Riverside Festival will be celebrating a decade of bringing some of the best names in dance music and local DJs together under one line-up later this year,
Attended by thousands of people, the annual electronic music event started in 2013 and is well known for its electrifying lineup of big-name and local DJs at the city's iconic Riverside Museum.
Hosted on the first weekend of June this year, the festival's organisers have arranged an array of talent to perform for the milestone anniversary such as Patrick Topping, Hector Oaks, Slam, Frazi.er, and Mall Grab alongside some local talent including Denis Sulta, Hayley Zalassi, and Slam.
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Glasgow Live sat down with one of the co-founders of the festival, David Clarke, who was there from the very beginning and experienced the acid house 'bug' during the 1980s, never falling out of love with the genre.
Dave left Strathclyde University in 1987 and used to go gigging and clubbing in Glasgow. Soon after graduating, he got a bar job where he met Stewart McMillan and Orde Meikle, commonly known as Slam, the trio became good friends - and the rest is history.
David said: "We hired a club one night, I got the flyers out, this was 1988 just as acid house was hitting and we started putting parties on in Glasgow and we just got this bug for electronic music, house music, techno and 35 years later we are still doing it with the same enthusiasm.
"We managed to do 20, T-in-the-Park, Slam Tents consecutively without really thinking about, it was always one year to the next and I think Riverside is a little bit similar we have always got one eye on next year.
"The reason it has lasted this long is because there is an appetite for it from the audience but also we are forward-thinking promoters, we are not doing retro stuff, we are not resting on our laurels and we have the enthusiasm we had when we started it and these are the key factors. It is never just we are doing that again, it is always what are we going to do next time?"
The festival began when he and his co-founder got involved in running the club night, Electric Frog, now held at SWG3 - before the venue was even open.
However, after noise complaints were made, there was an incentive for David to start his own festival. It was suggested to him by a friend that he should try and host his own festival at the Riverside Museum.
After getting in touch with the museum, David was 'surprised' to hear the management was keen on the idea.
In 2013, the one-day festival was so successful it was turned into a two-day event the following year.
Speaking about the success of the festival, the popularity of dance music, and how amazing Glasgow is for artists to play, he said: "It is now a global phenomenon, dance music, you are always trying to get artists to come to Glasgow which is one of the best places to play.
"Over the years when we were doing the slam tent, 10, 15 years ago everyone wanted to play in Scotland and they still do for events like ours.
"The whole scene has become global now which it never used to be to the same extent. That is how Riverside started, the need to do a big electronic music/techno/house part in Glasgow, in the open air."
The tenth edition of the unmissable fixture in Scotland’s dance music scene will feature a line-up boasting an exciting mix of established international artists, groundbreaking new talents, and underground heroes.
Tickets for the two-day event, which runs over the weekend of June 3 and 4, start at £64.90 (for one day) and are available to buy from the Riverside website.
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