Tuesday’s running time of local lad Manthrax, Objekt, Nina Kraviz and Jeff Mills is exceptional and excitement mounts with every act – it’s pretty hard to ignore the adoring Kraviz-ites who storm the Fortress chanting “Nina, Nina, Nina!” a solid 10 minutes before she’s due to play. According to festival photographer Andrew, the Maltese love their techno and the big-room space caters to this niche with big-room ambience and bookings to boot. The Fortress stage (think Princess Peach’s castle meets Parklife) serves as Glitch’s centrepiece, an area exclusively available to the festival. “We send out surveys and people pre-registered their favourite artist,” explains Allul, “and we follow a lot of social media profiles and really start getting a feel here and there”. Glitch also places great importance on the Maltese raver, particularly evident in its booking strategy. Despite containing nine venues, Glitch only uses five, as the team wants to create, as festival co-owner Karl Attard suggests, a more “intimate feel”. Last year it moved to Gianpula Village, a compact clubbing complex located in a valley near the city of Żebbuġ. But Glitch, also three years old, remains the only festival run entirely by local promoters, all of whom have had a hand in developing the island’s underground dance music scene over the past two decades. Annie Mac has run her annual Lost And Found festival on the tiny Mediterranean island since 2015, while Elrow debuts in the country this month. When he gets a rare moment to chat, he explains his ambitions for this year’s festival: “we just want to take it up a notch”.Įllul’s confidence reflects Malta’s growing reputation as a dance music destination. Simultaneously, event co-founder Kevin Ellul darts around the compact site in his Glitch-branded tee, somehow managing to keep his composure in between the occasional cigarette break, the mark of a man who’s seen this all before. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.As the sun sets over The Fortress, Glitch’s main stage, Young Marco eases us into the night with his silky-smooth selections, the crowd growing steadily from two teens making out to a heaving mass. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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