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Интервью · 16.09.2005

By 44100Hz

The Creamfields organisers answer questions from 44100 visitors

Why won't Timo Maas be coming?

Timo simply had a change of plans. He has started recording a new album and isn't ready to travel to Russia right now. Maas will definitely come to Moscow, but a little later. Negotiations are currently under way with him about a possible performance at XIII.

How have you safeguarded the advertising? Sometimes advertising falls "into the wrong hands" and people may turn up at this event who won't blend into the positive vibe that will be created...?

A concept like face control simply cannot exist at Creamfields in principle. This isn't a club party where you can control the crowd at your own discretion, but a genuine city celebration, an open festival that any music lover who has bought a ticket can attend. So the question about the "positive vibe" isn't quite framed correctly. After all, it wouldn't occur to you to station face-control staff at the entrance to a football match, would it?

Dear Organised Kaos! Do you think Creamfields Russia is a "Subculture" and that in the foreseeable future we'll be remembered as strange "beatniks", or that what is happening (in Russia from the 90s to ???) will become an integral part of our POP culture with all the ensuing consequences (TV, Song of the Year, Futureshock as drinking-table sing-alongs, and so on)? Long live Russian House Music! Thank you!

It seems to me that house music left the underground long ago, and today it's part of the general mainstream. I see nothing wrong with that, since the genre can only develop further in a new media space, once this music acquires its own TV channels, radio stations and magazines.

How big a fine (in US dollars) will the organisers of the Creamfields festival have to pay for the ruined lawns in the "Hermitage" garden?

The organisers of Creamfields Russia have no intention of ruining the lawns of the "Hermitage" garden. And we strongly ask the festival's guests to take the same stance.

Why aren't people under 18 allowed in? After all, this is a daytime open air in the centre of the city, not a nighttime club event. And besides, the tickets have already been bought, so what are we supposed to do now?

These restrictions are imposed because the festival has alcohol and tobacco partners. It's a requirement of the law.

How do the organisers intend to shield the sound of one stage from another? Won't this affect the quality and volume of the sound? Won't it turn out that really good sound will only be right next to the arena, which you simply won't be able to push your way through to?

The festival's sound design is being handled by true professionals who are doing everything possible to make the music at Creamfields Russia sound the way it should at festivals like this.

Will extra toilets be put up on the festival grounds???
Of course.
Is the arrival of an RnB arena an experiment for Creamfields, a wish to cover the entire club audience and every musical direction, or a wish to draw more visitors? Don't you think the RnB dancefloor will stand out somewhat and reflect badly on Creamfields' image as a festival of progressive electronic music?

Creamfields Russia is a festival of dance music in all its forms, and we see no point in confining ourselves within the framework of any single style. RnB, house, techno — we want to give the guests of this festival a complete picture of contemporary dance music.

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