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Bang Goes Normal: A music festival, but not as you know it. Built on respect for each-other, ourselves and the planet.
Chapter Two’s Districts
Take a look at what happened in our city's districts in Chapter Two! Our districts change and evolve each year so make sure you keep an eye out for any district announcements in 2024!
Music
Boomtown always celebrates the infinite variety of music from around the globe. With soundsystem culture the beating heart of the town there will also be the freshest new post-punk band, dons of the reggae world, disco divas, and afrobeat royalty.
If that wasn’t enough, we’ll be representing the aficionados and the underground of electronic music. From jungle to techno, house to hardcore, dub to dnb and many more, whatever your taste we’ll have it covered.
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The city
Boomtown is an ever-evolving story. Eight city districts come to life, each with their own unique vision for how we build a perfect world. There’s characters to meet, causes to join and secrets to be revealed around every corner.
The aim of the game, if you choose to play, is to discover the stories unfolding all over the city, and uncover the collective wisdom teaching us all how to transform our world.
Join us… start anywhere, follow everywhere.
Chapter Three’s Districts
District
Letsbe avenue
The loyal, reliable and hardworking patrons of Boomtown reside here, in the main drag of Letsbe Avenue.
District
Origin
DRUM N BASS - JUNGLE - ELECTRONIC
In the wasteland near Area 404, Origin arose—an ancient monolith from the city's past. Its grand stage hosted ceremonies and DJs, offering answers to Boomtown's mysteries.
District
Grand Central
HIP HOP - DISCO - REGGAE - POST-PUNK
Grand Central, our city's heart, hosts festival ceremonies and big acts (twinned with Origin). It's a bold stage embracing every resident, pulling them into the party.
District
Metropolis
HOUSE - DISCO - TECHNO - ACID RAVE
A vivid techtopia of enhanced indulgence, with total self-expression at the core.Main Stage - Zenith
District
Oldtown
CIRCUS SOUNDS - FOLK Find circus hustlers, loveable rogues and free spirits throughout Oldtown’s winding back streets, entertaining through sideshow curiosities and circus performance.
District
Botanica
HIP HOP - RAP - ELECTRONICA Botanica is a utopia of flourishing nature and greenery. All around, we see evidence of a global, connected society, living in harmony with nature and each other.
District
Copperwood
FOLK - GLOBAL FUSION The power of invention, imagination and freedom drive the turning cogs of this district. Main Stage - The Engine House
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Area 404
HARDRAVE - PUNK A refuge for radical revolutionaries, lost kids and punks, residents of Area 404 welcome all to their squatted paradise, built from the ashes of the labs destroyed in The Lost Chapter.
The story
Boomtown is an ever-evolving story, unfolding and growing each year.
The aim of the game, if you choose to play, is to discover the stories unfolding all over the city - via the Daily Rag, on posters and billboards, at happenings on the streets, or by talking to characters.
Join us… start anywhere, follow everywhere, and who knows... you could even influence the outcome…
Previously
Since the shutdown of AMI - the Advanced Machine Intelligence that once ruled city - Boomtown had been a leaderless Wild West. However, in 2023 rumours spread of a new hero coming to save the spirit of our city; Elen. Not much was known about this mysterious figure except that Elen – who bore a striking resemblance to AMI - was the one responsible for AMI’s shutdown.
Many celebrated Elen as a hero, as Elen released them from AMI’s control. Others saw Elen as a villain, and the cause of the 2 year dark age following AMI’s destruction. The Daily Rag launched the ‘Elen: Friend or Foe’ opinion poll, whilst the city scrambled to find her.
The Boomtown Bobbies hired residents to find information on Elen’s whereabouts in order to capture the fugitive. The Free Fool Federation were simultaneously recruiting their own investigators, hunting down the same information to save Elen and make her the new ruler of Boomtown.
The Daily Rag investigated Elen and concluded that she was the estranged daughter of the ex-CEO of Bang Hai Industries; the creators of AMI. The CEO had based the computer-generated AMI on his estranged biological daughter; AMI and Elen were twins!
Investigators from both sides chased Elen across Boomtown, learning from notes left behind that although she did plan to stop AMI’s digital dictatorship, she never meant to destory all of Boomtown’s systems and trigger the 2-year dark age.
At the closing ceremony Elen appeared. She spoke to Boomtown about her time in hiding since causing AMI’s meltdown. Despite smear campaigns from Betterverse and Boomtown Bobbies, residents voted Elen as ‘friend’, and so Elen will return to Boomtown for Chapter 3: Revolution of Imagination to imagine the future of the city by our side!
Altern 8 | Boiler Room x Sports Banger: Boomtown 2023
Take yourself back to the epic Hidden Woods takeover with Boiler Room and Sports Banger this summer.
Ceremonies
The opening and closing ceremonies are where we gather as a city to welcome and close Boomtown’s annual fair. The very first and last spectacular show you experience on our mainstages. Where we stand united by a shared message of respect for ourselves, each other and the planet. A time to connect and reflect on the journey we’ve been on together.