London’s foremost three-day electronic music festival is celebrating its tenth anniversary in Peckham Rye Park across the second May Bank Holiday weekend.
In marking its tenth year, the independent festival will deliver its weightiest programme to date, with a host of electronic music’s most in demand acts across a distinct three-day musical programme. Over the weekend, universally loved Caribou will perform his freshest material live following three sold out Roundhouse shows. Floating Points will headline the Friday night of the festival off the back of critically acclaimed album ‘Cascade’, Moodymann plays his first London open air set in 3 years, and Theo Parrish is playing a marathon 8 hour open-to-close set – spinning the first record of the weekend.
Other noteworthy debuts include: Hudson Mohawke, Avalon Emerson, Floorplan, Ben UFO and KiNK who will perform live. Stage hosts and partners include the likes of NTS Radio, Nicholas Daley,Chapter Ten, Rush Hour, Refuge Worldwide and Club Are.
The milestone weekend will kick off with a bass-heavy Friday programme in partnership in NTS, followed by a club-centric Saturday and is rounded off with its traditional feel-good Sunday finale. The broadened musical curation is matched with a collection of fresh stage hosts: iconic Queer party Chapter Ten take over the Pleasure Dome alongside newcomers Club Are on the festival’s central day. Renowned bass music collective HVYWGHTwill host the Dome on Saturday, and The Cause will stack the Patio stage with a host of club favourites.
Returning partners include NTS, Deviation, Rush Hour, Jumbi, Horse Meat Disco, BORN N BREAD, Refuge Worldwide, and Nicholas Daley’s Woven Rhythms.
From humble beginnings as a 3,000-person two-stage show, to taking up a three day residence in South East London’s Peckham Rye Park, GALA now stands proudly as London’s largest independent festival welcoming 30,000 attendees each year.
Giles Napier, Director of GALA & RALLY Festivals, says: “It means a huge amount to be joining the ten year club. Like all independent festivals we’ve had our fair share of ups and downs but to see GALA evolve into what it is now makes me exceptionally proud. To this day nothing gets me more excited than seeing heroes of the scene and future stars alike perform in the intimacy of Peckham Rye Park. Sharing gratitude with everyone who’s passed through GALA’s gates since our beginnings in Brockwell. We’re still alive, we’re still independent and we owe you all a lot. Thank you.”
