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ELECTRIC PEACOCK FESTIVAL, SRI LANKA


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FELIX BUXTON, one half of British dancefl oor dominators, Basement Jaxx, soaked up the spirit of Sri Lanka at Electric Peacock Festival last December. This is how it went down...


Felix: “Sri Lanka is a great place. People are very warm, friendly and switched on (apparently it’s the second most literate country in Asia, behind Japan). The Sinhalese have a great attitude, which probably stems from a culture where two-thirds of the population are Buddhist. There is an air of ‘It’s ok, life is what it is’; an acceptance, tolerance and calmness, which comes as a refreshing change from the riots in the UK.


“I arrive two days before the shows,


with my tour manager, Biff, an expert in festivals, the dance world, planetary travel and who has an open intergalactic attitude. We’d chosen to get there early and chill a couple of hundred miles south of Colombo, where we un-jetlag a bit and manage to see a box fi sh, looking like E.T. and the size of a big baby (in the sea). This is my second visit here. Last time, I had a two-week holiday with my girlfriend’s family, we travelled around and got to see some jungle (elephants and huge monitor lizards) and amazing Kandy dancers doing very dope traditional dance. This triggered the idea to get London Sinhalese drummers and dancers to open for the Jaxx London Somerset House live show a couple of years ago...”


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