Beaddictive

Reviewed by:	Lance Charlton (contact)
Title:	South West Four Event
Category:	Events
Rating:

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Hang on! Dance music is a night beast, best experienced in Berlin basements and Benicassim Festival tents after dark and only favouring daylight when the sun rises after an all-nighter and the beats are going strong. It’s a hedonism that is interwoven into the very fabric of its existence, music that likes to party so late that its after parties became breakfast clubs.

So it’s quite a culture shock to turn up at Clapham Common at half-past-lunch-o-clock and find Laidback Luke slapping slices of Dutch House all about the main stage. With a 9pm curfew each night - clearly a licensing condition of holding an event in the residential area of Clapham - South West Four obviously wants you to waste no time in getting your rocks off. So there’s no easy warm-up sets to get you adjusted to the day, rather a slap on the behind and here’s a bass bin to press your face against for the next eight hours.

This is the case with festivals in Australia when the clock strikes midday the decks get turning! Obviously favouring the weather the aussie festivals start and finish with not even the sight darkness. SO why can it not work over here? Well South West Four seems to be setting the trend and giving the likes of Creamfields and Global Gathering a run for their money.