Next weekend, from 5pm on Friday the 29th until 6pm on Saturday the 30th, 40,000 revellers will descend on Long Marston Airfield (just down the road from Birmingham near Stratford-Upon-Avon) for annual dance music festival known as Global Gathering!

The lineup looks brilliant (if you’re into that kind of music… which I am!): DJ Tiesto, Ferry Corsten, Paul Van Dyk, Armin Van Buuren, Mauro Picotto, Kosheen to name but a few of the bigger ones. But, unfortunately, I shall not be attending this year, instead opting to go to DanceValley, which is the following weekend and held in the Netherlands. Obviously this is a bit more of a hassle instead of just driving down the road to Stratford, but some of the features of DanceValley such as the “silent disco” sound cool!