Bloc 2016’s fancy dress theme is Richie Hawtin
Black T-shirts at the ready. In time-honoured tradition, revellers at Bloc Festival are encouraged to dress up for the last day of the event, with the theme selected by the organisers. This year?...
View ArticleSteve Davis is hosting a celebrity pool tournament at Bloc 2016
Space Dimension Controller, Powell and Shanti Celeste are among those competing. If you thought the line-up for this year’s Bloc couldn’t get any better, think again: the festival is running a...
View ArticleBloc founder quits promoting raves because “young people are too safe and...
Dance music has become “tedious and diluted,” says the promoter. The founder of Bloc, which held its final weekender at Butlins in Minehead last week, has said he’s quit promoting raves because the...
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The story of Bloc 2016 in 36 photos
Last weekend, the FACT team descended on Minehead along with thousands of discerning clubbers for the very last Bloc Weekender at Butlins. The holiday resort was the bizarre backdrop to the festival,...
View ArticleBen UFO, Laurel Halo and more slam Bloc promoter for “safe and boring” remarks
Bloc founder George Hull called modern dance music “tedious and diluted” and festival-goers “uptight, spineless hipsters” in a column earlier today. DJs have reacted angrily to comments by the founder...
View ArticleWhat Bloc’s founder gets hideously, hilariously wrong about today’s...
Young people have been vilified for their behaviour since humans came up with a word for hormones. It has apparently taken this long, however, for a generation to be so juvenile and self-absorbed that...
View ArticleBloc distances itself from founder’s “spineless hipster” comments
“Bloc is a collective. One guy from it wrote an article, and that doesn’t represent Bloc.” Bloc has issued a statement regarding founder George Hull’s controversial comments about “spineless hipster”...
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“I was fucking livid”: Bloc co-founder Alex Benson sets the record straight...
It’s been a terrible week for Bloc. The UK festival brand was embroiled in controversy last Friday when co-founder George Hull announced that he was quitting the rave promotion business because today’s...
View ArticleWatch snooker player turned DJ Steve Davis’s journey to Bloc in BBC mini-doc
Find out the story of Bloc 2016’s unlikely star. The BBC has released a mini-doc following snooker champion Steve Davis and noted fan of obscure prog and other vinyl oddities as he prepared for his...
View ArticleBloc founder who quit over “spineless hipsters” finally discusses controversy
The much-criticised George Hull issues an apology…of sorts. In March, Bloc founder George Hull bizarrely took aim at young attendees of the festival in an article for The Spectator that described...
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