Our ethos at Das Spezial has always been simple; to create exciting music and art that champions creative collaboration and  supports emerging talent in the UK creative community.

Our new project has creativity, community and environment at the heart of it, with an opportunity for us to create positive action out of a destructive problem.

As many people will be aware, there is a growing issue with the scale of rubbish and discarded tents left behind at UK music festivals, with the vast majority of these ending up in landfill and not passed on in great numbers  to homeless charities, as the low quality and condition of the salvaged items often make them unuseable.

Our aim is to repurpose these tents and keep them out of landfill through a creative project to raise awareness of this issue and influence positive change for good.

Fashion, Communication and Design students at the University of Brighton (UoB) will be working with the SPEZIAL team as part of their course to design and create new fashion pieces using the materials and fixtures abandoned at UK festivals this summer that have been salvaged by UoB graduate, Lily Hardy, who is part of a salvage and recycling collective, CampLight Productions.

Working together across courses and with students at WaterBear The College of Music, the students will showcase the garments and other creative work produced that support the ethos of the project and aim to shine a light on this collective problem, through a fashion show and live music performances within Brighton next Spring.