Amelie Lens and Sara Landry Have Never Shared a Booth. That Changes on the Thames This August.

Two names that keep landing on the same festival posters, never in the same booth. That ends on August 21, when Amelie Lens and Sara Landry play their first-ever back-to-back set, closing out a new open-air series on the banks of the Thames.

Why has this pairing taken so long?

Lens and Landry have circled each other on lineups for years without ever sharing a mixer. Amelie Lens built her name on rolling, hypnotic techno and turned it into a brand: the Exhale movement, her label and rave series, now runs events on multiple continents. Sara Landry took a harder, darker route, industrial-leaning hard techno delivered with a ferocity that earned her the nickname the High Priestess of Hard Techno, a Beatport crown as the style's top-selling female producer, and a 2023 Boiler Room set that pulled in more than six million views, one of the most-watched sets of that entire year. Both artists have played Tomorrowland, EDC Las Vegas and Ultra on their own terms. London is where they finally trade decks.

What is Magazine Open-Air?

Magazine Open-Air is a new outdoor series from Broadwick Live, the promoter behind some of London's biggest club nights, staged at Magazine London on Greenwich Peninsula, a site the company says has never hosted an event before. It is pitched as a roofless dancefloor on the river, framed by the city skyline, with sound engineering built for an open-air rig rather than a warehouse. The Lens/Landry date runs 3pm to 10pm on August 21 and is supported by SPFDJ, Dax J, Grace Dahl and DJ Hyperdrive.

"UK exclusives from artists at this level do not come round often, and the capacity here is not endless."

That line, from the promoter's own billing, is doing double duty as marketing and as a genuine warning: this is a single date, not a tour stop, and it is not being sold as a mass-capacity show.

Who else is on the bill?

SPFDJ and Dax J both carry serious techno credibility in their own right, SPFDJ through Involve Records and a rigorous, physical DJ style, Dax J through more than a decade on the harder end of European techno, including his own high-profile run-ins with censorship abroad. Grace Dahl and DJ Hyperdrive round out a bill built to run daytime-to-dusk rather than all-night, a format Broadwick has increasingly leaned on for its outdoor dates since the loss of Printworks as a fixed venue.