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12 APRIL 2007
BUGGED OUT! PROMISES A FIELD DAY
UPFRONT, NEWS, NIGHT ONLINE, COMMENTS
Leading leftfield London club nights Eat Your Own Ears, Adventures In The Beetroot Field, Bugged Out! and Homefires have announced plans to stage a collaborative event this summer.
Field Day promises to bring together cutting edge music and dancing in a boutique festival with “all the charm of a village fete” in the East End’s Victoria Park on 11 August.
The organisers – whose collective track record proves that cutting edge music and wild parties are not mutually exclusive - promise to deliver the most cutting edge line up of emerging bands and DJs, including hot new Scottish talent 1990’s, The Aliens, the foot stomping Erol Alkan and Jo Jo De Freq. Andrew Weatherall will also be performing alongside a sizzling summer line up that includes Metronomy, Foals and Bat For Lashes, amongst others. Critically acclaimed post-rock outfit Fridge will be playing their first live gig for six years, featuring the formidable Four Tet and Adem who will make a rare outing to deliver a set of new material from their forthcoming album, alongside some older tracks.
According to organisers a ceiledh, bunting, hay bales, hog roasts and a tombola will join the four main music stages at this 5000-capacity event.
Commenting on the inaugural Field Day, co-promoter Johnno (Bugged Out!) said: "Field Day will be a decidedly different and welcome addition to London’s ‘play it safe’ summer calendar. We will create an event that showcases the finest bands, DJs and artists that the UK has to offer, while celebrating London as the UK’s largest village!"
Eat Your Own Ears promoter Tom Baker continued: "We wanted to create an event that had a really strong but somewhat different line up to other festivals, something that has a European feeling where new exciting rock bands play alongside electronic acts and also include more diverse and leftfield acts.
”We did an event a few years back called Return of the Rural which celebrated the countryside and drew influences from that of a village fete but within an urban setting, we are planning similar themes for Field Day."
For more information visit www.fielddayfestivals.com or www.myspace.com/fielddayfestivals
From: NIGHT Online
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