Secret Garden Party
Here’s How to Make Music Festivals Safer for Everyone
We went to Secret Garden Party to explore the innovative ways they are tackling drug use, mental health and sexual assault.
Music Festivals Finally Take a Stance Against Sexual Violence
With the Safer Spaces initiative, some of the biggest weekend events in the UK have finally committed to tackling sexual assault and rape at their events.
Sixty UK Festivals Taking a Stand Against Sexual Assault Is Only the Beginning
A recently announced Safer Spaces initiative is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to ending sexual violence at music events.
How Secret Garden Party Made Festivals Palatable for Posh People
It took festivals to the middle classes, centering it on "experience" and performative hedonism.
Secret Garden Party Announces This Year's Festival Will Be Its Last
“I concede to the infamous phrase that ‘All good things must come to an end.’”
Eats Everything on Seeing Thomas Bangalter Melt Minds In Ibiza and His Summer of Sweaty Dancefloors
This guy loves the White Isle so much he even got married there.
We Went Drug Testing at Secret Garden Party to See What Weird Shit Ends Up in Your Drugs
The Loop, a drugs harm reduction organisation, pioneered a drug testing scheme at the festival that found – among other things – concrete and malaria pills in what was supposed to be ecstasy and ketamine.
Finally, a UK Festival Has Offered Free Drug Testing
Over 80 substances were tested at Secret Garden Party this weekend, among which were anti-malaria tablets sold as ketamine and ammonium sulphate sold as MDMA.
This Music Festival Helps You Identify What's in Your Drugs Before You Consume Them
The UK's Secret Garden Party rolled out the program this weekend.
How Burning Man Culture Changed Festivals Around the World
The week-long desert party laid the foundations for festivals all around the world, from Boomtown and Secret Garden Party to events in Denmark, Australia, South Africa, and Bulgaria.
There's a Rape Problem at Music Festivals and Nobody Seems to Care
Sexual harassment and assault don't cease to exist once women get weekend wristbands and pitch their tents. So why aren't organizers doing more to protect them?
Is This the Saddest Thing to Happen in Dance Music This Decade?
Thank you, Tasker, for making us feel the worst we have in years.