On 15 August 2025, Armand Van Helden played Egypt for the first time, at The Med Beach Clubhouse in Ras El Hekma, closing out the summer season with a night of house on the sand.
A debut, on an Egyptian beach
Armand Van Helden has spent three decades shaping house music, and until this night he had never played in Egypt. He played it at The Med, on the beach, with the sea a few metres from the booth. The set ran through the catalogue that made his name, and the crowd stayed with it from the first record to the last.
Food by Sage
Sage handled the food through the evening, served along the clubhouse terrace so that nobody had to choose between the set and dinner. The Beach Clubhouse had opened earlier in the season, and by August it was doing what it was built to do: holding a few hundred people comfortably between the water and the music.
A guest from Dubai
Zeina Khoury joined us for the night from Dubai, and spent it the way most of our guests did, on the sand with everyone else.
The close of the season
Mid-August is the end of summer at The Med, and this was the night we chose to end it on. Between the debut, the setting and the hour the music finished, it was the loudest close the clubhouse has had.
The Beach Clubhouse is one of the first pieces of The Med to open, and it runs a programme like this one each season. has the masterplan and what is coming next