{"id":743557,"date":"2026-08-20T02:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743557\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T02:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:02:13","slug":"dance-music-festival-back-on-in-september-after-being-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/743557\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance music festival back on in September after being postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Existance is a three day Psytrance festival with up to 2,000 people expected to attend over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The festival had previously been held <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdj9r0v4v8wo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">near Malmesbury<\/a> in Wiltshire but was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwy2qj4gw99o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">forced to relocate<\/a> due to noise levels &#8211; something event organisers blamed on a contractor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ashley Green, 37, from Porth, Wales, is going for the first time after getting into Psytrance around 6 years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s the repetitiveness of certain frequencies, particularly the sub-bass frequencies under 28 hertz,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The repetitiveness of that is quite a stimulating process,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He thinks the community around psytrance, is one of the best in dance music and has and never seen any criminal activity at an event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For the people that do enjoy this scene, it&#8217;s an opportunity to all meet up and have a dance together and connect as people, as humans, with friends, sometimes family,&#8221; he said<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;One of the most famous acts in our genre refers to it as the biggest genre no one&#8217;s ever heard of,&#8221; said Wilde.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The music is quite esoteric, it&#8217;s niche, some people would call it a unique form of dance music but we love it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Lorraine Jones, a DJ playing the festival, says psytrance festivals are &#8220;full of beautiful souls there specifically to dance to the music they love so much.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Existance is a three day Psytrance festival with up to 2,000 people expected to attend over the weekend.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":743558,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-743557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/743558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}