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Alternative Summer Festival: Flow Festival
Wednesday 3rd April 2013 | Osh
Rainy days caked in mud standing in the cold waiting for the music to start, holding a cider which you paid a fiver for. Sound familiar? Do you long to escape the cold, wet, overpriced festivals in the UK? Flow Festival, a music and arts festival is being held in Helsinki, Finland for it’s tenth year, promising warmer temperatures and good music. ‘Flow is both mental and physical state of being, where feeling flows collectively through music into larger entity’, a statement from which the name of the festival comes from.
Held between the 7th-11th August, at the historic Suvilahti former power plant area in Helsinki, the festival is committed to remaining as environmentally friendly as possible. In partnership with the Helsinki City Environment, Flow Festival is the pilot event of the Green Events Project, a scheme which aims to develop the management of environmental issues in events. This means that the festival places heavily emphasis on environmental issues such as recycling reducing their carbon footprint.
Yet their love for the environment does not take anything away from the music. The haunting sounds of Bat For Lashes will grace the stage of Flow Festival, in support of her 2012 album 'The Haunted Man' as well the indie-electro beats of Britsh duo Disclosure who have celebrated surprising success in 2013. Another artist set to perform is US singer Azealia Banks, whose mix of lewd lyrics and rhythm has contributed to her immense popularity over the past two years. However if these artists don’t whet your appetite then there are plenty of other acts performing as well.
Flow festival is a far cry from the main festivals which take place in the UK over the summer months, and cannot promise the big headliners like at Glastonbury or V festival. But if you don’t fancy pulling your wellies out from under your bed for another year, or facing putting up a five-man tent in the rain then the chilled atmosphere of Flow Festival could be the festival for you.
For more information or to buy tickets, visit their website:
http://www.flowfestival.com/en/
By Hannah Crouch (@carryoncrouch)
