What Does It Take To Run a Festival In Paradise?

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What Does It Take To Run a Festival In Paradise?

Last year saw the inaugural launch of Your Paradise, a multi-day festival for a few hundred lucky souls on a picturesque island in Fiji for an experience like no other.

With a lineup that boasted Jack Beats, L D R U, Alison Wonderland, Doorly, Touch Sensitive and many more you’d be hard pressed to find anyone that didn’t have the time of their life.

This year Your Paradise returns and we’ve got the scoop from promoters on what to expect for a bigger, better and even dreamier party that jumps from islands to floating bars.

Your Paradise runs from from November 17th to the 23rd with packages that include flights and accommodation going on-sale May 18th, register here.

What is Your Paradise?

 

Everyone has their own idea of ‘paradise’ so we had a solid think to ourselves and tried to figure out a heaven-on-Earth where the weather is prime, surroundings are gorgeous and the tunes are pumping. Essentially it culminated into this ‘getaway-festival’ concept where we bring our favourite artists on holiday with us to some place exotic for the better part of a week. For our first destination, we took our lineup to one of the most tranquil and picturesque places we could imagine, the distant, tiny little island of Malolo Lailai, Fiji.

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Touch Sensitive laying down some bass for the sunset session

What is the aim of Your Paradise?

 

Your Paradise is all about creating a truly unforgettable holiday experience for dance music lovers. Our mission is to achieve the perfect vibe where punters have absolute freedom to explore, relax, party with the DJs… to do it all really!

With our initial concept, we wanted to offer an experience levels above any camping or cruise ship festival setting currently offered to Australians. As we explore new destinations we hope to open the experience up to dance music fans worldwide.

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How do you set about making that a reality?

 

The essential elements that make Your Paradise are the exotic destination, top-tier DJ talent and intimate festival stages to enjoy the performances. So for example, our Fiji event is set up so you can paddle out at a world-renown surf break by day, and cut shapes to an Ibiza resident like Doorly come nighttime.

What works especially well is our policy to cap the crowd off at 600 guests, so there is shorter wait time at the bars, and actual room to dance on the dancefloor (whether that means on the sand, or poolside, or wherever we bring the party).

The overwhelming amount of positive feedback we’ve received from punters has us convinced that we’ve found the winning formula.

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Golden Features in island mode throwing down some hummers

What can people look forward to this year?

 

Seriously, Malolo Lailai Island was the absolute PERFECT place to kick off our adventure and we cannot wait to get back there!

There are three things we can guarantee: 1) killer DJ sets, 2) surprises throughout the experience, and naturally, 3) the sunshine, crystal clear water and all around tropical vibes Fiji is famous for.

Also we extended the whole event by a couple days this year so punters can enjoy all the island has to offer. For the adventurous type, there are all sorts of watersports like snorkeling, scuba diving or parasailing. If it’s pure leisure you’re after, there is no shortage of beachside hammocks where you can sip a cocktail and gaze off into the sunset.

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Any hints for this year’s lineup?

 

We are not limiting ourselves by genre, we’ve invited the most all-around talented DJs from every corner of the dance music spectrum. You can expect some very cool internationals, some fresh Aussie talent, and a few acts from last year’s line-up who not only were fan favourites, but they actually asked us if they could back and play again! That’s the best hinting you’re going to get out of us up until May 18th. In terms of quality, we will let the line-up speak for itself. What we can safely promise is that you will dance your ass off.

Your Paradise 2015 runs from November 17th to the 23rd, head to the official site to register.

Check out last years after movie below.

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