Some festivals age. Creamfields just turned 30 and booked The Prodigy.
Creamfields 2027 runs Thursday, August 26 to Sunday, August 29 at Daresbury, Cheshire in England, and it's the festival's 30th anniversary edition. The dates and the first names are up on Creamfields' own site, and tickets are already moving.
The Prodigy are the first headliner, playing the APEX stage on Saturday, August 28. It's their first Creamfields in 14 years, and it lands on the 30th anniversary of The Fat of the Land. That's not a booking, that's a statement.
“Thirty years in, Creamfields just booked the act that helped invent its world.”
Moe Train
AND THE ANNOUNCEMENTS KEEP COMING
Friday, August 27 gets a UK festival exclusive on the ARC stage: Josh Baker back to back KETTAMA back to back Prospa. Franky Rizardo takes APEX on Sunday, Hannah Laing is in, and Marco Carola and Jamie Jones play the Steel Yard on Saturday.
There's a new stage in the arms race too: Runway 2.0, a 20,000 capacity build from Lucid Creates that merges two of the festival's best known arena designs into one.
Eighty thousand people a day in a field in Cheshire, thirty years after it started as a Liverpool club brand. The UK's August bank holiday weekend has a king, and it's not giving up the crown.
Source: Creamfields
