🇬🇧Creamfields
ANNUALCreamfields is the long-running British dance festival operated by Cream, the Liverpool superclub brand, held annually over the August Bank Holiday weekend at the Daresbury Estate in Cheshire since 2006. Originally launched in 1998 as a one-off to mark Cream's fifth anniversary, it has grown into a four-day, multi-stage festival drawing more than 70,000 attendees per day. Trance has been a fixture since the founding edition, with a dedicated stage typically curated around the ASOT / Anjuna axis and Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, and Paul van Dyk as recurring headliners.
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