Since its debut, Ever After has been making major waves in the Ontario festival market. The inaugural line-up was so impressive that when it dropped people didn’t believe it was real (thankfully it was). Each year it’s been getting bigger and better. Today it serves as the strongest offering of bass music for any festival in the area. This year is no different, the bill is stacked with artists like Excision, Claude Von Stroke, Flux Pavilion, Snails, Kill The Noise, AC Slater, Zomboy & more. If that wasn’t enough they just added Downlink & Space Laces B2B and a DnB stage on Friday featuring Pendulum DJ Set, 1991 and many more. To get an inside look into Ever After we connected with the festival’s head organizer Gabriel Mattacchione from Beyond Oz Productions. We talk about what’s new for the fest, what sets Ever After apart, noise complaints, and more. Check out the interview below and don’t miss your chance to win a pair of tickets to the festival!
Stages are bigger and better…
What’s new and exciting for this year at Ever After?
Stages are bigger and better, interactive areas will have you lost in what the adventure truly is at Ever After, and more games and rides to enjoy when you’re not splashing around in our waterpark. Also MORE camping available both onsite and offsite grounds.
What is your goal with the festival?
My goal is to make Ever After bigger and more interactive year after year, catering to what the attendees truly want from a weekend experience. I want to utilize more of the Bingemans grounds as our numbers increase every year.
Are there any festivals that helped to inspire Ever After?
Tomorrowland has always been an inspiration for the creativity that goes behind Ever After. Tomorrowland, much like Ever After, is a place to get away from everyday stresses, camp out with your closest friends, and make new ones along with creating unforgettable memories.
From the minute you step onto the campgrounds, to the moment you look up at the stage and carnival rides, Ever After becomes a playground, your ultimate vacation.
What sets Ever After apart from other festivals locally?
Ever After is a true getaway festival experience that most festivals, both locally and afar miss. Other “festivals” take a multi-day concert approach, whereas we try to create this getaway land that you can get lost in, never having to or wanting to leave. From the minute you step onto the campgrounds, to the moment you look up at the stage and carnival rides, Ever After becomes a playground, your ultimate vacation.
Have you thought about moving the location due to the noise complaints/issues? What other location(s) would you consider?
Bingemans plays a great role in creating our experience and atmosphere in what is Ever After. This being said, we can bring the flavor of Ever After to any venue we decide meets the criteria to hold our adventure.
We don’t like to put criteria around artist bookings as music is always evolving and changing. You can’t cookie cutter a thing like your bookings
How involved are you in determining the line-up? What is the criteria for booking an artist at Ever After?
I am involved in everything Ever After is from A-Z. I personally touch every aspect of the event along with key members of my team in their respective departments. We don’t like to put criteria around artist bookings as music is always evolving and changing. You can’t cookie cutter a thing like your bookings. It gets looked at and revisited every year.
This year the line-up tends to skew more dubstep heavy than ever before. Can you speak to this?
We try to book what’s hot and what our fans want to see. This, along with personal tastes and opinions has sculpted Ever After into the bass festival it is today.
If I could list every name here I would, but it is always a pleasure to see Excision do what he does best. Also excited to see Kayzo as well as Zomboy b2b Skism rip up the main stage this year!
Who are you most excited to see this year?
If I could list every name here I would, but it is always a pleasure to see Excision do what he does best. Also excited to see Kayzo as well as Zomboy b2b Skism rip up the main stage this year!
Anything else you’d like to add?
Grab tickets ASAP to this unforgettable adventure as tickets are going to sell out for Ever After 2018! Limited quantities available before we have to think up some expansion plans to the venue.
