1994, the group has had two name changes since being previously known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal and was inspired by the combination of gothic imagery and music...
, Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold is an American heavy metal band from Huntington Beach, California. Formed in 1999, the group consists of vocalist M. Shadows, lead guitarist Synyster Gates, rhythm guitarist Zacky Vengeance, bassist Johnny Christ....
, Shinedown
Shinedown
Shinedown is an American rock band from Jacksonville, Florida, formed in 2001 and founded by members Brent Smith , Brad Stewart , Jasin Todd , and Barry Kerch . A few line-up changes followed, and the band's current line-up consists of Smith and Kerch, the band's only two remaining original...
, and more. Although Tommy Lee was supposed to headline he did not show up.
With the success of the Miami event, Bacardi Global Gathering did a second Stateside festival in Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and is also the county seat of Clark County, Nevada. Las Vegas is an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and fine dining. The city bills itself as The Entertainment Capital of the World, and is famous...
, on Labor Day
Labor Day
Labor Day is a United States federal holiday observed on the first Monday in September that celebrates the economic and social contributions of workers.-History:...
Weekend in September 2006. Performers included Tiësto
Tiësto
Tijs Michiel Verwest, , known as Tiësto , is a Dutch musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. Although he has used many aliases in the past, he is best known for his work as DJ Tiësto...
, Papa Roach
Papa Roach
Papa Roach is an American rock band from Vacaville, California. Their first major-label release was the triple-platinum album Infest . The group's success continued with their gold album Lovehatetragedy , their platinum album Getting Away with Murder , The Paramour Sessions , and Metamorphosis...
, Uncle Kracker
Uncle Kracker
Matthew Shafer is an American rock musician known as Uncle Kracker. His singles include "Follow Me", "Smile", and "Drift Away". His music was more rap rock-based at the start of his career before turning in a more rock and Top 40 style music direction on later releases.-Biography:Shafer was born...
, and more. The event took place at The Palms resort in Las Vegas over the course of the holiday weekend.
Angel Music Group
Angel Music Group
Angel Music Group is a management company for various dance music groups in the United Kingdom, including Godskitchen, Global Gathering, Polysexual, and others. It was set up in 2005...
presented HI-FI (EIRE), which took please over the 4th-5th of August in the grounds of Belvedere House and Gardens
Belvedere House and Gardens
Belvedere House and Gardens is a famous country house located near Mullingar, in county Westmeath, Ireland. Its gardens which include The Jealous Wall and many hectares of forest, attract thousands of visitors annually for their beauty...
, Co.Westmeath. This festival follows in the successful footprints of Global Gathering Ireland from 2005.
For the 2007 year, the festival will be taking a brief hiatus from the United States. However, the original UK festival is already being planned, and presale tickets are being sold.