![]() For the most part, EXIT is dedicated to dance and hip-hop this year, with smaller stages covering other genres like metal and reggae. The centuries old fortress walls are humming as we climb cobblestone steps to reach the musical arenas.ĭarting through the crowd, we catch Dutch symphonic metal band Epica on the main stage. We get to the festival later on Friday night and the place reverberates with anticipation. Novi Sad: 7 things to do in this year’s European Capital of Culture.We get a quick boogie to one of Ben UFO’s ever-immaculate collages of British house before heading back over the Danube for an early-ish night. It’s a preamble for Nina Kraviz, the seasoned Russian star who keeps the 17th century surrounding walls pulsating into the night. Lanna, the 17-year-old Serbian wunderkind sets the tempo for the night before a tight minimal techno set from Belgian DJ Amelie Lens. There’s a vertigo-inducing set of scaffolding steps down into the dance arena that’s set into the depths of one of the Fortress’s cavernous chambers. In Maxim’s hands, they are still one of the most aggressively impressive drum n’ bass acts in history, their jaw-clenchingly heavy set confidently cycles through history with a finishing one-two of 2018’s ‘We Live Forever’ and 1992’s ‘Out of Space’.Ĭhase and Status bring another collection of neo-classic British beats with a DJ set after, but we’re straight on over to the dance stage to check out the all-female first night line-up. During a short rendition of ‘Firestarter’, neon impressions of his iconic look are projected above the band.Įven without one of their legendary frontmen, The Prodigy still knows how to pack a punch. They’re EXIT regulars, and the set has a Flint-shaped hole ever present. ![]() The Prodigy are here, back in Serbia for the first time since the loss of frontman Keith Flint. Viagra Boys, Gorki list Main Stage EXIT Festival 2023 Zoran Ješić, EXIT Photo Team 2023Īn opening ceremony chucks fireworks into the air before tonight’s main event takes the stage. ![]() High up in the hills, we watch the sunset turn the Danube orange and put away our first few drinks of the evening. Situated in the Petrovaradin Fortress since its second ever edition in 2001, it’s not hard to see how it became such a crucial pilgrimage for locals growing up in the festival’s vicinity. Speaking to Marijana, a promoter who grew up in Novi Sad, she recalls hearing the festival from the river banks of the Danube aged just nine-years-old and being desperate to get involved. Our 4am alarms to fly from London Luton to get here has put us at a natural disadvantage for the first day. Like many festivals with an emphasis on dance music, EXIT won’t get started until the blistering heat of the day has abated and will continue on until well past daybreak. From there, we’ve got an hour in the car before we reach Novi Sad, the country’s second city. To get to EXIT Festival, we wake up at the crack of dawn to shuffle aboard a cramped flight to Serbia’s capital Belgrade. ![]()
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