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Creamfields is an electronic dance music music festival series founded and organised by British club promoter Cream, with its UK edition taking place on August Bank Holiday weekend, with a number of international editions held across various territories worldwide.
First held in 1998 in Winchester, the festival moved to Cream's home city of Liverpool the following year, taking place on the old Liverpool airport, before moving to its current location on the Daresbury estate in Cheshire. The festival, having initially begun as a one-day event with 25,000 people in attendance, is now a four-day event with camping options hosting 70,000 per day. The festival is the UK's most prestigious electronic dance music festival.
In 2022, Creamfields celebrated its 25th anniversary by launching a second UK-based festival – Creamfields South. Creamfields South took place at Hylands Park, Chelmsford across the Platinum Jubilee weekend in June and is returned in 2023, with the original Daresbury festival being renamed Creamfields North. However, from 2024 the festival had reverted to one location in the north.
In 2012 the festival ownership changed hands as Cream was bought out by Live Nation, the current organisers of the event. The festival was set to expand to a three-day event, but on the final day the festival was abandoned because of heavy rain. The following year the organisers invested £500,000 in the site to protect it against bad weather. The three-day event allowed an attendance of 150,000. 2014 saw the edition of a second primary stage, the North and South Stage; and in 2015, the festival was live streamed for the first time, to 500,000 online attendees. The Steel Yard stage was introduced in 2016, spawning with events held in Liverpool and London; the same year, the festival become a four-day event with site expansion in 2017 allowing for a maximum attendance of 280,000. In 2019, £2,000,000 was invested to improve security and safety and to reduce environmental impact. The festival hosted Swedish House Mafia in their Save the World Reunion Tour, the supergroup's first UK show since 2012; the group were the sole occupants of the festival's iconic Arc Stage on the day of the event.
The 2020 edition of the festival was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a virtual festival taking its place. Following Boris Johnson's announcement on the 22 February regarding the road out of the UK's COVID-19 lockdown, Creamfields announced that the 2021 edition would go ahead. Tickets for the event sold out in record time.
A second UK-based festival – Creamfields South – was introduced in 2022 at Hylands House in Chelmsford, hosting headline acts such as David Guetta and Calvin Harris. Organisers said that they expected the festival to continue and become 'a solid and regular fixture on the UK festival circuit', with Creamfields South confirmed to be returning for 2023. However, after just two editions, in September 2023 Live Nation announced that the Chelmsford event would be discontinued. Rather than holding separate North and South events in 2024, Creamfields consolidated into a single massive four‑day festival at Daresbury, Cheshire. The South edition was officially ended and merged back into the main North location from August 2024 onwards.
| 1998 | Winchester, Hampshire | 2 May | 25,000 | Sasha, Paul van Dyk, Daft Punk, Tony De Vit. | |
| 1999 | Liverpool, Merseyside | 28 August | 50,000 | Pet Shop Boys, Basement Jaxx. | |
| 2000 | 26 August | 50,000 | Judge Jules, Groove Armada, Basement Jaxx, Moloko, Laurent Garnier. | ||
| 2001 | 25 August | 50,000 | |||
| 2002 | 24 August | 50,000 | Faithless, Underworld, Kosheen. | ||
| 2003 | 23 August | 50,000 | Paul Oakenfold, Erick Morillo, Harry Romero, Audio Bullys. | ||
| 2004 | 28 August | 50,000 | The Chemical Brothers, Goldfrapp, Mylo, Scratch Perverts. | ||
| 2005 | 27 August | 50,000 | Basement Jaxx, Faithless, Caged Baby. | ||
| 2006 | Daresbury, Cheshire | 26 August | 50,000 | The Prodigy, Gnarls Barkley, Goldfrapp, The Zutons. | |
| 2007 | 25 August | 50,000 | The Chemical Brothers, Groove Armada, Kelis, Mark Ronson, Carl Cox. | ||
| 2008 | 23 and 24 August | 50,000 | Fatboy Slim, Ian Brown, Gossip, Paul van Dyk, Kasabian, Tiësto, Paul Oakenfold, David Guetta. | ||
| 2009 | 29 and 30 August | 60,000 | Tiësto, Mylo, Basement Jaxx, Paul van Dyk, Dizzee Rascal. | ||
| 2010 | 28 and 29 August | 80,000 | David Guetta, deadmau5, Leftfield, Tiësto, Calvin Harris, Paul van Dyk, Swedish House Mafia. | ||
| 2011 | 27 and 28 August | 100,000 | The Chemical Brothers, Tiësto, Paul van Dyk, David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia | ||
| 2012 | 24, 25, and 26 August | 100,000 | Avicii, David Guetta, Sebastian Ingrosso, Steve Angello, Skrillex, deadmau5, Tiësto, Calvin Harris, Axwell. | ||
| 2013 | 23, 24, and 25 August | 150,000 | The Prodigy, Avicii, Tiësto, David Guetta, Steve Angello, Sebastian Ingrosso, Above & Beyond, Paul van Dyk. | ||
| 2014 | 22, 23, and 24 August | 150,000 | Aly & Fila, Armin van Buuren, Avicii, deadmau5, Steve Aoki, Calvin Harris, Hardwell, Paul van Dyk, Tiësto. | ||
| 2015 | 28, 29, and 30 August | 150,000 | Armin van Buuren, Hardwell, Jamie Jones, Martin Garrix, The Chemical Brothers, Avicii, Knife Party, Alesso. | ||
| 2016 | 25, 26, 27, and 28 August | 200,000 | Armin van Buuren, Chase & Status, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Axwell Λ Ingrosso, Avicii, Martin Garrix, Calvin Harris. | ||
| 2017 | 24, 25, 26, and 27 August | 280,000 | deadmau5, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Armin van Buuren, Axwell Λ Ingrosso, Eric Prydz, Tiësto, Martin Garrix, Hardwell | ||
| 2018 | 23, 24, 25, and 26 August | 280,000 | Carl Cox, Armin van Buuren, The Chainsmokers, Axwell Λ Ingrosso, Giggs, Tiësto, Hardwell, Eric Prydz, Fatboy Slim, Adam Beyer. | ||
| 2019 | 22, 23, 24, and 25 August | 280,000 | deadmau5, Martin Garrix, Carl Cox, Calvin Harris, The Chemical Brothers, Swedish House Mafia. | ||
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| 2021 | 26, 27, 28, and 29 August | David Guetta, Carl Cox, Eric Prydz, Martin Garrix, Adam Beyer, Tiësto, Laidback Luke | |||
| 2022 | 25, 26, 27 and 28 August | TBA | Calvin Harris, David Guetta, Martin Garrix, Armin van Buuren, Tiësto, CamelPhat, Carl Cox, Nina Kraviz, Belters Only, Above and Beyond, Scooter, Charlotte de Witte |
Steel Yard Liverpool made its debut in 2016 at the city's Clarence Graving Dock, and now occurs annually in late November or early December.
Steel Yard London initially took place in late October at Victoria Park, London in 2017, before moving to Finsbury Park for 2018 and 2019 respectively, with a new date on the Bank holiday weekend.
In 2018, Steel Yard Liverpool partnered with Tomorrowland and Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike to bring "Garden of Madness" to the UK for a special one-off event.
| 2014 | Special Award – Best International Dance Music Festival | Creamfields – UK | ||
| 2019 | World's Best Festival | Creamfields – Liverpool, UK | 13th | |
| 2016 | Best EDM/Dance Festival | Creamfields | ||
| 2011 | Best Music Event | Creamfields – Liverpool, UK | ||
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