Steve Angello Speaks Against Festivals; Wants To Bring Back The Club Scene

House Legend and ex-Swedish House Mafia artist Steve Angello wants to get back to the roots of Dance Music by playing for smaller and more happening Club crowds. Trying to get the attention back to the Music, Steve Angello spoke against the rise in production value at EDM Shows across the globe.

“It irritates me. I grew up a DJ and a club head, and I used to come over [to the UK] with Eric Prydz like 15 years ago. And I used to play all these little rooms in Brighton, Leeds, Manchester, Glasgow and it was such a great club scene for me to come up in because you learn so much, but I feel like that’s all been forgotten. Nobody is paying their dues in the clubs.”

Steve believes there is lack of personal touch to the music scenario one which can be obtained by performing for smaller crowds at clubs.

“I’m trying to push the artists on my label to become more club-orientated. Some of them think I’m evil! We have an artist right now that’s getting really big and is being offered lots of festivals and I said ‘Listen, your next tour is a club tour’ and he was like ‘Fuck that I don’t want to do a club tour’ and I was like ‘You’ve got to. We’ll do it small. 150 people, great sound system, no LEDs, just back to basics.’ Now he’s actually getting more excited about because it’s something different!”