The Evolution will not be televised - the evolution will be LIVE!

Charge your phone up. Polish your shades. Tell your mum not to wait up. Synchronise watches and get ready to rave - the countdown has begun. We Love… Homelands 2003 is just thirty (30) days away. Summer begins in just four weekends time at precisely 1pm BST on Saturday May 24 in the breathtaking natural amphitheatre of Matterley Bowl in Hampshire. The UK's premier al-fresco disco extravaganza ends a full 17 hours later at 6am the following morning, but it's guaranteed that Homelands 2003 will live on for months to come as the kick-start to a long, hot summer of fun. 'It's one month to go,' says Darren Hughes. 'The We Love…Homelands posse are chomping at the bit to get out of London and into the Bowl to try and work out how the hell we're going to be able to hear all our favourite DJ's and live acts - it feels like a great problem to have'

We Love… Homelands represents the evolution of the dance music revolution and brings everything back to what mattered in club culture's formative days: the music, the mood, the dance floor and you - not to mention 34,499 other ravers spread across nine arenas in the company of 60 DJ and 11 live acts.

If dance music in 2003 is a broad church, then We Love…Homelands is a theatre of worship roughly a thousand miles wide. Homelands recognises no artificial genre definitions. Homelands make no distinction between mainstream and underground. Homelands's progressive programming ensures every shade of dance music for every individual taste is represented to the fullest degree. Encompassing the darkest reaches of techno and drum & bass right up to the hottest and poppiest dance acts tearing down the stranglehold of TV-marketed pop muppets in the Top Ten, Homelands pack it all into a once-in-a-lifetime 17-hour party. When it comes to energy, the London marathon has nothing on We Love…Homelands 2003.

Highlights include:

Groove Armada
Elton John's favourite new band (fact!) headline Homelands live arena. Three albums into their career, Tom Finlay and Andy Cato have honed their sound into a monster capable of filling stadiums, storming the Top Ten and soundtrack Sir Elton's dinner parties. Can anyone else in dance music make such a claim-

Photek and Do Or Die
Rupert 'Photek' Parkes is a visionary mind in world where music moves at the speed of light. Now relocated to Los Angeles to reinvent music all over again, he makes a rare UK appearance and debuts his all-new Do Or Die project among the strobes of the Movement Arena. 'I live on the other side of the world and it's especially appropriate to come back and play Homelands,' says Parkes. I'm Looking forward to presenting the new music and this is a great way to kick off the summer.'

Jeff Mills
No DJ on earth commands quite the same respect as Detroit's Jeff Mills, a man whose music sounds as if it comes from a different galaxy and another dimension altogether. Techno… for an answer.

The Streets
No wonder Mike Skinner was nominated for a Brit award: his synthesis of street-corner poetry and ruff bassline urbanisms caputured the imagination of critics and consumers alike. His Burger King beats and rhymes get their festival debut at Homelands

Paul Oakenfold
What Paul Oakenfold doesn't know about playing to packed arenas isn't worth knowing. One of the world's very few top-flight DJs, Oakey remains a grassroots favourite name for clubbers across the globe and a regular fixture in the charts with his ongoing Bunkka project.

DJ Marky
Drum & bass thrives anywhere in the world where people love rhythm. That's why Brasil's DJs Marky is the newest superstar in jungle, a fearsome talent whose music harnesses Brazilian sunshine and threads it among warp-speed bass and breaks. He's making the 23-hour journey expressly to appear at Homelands.

Roger Sanchez
Legend alert! From New York by way of Puerto Rico, Ibiza, Uruguay, Japan and anywhere else with a groove, Roger Sanche Tags