Notes from Luke Broadhurst, UJJAY: sets, gigs, sober raves and the UK conscious festival circuit, in the first person.https://ujjay.co.uk/en-gbhttps://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/rave-culture-parents-and-a-circus-deal/https://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/rave-culture-parents-and-a-circus-deal/How I got here, part one. Decks at school, a signing to Yousef's Circus Recordings as BROADHURST, and the record that made me stop pretending I made anything else.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 17:00:00 GMTThe long way roundhttps://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/how-to-book-me/https://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/how-to-book-me/Everything a promoter usually has to email for, in one place: what I play, how long, what I bring, what you need to supply, and why there is no price on this site.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 16:00:00 GMTPlain Englishhttps://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/the-hot-chocolate-that-gets-called-a-ceremony/https://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/the-hot-chocolate-that-gets-called-a-ceremony/What a cacao event actually is once you take the incense out, why the drink is better than you think, and what I play at one. Affectionate. Mostly.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:00:00 GMTPlain Englishhttps://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/organic-house-afro-house-tribal-downtempo/https://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/organic-house-afro-house-tribal-downtempo/Four words that get used for the same record and mean different things. The differences, from someone who mixes across all of them in one set, with tracks to hear.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:00:00 GMTPlain Englishhttps://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/soul-revolution-three-years-in/https://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/soul-revolution-three-years-in/The official closing set in 2024, New Year's Day in 2025, Amelia Yawanawá on stage in 2026. What the last set of a festival is for, and how it differs from the last set of a night.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:00:00 GMTThe circuithttps://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/uk-festivals-where-nobody-is-drinking/https://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/uk-festivals-where-nobody-is-drinking/The alcohol-free festival circuit in the UK, described from the decks rather than a listings site. Only the ones I have actually played. Updated every year.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 12:00:00 GMTThe circuithttps://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/three-hours-nobody-facing-me/https://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/three-hours-nobody-facing-me/How a long set on a sober floor is actually put together, from someone who has spent twenty years learning to do it with a bar and four learning to do it without.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:00:00 GMTFrom the boothhttps://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/set-notes-synforia-between-horizons-2026/https://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/set-notes-synforia-between-horizons-2026/Fifty-eight minutes, shared lineup with Lost Desert, published by the festival on its own channel. The first of these notes, and the format for the rest.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:00:00 GMTSet noteshttps://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/is-ecstatic-dance-a-cult/https://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/is-ecstatic-dance-a-cult/The questions people type into Google before their first one, answered by someone who plays them. Short answers first, then the longer ones.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:00 GMTPlain Englishhttps://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/a-rave-at-three-in-the-afternoon/https://ujjay.co.uk/field-notes/a-rave-at-three-in-the-afternoon/What a sober rave actually is, from the person playing the music. The first forty minutes are the hard part, and they are the point.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe circuit