Riverside Festival - Live Broadcast
Scotland’s premier electronic music event, the Riverside Festival was due to take place this weekend but with the world’s dancefloors out of bounds that wasn’t possible.
To mark the occasion there will be a nine hour fundraising live stream on Saturday 23 May at 3pm hosted by BE-AT-TV on Facebook and Youtube, with donations encouraged to a trio of charities and initiatives to enable them continue to do amazing work supporting some of the most vulnerable in our society.
The supported charities are:
The Glasgow Children’s Hospital Charity
They fundraise to ensure that every baby, child and young person treated at Scotland’s largest children’s hospital receives the extra special care they deserve. More info can be found here:
https://www.glasgowchildrenshospitalcharity.org/
Tech Device Network
A collaboration between publicist Jenn Nino-Smith and Scottish Care, the campaign to get more video calling devices into care homes was launched following Jenn’s concern about her mum who is cared for in a nursing home and how other loved ones would stay connected during lockdown and beyond. More info can be found here:
https://scottishcare.org/techdevicenetwork/
Vise Up
Vise Up is continuing to produce and distribute over 25,000 Personal Protective Equipment units per week for NHS and emergency services front line workers. The limited amount of PPE in Scotland is being distributed predominantly for intensive care workers, however, there are an array of wider community staff who also desperately need PPE. More info can be found here:
https://swg3.tv/news/2020/may/vise-up-help-us-them-them
There will be exclusive sets from some of Glasgow’s finest selectors with the line up and set times as follows:
15.00 - 16.00 Wardy
16.00 - 17.00 Melting Pot
17.00 - 18.00 Bonzai Bonner
18.00 - 19.00 All U Need
19.00 - 20.00 AISHA
20.00 - 21.00 Nightwave
21.00 - 22.00 SLAM
22.00 - 23.00 IDA
23.00 -24.00 DJ Smoker
Wardy
Resident and booker at Glasgow’s La Cheetah club which, with its especially intimate environment, has consistently punched above its weight, hosting many of Glasgow’s best underground parties whilst regularly featuring many of electronics leading luminaries.
Melting Pot
Scotland’s longest running club dedicated to the New York sound with a generous dollop of disco for good measure. The residents and guests play music from the soul no matter the genre, with no musical boundaries, be it disco, house, techno, soul or funk.
Bonzai Bonner
has for the past five years been the single creative force behind SHOOT YOUR SHOT, a highly successful Glasgow-based club event where she occupies the multi faceted role of curator, DJ, performer and host.
All U Need
All U Need for a good time is good tunes. A simple ethos that this collective has stayed true to over their five year stint as promoters and DJ’s in Glasgow. The crew have made waves with regular shows at the Sub Club and SWG3 bringing them to the attention of Riverside Festival where they will make their debut later this year.
AISHA
A rising star of the SOMA camp and recently established as Animal Farm resident. Aisha is infamous for her sets at the city’s underground clubs and on its after party scene, etched with deep electro grooves, acid and heavy techno.
Nightwave
Glasgow based Slovenian DJ,
producer, vocalist, club promoter and label boss with a punchy signature sound of acid, Chicago house, Detroit techno and electro fused with heady rave nostalgia and hybrid forms of bass and club music.
SLAM
Slam are a tour de force on the global techno circuit. Their unique, 6 deck, back-to-back DJ performances have seen the duo play leading clubs & festivals across the world. They are renowned for both their experience and their powerful, contemporary sound.
IDA
IDA is a Finnish DJ and promoter based in Glasgow, UK. Launched in 2015, IDA’s Acid Flash parties have quickly become one of the most exciting fixtures on Scotland’s club circuit.
DJ Smoker
One of the residents and promoters of the enigmatic Missing Persons Club, responsible for some of the most forward thinking techno bookings in Glasgow. A wizard on the decks, DJ Smoker played a blinder in the docklands at last years Riverside Festival and is providing a great vinyl only finale to the proceedings.
On what will be a fantastic day for dance music lovers, Glasgow’s Riverside Festival along with Soma Records, will also be releasing an exclusive good causes charity single featuring remixes by two of the scene leaders in house and techno. Spreading positive vibes through music with their isolation interpretations of Slam’s genre-defining underground anthem Positive Education are the mighty Skream, the inimitable Paula Temple and the maverick JD Twitch of Optimo.
The single is available now exclusively on BandCamp:
https://bit.ly/RF20SlamPosBandcamp
Tracklist:
Positive Education (Paula Temple's MEGASHIFT Remix) *mastered by Conor Dalton @ Glowcast Mastering
Positive Education (Skream Remix)
Positive Education (A JD Twitch Remix)
Talking about the single and the livestream Slam said:
We are glad to be part of this release and live stream - spreading positive vibes and music to those in isolation while raising funds for 3 Glasgow initiatives helping those in the greatest need right now.
Paula Temple said:
Nurses and doctors are working MEGASHIFTS to help sick people with the Coronavirus to survive, whilst being under funded and and under protected. So this remix is named MEGASHIFT in honour of their extraordinary selflessness.
Regardless of when this remix is heard in post covid society, I want it to sound like it's coming from the year 2020 forever, to never forget this MEGASHIFT moment. The style of the remix is therefore fast paced, mixing classic techno and rave, a reflection of what would have been heard in the cancelled techno festivals this year.
The energy we would have put into dancing at those festivals will be turned to a greater solidarity and functionality of our health care systems.
If you love your electronic vibes get tuned in to the livestream and support some great charitable causes by buying the exclusive release or by donating whilst watching.
