UK’s Creamfields EDM festival heads back to Melbourne

UK EDM festival Creamfields is returning to Melbourne in November, it announced this morning.

More specific details will be revealed over the next few months.

But Dance Nation Australia who are staging it in collaboration with Evolution Events say, it will host “the biggest and the best DJ’s and electronic artists.”

This is the second time the festival has staged in Australia. Totem Onelove ran it nationally in five cities between 2010 and 2013.

Creamfields started out in 1998 and now is present in 22 countries, with more to be rolled out over the next 12 months to celebrate its 20^th anniversary.

In the UK, it has grown from playing to 25,000 over one day to a four-day camping event drawing 70,000.

Next held there between August 24-27, it features the cream of the crop – Tiesto, Paul Van Dyk,  Diplo, Eric Prydz, Armin Van Buuren, Deadmau5, Stormzy, Steve Angelo Pete Tong, Martin Garrix,  Nicky Romero and a DJ set by Perth’s Pendulum.

Last month, a survey of 1000 UK festival patrons by Lovehoney found that Creamfields was the second most popular UK festival to have sex at, with a 13% strike. Glastonbury was at the top with 34%.