Beachdown Additions

• 1st Jun 2009

We are excited to announce that DE LA SOUL will be performing as part of the Beachdown Festival warm up series of gigs at The Concorde 2, Brighton on 12th June!

De La Soul, a Grammy Award-winning hip hop group from Amityville, New York are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics. Formed in high school, they have gone from strength to strength, with their colourful, neo-psychedelic collage of samples and styles, clever rhymes and goofy humour. With their debut album release in 1989 of 3 Feet High and Rising which brought with it playful wordplay, innovative sampling, and witty skits and was hailed as a hip-hop masterpiece, being voted Album of the Year by NME Magazine, a title better known for its taste in guitar-based music. In 2006 the group won a grammy for their collaboration with the Gorillaz on the single ‘Feel Good Inc’. After last year’s brilliant Beachdown show at Devils Dyke in Brighton, De La Soul return to Concorde2 for a warm up sure to set the place on fire!
With support from the magnificent FiDgital – A mixture of scratchy violin hip hop funk classics and covers.

Headliners confirmed so far for Beachdown Festival this August Bank Holiday weekend include the fabulous GRACE JONES, indie rock luminaries OCEAN COLOUR SCENE, Icelandic pop queen IDA MARIA, those wonderful welsh psychedelic rockers the SUPER FURRY ANIMALS, Liverpudlian indie-rockers THE ZUTONS, institutional indie-pop darlings SAINT ETIENNE, post-punkers THE FALL and hip hop hero GRANDMASTER FLASH.

The following bands are also confirmed for this year’s event:
JAMES HUNTER, JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET, DREADZONE, THE BLOCKHEADS, SECRET AFFAIR, THE SUNBURST BAND, THE RAKES, ACID HOUSE BRASS BAND by the Williams Fairey Brass Ensemble, THE APPLES, NOSTALGIA 77 OCTET, LACK OF AFRO, SNOWBOY & THE LATIN SECTION, HOSPITALITY, THE NEW MASTERSOUNDS, JAZZ COTECH DANCERS, THE FANTASTICS!, PRINCE BUSTER, GOOD TIMES with NORMAN JAY, JOEY NEGRO, HIGH CONTRAST, GILLES PETERSON, MULATU ASTATKE, THE HELIOCENTRICS, JAZZANOVA, ROB LUIS & KINNY and TRU THOUGHTS.

Here’s what the press had to say about Beachdown Festival 2008:

‘This festival has potential as big as its site.’ – The Observer

‘Beachdown has the potential to grow into a firm favourite on the music scene.’ – The Sun

‘…definitely one to watch… It has the potential to rival larger national festivals in reputation.’ – New Consumer