24 Sep, 2017 @ 11:55
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EXCLUSIVE: Punk legends, DJs and musicians to gather for Andalucia’s most exciting festival of the year

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LEGEND: Martin Glover

A RANGE of DJs, musicians and punk legends are set to gather for one of the most exciting festivals of the year.

The organic, esoteric event taking place at Space Mountain recording studios, is the brainchild of one of the world’s top music producers Martin Glover, AKA Youth.

As well as the Orb, Nik Turner and The egg, Roger Eno and X-dream will be performing at the three-day arts festival, from October 6 to 8.

Glover, best known for being one of the founders of indie pioneers Killing Joke, is expecting at least 30 live performances across three stages ‘with lots of surprises’.

One live show is expected to involve a ‘sort of post-punk supergroup’, he told the Olive Press, featuring Killing Joke singer Jaz Coleman and the Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray.

U2

Glover certainly has the contacts to make the festival work, having produced numerous albums for groups, including including U2, Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode and Guns N’Roses to name just a few.

He will be joined by fellow producer John Leckie, credited with producing the famous Stone Roses sound, as well as working with Radiohead and Muse, as well as Mim Scala, who has worked with the Rolling Stones.

Glover describes the festival, at his studio in the Lecrin Valley, as being like a ‘cosmic arts lab’ allowing the public to see ‘music created and mixed live in a professional recording studio with award-winning producers’.

The ’ambient arts festival’ will also feature DJs, food stalls, cinema, yoga classes and ‘sound healing’.

MAESTRO: John Leckie

“I’ve had a place in the Lecrin Valley since the late 90s and built the studio  in 2005,” Glover told the Olive Press.

“It’s a beautiful spot with a great creative energy, and it gives me a buzz to see other people enjoy it. It’s so rare for fans get to see international artists in a modern studio, and I’m happy to do that.

“I’ve invited various artists that I have a close connection with with,” continues Glover.

A trial run of the festival last year, featuring Alex from The Orb, flamenco artist Gaudi and Roger Eno was so successful they took it to the Royal Festival Hall, in London, and Glastonbury, this year.

Glover also has the full support of the local community “It’s been a great excuse to curate a festival in a creative way. The aim is to create and facilitate the arts community in the Lecrin Valley and I’ve been lucky enough to have had lots of encouragement from the local people and the mayor, but I’m not trying to compete with other festivals.

STUNNING: Lecrin Valley

“It’s a big private party with cool artists”.

With less than a month to go to Space Mountain Festival, Glover is busy with the last minute details. “I’m not a professional organiser and I’m fine tuning at the moment.

I’m arranging travel at the moment for all the artists and thinking: ‘Why am I doing this?’ but it’s one of the best things that I’ve ever done.”

 

For tickets and for more information www.spacemountainfestival.com

 

 

Jon Clarke (Publisher & Editor)

Jon Clarke is a Londoner who worked at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday as an investigative journalist before moving to Spain in 2003 where he helped set up the Olive Press.

After studying Geography at Manchester University he fell in love with Spain during a two-year stint teaching English in Madrid.

On returning to London, he studied journalism and landed his first job at the weekly Informer newspaper in Teddington, covering hundreds of stories in areas including Hounslow, Richmond and Harrow.

This led on to work at the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mirror, Standard and even the Sun, before he landed his first full time job at the Daily Mail.

After a year on the Newsdesk he worked as a Showbiz correspondent covering mostly music, including the rise of the Spice Girls, the rivalry between Oasis and Blur and interviewed many famous musicians such as Joe Strummer and Ray Manzarak, as well as Peter Gabriel and Bjorn from Abba on his own private island.

After a year as the News Editor at the UK’s largest-selling magazine Now, he returned to work as an investigative journalist in Features at the Mail on Sunday.

As well as tracking down Jimi Hendrix’ sole living heir in Sweden, while there he also helped lead the initial investigation into Prince Andrew’s seedy links to Jeffrey Epstein during three trips to America.

He had dozens of exclusive stories, while his travel writing took him to Jamaica, Brazil and Belarus.

He is the author of three books; Costa Killer, Dining Secrets of Andalucia and My Search for Madeleine.

Contact jon@theolivepress.es

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