Underworld, James Blake, Róisín Murphy and more announced for Berlin Festival

Underworld, James Blake, Róisín Murphy and more announced for Berlin Festival

From 29th to 31st May Berlin Festival brings together all the city’s best features of unique music, culture and art. Genre barriers are torn down and redefined as techno flirts with hip hop, Arthouse with cabaret, high fashion with street wear, street food with haute cuisine and classical music with club culture.

Playing the 10th anniversary are top international acts Underworld, James Blake, Róisín Murphy, Seth Troxler, Carl Craig, Robert Hood, Rudimental and Ten Walls alongside key players from Berlin's club scene including Richie Hawtin, Fritz Kalkbrenner, Dixon, Tale Of Us and Âme (live). 

Berlin Festival will transform Arena Park into Berlin's biggest club, taking the electronic heartbeat of the city to the next level for a 48hour party.

Club institution and label Watergate has shaped the sound of techno in Berlin for over a decade and will gather resident DJs, label acts and international club regulars like Pan-Pot, Ellen Allien, Tiefschwarz, La Fleur and Marco Resmann.

Westbam will mark his 50th birthday with a special celebration of three decades of techno history: A Night with Westbam, while debaucherous gay club institution SchwuZ will invite you to join a collision of electro, indie, kitsch and glamour on the SchwuZ Love Boat, spread across Hoppetosse's two floors. splash! 

Mag, Germany's first address when it comes to world of hip hop, will return with its own stage featuring acts such as Kelela, Shlohmo or Purple at Glashaus. With its Yellow Lounge concept and celebrated classical music stars Valentina Lisitsa and Avi Avital, Deutsche Grammophon blends classical music and club atmosphere.

Berlin's film festival scene will make an appearance at the Festival under the banner of Berlin 'A' Screen: in co-operation with Berlinale, Teddy Awards, Pornfilmfestival and EXPOSED International Queer Film Festival Berlin. Arena Club will turn into a film lounge with Q&A’s and an intriguing cross-section of the film festival's programme. Meanwhile the city’s art scene will once again turn the entire Festival site into a creative Art Village with street art, graffiti, dance, performance art and poetry slam.

Early bird tickets for Berlin Festival are available via www.berlinfestival.de/tickets

All confirmed acts:

Underworld, James Blake, Róisín Murphy, Richie Hawtin, Fritz Kalkbrenner, Seth Troxler, Carl Craig,

Robert Hood, Rudimental, Dixon, Tale Of Us, Âme (live), Ten Walls (live), Chet Faker, GusGus,

Marek Hemmann (live), Tiga, Twin Shadow, Atari Teenage Riot, Howling, Recondite (live), Kelela,

Sylvan Esso, Pan-Pot, Ellen Allien, Westbam, Tiefschwarz (DJ-Set), Zebra Katz, Ratking, Shlohmo,

Tourist, Yung Lean, Purple, La Fleur, Valentina Lisitsa, Avi Avital, Marco Resmann, DJ Ipek, Eva Be, 

Clé (DJ-Set).

More performances across the Festival's ten indoor and outdoor stages to be announced soon!

James Blake To Headline Jabberwocky festival 2014

FRIDAY 15th – SATURDAY 16th AUGUST 2014

EXCEL LONDON

TICKETS ON SALE AT: http://www.atpfestival.com/events/jabberwocky2014/tickets.php

ATP, Pitchfork and Primavera are proud to announce the next wave of announcements for this year’s inaugural Jabberwocky Festival in London.

Last year’s Mercury Prize winner James Blake joins Jabberwocky as the second headliner of an already incredible lineup. From his roots as a club DJ, Blake’s sound progressed into a tender and melancholy mix of modern electronic music and lo-fi indie more akin to contemporaries the XX than his dubstep peers.

The fractured sounds of his self-titled debut lead into the chilling sophomore full length, ‘Overgrown’, an album that achieved widespread critical acclaim and unlikely guest spots from the likes of Wu-Tang legend the RZA. Jabberwocky are ecstatic to welcome James Blake to London for an oh too rare performance in the nation’s capital. 

New York duo Darkside is comprised of Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington and electronic producer Nicolas Jaar. Their 2013 debut for Matador, ‘Psychic’ fused the two musicians’ vastly different backgrounds into a wholly original mix of experimental and ambient rock and brooding, downtempo house and techno. It is an uncompromising vision and works as a whole to clearly display the progressive and incredibly talented minds at work.

With their recently announced hiatus still fresh in people’s minds John Dwyer and co softened the blow with the announcement of their upcoming Castle Face Records album ‘Drop’ and now ATP are thrilled to announced the addition of garage rock heroes Thee Oh Sees to this year’s Jabberwocky Festival! The prolific band’s live show is one of the most energetic and exciting you’re likely to see anywhere in the world and to say that their set will be one of the clear highlights of the weekend is no exaggeration.

Matthew Barnes, aka Forest Swords, debut ‘Dagger Paths’ EP catapulted him into the public consciousness with its skulking, abstract, electronic psych-pop making him stand out from other chillwave contemporaries. Four years on and with full length LP ‘Engravings’ under his belt, he has become one of the go to names in electronic music with remixes having been commissioned by the likes of These New Puritans, Wild Beasts and The Big Pink.

Fresh from the release of ‘Benji’, his sixth studio album under his Sun Kil Moon moniker, ex-Red House Painters main man Mark Kozelek’s beautiful and moving indie-folk sounds as absorbing and vital as ever. A true cult hero, Kozelek can count Will Oldham, Ben Gibbard and Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley as collaborators and as a veteran of previous ATP events he fits into this lineup perfectly.

Since the late 90s noise loving producer and musician Kevin Martin, better known by his primary recording alias The Bug, has created dancehall and hip-hop influenced music ranging from the extreme to the ambient and more dub oriented. Last summer’s Danny Brown, Flowdan and longtime collaborator Kiki Hitomi featuring ‘Filth EP’ provided a taster for The Bug’s upcoming ‘Angels and Devils’ full length which promises guest spots from the likes of Death Grips and Gonjasufi.

Having burst onto the punk scene last year with their abrasive ‘I Have Lost All Desire For Feeling’ EP, Syracuse quartet Perfect Pussy proved to be one of 2013’s boldest and most exciting new bands. With lyrical subject matter bordering on the frighteningly personal and a sound both uncompromising and effortlessly compelling they charge into 2014 with the release of their debut full length ‘Say Yes To Love’ this March.

Having been a member of short-lived Brooklyn buzz band INOUK and released solo album ‘Mansions’, Damon McMahon really hit his stride with his Amen Dunes moniker. He creates fuzzy, isolated, eerie pop with hints of the Velvet Underground, Roky Erickson and Syd Barrett that is sure to be perfectly represented on May’s upcoming Sacred Bones Records (David Lynch, Zola Jesus, The Men) full length ‘Love’.

Formed in 1993, New York four-piece indie-rock group The Van Pelt were responsible for what is arguably one of the finest American guitar records of the 90s, the seminal ‘Sultans Of Sentiment’. Having performed reunion shows in 2009 they will again be regrouping to perform at Jabberwocky Festival

Anonymous conceptual musician, producer and Warp Records signee patten’s intricate compositions have gained him critical acclaim since becoming active in 2009. Though he remains shrouded in mystery, he has described his upcoming full length ‘ESTOILE NAIANT’ as being ‘informed equally by Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges’s evocative maze-like short stories, late nights at early FWD events and the open tunings of Sonic Youth’s chiming guitars’.

Portuguese band Paus makes bass-driven, percussion-heavy music that defies comparison or categorization. Praised for their distinctive, experimental sound and their largely improvisational, heavily energetic live shows they are an exciting addition to the Jabberwocky lineup.

Canada’s experimental music and performance art collective Yamantaka // Sonic Titan take the genres of post-punk, opera, noise, metal, folk and pop and view them through their very own psychedelic kaleidoscope creating a sound unique enough to entirely defy characterization.

Experimental and progressive Spanish group Oso Leone combine numerous folk and rock based styles to create a powerful yet delicate sound, seeped in beautiful melodies and a level of passion that has gained them a legion of faithful followers.

Hailing from Barcelona, Joana Serrat was attracted to folk and Americana from a young age. As such, her music is a sublime mixture of folk, indie, pop and country with a vocal that carries the warmth and sincerity of her songs perfectly.

Plus DJs:
Fra Soler (Primavera)  +
Pitchfork DJs +
DJ Coco (Primavera)
DJ Cherrystones
Spencer Hickman (Death Waltz Recordings)
Daevid Phillips

Bestival 2013 unveils a new wave of acts

On course for a truly epic 10th birthday spectacular, the good ship HMS Bestival is abuzz with excitement as a whole new raft of able-bodied shipmates join the ranks of Bestival 2013. With an already gargantuan line-up featuring Elton John, Snoop Dogg, MIA, Franz Ferdinand, Wu-Tang Clan, The Flaming Lips, Richie Hawtin and Carl Cox to name but a few, we’ve got 10 fields of wonderment with over 20 stages, big soundsystems, insane sideshows, magical happenings and so much more in our 24-hour escapist world, and we’re going full steam ahead this September 5-8 toRobin Hill Country Park for the party of our lives, at the greatest show on earth!

Rob da Bank says: "Bestival is ten years old this year and i always want our festival to stay fresh and new so im well pleased with the latest artist additions... Courtney Pine, legendary jazz musician, is going to open the whole birthday spectacular on the Thursday and from that point on we're gonna be treated to a plethora of new bands and talent from new indie upstarts Savages and London Grammar to incredible electronic explorations from Hieroglyphic Being and Evian Christ. Not forgetting returning hero James Blake whos part of the fabric of recent Bestivals. Hope you enjoy listening to all this lovely lot!"

Getting into the buccaneering Bestival spirit we’re very pleased to announce that James Blake will be bringing his atmospheric bass adventures to captivate the crowds. One of the brightest talents to emerge in the past five years, James’s singular sound is one definitely not to be missed. We’re also very excited to announce that UK Jazz giant and all round legend Courtney Pine will be opening the show at our 10th Birthday party on Thursday evening. Renowned for pushing sonic boundaries, there couldn’t be a more apt opener for what is destined to be Bestival’s most mind-expanding extravaganza yet!
We’ll also have music across the weekend from reggae kingpin Max Romeo, super-bombastic doo-wop visionary Willy Moon, anthemic guitar pop types The 1975, classical-electronica crossover geniuses Clean Bandit, hotly-tipped electro-pop trio London Grammar, the frankly sublime The Child of Lov, 80s reggae supernova Musical Youth, footwork fanatic Evian Christ, Brooklyn punks Parquet Courts, genre colliding six-piece Molotov Jukebox, alt folkers Moulettes and the jaw-droppingly authentic 'Introducing' recreate 'Discovery' live.

There will also be plenty more live music from Filthy Boy, Wheelchair Sports Camp, Ady Suleiman, Hudson Taylor, Champs, Woodpecker Wooliams, Lloyd Yates, Barbarossa, The Keepsakes, Isaiah Dreads, Parlour Flames, Charley Macaulay and Devilman.
Tenth anniversary late night booty shaking action will also be in plentiful supply with a series of super-fat soundsystems due to be announced in the coming months but just to whet your appetites we can reveal that Numbers will be showcasing Tweakaholic featuring Jackmaster & Spencer, sleazy four-four from Bicep, there will be Chicago vibes from Hieroglyphic Being, heady jams from Addison Groove, underground party joints from Rinse FM’s Oneman, consciousness expanding sounds from Psychemagik, bass alchemy from Happa and dreamy euphoria from the one and only Chris Coco.
Plus there will be deck destroying sets from PBR Streetgang, DJ Scotch Egg, Misty Conditions ,Bill Brewster, Copy Paste Soul, Krysko, Applescal, Pete Gooding B2B Danny Whitehead,Pathaan, Johnno (Bugged Out), Sunday Best Forum Allstars, Flying White Dots, March Hare and Gutterslut.

All this and there’s still one more headliner and lots of new attractions to announce, so keep checking www.bestival.net and our Facebook and Twitter. And don’t forget to tag your tweets #hmsbestival.