Held in a Pontins holiday camp, Bang Face Weekender is a riot of fancy dress, in-jokes and unfashionable dance music – and one of the most vibrant subcultural events in the UK
An audience member is dragged on stage in front of a couple of thousand fancy-dressed ravers and put into a homemade time machine. On the giant screen behind them, a timer counts up to 808, a reference to the classic drum machine behind much of rave music and also to the film Back to the Future – the theme for this year’s Bang Face Weekender.
This is all part of the annual opening ceremony. “We went through a stage of getting celebrities in, like Dave Benson-Phillips, Bez and Normksi, and eventually I just thought, you should be doing it yourself,” the festival’s founder James St Acid tells me. “Because the celebrities would come and be like, ‘OK I’ll do it’, and then they’d get all the lines wrong.”
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