Jubilee Weekend - Your Party Guide

Street parties, roof parties, day parties and festivals - the coming four day weekend has it all. Designed to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee, what better way to get involved than by heading to the seat of the monarchy and the UK's capital city, London, this weekend to see the celebration through from Friday until Tuesday. Here are our five diamond picks of where to party over the four days, with big tracks chosen by the minds behind each event and a few words from their organisers...

Friday, June 1st
Dimensions Festival Launch with Floating Points, Mala, Alexander Nut, venue TBA, London

Dimensions: 'The smooth sounds of Floating Points will definitely be a highlight of the Dimensions Festival this year as he's been on hot streak as of late. With tracks like 'Arp 3' he breaks with the conventions of dance music genres and instead melds house, techno, jazz and soul into a highly enthralling and mind-bending sonic journey. Tracks like this will be part of the quintessential soundtrack to the 3 days on the Croatian coast come September with its blissed-out synths and funky drum grooves but rest assured it's a top candidate to ignite the dancefloor at the Dimensions Festival launch party this Friday too.'

Saturday daytime, June 2nd
Field Day 2012 at Victoria Park, London 

Pulse: Saturday daytime is all about hanging out in the park, celebrating the glories of the great British outdoors, whilst listening to some of the sickest artists and DJ's on the circuit.  Held in the Queen's grandmother's very own outdoor space, Victoria Park, Field Day is the first festival of the London summer season and this Saturday will welcome everyone from Sleigh Bells to SBTRKT, Kassem Mosse to Koreless and Eats Everything to Errors.  

Saturday night, June 2nd
Apollonia, Ben Klock & Dvs1 at fabric

Pulse:  Every weekend is a diamond weekend when you're one of the country's, nevermind the capital's, biggest and most famous clubs.  But let's face it, some serious stops have to be pulled out for this coming four dayer and what better way to do it than with the combined talents of Shonky, Dan Ghenacia and Dyed Soundorom under their Apollonia banner in the main room, the huge techno sounds of Ben Klock & DVS1and Craig Richards in room 2 and the epic now-ness of Tale Of Us and FB Julian heading up room 3.  If you're going big this weekend, there's no better place for it than fabric.  Here's Craig Richards' choice to sum up the festivities over the four days...

Sunday, June 3rd
secretsundaze Jubilee Bank Holiday Special at The House Club & Terrace

secretsundaze: 'We’re super excited to welcome bonafide Chicago house legend and originator, Lil Louis to make his debut for us, hot after co-headlining Detroit Electronic Music Festival this weekend just gone with Public Enemy. Louis’ incredible career has spanned numerous decades and has produced so many original classics along the way, such as 'Club Lonely', 'Blackout', 'I Called You' and of course his most famous track 'French Kiss' that sold 1 million 12" copies! On top of that, we welcome back Joy Orbsion after tearing down one of our much talked about Roof Parties from last summer, as well as new secretsundaze label signing, Nyra. This track never fails to destroy a dancefloor and no doubt will this Sunday too!"

 
Monday, June 4th
You Are WE Bank Holiday Monday Special at Secret Location

Pulse: One of the capital's most up and coming parties, You are WE rounds things off nicely on the Monday seeing you right through the weekend. At Shoreditch's Corbet Place venue, this one's not only got some of the UK's most interesting up and coming artists on its bill, it's also totally free.  Heading things will be Crosstown Rebel favorite Russ Yallop, alongside Playset, Sandeman and Mr Dickie one very special guest, and you've got a party worthy of HRH herself.

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