Festival preview: Clockstock 2021
This year, they’re saying that September is the new August… and when you look at how many festivals there have been over the past three weeks, you can see what they mean! It’s been absolutely hectic this year and it’s not over yet, because Clockstock is back. On the 18th September, Clockstock is coming to Chelmsford Racecourse in Essex to give you an end-of-summer party that you will never forget (or, conversely, that you absolutely will forget because the entire day will be soaked in tequila shots).
Clockstock is a legendary festival that was born out of 90s rave company Clockwork Orange. Founded way back in London January 1993, Clockwork Orange quickly became the most popular and innovative night out in the capital. From humble beginnings in Holborn playing just to their friends and anyone else they could convince to come, Clockwork has expanded over the years, going to Ibiza innumerable times and touring Britain’s biggest nightclubs and Student Unions in the process. Clockwork has since re-emerged into the olds school resurgence of today and since 2012 has gone on to sell out parties at McQueens, Fire, Lightbox and Area. Plus, of course, they also have their own festival now.
Clockwork Orange is the brainchild of Danny Gould and Andy Manston, who said of the day festival’s imminent return: "We are children of the Sixties and Seventies and grew into the acid house explosion which became the rave generation of the late Eighties and Nineties. Our love and memories for those days was without question, yet we walked into mortgages, packed trains, children, deaths and marriages, so we thought we had hung up our dancing shoes. But you can't extinguish the love of house music.” Andy added: "It's incredible - the excitement that builds leading up to an event is quite overwhelming.
