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Tribal Gathering
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Tribal Gathering is a dance music festival that catered for different types of dance music cultures such as Techno, Rave, House and Drum & Bass.
The original promoters Universe (Paul Shurey and Ian Jenkinson) had been organising events since the heady days of 1989 when raves such as Sunrise, Raindance and Perception were in their pomp. They wanted to organise an event to bring together the different sub-cultures of the dance world and also to have a festival feel to it.
The first Tribal Gathering took place Friday 30th April 1993 at Lower Pertwood Farm, Warminster, Wiltshire, United Kingdom. 25,000 people attended to see acts such as diverse as Laurent Garnier, Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold, Slipmatt and Pete Tong.
There were other events smaller scale events that took place in Europe in 1994. The Criminal Justice Bill of 1994 discouraged massive outdoor raves. Tribal Gathering teamed up with the Mean Fiddler organisation to organise a legal festival. This took place in May 1995, UK Tribal Gathering at Otmoor Park, Beckley, Oxfordshire. Headline acts included The Prodigy, Orbital and Moby
The 1996 version of the UK Tribal Gathering, took place in June at Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire with 30,000 turning up for to see sets by Leftfield, The Chemical Brothers, Black Grape, Goldie amongst others. The following year again at Luton Hoo, Kraftwerk came out retirement after a 15 year absence.
By 1998, the Tribal Gathering name had grown into a brand. There were albums, a TV Show and plans to establish events worldwide in the pipeline. However their things did not go to schedule and the 1998 event did not take place due to Universe and Mean Fiddler's legal battle of the Tribal Gathering name.
The Tribal Gathering name was revived in 2000 but on a smaller scale, at the Sankey's Soap club, Manchester. The "Tribal Sessions" event took place at the club with DJ's generally playing Acid House. In 2003 Tribal Gathering held the first legal warehouse party for over 10 years in a "secret" Manchester location, which turned out to be a warhouse previously used as a set for the movie 24 Hour Party People, in which it was decorated to replicate The Haçienda nightclub.
In July 2005, a Tribal Gathering festival was organised, in aid of the war in Darfur, Sudan, to take place again at Luton Hoo but it was cancelled due to the terrorist attacks that took place on July 7th in London.
Though in 2006 there was the "Love Leeds:Tribal Gathering" event at Lotherton Hall, Leeds May 2006.