Bestival organisers have today (Wednesday) announced plans for a brand new, mind-blowing arena dedicated to a decade of dancing here on the Isle of Wight.
Bestival HQ have been busy working out how best to mark a whole decade of great Bestivals and have come up with the most ambitious and largest on-site project since the annual festival began. The Port is a landlocked harbour with HMS Bestival as its centrepiece, surrounded by a pier, nautical sideshows and all the action of a bustling port… in a festival!
The Port will boast state of the art sound (provided by Funktion One), hi-tech lasers, LED screens and a boatload of pyro exploding from HMS Bestival’s funnels. DJs will man the bridge, steering the good ship through day and night of techno & house, with many of the world’s leading DJs playing onboard this hyperreal ship.
Taking a little time out from reaching for the lasers, Rob da Bank says: “I’m probably more excited about this new stage for Bestival than anything else in the last decade of creating fun and mental spaces for people to party on. We’ve got a tree you can rave inside, a forest with films and a giant metal spider that breathes fire, but we’ve never had a life-sized ship transmitting the best techno and house DJs across the waves while lasers strafe the crowd and a lighthouse booms its foghorn!
Manning the bridge of the incredible 24 metre long ocean-going liner will be a cavalcade of the finest names to grace club culture including Richie Hawtin, Annie Mac Presents and Carl Cox.
With a lighthouse come helter skelter, a dockers’ bar, amazing aerial performances via a huge crane, delicious dancing girls and camp sailor boys on-stage, plus dance podiums throughout the arena for the crowd, a coruscating brilliance of unbelievable pyrotechnics, sparkle, flame and fire effects, confetti, and smoking funnels, The Port is where you’re going to want to be. The Port; it’s brand new and good for you, so put on your dancing shoes!
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