Let's Party In The Park

Dubai’s biggest music festival, What’s On Party in the Park, returns

Now in its fifth year at Dubai Media City Amphitheatre, Party in the Park combines everything you love about music festivals – live bands, great DJs, food and drink, sunshine and a liberal sprinkling of festival madness – all without having to contend with mud, Wellies or getting stranded in a field miles from home. With a stage featuring superb British artists, a festival atmosphere and a dedicated family-friendly zone, Party in the Park is back and ready to rock your socks off.

THE MUSIC

THURSDAY OCTOBER 31

FATBOY SLIM

Before Diplo, before Calvin Harris, before David Guetta, there was Fatboy Slim. Real name Norman Cook, Brighton’s very own superstar DJ is 56 now, and no less able to get a crowd moving than when Praise You topped the charts 20 years ago. Even for those PITPgoers whose clubbing days are receding into the metaphorical rear-view mirror at this point, Cook dropping throwback bangers like Right Here, Right Now will get them straight back on the dance floor. The hitmaker’s credentials date right back to the mid-1980s, when he was a member of the indie pop group the Housemartins. When the band split in 1988, Cook decided to pursue the music he was passionate about: dance. His fingerprints are on numerous standout songs of that era, including the 1990 number one smash, Dub Be Good To Me, and 1994’s Turn On, Tune In, And Cop Out, which was picked up by Levi for a multi-million dollar advertising campaign that made the track impossible to ignore.