Maiden Voyage Festival 2026
Background
On Saturday 8th August 2026, Maiden Voyage Festival returned to Burgess Park for a sold-out celebration of underground electronic music, welcoming 14,500 festivalgoers to the South London site.
Produced for Elixar Events Ltd, a client The Fair has worked with for more than a decade, Maiden Voyage brings together some of the most exciting names in electronic music alongside leading promoters and collectives from London and beyond.
For the 2026 edition, four prominent forces from the underground dance scene were each given their own stage, creating four distinctive identities within one festival.
Howl Worldwide, a leading queer rave and sexual wellness brand, hosted Job Jobse, HAAi, D.Tiffany and LSDXOXO. Unfold, a key player in London’s underground dance scene, delivered a surprise line-up including Helena Hauff. Berlin-based artist collective and record label Live From Earth welcomed Confidence Man for a DJ set alongside Skin On Skin and DJ Gigola, while Pxssy Palace curated the main stage, with Yaeji, Jyoty and Tokischa among the artists appearing.
The brief for The Fair was to bring those individual worlds together through full event production, while giving each promoter the freedom to create a stage environment that felt unmistakably their own.
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Delivery
- Full event production from concept development through to live delivery.
- Managed overall site design, production management, budget and schedule management, and procurement.
- Worked directly with four different promoters and collectives to translate their individual creative identities into distinctive stage environments.
- Collaborated with We Are OPS, which delivered licensing, health and safety, safety planning, documentation, stakeholder liaison, on-site safety, traffic management and security management.
Results
- Successful delivery of a sold-out festival
- The Fair successfully coordinated the creative and production requirements of Howl Worldwide, Unfold, Live From Earth and Pxssy Palace.
- The event generated positive media coverage from publications including HUNGER, Dance Wax and Notion.
Press and Audience Feedback
“Year after year, leaving first-timers and every-year attendees with a burning desire to return, and experience the kinetic energy that flows through Burgess Park, once more” – HUNGER