With Optimo, Crazy P, Luke Una, Tigerbalm, Aroop Roy, Grace Sands, Tia Cousins and a packed roster of party starters, this is shaping up to be one for the heads, the hips, and the heart.

Sancho Panza has been setting dancefloors alight since the early warehouse days, soundtracking sweaty, euphoric nights and defining proper underground dance culture. With a two-decade reign as Notting Hill Carnival’s go-to house music powerhouse, they’ve built a legacy of big vibes, even bigger basslines, and dancefloor moments that stick with you forever—and 2025 is no exception.

Still leading from the front, still throwing down with the best, and still serving up unforgettable festival energy, this year’s lineup is stacked, bringing legends, rising stars, and groove maestros together for another unmissable Campo Sancho session.

This year, they’re serving up a feast of selectors, featuring genre-bending Optimo, the ever-iconic Luke Una, disco-funk fusionists Crazy P, and the euphoric energy of Tigerbalm. Expect house, nu-disco, Balearic bangers, and everything in between from selectors like Grace Sands, Aroop Roy, and Tia Cousins, plus a stellar supporting cast, including Lisa Loud, Pete Herbert, Stuart Patterson, Sophie Lloyd, and Serge Santiago b2b David Parr (aka Stompa Phunk Sound System).

And because Campo Sancho isn’t just about the dancefloor, 2025 sees the introduction of “Upwoods”, a brand-new woodland escape curated by Listen Here, Camp Bliss, and Sancho Panza. Expect laid-back grooves, immersive performances, and plenty of cocktail-fueled toe-tapping from the likes of Aidy West, Emma Noble, Ronnie Turner, and Dan The Drum.

Family Friendly, Dancefloor Approved

It’s not just about the grown-ups getting their groove on – Campo Sancho has something for the little ravers too. Expect circus acts, kids’ discos (yes, with Lisa Loud on deck duties!), roaming performers, and a proper arts programme to keep the young ones entertained while the parents cut shapes.

Tickets Are Flying – Don’t Get FOMO

Tickets for Campo Sancho 2025 are moving fast, with Early Birds already nearly gone. Don’t be the mate that waits until the last minute and misses out – secure your spot now at campotickets.sanchopanza.org.

Campo Sancho isn’t just a festival – it’s a reunion of the real ones, a weekend of dancefloor escapism, and a reminder of why we all fell in love with this music in the first place. See you in the fields, Sancho family.

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Having built a steady following over the past 18 months, already hosting the likes of Greg Wilson and Tony Humphries in 2013, excitement in North London reached a fever pitch for November’s edition of The Date, held at Loft Studios and featuring a three hour set from the legendary Frankie Knuckles.

Perhaps unsurprising given the stellar line-up (support came from Chicago’s Daniel Wang alongside The Date residents Stuart Patterson and Tim Keenoy), the night was completely sold out weeks in advance and promoters were warning clubbers to arrive early or face lengthy queues. The advice was obviously well heeded as the club was already around 80% full when we arrived – and this was just after 11.30!

Clubbers who haven’t checked out Loft Studios yet, but who like the vibe of Peckham’s Bussey Building, where Patterson and Keenoy are hosting their new night Giant, will probably really like the venue, which is all exposed brickwork with wooden ceiling beams set around a cobbled courtyard. Leading up to midnight Stuart Patterson was holding court downstairs, warming the crowd up for the headliner with some amazing geisha visuals in action behind him. The room went mental for the arrival of Frankie Knuckles, who kicked off his set with one of his own tracks in the form of ‘Bac N Da Day’. The three hour set that followed was a pure delight and a masterclass in the variety that can be weaved into a single house set, moving from ten-minute jazz horn interludes to dropping ‘Dreams’ by soft rock legends Fleetwood Mac as it neared 3am.

Upstairs had been designated the disco space for the evening, in a departure from the usual Date format of house upstairs, and a huge mirrorball in the middle of what is a really beautiful space set the scene perfectly. No DJ can feel too bad for drawing a smaller crowd when you’re up against the likes of Frankie Knuckles in the main room, and Daniel Wang genuinely looked like he was having a blast, bouncing around behind the decks and playing the kind of tunes that lived up to his reputation as a master of playful beats. If dropping Eddy Grant’s ‘Electric Avenue’ in the middle of his disco set had the smaller but delighted crowd going mad, then mixing it into Todd Terje’s ‘Inspector Norse’ had more than a few people who’d popped up to check out the second room rethinking their plans to head back downstairs. 

Upstairs started to fill up later in the night, not just because Frankie Knuckles was drawing to a close downstairs but because many of the people we chatted to were there to catch resident Tim Keenoy’s 4am set – it was definitely testament to the quality of the night overall, not just the draw of the headliner, that the room was filling up as opposed to emptying out the later it got. 

The Date has gone from strength to strength, and is now planning its second birthday party, scheduled for late February/early March time. Judging by the caliber of music on offer across the event, it’ll undoubtedly be a night worth making the trip to North West London for.

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Sancho Panza, the house music legends, return to The Notting Hill Carnival in August, for their 20th year of rocking Europe’s biggest street party, and one of West London’s iconic spaces for a truly special party.

On Sunday 25th August Sancho Panza will move their infamous street party just down the road from the site at Middle Row to London’s globally successful phenomenon SupperClub for their ‘Flyover Fanfare’. In the West Wng, spinning all genres of house music will be Sancho Panza founders and residents Matt Brown and Jimmy K Tel. They will be joined by West London’s pioneer in the form of Stuart Patterson (The Date / Faith / Mi-Soul). Hot talent PBR Streetgang duo will be headlining, they have released productions on Hot Creations, 2020 Vision, Futureboogie, to name a few plus supporting is Sancho’s family favourite Freddy Love. In the East Wing, the musically diverse two known for their sensational disco and psychedelic edits Psychemagik will be headlining, backed up by the excellent Leftside Wobble and the legendary Femi Fem (Young Disciples) who will be sound-tracking the best rare groove, funk and disco from the past and the future.

An exceptional line up features across two themed rooms and represents a classic Sancho Panza party, celebrating two decades and carnival highlights under one roof.  The rooms will take you on a journey of fantastic party music house and disco, a spectacular Sancho Panza production, unique visual projection show, Funktion One sound systems, all in a completely revamped Supperclub creating the unmissable Carnival after party.

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