Creamfields merges its Runway and HALO stages into a 20,000-capacity Runway 2.0 for 2027
The open-air stage measures 60 by 40 metres, with three 15-metre LED diamonds hanging above the crowd. Lucid Creates designed it, DJ Mag reports.
Creamfields will open a new stage at its 2027 edition. The festival announced Creamfields Runway 2.0 on its official website and on Instagram. The open-air stage combines two earlier Creamfields designs, Runway and HALO, into one arena for 20,000 people. Creamfields sums it up in a tagline: “Two iconic stage concepts. One monumental new experience.”
How Creamfields Runway 2.0 is built
According to Creamfields, the stage measures 60 metres long and 40 metres wide. The layout takes HALO’s circular stage design and adds Runway’s structure, which extends out above the crowd. At the centre, three 15-metre diamond structures will hang overhead. LED video screens line each one, the festival says.
DJ Mag reports that Lucid Creates designed the stage. The outlet adds that the new arena brings HALO’s 360-degree visuals to the Runway format. The diamonds will project visuals that shift from multiple angles, the outlet says.
Dates and first names for 2027
Creamfields 2027 runs from Thursday, Aug 26, to Sunday, Aug 29, over the UK bank holiday weekend, DJ Mag reports. As usual, it takes place at the Daresbury Estate in Cheshire. Creamfields says the edition will also celebrate 30 years of the festival.
The first acts include The Prodigy, Hannah Laing, Jamie Jones and Marco Carola, according to DJ Mag. Josh Baker, KETTAMA and Prospa will also play a B4B set together. Prospa and Kettama also held Beatport’s No. 1 spot in our weekly chart of Oct 25. DJ Mag has not said which acts will play the Creamfields Runway 2.0 stage.
Where Creamfields stands now
DJ Mag says about 80,000 people attended Creamfields 2026 over the August bank holiday weekend. That was despite torrential rain and storms on the opening Thursday, which forced several stages to close early. The festival also placed No. 7 in DJ Mag’s Top 100 Festivals poll for 2026, up two places from 2025.
Creamfields has not yet published a stage-by-stage line-up. We will add stage details for Creamfields Runway 2.0 once the festival shares them.
Sources: Creamfields, Runway 2.0 page; Creamfields on Instagram; DJ Mag, April Clare Welsh, Oct 26, 2026
Creamfields 2027 artwork. Image: Creamfields, via Creamfields
