Dekmantel Festival 2017: Friday

We return to our favourite festival maybe even our favourite place full stop for the fifth year running, and kick off this year s edition with a particularly colourful cast. Topping the bill on Friday will be wellloved local lad Job Jobse, one of the breakout stars of recent years who will no doubt have an eye already on how to draw many a big moment from his set. He ll be picking up the baton from techno destroyer Voiski, who comes packing a hardware table of heat. The middle run of the afternoon sees an eclectic broth of spirited house music with a likely side serving of jazzy niceness, soulful beats and skippy garage from Byron The Aquarius, Peggy Gou and a b2b combo of long standing friends Jon K and Illum Sphere. You won t get that elsewhere at Dekmantel: Manchester stand up. And all this to follow sunshine for the first two hours, although with contrasting effort being made on the travel: Selvagem fly in from São Paulo especially for this show, whereas Max Abysmal bikes from just up the road in