For many, music festivals are a way to let off steam and watch some of their beloved artists perform, but Tommorowland is not your typical music festival. In fact, the festival, held in the town of Boom, Belgium, is perhaps one of the most effective and globally loved brands that not only includes electronic dance music but interactive games and workshops. If you haven’t heard about it, you’re up for a ride.
Despite being a relatively new festival, Tomorrowland staged in countryside between Brussels and Antwerp, has emerged as one of the biggest and most popular music events in the world. Every year, the festival encounters the doubling of its usual visitor capacity and often times hundreds of thousands of tickets are sold out in a minute.
Tomorrowland is not just a big deal simply within the confines of the massive festival site. Rather, it seems the entire country looks forward to the weekend.
In Boom, townspeople wave as hoards of bikes, cars, shuttles, and pedestrians take over their city, where the population hovers around 18,000 during every month except for July. Tomorrowland flags hang from the windows of larger homes on highway and side streets. Older residents sit outside bars drinking Hoegaarden and chain-smoking while enjoying the neon spectacle. Local kids high-five as you walk the path towards the main entrance. It seems it’s not just dance music lovers who have given their trust and respect to Tomorrowland, but the townspeople too.
Of course, the excitement intensifies once you walk through the gates alongside tens of thousands of fellow dance music lovers from every where except from Antarctica. Once inside, there’s something happening everywhere, with sounds from techno, to house, to hardstyle to bass to EDM to trance coming at your ears from all directions. You can see the Tomorrowland logo on every conceivable item, including hats, t-shirts, fire cannon lined lily pads, park benches and lampposts.
Tomorrowland’s main stage has become an icon in itself, and its ambitious designs each year help to make the festival venue instantly recognizable around the world.
In 2012, the stage was a huge volcano, erupting in fireworks. Fire, smoke, and confetti are blasted out from the stage, settling on the artistic “valley”. The deep thumping bass follows you around the small town of Boom and the park hosting the event. The alleyways are full of happy vibes walking and dancing.
There are usually 16 stages and 400 DJs, blasting out music non-stop. Whether you like electronic music or not, it is hard not to be swayed away in the atmosphere.
Earlier, the festival’s authorities announced that this year the festival will be happening from 25-26 July, 2020, open to all ages and places. This year’s theme was decided to be revolving around ‘ Reflection of Love- Chapter-1’ with 18 stages. But, unfortunately the event has to be cancelled because of the pandemic and postponed for 2021.
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