Founders George Hull and Alex Benson of UK festival Bloc have hinted at a 2027 reunion event after relaunching the brand as a micro-home business. The festival, known for its innovative electronic music, was a holiday park fixture in the early '10s.
The team behind Bloc—a fixture of UK holiday park festivals through the early '10s—have hinted at a 2027 reunion.
Details of the Reunion
Cofounder George Hull broke the news to Resident Advisor, confirming plans for an event next March 20th. More details, such as location and lineup, are TBA.
A Look Back
Hull and Alex Benson launched Bloc Weekend at a holiday park in Norfolk in 2007. It went on to become one of the UK's most forward-thinking electronic festivals, finding a stable home at Butlins in Minehead from 2009. In 2012, an attempt to scale up in London went badly wrong when the event was shut down due to site infrastructure and overcrowding.
In the following years, Hull and Benson opened a club, also called Bloc, in East London. The final Bloc Weekend was in 2016.
New Business Venture
In 2020, Hull and Benson closed the Bloc club to focus on the studio and workspaces they'd been renting to artists in neighbouring warehouses. This led to the idea for Bloc Spaces, a business selling customised shipping containers for various purposes.
Hull said, "Bloc as a company has always been interested in innovation. We hit a brick wall in terms of the building costs to adapt our warehouses, which led us to working with the manufacturers of shipping containers in Asia to make purpose-built spaces that are much more affordable."
Published on 31 March 2026 by UKFG
