, a week-long party in Worcestershire that lives on infamy as the UK’s largest illegal rave ever — resulting in a £4m trial and the passing of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act.
In an adjacent field lies IICON, where the biggest acts of Block9 perform — LSDXOXO, Overmono and Floating Points, to name a few. The most arresting stage at Glastonbury, IICON is an immense sculpture of a human head bound to a virtual reality headset from which crooked lights plunge into the darkness. Following its debut in 2019, this year, the stage was redesigned to make it more intimate.” .
“It was finished and debuted in the camp, so they had really crappy instruments,” says Stephen Gallagher, who designed Block9 with Gideon Berger, aka. “They performed for the prisoners and guards. It's Messiaen’s response to the times in which he was living. He had been living in France, a country under occupation.” The head’s positioning reflects that of the dead son of God in a marble sculpture by Michelangelo called.
The idea of IICON, Stephen says, is that we're living in occupied territories ourselves, but they're different: “Power has shifted, it's now within the digital world, within the digital panopticon. Every time you give information about yourself, you're clicking 'like' for different things, you give your data into that system. You're shackling yourself. That's what IICON is really about.
“It sounds quite negative,” Gallagher finishes, “but there's something else in here, which is music has the power to rise above all of that stuff and connect people in a way that is really fundamental to what it is to be a human being. It’s a positive message.”
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