# Houghton Festival

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**Category:** Events\
**Created:** [2 September 2026 17:55 UTC](https://djhistory.discourse.group/t/houghton-festival/1847 "2026-09-02T17:55:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![DiegoQuaver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DiegoQuaver](https://djhistory.discourse.group/u/DiegoQuaver)\
**Post date:** [2 September 2026 17:55 UTC](https://djhistory.discourse.group/t/houghton-festival/1847/1 "2026-09-02T17:55:04Z")

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Not much chat around here about Houghton festival which just had its ninth instalment.

I’ve been four time now, and was lucky to catch Bill’s set in Giant Steps tent this year. It was a real sweatbox in the afternoon heat of the sun, but a great time was had. Especially looking to find the track which sounded like the main riff from ‘War’ by Edwin Starr with a totally different vocal.

Anyone else been, thoughts!?

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**Author:** ![GrimsbyRiviera](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/djhistory.discourse.group/grimsbyriviera/32/9_2.png) [@GrimsbyRiviera](https://djhistory.discourse.group/u/GrimsbyRiviera)\
**Post date:** [18 September 2026 10:55 UTC](https://djhistory.discourse.group/t/houghton-festival/1847/2 "2026-09-18T10:55:44Z")

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Hi Diego, Bill here. Do you know who played the War-sounding track? There are a few Motown releases that were built around that riff, but there’s one I play a lot, which is this:

https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=false&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F8507740&show_artwork=true&maxheight=166