Play Fest Announce Saturday and Sunday Final Line Ups
Sub Focus, DJ EZ and Gypsy Hill on Saturday and Sunday!
Friday 1st – Sunday 3rd June
Eccles Hall Estate, Nr. Norwich, Norfolk.
Shortlisted for Best New Festival 2011
4,000 people / 6 Stages
“Play Fest is a great new soulful festival in a wonderful site... It’s a new star on the festival circuit.” – The Futureheads
The countdown is now on and with just over one month to go until all the fun and frivolities of the festival kicks off, Play Fest
just keeps on giving and treating playmates to the best line up
possible! Just added to the bill are UK Garage legend and Kiss FM
stalwart DJ EZ on Saturday, and drum’n’bass supremeo Sub Focus on Sunday.
The latest additions join an already full to bursting bill of acts that
include Ash, The Pigeon Detectives, Reverend and the Makers, Roots
Manuva, The Correspondents, Shy FX, Zinc, Toddla T, and Jaymo and Andy
George. This means the full line ups for Saturday and Sunday have
now been revealed, so it’s nearly time to don the Play-suits, dust off
the wellies and get on down to Play Fest!
Kick starting Saturday night in the POW! Dance Arena, is a DJ widely considered to be one of UK Garage’s greatest talents, DJ EZ!
Honing his craft on London’s pirate radio stations in the early 90s, DJ
EZ rose to prominence in the late 1990’s when he was offered a
permanent show on Kiss 100. Over the years, DJ EZ has hosted a variety of different radio shows, mixed a bucket load of Pure Garage compilation albums that have sold over 1.7 million copies, and won a sack full of accolades and awards; including ‘Best Radio Show’, ‘Best Old Skool DJ’ and ‘Best DJ’
at the People’s Choice Awards. Play Fest revellers will be taken on a
trip through the archives of UK Garage by one the best tour guides there
is!
Sunday in the POW! Dance Arena welcomes even more shining lights of the electronic scene and Play Fest can now reveal that supporting Toddla T at the top of the bill for Sunday night will be Sub Focus. Having
been on the scene for nearly a decade, Sub Focus is somewhat of a boy
wonder of drum’n’bass. He became one of the leading practitioners within
only two years of his emergence whilst his debut single ‘X-Ray’ was
awarded Single of the Week on Zane Lowe’s Radio One show.
In 2010 he produced the track "Kickstarts" for British singer/rapper
Example, which peaked at number three on the U.K. singles chart, and
last year he signed a deal with Mercury and has a new album due for
release at the end of 2012. With so many strings to his bow and a sack
full of heavy tunes to delight the party animals out there, Play Fest
are ecstatic to have such a D’n’B heavyweight overseeing the run up to
the final hours of this year’s festival!
Other additions to the Sunday POW! Dance Arena include: the musical knowledge and surefire selections of Numbers co-founder Spencer, the contrasting styles of Foamo and Bondax, while Oli D.A.B and Robin will be on hand with their particular breed of house. Rounding off the bill will be hometown hero Joshua Roberts and the techno and house vibes of Josh 2084 and BoaBoa and Fazhands.
Over in the Asylum Stage additions include the mega brass extravaganza of Gypsy Hill and Norwich home-grown reggae talent Jah Head, with Murphys Lore on Sunday and Saturday welcomes Kodeta and Woodland Creatures to the lunatic bill of the Asylum Stage!
A limited number of tickets are still on sale via the Play Fest website: www.playfest.co.uk
Article posted by Musicmafia
