Festivals & Events
Line-ups, dates and what a festival is like once you are inside it.
FestivalHow to Read a Ticket Page Before You Pay
Passports, golden passes, final releases and VIP tiers. The words are marketing. The terms underneath are what you are actually buying.
Read the storyWhy Festival Dates Keep Sending People to the Wrong City
A four-day festival listed by its opening night becomes a one-day event everywhere else. A small, fixable problem that costs real money.
The Night Economy Finally Has Numbers
A first international index built from tens of thousands of events gives club culture something it has never had in a licensing meeting: evidence.
The Part of the Festival Nobody Photographs
Four consecutive years of daytime conversation at Teatro Regio, and a free training programme for young curators. This is what separates a festival from a line-up.
What Is Actually Confirmed for 2027
Three festivals have published their own dates. Everything else circulating is a guess, and some of those guesses will cost somebody a flight.
Five Days in a Forest
The Amsterdamse Bos shapes everything about Dekmantel, including the kind of sets that work there. The 2027 edition runs 29 July to 2 August.
Three Days Inside a Steelworks
Parco Dora is the real headliner at Turin's July festival. Passes for 2027 are already on sale, with no names attached.
Three Nights in a Theatre, and Why That Changes the Music
Ravenna's festival puts dub, drone and heavy electronics in a seated room, and builds the whole thing around a king who died fifteen centuries ago.
The Festival That Treats a City as Its Venue
Twenty-five years in, C2C still refuses the single-site model. Four days, eight rooms and a Sunday that behaves like a club night.
How to Survive a City That Turns Into a Festival
ADE 2027 runs 20 to 24 October. After five days spent crossing Amsterdam at the wrong hours, here is what we would do differently.