Journal
Notes between nights
Written by the people who build the night. Some of it is about music and a surprising amount of it is about drainage.
Why the openers get a real soundcheck
Every year somebody asks why we give a forty-minute opening slot the same hour on the rig as the headline act. The answer is that an audience decides what kind of night it is in the first twenty minutes, and a band that cannot hear itself cannot make that decision for them. Here is what that costs us, in hours and in cedis, and why we keep paying it.
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The archive
Everything else
Written by the people who build the night rather than by anyone in marketing, which is why some of it is about drainage.
What a sea wind does to a mix
Black Star Square sits two hundred metres from the water, and the breeze after eight strips the top end off anything aimed east. Turning the stage was the cheapest fix we found.
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Where a GH₵180 ticket actually goes
Artists, crew, site, security, sanitation, insurance and the bit left over. We publish the split every year because a festival that will not show you this one is usually hiding the artist line.
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Nine thousand people and one welfare tent
What we learned running a site that big with a tent that small, and the four things that changed for 2026 — starting with lighting the route to it.
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