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Time Out
20 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Time Out
Creamfields 2025: dates, location, headliners, full lineup and last-minute tickets
Ravers, get your dancing shoes on – Creamfields Festival is just around the corner. What began in 1998 as a humble one-day affair in Hampshire is now one of the UK's biggest EDM parties of the year, and the 2025 edition is kicking off this week. The four-day festival (now in Cheshire) sees heavy DNB, trance, techno and house music take over from morning til night. For 2025, Chase & Status are returning as headliners for the second year in a row, joined by the likes of Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta and many, many more. More than 80,000 people are heading to the dance festival this year. If you're one of them, you'll probably want to know stuff like how to get there, what you can and can't bring, and where to find your favourite acts. You're in the right place – this is all the information you need ahead of Creamfields 2025. When is Creamfields 2025? The EDM fest is happening from Thursday, August 21 to Sunday, August 24. Where is Creamfields 2025? It's taking place at Daresbury Estate in Cheshire, which is roughly in the middle between Manchester and Liverpool. Who are the headliners for Creamfields 2025? Swedish House Mafia, Anyma, David Guetta, Martin Garrix and Chase & Status are topping the bill at Creamfields 2025. Other notable names this year include Fatboy Slim, Hardwell, Ewan McVicar, CamelPhat and Sonny Fodera. What's the Creamfields 2025 lineup and set times? Here's the full breakdown of where and when you'll find every act performing at Creamfields this year. Friday August 22 Arc 6pm-7pm Counterpart 7pm-8pm Arielle Free 8pm-9pm Sub Focus 9.30pm-11pm Chase & Status APEX 3pm-4.30pm Gareth Wyn 4.30pm-6pm Franky Rizardo 6pm-7.30pm Mau P 7.30pm-9pm Vintage Culture 9pm-11pm FISHER Steel Yard 3pm-4pm Beccs Vernon 4pm-5pm Rob Harnetty 5pm-6.30pm Cristoph 6.30pm-8pm John Summit 8pm-9.30pm Adam Beyer 9.30pm-11pm Eric Prydz HALO 3pm-4.30pm Goosey 4.30pm-6pm ALISHA 6pm-7.30pm Rossi. 7.30pm-9pm Hot Since 82 9pm-11pm Jamie Jones Teletch Arena 3pm-4pm Danielle Ciuro 4pm-5.30pm Alex Farell b2b SIKOTI 5.30pm-6.45pm Jazzy b2b Jowi 6.45pm-8pm Holy Priest 8pm-9.30pm Basswell b2b Onlynumbers 9.30pm-11pm Fantasm Saturday August 23 Arc 2pm-2.45pm Anna Eager 2.45pm-3.45pm Ricco 3.45pm-5.15pm Ian Longo b2b Tommy Mc 5.15pm-6.45pm Third Party 6.45pm- 7.30pm Clementine Douglas 7.30pm-9pm MK 9pm-11pm Swedish House Mafia APEX 2pm-3pm Andy Joyce 3pm-4pm Ellia Jaya 4pm-5.30pm Josh Baker 5.45pm-7pm Chris Stussy presents Linger (AV/DJ Set) 7pm-8.45pm SOSA 8.45pm-10.15pm Ben Hemsley 10.15pm-11.45pm Argy 11.45pm-1am Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike 1am-1.30am Counterpart 1.30am-2.30am Hardwell 2.30am-4am Beauz Steel Yard 2pm-3pm Toriah 3pm-4pm Lau 4pm-5.30pm Pete Tong 5.30pm-7pm Eli Brown 7pm-8.30pm Dom Dolla 8.30pm-10pm Marco Carola 10pm-11.30pm CamelPhat 11.30pm-1am Amelie Lens 1am-2.30am Sara Landry 2.30am-4am Chris Stussy B2B Josh Baker HALO 2pm-3.30pm Raphi 3.30pm-5pm Max Styler 5pm-6.30pm Solardo 6.30pm-8pm Patrick Topping 8pm-9.30pm TBA 9.30pm-11am Prospa Teletch Arena 2pm-3.30pm Princess Elf Bar 3.30pm-5pm Novah 5pm-6.3pm Faster Horses b2b Morgan Seatree 6.30pm-7.30pm Kander 7.30pm-9pm Funk Tribu b2b Bad Boombox 9pm-10.30pm Interplanetary Criminal 10.30pm-12am KETTAMA 12am-1.30am Patrick Mason 1.30am-2.45am blk. 2.45am-4am Cloudy The Forest 2pm-3.30pm Nautica 3.30-4.45pm jWave 4.45pm-6pm Obskür 6pm-8pm Gaskin b2b Locklead 8pm-9.15pm Paige Tomlinson 9.15pm-11pm Sidney Charles b2b Luke Dean Sunday August 24 Arc 12.00pm - 12.45pm Dean Peet 12.45pm-1.30pm Ruby Richards 1.30pm-2.30pm Kaci-Lea Lynch 2.30pm-3.30pm Amelia Preston 3.30pm-5pm Jodie Harsh 5pm-7.30pm Oliver Heldens 7.30pm-9pm D.O.D 9.30-11pm David Guetta APEX 12pm-1pm Lucia Cors 1pm-2pm Marsolo 2pm-3.30pm Max Dean 3.30pm-5pm Hannah Laing 5.50pm-8pm Martin Garrix 8pm-9.30pm Anyma Steel Yard 12pm-12.45pm Maninuniform 12.45pm-1.30pm No End 1.30pm-2.45pm Rob McPartland 3pm-4.30pm Jazzy 4.30pm-6pm Danny Howard 6pm-7.30pm Duke Dumont 7.30pm - 9pm Gorgon City 9pm - 11pm Sonny Fodera HALO 12pm-1.15pm Samantha Neal 1.15pm-2.30pm Scaramouche 2.30pm-3.30pm Matt Hibbert 3.30pm-5pm Villager 5pm-6.30pm Chloé Robinson 6.30pm-8pm salute 8pm-9.30pm Four Tet 9.30pm-11pm Ewan McVicar Teletch Arena 12pm-2pm Deevey 2pm-3.30pm KTK 3.30pm-5.15pm I Hate Models 5.15pm-6.15pm horsegiirL 6.15pm-8pm Restricted 8pm-9.30pm Nico Moreno 9.30pm-11pm AZYR The Forest 12pm-1.30pm Niva 1.30pm-3.30pm James Organ 3.30pm-4.30pm Andy Mac 4.30pm-6pm Franky Wah 6pm-7.30pm Boris Brejcha 7.30pm-9.30pm Layton Giordani 9.30pm-11pm East End Dubs presents CITE (Techno Set) Can I still buy tickets? You sure can. There are still two, three and four-day camping tickets for Creamfields 2025 up for grabs. They start from £240, not including the booking fee. You can also still get your hands on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday day ticket, starting from £75. Explore your options for last-minute tickets here. How to get to Creamfields Train The nearest train stations to the Creamfields festival site are Runcorn Station, Warrington Central, Warrington Bank Quay and Liverpool Lime Street. Warrington, Liverpool and Manchester will all have shuttle buses running to and from the site all day and night. Runcorn won't have any buses running to the site, only from the site upon leaving. Car Routes to the festival site will be clearly signposted when you get closer to Daresbury. Don't trust your sat-nav system as there will be road closures in place. National Highways has warned of likely congestion along parts of the M56 and M6, so make sure you leave yourself plenty of time. For parking, you can buy a pass here. Coach Big Green Coach will be running trips to Creamfields from multiple cities across the UK, including Aberdeen, Birmingham, Coventry, Glasgow, Leicester, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Reading and Swansea. Book your place on a coach to Creamfields here. Are there any banned items? The following items are banned from both the camping site and the event arena: Aerosols, including deodrant Balloons Blowtorches Computer equipment Illegal drugs (possession, use, or sale) Disposable vapes Glass, including perfume, foundation bottles, aftershave and mirrors (small compact mirrors are acceptable) Sound system or portable speakers Selfie sticks Skateboards and rollerblades, hover-boards, scooters, bicycles, and other personal motorised and non-motorised vehicles Nitrous oxide New Psychoactive Substances Knives (including locking knives) Sound systems (likely referring to large, unofficial ones) Glass bottles (excluding make-up and perfume, but note no re-entry with any glass) Fireworks Explosives BBQs (disposable BBQs are permitted on the camping site) Smoke and gas canisters (other than small, disposable camping gas canisters within reasonable limits) Air horns/ megaphones Flares Radios/ walkie-talkies Profession audio or video recording equipment Weapons or potential weapons Laser devices Unofficial drones and UAVs Chinese lanterns Generators Unofficial hi-visibility clothing/tabards Animals (other than declared and approved assistance dogs) Clothing, garments or items which promote cultural appropriation The following things should be left in your tent as they are banned from the main event arena Alcohol (for campers there's a limit of 24 cans and one litre plastic bottle of spirit per person) Bags over A4 Chairs/ stools/ inflatable loungers Camping equipment Cans Plastic or glass bottles of spirits Food Soft drinks (you can take in a 500ml sealed bottle of wate) Weather forecast Thursday August 21: highs of 20C, lows of 11C. Sunny during the day turning to partly cloudy by the evening. Friday August 22: highs of 21C with lows of 14C. Sunny skies turning slightly cloudy in the evening. Saturday August 23: highs of 22C, lows of 14C. Sunday August 24: highs of 24C, lows of 15C.
The Guardian
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Resurrection review – fascinating phantasmagoria is wild riddle about new China and an old universe
Bi Gan's new movie in Cannes is bold and ambitious, visually amazing, trippy and woozy in its embrace of hallucination and the heightened meaning of the unreal and the dreamlike. His last film Long Day's Journey Into Night from 2018 was an extraordinary and almost extraterrestrial experience in the cinema which challenged the audience to examine what they thought about time and memory; this doesn't have quite that power, being effectively a portmanteau movie, some of whose sections are better than others – though it climaxes with some gasp-inducing images and tracking shots and all the constituent parts contribute to the film's aggregate effect. Resurrection is, perhaps, a long night's journey to the enlightenment of daybreak; it finishes at a club called the Sunrise. It is also an episodic journey through Chinese history, finishing at that historic moment which continues to fascinate Chinese film-makers whose movies are a way of collectively processing their feelings about it: New Year's Eve 1999, the new century in which China was to bullishly embrace the new capitalism while cleaving to the political conformism of the old ways. We are in a kind of alt-reality universe where humans have discovered they can live indefinitely if they do not dream, an activity which burns up humans like a lit candle. Bi Gan leaves it up to us to ponder what that implies for overpopulation. But there is one outlier, one dissident, a man who does dream – he is a sacred monster called the Fantasmer (Jackson Yee) and the paradox is that the Fantasmer's ecstatic perception of illusions and dreams allows him to reincarnate and resurrect in an exotic variety of lowlife existences at different historic times in the last century – and a woman enters his life. Is it the woman perceiving these events, or is the Fantasmer doing it? At the beginning of the century, and occupying a kind of antique silent-movie world, he is a white-faced figure like the vampire Nosferatu being tended to by a mysterious woman (played by longtime Hou Hsiao-shen performer Shu Qi). During the second world war he is involved in a violent imbroglio in a mirror shop – shades of Welles's The Lady From Shanghai perhaps – involving a theremin. We flashforward 20 years and our time-travelling itinerant Fantasmer is in a remote and wintry temple where he breaks a Buddha statue and encounters a Spirit of Bitterness. Some decades later, he is a crooked card-sharp who inveigles a little girl into a scam he's got going against a local gangster and finally we are at the brink of the new century in which the Fantasmer meets another mobster Mr Luo – his vampiric destiny, and the movie's own visuals, ascend to a new plane. It is a deeply mysterious film whose enigma extends to the title – is what is happening 'resurrection' in any clear transformative sense? Or is it just a continuous flickering shape-shifting: the Fantasmer just a pulsating star on the far-reaches of the universe, that might in a few hundred thousand years explode or collapse in on itself? Asking or answering these questions may not be the film's point and its riddling quality, combined with its spectacular visual effects, may leave some audiences agnostic – and I myself wasn't sure about the silent-movie type effects. Yet it's a work of real artistry. Resurrection premiered at the Cannes film festival
CairoScene
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
Lebanese DJ SAS to Play Verknipt Festival 2025 in Utrecht June 7th-8th
Lebanese DJ SAS to Play Verknipt Festival 2025 in Utrecht June 7th-8th Lebanese DJ and producer SAS is set to play at Verknipt Festival 2025 edition, considered one of the Netherlands' biggest techno-focused festivals in Utrecht from June 7th to June 8th. Based between Berlin and Milan, Sarah Assi, aka SAS, has built up a reputation as one of the most exciting up-and-coming talents in the global electronic scene, steadily carving out her niche with a distinctive industrial techno sound, one that's raw and dark, packed with atmospheric layers and hard-hitting kicks. Beyond her own productions, SAS is also the founder of EKSTASIS, a record label and event series, dedicated to spotlighting experimental sounds across the globe, hosting parties in some of the biggest venues across Lebanon, Germany, Italy, Belgium and Jordan. Since its inception in 2012, Verknipt has grown to become a staple in the global techno scene, with its forward-thinking approach to event production and dedication to celebrating hard techno, industrial beats and rave culture in the Netherlands. Despite mostly focusing on hard techno, the festival finds its roots in a more extensive variation of tech-house, minimal, and melodic techno. Last year, over 25,000 ravers gathered at Verknipt Festival 2024, marking the biggest crowd the festival has ever welcomed since its inception. Taking place at Strijkviertelplas, Utrecht, this year, Verknipt is bringing a world-class lineup of DJs from across the globe, such as Fantasm, Nico Moreno, Aida Arko, SANTØS, Nikolina b2b Neon Graveyard, Toxic Machinery, Vall Du Son, BØĘRY, Xiben, and more. You can book your tickets at Verknipt's official website.
