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Lovebox Festival

Lovebox was a two-day British music festival, founded by DJs Groove Armada, held annually in London, England between 2002 and 2020. The festival was most recently held in Gunnersbury Park, London.

Lovebox has also hosted clubnights across London and events in Brighton, Dublin, Belfast, Edinburgh, Newcastle and Ibiza, as well as an annual summer boat party, which ran until 2008.

DJ duo Groove Armada began Lovebox as a resident club night at London venue 93 Feet East in 2002. In 2003 to celebrate the first anniversary of the night, the pair hosted the first outdoor Lovebox event. The one-day event was held at the end of June 2003, on Clapham Common with a capacity of 10,000. Tickets for the event sold out in two days. The event consisted of one live main stage, three smaller dance stages plus bars and food stalls.

In 2004, the event was repeated with an expanded capacity of 20,000. The event sold out within three days. Lovebox also hosted a sister festival on Newcastle Racecourse followed by an after party.

In 2005, Lovebox moved to Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets. The festival expanded to two days and a capacity of 25,000. The event was co-headlined by Groove Armada and Mylo and featured four dance tents, two cabaret arenas, a 1900s Spiegel tent and a funfair.

By 2009, Lovebox had increased to a capacity of 50,000 and a 40-acre (160,000 m2) site. For 2010, the festival was expanded to a three-day event, but from 2014 was reduced back to a two-day event.

In 2018, the festival moved to Gunnersbury Park, London. The move came after Tower Hamlets turned down its application to continue in Victoria Park and Lambeth residents objected to its move to Brockwell Park.

The 2020 event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the festival not been held since.

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