Get ‘Ready for the Weekend’ as the self-proclaimed king of electro-pop Calvin Harris likes to say. Calvin will be getting behind the decks at mFEST for an exclusive DJ set and ironically, it’s a Monday night; but I’m sure that won’t bother the young people at the festival.
mFEST Young Programmer Rhian Campbell, 15, said:
“We’re absolutely delighted Calvin Harris has agreed to DJ at the closing party, he was one of the first acts we went to see live ahead of programming the festival, and the first we approached last year to play; to have actually booked him now is a major achievement.”
Given his history of endearingly shameless self-promotion (well, what do you expect with debut album entitled I Created Disco!), it’s safe to expect a few of Harris’s own dance floor-filling tunes to be dropped into the set – including recent smash hits ‘Ready For the Weekend’ and ‘I’m Not Alone’, as well as ‘Dance Wiv Me’, the collaboration that finally sent Dizzee Rascal stratospheric.
The ‘I Created Disco star’ has come a long way since he took over the nation’s music charts in 2007 with his stunning debut album “I Created Disco”, a bold statement of intent that gave the UK dance scene a much needed shot in the arm before crossing over to massive commercial and critical acclaim, while singles “Acceptable in the Eighties” and “The Girls” took over the country's clubs as well as the charts, proving that whilst the young man from Dumfries may not have exactly created disco he had certainly reinvented it for a new generation of music lovers.
“What I’m into at the moment”, says Calvin Harris, “is the idea of stadium dance. Playing football stadiums with massive riffs, big hands-in-the-air rave anthems. The whole ‘minimal’ thing has passed, for me.”
A bold ambition, but such boldness is justifiable, coming from a man who ascended from the bedroom to the big time in the blink of an eye. At least, that’s how it appeared from the outside, back there in 2007.
He may have barely turned 23 when he first hit the charts, but Calvin Harris had been making music, legend has it, since the age of 15 on an old Amiga computer in the Scottish town of
Tickets will fly out the door for this one, so make sure you’re not disappointed for what is sure to be a closing party to remember for the first festival to be planned and programmed by young people in
Calvin Harris DJ Set – Mon 2 Aug, macrobert marquee. Tickets: £20/£17.50 conc./£15 U18s
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