Hijacked Festival - Summer Festival Guide

Joining Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Artwork, Congo Natty, Dark Sky, Disciples, Mak & Pasteman and more on the lineup are the almighty Ms Dynamite, house face Bok Bok and feel-good party duo The Menendez Brothers, among others.

Immerse yourself in Hijacked Festival’s themed areas – a full immersive aquarium, 1970s jungle, dramatic and playful main stage and hunting bar – that transform the beautiful grounds of Exeter's historic Powderham Castle. Or soar high above the site in Hijacked Festival's hot air balloon. Explore the artist mural series and sculptures, where artists from around the UK showcase their work. Hijacked hosts one of the South West’s biggest murals, theatre performers, dancers and fairground rides.

Unique techno-tinged DJ Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs plays a DJ set, and UK mainstay vocalist Ms Dynamite headline. Pioneering producer Artwork, Nightslugs' own Bok Bok, and jungle forefather Congo Natty appear, plus critically acclaimed bass explorers Dark Sky and house party people Disciples join the party. Electronic selectors Eli & Fur take a dark turn, bass-house duo Mak & Pasteman bring it, and jungle invigorators Nanci and Phoebe keep it jumping.

Look out for Benedict Jackson, MC, DJ and producer Chunky, and Jabru, who promises to smash the ‘floor. House creative Last Magpie offers a genre-bashing set, party people The Menendez Brothers head, forward-thinker Madam X brings the bass, and disco-fueled duo MermaidS get involved, and there are so many more to check.

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The picturesque grounds of Powderham Castle, the 600-year old home of the Earl and Countess of Devon, which stands in a beautiful deer park on the banks of the Exe estuary, plays host to the city’s second visit from Hijacked Festival – the nomadic electronic music and creativity-embracing experience that ‘hijacks’ idyllic city locations. An intimate daytime party in an iconic city location – a hijack – the first Hijacked Festival event was a triumph, selling out, and 2015 will be even bigger.

Presenting an intimate daytime party in a picturesque inner-city location where electronic music takes the focus – a hijack – the first Hijacked Festival event was a triumph, selling out, and 2015 is set to be even bigger.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (DJ Set) | Ms Dynamite

Presenting an eclectic music lineup that showcases the UK’s most diverse underground sounds, Hijacked Festival 2015 | Exeter takes an adventure into electronic music’s rich history, delving into techno, adventuring through the many faces of house, and reliving the evolution of bass.

Unique techno-tinged talent Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs plays a DJ set, pioneering producer Artwork appears, jungle forefather Congo Natty appears, plus critically acclaimed bass explorationists Dark Sky and nu-deep house party people Disciples join the party, and Bass-house duo Mak & Pasteman bring it, as Exeter one-day music and culture event heads to the picturesque grounds of Powderham Castle on Saturday May 30th.

Multi-talented MC, DJ and producer Chunky heads, Jabru promises to smash the ‘floor, and electronic selectors Eli & Fur take a dark turn. House creative Last Magpie offers a genre-bashing set, MermaidS, and jungle invigorators Nanci and Phoebe keep it jumping. Plus look out for Benedict Jackson, Thick As Thieves faces Budos and Xhosah, Hold It Down resident Harry Parsons, Duplex Sound and Surplus, Harry Parsons, Item, Marek Skibinski and more…

Club partners for Hijacked Festival 2015 | Exeter include founding promoters and Exeter party people Thick As Thieves, The Cavern’s Our House collective, South West stalwarts Hold It Down, and Exeter University’s very own dance promoter Beats and Bass Society.

Hijacked Festival is the result of four friends' desire to do something better. Frustrated by the lacklustre nightlife in Exeter, where electronic music was barely even catered for, Harry Horsfall, Will Millner, Laurence Mulchrone and Freddie Sparrow realised they could do better. Over the last three years, their Thick As Thieves events have helped transform the Exeter nightlife, bringing a taste of the underground to the most atmospheric venues in the city.

Last year, buoyed by their success, the Thieves embarked on an even more ambitious feat, presenting an intimate daytime party in a picturesque inner-city location where electronic music takes the focus – a hijack. The first Hijacked Festival event was a triumph, selling out, and 2015 is set to be even bigger.

With over 3000 tickets sold, more acts to be added, and the visual artists lineup still to be announced, Hijacked Festival 2015 | Exeter will light up the city.

It’s time to get Hijacked…

Hijacked Festival 2015 || Exeter

Saturday May 30th

13:00

Powderham Castle

Kenton, Exeter, Devon EX6 8JQ

Lineup:

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (DJ Set)

(alphabetical order)

Artwork | Congo Natty | Dark Sky | Disciples | Mak & Pasteman

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