Broke’s Big F*ck Off Festival Guide 2025: International Edition

Wrapping up our Big F*ck Off Festival Guides for 2025, we’ve pulled together a list of god-tier events across the globe based on lineups that’ll no doubt deliver world-class wobs, parties our lot simply won’t stop yapping about and a spectrum of electronic music so broad you’ll never be bored. Whether you’re a pashmina-wearing house head, garage geezer gagging for some gutwrenchingly-good drops, trance tripper, techno tweaker, DnB buff who can’t get enough of ‘baddadan’ (or, like us, a combination of the above) keep reading for our recommended roster body-grooving gatherings…

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Meet Soundscape, the intimate event runners reviving rave culture in Manchester

Around midnight, we pull up to Six Trees Bar and Kitchen, nestled within the heart of Manchester’s industrial estate. It’s a venue nobody could stumble upon by accident, a secret rave cave where only those in search of the juiciest wobs would spend their Friday night. Home to resident event runners Soundscape, Manchester’s freshest group of party organisers, the space is transformed weekly into an intimate dance floor that truly captures the essence of rave culture and an authentic warehouse vibe that their commercial competitor a few miles away could only dream of…

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Through The Lens: Celebrating 5 years of M.A.D Records At Corsia Studios

Born as a project ‘for the love of the dance’, M.A.D Records aka Make A Dance have now been producing, selecting and playing a tasty earful throughout London and beyond for 5 years. To celebrate this special birthday, M.A.D took over Elephant & Castle’s intimate, between-the-bridges hideout, Corsica Studios. For any M.A.D fans feeling a tinge of FOMO or ravers looking to re-live the event, we snapped some of the best moments of the night and brought them to BROKE so you can look through the lens and land right on the dance floor…

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Broke’s Big Fuck Off Festival Guide 2025: UK Edition

Listen closely enough and you’ll hear ravers across the UK collectively roaring “HELL YESSSSSSSS” right now because festival season is finally on the horizon. As for the Broke team, we’re gagging to get back on a dance floor with you lot, in fields, forests and wherever the fuck else organisers fancy sticking a pair of decks. While we’re still a few months out from some of our faves opening their gates, with outdoor events kicking off across the country and festivals constructing stages and campsites ready to host us from May to September, the nation is taking a big fat sigh of relief, shaking off what’s left of our winter hibernation and gearing up for a season of seshing, soul-searching and saucy AF tunes. Whether you’re a seasoned festival-goer after goated underground lineups or a first-timer thirsting for immersive atmospheres with a crowd to match, we’ve rounded up every event that’s caught the Broke team’s eye for 2025 below…

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A Night with Pretty Girl: Live in London

Our favourite Aussie lass played a sell out, all encompassing, headline show in London last month. After we stumbled upon her in Manchester a couple of years back, Pretty Girl has been making a major sparkle on our radar. With a 90 minute headliner at The Cause, PG aka Emilia, made it a proper new-homecoming. As she’s settling into East London herself (welcome! <3)! With live vocals, drum machine and synthesisers, as well as a perfectly paired support in the shape of Cameo Blush, it was a night to remember and not to be missed...

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Behind the Collective: How KUMO is Amplifying Emerging Creative Talents 

Since its inception in 2020, Kumo has been on a mission to weave together a network of creators, ultimately forming a web of collaboration and support that now spans across the globe. This November, Kumo held its debut party in New York at Public Records, a revered, music-driven community space in Brooklyn. Featuring an eclectic lineup of both local and global DJs, I made my way to Public Records to experience one of KUMO’s events firsthand…

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DJ Paul, of 3 Six Mafia takes over Jazz Café

Broke Magazine returned to the Jazz Café, where we watched DJ Paul, a Memphis rapper, producer, and 3 Six Mafia originator, do his thing. Famous for their dark, hellish sound, with lyrics to match, Triple Six’s contributions to southern hip hop are cemented in history. DJ Paul’s international tours showcasing their classics and his newest releases are imperative in immortalising them in our minds.

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Broke Mag’s Guide To Boomtown x elrow @ Drumsheds

Get ready to SCREAMMMM (and not just cause it’s halloween)… This weekend, two of our ride-or-die UK festivals are teaming up to transform Drumsheds into an immersive madhouse. Word about London tells us that by morphing Boomtown’s chaotic storyline with elrow’s psychedelic world, they created a moment so explosive, it ripped a hole in the fabric of reality, creating a portal to an alternate dance dimension right on Drumsheds’ doorstep (convenient)…

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Space Miami Opening

The fact I rocked up with my mum and took her to Space Miami is classic. It felt so good to be in that place again. When I saw the lineup released, Shermanology, Green Velvet and DJ Seinfeld headlining I knew what night I would be in for. The club is one of kind and it holds a special place in my heart. Everyone there is cool and like no other…

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Waterworks Festival 2024: A Perfect End to Summer

Summer may have officially ended, but that didn’t put a stop to one more bash of festival fun last weekend at Gunnersbury Park. The fourth edition of Waterworks delivered another unforgettable day of music, continuing its tradition since debuting at the park in 2021. With over 15,000 attendees and seven stages to enjoy, it was the ideal way to soak up the last of September’s sunshine while enjoying one final dance (and fyi, is the only way we’ll be ending our summers from now on)…

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