Offset is very nearly upon us and in the spirit of celebration, we’re proud to announce our final lineup for 2010, in all its exciting, esoteric, glory.
On an electronic tip, two of the most acclaimed, innovative acts around right now – Caribou and Mount Kimbie, are set to play live, showcasing tracks from their critically lauded albums, “Swim” and “Crooks and Lovers” respectively. Over on the main stage, the much beloved Art Brut are set to storm the day with their very distinctive strain of barbed, singularly British pop, while Pulled Apart By Horses will burn a hole in your cranium with their mind meltingly demented take on rock.
We are also excited to announce that White Heat, for the first time ever, will be hosting their very own stage at Offset, and for their debut outing they have collated a brilliantly eclectic lineup, ranging from Connan Mockasins’ fantastically twisted pop to Esben and the Witch’s spellbinding twilight gloom, to Banjo and Freakout’s gorgeous, layered, electronic-tinged soundscapes and Anna Calvi’s entrancing, guitar-led tales of love and loss.
And there’s more. Joining an already incredible lineup:
Anna Calvi
Banjo or Freakout
Bitches
Blurt
Bunny Come
Calories
Caribou
Castrovalva
Cold In Berlin
Cold Pumas
Colours
Connan Mockasin
Esben and the Witch
Ghost of a Thousand
Gramme
Holy State
Horse and Condor
Hyrst
Koudlam
La La Vasquez
Meddicine
Mount Kimbie
Not Cool
Novella
Oh! Gunquit
Paper Crows
Peepholes
Please
Proxy Music
Pulled Apart By Horses
Sauna Youth
Screaming Tea Party
Slapper
Special Recreation Wish Club
Team Ghost
Teeth of the Sea
The Bridport Dagger
The Eyes In The Heat
The Neat
The Receeders
The Rifle Volunteer
Thomas Tantrum
Visions Of Trees
Xcerts
A more radical and galvanising festival lineup you’re unlikely to find anywhere else – with 7 stages, around 200 artists and a huge vintage clothing fair, Victorian fun fair, village fete, psychedelic sports day, nature treks, performance art area, craft workshops, delicious food stalls, fifties hairdressing salon and even a rare breeds farm, Offset 2010 promises to be an absolutely unmissable experience.
NEW HEAVY SOUNDS CLUB presents 12 solid hours of the newest heavy scene in the UK - MAY 31st Bank Holiday All-Dayer
TURBOWOLF + CASTROVALVA + THESE MONSTERS + BLACKLISTERS + BAD FOR LAZARUS + STRANGE NEWS FROM ANOTHER STAR + WE ROCK LIKE GIRLS DON’T + BUFFALO + RUN WALK + GODZILLA BLACK + XM-3a
With spinning from DJs VOLK and PLIMSOLES and vision wrangling from VJ the k e r n s.
The incredibly productive underground promoters ‘God Don’t Like It’ have put together this little all nighter for the friendly folk at Visions Video Bar on Kingsland Road this Friday 28th May - a venue that has laid seige to some of the most exciting parties over the past 3 years.
Main event of the evening is the album launch for the forward thinking electronica outfit Elite Barbarian. Ben Paige from the band is a key member from Rocket Number 9 who were recently on tour with Four Tet (Keiran Hebden) and is also a member of Rothko who have been pioneers of experimental music in London for at least the last 10 years.
Of one LP review for Elite, this says it pretty well:
“One of the strongest electronic beep records you will ever hear, the new record from Elite Barbarian achieves a certain kind of ambience ordinarily/usually harboured by the most strung out and sensitive of electronic acts without using such barbed sonics.” DISKANT
Also playing live on the night is Devil Man which is side project of DJ Scotch Egg and dub DJ Gorgonn!
On DJ duties are, direct from France, the incredible Zombie Zombie, alongside DVN, Gary The Tall, Mike Keelin & Gangpol from Gangpol Und MIT.
Doors at 9:00 and it’s open till 6.
If you send an email to anthony@goddontlikeit.com with the word CHEAP in the subject you will get on the 5pd cheaplist which aint bad for 9 hours of partying, 2 bands & 6 Dj’s!
Time for a heads-up about an amazing show in London coming up on the 25th of May at Corsica Studios.
Legendary Japanese psych, rock, wig out mentalists Acid Mothers Temple are coming to London for a special show with amazing Italian post-rock band Stearica!
They will both be playing live and then performing a collaboration set which should be pretty amazing!
There will also be visuals and DJ set from DJ Tago Mago playing Kraut, Psych and wierd sounds for your ears.
The second episode of the Independent Music Podcast follows the first with some more ace music and all recorded live with a track being delivered to us mid show!
With songs by The Fall, Fiction, Electricity in Our Homes, David Thomas Broughton and tons more hopefully your enjoy it!
We’re pleased to announce that this year’s Offset Festival takes place on September 4-5 2010, returning once again to the beautiful Hainault Forest Country Park for a weekend of music, art and fun in the forest.
Loyalty tickets go on sale this Wednesday, priced at just £45 (full weekend) and £55 (weekend with camping) to those of you who wish to buy tickets before we announce the lineup for this years event.
Our previous lineups have brought together the likes of Gang of Four, The Horrors, The Slits, Wire, The Maccabees, A Certain Ratio, The xx, Metronomy, Black Devil and Kap Bambino - hopefully you can trust us to bring together more incredible bands (we have some great announcements in store!).
