SMS Message

One of the many ventures competing for your festival dollar this summer is Stop Making Sense, a brand new cosy affair that probably earns the tag boutique that takes place on the weekend of 3rd-5th September on a wooded peninsula in Croatia. Hoping to lure you all the way across Europe to the small village of Petrcane on Croatia’s Adriatic coast, the SMS collective of London-based promoters have assembled a decidedly Detroit-leaning line-up that includes Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, Theo Parrish, Django Django, Matias Aguayo, Friendly Fires, Optimo, Rebolledo, Chris Coco, Richard Norris, James Priestley, Giles Smith, Ali Tillett, John Power Jnr and our old muckers Allez-Allez. Border Community’s own Nathan Fake will also be making the journey, and has done his bit towards the festival’s blog effort with this mini-interview, where he passes on his invaluable festival advice of “Don’t camp”. I am with him on that one.

You can camp if you really must, but the SMS peninsula takeover means that this is a festival with a difference, with a variety of hotels, apartments and villas from €10 per night located within walking distance of the festival site, and on-hand family restaurants that make it easy to steer clear of the ubiquitous scourge of the festival noodle. Tickets are priced at £80 (but if you’re quick you can still bag yourself a £60 early bird), although they do seem to be charging an extra £10-a-shot for entrance to the twice daily boat parties and after hours 70s-designed nightclub that takes the music through to 6am. But with an open air live stage, outdoor dancefloor and even a private beach, the location can’t fail to impress:

The SMS Mixcloud podcast series serves to act as further enticement, with a series of contributions from festival guests: our BFF Allez-Allez were ready, willing and extremely able to step forward with this on-it-as-ever early contribution.