Broke Magazine’s Guide To Forwards Festival 2025

In late August this year, the only place to head for us is the South West. And we don’t mean Lambeth. Bristol calls us for a late summer boogie and breath of fresh air at Forwards. The self proclaimed “Music Festival for the Future”, knows exactly who they are and exactly what they want to deliver for their community, far and wide…

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Inside Foundation FM’s Office Block Rave

One Thursday evening, we snuck into the breeding ground of corporate baddies — aka an actual office turned party playground for Captain Morgan’s ‘Spice On Szn’ with Foundation FM. We crept up the stairs feeling like we’d broken in, only to enter a full immersive party. The production was next level: dusty 80s computers, old-school folders, filing cabinets—literally every office essential reimagined as decor. It was giving work hard, party harder.

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Broke Magazine’s Guide To Wild Wood 2025

With less than a week until Wild Wood 2025 kicks off, we’ve been ‘avin a ‘lil nosy to see what we can expect as first-time attendees. Nestled within the mystical setting of South Cambridgeshire’s Woodland Glade, the festival’s intimate community will once again gather under a cosy canopy of trees for an immersive weekend of wobs, wilderness and wellness…frankly, we can’t f*cking wait…

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Mura Masa’s ‘Local’ Tour Brings the Party to Blackpool

The concept behind Local is refreshingly simple: amplify the people and places that often get left out of the bigger music conversation, “I’ve been looking for a while for a way to put opportunity, money and focus into the hands of artists and communities that need it,” Mura Masa explained on his socials. “So me and Relentless came up with Local, a series of club nights and surrounding celebrations supporting and spotlighting underrepresented curators, artists and venues in some often overlooked places in England”…

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Broke Magazine’s Fool-Proof Festival Packing Guide 2025

Instead of struggling through an inevitable weekend of mayhem, we’ve found it’s nice to leave a festival feeling refreshed and enlighted, not battered and dehydrated because we only bought one disposable water bottle and lost it whilst living on pot noodles all weekend in a cold, pillowless (and in our case collapsing) tent. Reminiscing on all of our collective (and frankly crease) past blunders and with a finally developed frontal lobe, we’ve pulled together our 2025 guide of tried and tested bits so you lot can make it easy for yourselves while getting silly this summer…

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Wide Awake 2025: Protest, Pink Cowboy Hats & Pure Energy

As a first-timer at Wide Awake, I can hand on heart say: it didn’t disappoint. Making the long journey south of the river last Friday afternoon, I was buzzing with anticipation for my first festival of the season—hopeful it would live up to the hype. And from the moment we reached the outskirts of Brockwell Park, guided by the thump of distant basslines, I knew we were in for something special.The festival gates opened to an atmosphere thick with excitement. The girlies were out in their finest fits, and the Radio 6 dads had dusted off their best festival tees—it was clear the crowd came prepared. We dove in headfirst…

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A Day with LIVE FROM EARTH at the Cause – Euphoric, Sun- Drenched chaos with a beat.

It was a Sunday. Mega hot. Mega sunny. The kind of weather that instantly sets the mood to 10/10. I rocked up around 2pm, already buzzing, and the first thing that gagged me? The decks. A full 360 setup. I’m a S*ut for a circular energy, so immediately thought we were off to a great start. The heat of the sun combined with constant pulsing of the crowd – it blended into this heady, musky sweetness…

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Broke Magazine’s Guide to Gottwood 2025

Thank f*ck it’s that time again – back to the Carreglwyd Estate in Anglesey. After an unforgettable weekend in the Welsh countryside last year, I’m gassed to return and see what this gem of a fessy has in store. So, as you get ready for the trek to Holyhead, I’ve put together the ultimate guide to Gottwood 2025, rounding up all the artists on Broke’s radar and the must-see acts you’d be a spoon to miss…

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Broke Magazine’s Guide To GALA 2025

GALA and their partners are never one to shy away from a curated trophy-case of artists. Including big names, festival-fan favs and must-catch up’n’comers whilst they’re on the rise. This year (especially) there’s no way you’ll want to miss it. Spanning 3 days of the May bank holiday weekend, I think you’ll find it tricky to find a reason not to be there. With all eyes on Peckham’s number one event, we thought it time to give you Brokerz a guiding light of where to be, and who to catch this weekend…

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A Night With Grace Dahl at Fabric London

On the Saturday, we didn’t expect to have a near-religious experience before 1 am. We arrived around midnight to see Grace open up room 1. While getting our IDS checked and stickers put on our phones, you could hear the vibrations of fast, punchy techno beats. While walking through fabric’s maze, we finally arrived at our destination. From the first step we took into the tech haven, Grace had the room by the throat. Bouncy, high-BPM, with enough warp and distortion to make our bodies shake. The lighting matched the pace: strobes slicing through the thick haze, the moments of blackout tension before everyone snapped back into dancing…

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Cook’s Club Sessions, A Saviour For Any Weary Raver

With the peak of festival season fast approaching, it seems only fair to share an absolute saviour I discovered last year…After months of trekking up and down the country, dancing my body to the brink of exhaustion (the tunes were too good), and seshing until the early hours I was, to put it bluntly, f*cking exhausted. While bed rotting wondering how I’d recover, Cook’s Club Kolymbia popped into the Broke inbox with a seemingly universe-sent invite to the final event in their new series of poolside ‘Sessions’ featuring Olive F at their resort in Rhodes. Offering three days at their sanctuary under the sun that mixed meditation and yoga with mood-matching DJs pulled everywhere from the underground clubs of Ibiza to established names signed by the world’s biggest electronic labels, it was of course a no-brainer, so I packed my bags, put on my (now very crusty) Buffalos and dragged myself through Gatwick, gagging for a week of wellness, restoration and good music…

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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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