Night of streaming, screening and screaming
BANGING tunes, insane pyrotechnics and more fist pumping than a teenage boy who’s just discovered Google’s incognito mode.
That is what is likely to go down when thousands of people cram into the Ticketpro Dome in Randburg, Johannesburg, next Saturday to see a live streaming of Tomorrowland, one of the biggest electronic music festivals in the world.
The festival takes place in Belgium, but each year gives fans across the world a taste of what the festival is like by projecting a live feed of the main acts.
This year’s live streaming — called Tomorrowland Unite — will happen in Japan, Israel, India, Germany, Mexico, Colombia and South Africa.
One of the acts South Africans are paying to see is Dimitri Vegas, the joint best DJ in the world according to a poll by DJ Mag.
“It’s funny because back in the ’90s, people used to say there were too many DJs. It turned out they didn’t know what they were talking about because now there are more. You’ve just got to find the thing that makes you stand out,” he said this week.
Vegas’s Bringing the Madness shows (which he hosts with his brother, DJ Like Mike), last year sold 40 000 tickets in 40 minutes and may soon land on our shores.
“We’ve been talking about [hosting a leg of Bringing the Madness in South Africa] for a while actually. The goal has always been to keep it in Belgium unless the place we go to is exceptional. South Africa may be that but we’ll see,” he said.
If you cannot wait that long, you can catch him on the big screen playing at Tomorrowland Unite.