Motion unveil a HUGE third wave of acts to make up the closing shows of the 2018 In:Motion series!
Posted on: 26 Oct 2018Just when you thought this year's In:Motion series couldn't get any bigger, the team behind it all have hit us with the third and final wave of acts on the programme, featuring Flying Lotus, Maceo Plex, Friendly Fires and all the details on the hotly anticipated 2018 New Years' Eve and New Years' Day parties! See below for a full rundown of headline acts, lineups, dates and more.
First things first, of course: this year's NYE and NYD lineups are about as big as they've ever been at Motion. The two parties may herald the end of this year's In:Motion series but the organisers have made sure to go out with a bang and put together two programmes - Drum n Bass on New Year's Eve and House/Techno on New Years' Day - that will have Bristol's thousands of dance music fans furiously rubbing their hands together in anticipation.
Curated by The Blast, the huge bass-driven New Years' Eve party is set to see Hannah Wants alongside Bristol favourite Redlight, as well as Todd Edwards, Klose One and more at Motion, while The Marble Factory will play host to a huge Sub Focus DJ set, TC b2b Annix, Jungle Warriors, Circuits (Kasra x InsideInfo), Unglued and many more. We can categorically say that no party in Bristol will be a bigger or better venue for you and your mates to see in the new year - tickets will be moving fast so don't sleep on it!
On the other end of the dance music spectrum and kicking off just 8 hours after the end of the NYE party at 2 in the afternoon, the 2018 edition of the fabled In:Motion New Years' Day party boasts a huge roster of some of the world's most sought-after DJs in house and techno. Bristol party starters Bitch, Please! have taken care of a barnstorming Motion lineup that counts The Black Madonna, Palms Trax, Jayda G, Hunee and Motion resident Ellie Stokes among its ranks, while Call Super, Saoirse, Em Williams, Timedance's own Batu and Ellis Roberts make up the unmissable Marble Factory programme.
Surely one of the most influential electronic artists of his generation, Flying Lotus is set to bring a massively immersive 3D live show to The Marble Factory on Friday 14th December. The production is expected to be the biggest measure of Motion's ambitious rework of their Marble Factory space to date, with Flying Lotus himself promising that fans will leave "feeling like there's still some magic in the world that they haven't seen yet". With support from label mates IGLOOGHOST and Lapalux, this one is sure to be unlike anything you've ever seen before at a Bristol venue.
Denis Sulta's well-documented rise to the top of the game in the last couple of years has been as quick as any other, and the trailblazing Glaswegian has no intentions of slowing down any time soon. As if his previously-announced Sulta Selects show on 9th November wasn't enough, the man himself will be setting sail with a boat full of Bristol party goers for a hedonistic HMS Selects voyage, serving as an exclusive warm-up to the main event and taking place from 7pm-9.30. Tickets for the boat party are available in very limited numbers so act quickly to avoid missing out!
A long sabbatical for celebrated indie outfit Friendly Fires has allowed them to fine-tune their hotly-anticipated third studio album to perfection, and what better place to test its credentials than Bristol's intimate Anson Rooms? Expect the trio to transform the venue into a tropical paradise on Saturday 1st December and run through their brand-new material as well as a selection of their best-loved tracks from previous releases, including Paris, Jump in the Pool and Skeleton Boy.
Among the other announcements are Claptone & The Masquerade, set to run through a giddy selection of every nook & cranny of dance music on Saturday 24th November, the return of Perpetual as Maceo Plex and Danny Daze take care of two four-hour extended sets between them on Friday 30th November, a 39-piece orchestra breathe new life into Kraftwerk classics as Re:Werk bring their live show to The Marble Factory on Friday 23rd November, with many more in between.
The third and final lineup announcement completes this year's mind-blowing In:Motion programme, surely the biggest and most diverse since the series began. For a full rundown of the In:Motion series as well as full lineups, dates and ticket information, visit the In:Motion website.
Tickets for all the remaining In:Motion 2018 shows are on sale now and can be found here. For more information on the series, including lineups, venues, dates and more, visit Motion's official website or check out their Facebook page.
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