Rowan Fae: FUSION FESTIVAL.DE

Fusion Festival 2012 was one of the most exciting events i have been a part of for ages! I loved every single bit of it! I loved it so much I didn't want to go home and forgot to take any pictures.

Fusion festival is based in east Germany. The festival is held on an old aircraft base, that is dotted with aircraft hangers, these become the amazing and unique venues in which the party takes place. Each venue was so different and so much love and attention had gone into the decor and the lighting etc. It really was quite epic. The festival is run by volunteers interested in community living/lifestyle and communist principals, activists and communities of artists. The ethics behind the organization of the event really shine through. Everybody is clearly working towards a common goal, which is to make something amazing happen! There is no emphasis on profiteering in any way from the event. Im not exactly sure where in east germany we were, the artists were taken care of so well we didn't have to do anything ourselves. we were collected from the airport in shuttle cars on the way there and took a double decker bus to get back to Bristol. Throughout the festival crew members were able to purchase bottles of beer at the crew bar for 50cents, I cannot even begin to explain how great that was!!!

All in all It really brought it home to me, why the UK festival scene grew to become what it is now. what it represents to the people who attend the events and how it has lost it's way amidst becoming some kind of business for those that work it. Surely there is a way we can return to our roots and find that love of it once more.

When people are truely creative and give there all into a Project/event like this it really changes and affects the atmosphere of the place for the guests who come to visit feel and become part of the love that made it happen, and that is very special!

For more information about fusion festival you can check them out HERE but for goodness sakes please go, especially if you have ever wanted/dreamed of going to burning man, then you should go here, it will be much less expensive and is just as awesome!

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I was an artist at fusion with the Bassline Circus, Bassline is a company that specialise in creating Cbaraves (a crossover between a cabaret and a rave) The show is performed to a live set by resident music producer Alex Kopecky, the show is performed to bespoke visuals, there is also live MCs and vocalists that perform....for more about the Bassline family see HERE

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We had a pretty exciting run up to our shows, we had a few problems with our tent and eventually the tent masters and the riggers had to make the extreemly difficult desicion that we would not be able to do the shows unless the king poles were swapped out for better ones (they had some severe frost damage) The tent was hired by fusion for us to manage, so the company turned up on tuesday and worked throught the night to take it down, swap out the poles and put it back up again. Obviously this meant that though we were very close to being ready to open the venue, we had to take everything out of the tent and put everything back in again, leaving us considerably behind schedule to tech, rehearse, and run the show before opening to the public. However as usual we all pulled our weight and together we managed to do this amazing feat and still make a show!!! we should be very proud of ourselves for that... here are some pics of our tent up and down party.

Tent going down on Tuesday evening

King Poles get hoisted middle of tuesday night/wed morning


Canvas goes back up early wed morning.

That was not the last of our tent dramas either, there were a couple of very exciting storms, where it was all hands on deck to secure the already slightly wobbly structure as best we could, all in all it made for a lot of extra adrenaline in and around the show.

In the end we of course we pulled off a brilliant show (under the extreme conditions) we always do pull through, that's what makes us really great, against all odds we do our best, and then we celebrate .... hard, because we deserve to!

Here are a couple of snaps of my act from the show.