Fending off globally renown festivals such as Glastonbury and Global Gathering, Creamfields festival which takes place every year at Daresbury in Chesire, August Bank Holiday weekend, won 'Best Festival' at the Music Week Awards last month. The awards are notoriously tough, with judgement being made on several aspects such as innovation, creativity and quality of service, but Cream seemed to tick all the right boxes and is success that only follows from its increasing popularity recently, from its beginnings 12 years ago.
 
Whilst Cream is used to finishing first in specialists dance catergories, like winning 'Best Dance Festival' at the UK festival awards, it demonstrated at the awards ceremony held at the Hilton Hotel in London that it was a serious conteneder as a mainstream festival. The fact that for the first time, voting was open to the public shows that Cream has become a firm favourite with the people, attracting over 60,000 festival-goers last summer.
 
CEO James Barton who accepted the award said '"We are thrilled and overwhelmed to win this prestigious award particularly when we were up against such world class festivals like Glastonbury and V. It highlights how far we’ve come...and makes all the hard work worthwhile."
This years Cream looks to be another Killer affair with a line-up that includes the likes of Tiesto, David Guetta, Deadmau5 and Paul Van Dyk. Get your tickets asap at www.creamfields.com