ABGT700 2026: Set Times for All Three Days at the Gorge

Above & Beyond’s 700th Group Therapy ran three days at the Gorge, and each one was a different party with a different door. Every set is above, transcribed from the official graphics. Save any day of it to your lock screen and you can leave the app closed in the campground, where the signal is bad anyway. The weekend has run now, and the recap is here.

Three days, three brands. Friday was a pre-party out on the Meadow, the flat grass on the festival grounds rather than the amphitheatre, and its own ticket: the two-day pass covered Saturday and Sunday only. Saturday was ABGT700 itself in the amphitheatre. Sunday handed the same stage to Anjunadeep for an Open Air, a different label, a slower tempo and an afternoon start. Camp Anjuna ran a stage in the campground after each of them.

Friday: the Meadow

Friday was Above & Beyond’s Deep Set, ninety minutes of the slower catalogue that the reshuffle moved to 7, straight through sunset: the sun went down at 7:22 and the canyon was fully dark by 7:53. Farius and Nourey were on before it, J Ribbon b2b Grum had two hours after dark, and Amy Wiles closed the Meadow. Up at Camp Anjuna, DRBL b2b Schrader opened and Farius and Jaytech traded the last three hours, alone and then together, until 2 AM, the latest music on the site all weekend.

Saturday: ABGT700

Saturday was the 700th episode, Above & Beyond for two hours from 10, the longest set of the weekend, with the crowd-writing bit and the singalong apparatus that comes with the number. Darren Tate played live at 5, the booking on the sheet with the deepest history behind it; he was making trance records under a stack of aliases before a good share of the crowd was born. Grum played live under twenty hours after coming off the Meadow, then Mat Zo, Oliver Smith and J Ribbon took the evening up to the big set, and ilan Bluestone closed. Gabriel & Dresden ran a silent disco at Camp Anjuna called Stories We Tell, headphones until 4 AM.

Sunday: Anjunadeep Open Air

Sunday was Ben Böhmer’s. He closed the amphitheatre and the weekend from 10:50, the one slot the revised schedule left untouched. James Grant, who runs the label, played with Jody Wisternoff at 6:25; Leaving Laurel, Because of Art and Durante b2b Ezequiel Arias had the afternoon, HANA, Rezident and Marsh the evening. Camp Anjuna finished with an Anjunadeep House Classics party that overlapped Böhmer’s last hour. You couldn’t have both.

The Gorge that weekend

How the site handled it, the fast lines at the gate, the camping entry and the two hours on the hill waiting for the wind, is in the recap, in the editor’s words. For the record, the entry rules were the Gorge’s standing ones plus one of the festival’s own: cameras non-professional only, with no detachable lenses.

What people got wrong

The gate time. The FAQ said 6 PM Friday and the schedule said 5, and the schedule was right. Sunday moved from 3 to 3:30 on the day, after Saturday’s weather. And the two days of the two-day ticket were not the same event: Saturday was trance and ran to 1 AM, Sunday was deep house, started in the afternoon and was done by midnight so people could drive home.