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Field Day Announce Full Line UP

• 15th Jul 2009

With just over a fortnight left to go until the gates of Victoria Park open on August 1st for their third annual outing, Field Day are pleased to announce the full stage-by-stage breakdown of stellar acts playing this year’s event, including some amazing new additions. Plus, there will be a brand new Guardian Tea Room Tent and Do You Come Here Often, a spankingly fresh art happening area from Time Out, plus, for the dedicated party hardcore, there’s some very special warm up action to be had.

Adding their not inconsiderable presence to this year’s the line up will be the sensational, Huw Stephens championed, Gaggle who will be showcasing their mind-blowing 22-piece ‘choral riot grrrl’ skirmishes between bands on the Eat Your Own Ears mainstage, ones definitely not to miss. JD Twitch, one half of Glaswegian leftfield supremos Optimo will be throwing down his own inimitable brand of eclectic festival shakers and the esteemed Frank Tope will be donning his Wild Geese guise to unleash some super-slamming House and continental Disco grooves to keep you cutting the rug.

STAGE LINE UPS:

Eat Your Own Ears Main Stage
Eat Your Own Ears DJ's / Errors / Fennesz / Final Fantasy / First Aid Kit / Gaggle / Jon Hopkins / Mogwai (Only English Summer Festival Show) / Santigold / Skream / The Horrors /
The Temper Trap

Adventures In The Beetroot Field Stage
Allez Allez / Crispin Dior (AITBF) / Devil Made Me Do It / Four Tet / King Charles /
Micachu And The Shapes / Mystery Jets / Plugs / S.C.U.M / Sian Alice Group /
Stopmakingme (AITBF) / The Big Pink / The Invisible / Wild Beasts

Village Mentality Stage
Fanfarlo / James Yorkston / Juana Molina / Malcolm Middleton / Mumford And Sons / The Thing / Toumani Diabate / Wet Paint / Woodpigeon

Bugged Out! Stage
Aeroplane DJs / Audion (Live) / Delphic (Live) / Erol Alkan / Fake Blood / JD Twitch (Optimo) / Little Boots (Live) / Wild Geese DJs

Bloggers Delight Stage
Casper C (AITBF/Bloggers Delight) / Drums Of Death (Live) / Greco-Roman Soundsystem /
No Pain In Pop DJs / Rusko (DJ Set) / Skull Juice (Bloggers Delight) / The Xx /
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / Work It

This year will also see a brand new Guardian Tea Room Tent joining the myriad delights of Field Day. Perfectly positioned to cast your eyes over the ever-amusing goings on in Village Mentality, the Guardian Tea Room Tent will offer a touch of refinement to proceedings with lashings of freshly brewed tea and home-made cakes to help you recharge your batteries whilst perusing the paper.

Time Out are joining the fray too with Field Day's inaugural cabaret and art happenings tent hosted in conjunction with Eat You Heart Out and Take Courage Gallery. The ‘Do You Come Here Often’ tent brings together the cutting edge of live art in London. Highlights include Scottee and his twsited Eat Your Heart Out performers, alongside East London artist and Innovator Adham Faramawy. Expect intense layers of light and sound, bastardised religious iconography and rock metal. A wartime singalong and The Palm Tree Pub singers bring back flag waving optimism. Time Out has long championed the likes of Jonny Woo, Bistrotheque's forward-thinking UnderConstruction series, Bourgeois & Maurice and Dusty Limits, and they’ve left no stone unturned in their search for four new alternative performers to present here. Look out for the upcoming alternative magicians and surreal alt drag queens, comedic neo-cabaret singers of London's exploding performance art scene, and see them in a unique space. All in all Do You Come Here Often is the centre of the unlikely at Field Day, come with an open mind and you might just sneak the performance highlight of the year. Showtime!

If it’s all too exciting and you just can’t wait for the 1st of August, there will be a special free-entry Field Day Launch Party at the Britannia pub (360 Victoria Park Road, E9) on the 23rd July. Held in conjunction with the BFI’s Britflick events, Field Day will be warming things up for the main event providing live music from the hotly tipped Jonathan Jeremiah, whose soulful acoustic sounds have been captivating all those lucky enough to catch his sets, plus Kurran and the Woolfnotes who will be revealing their epic-pop abilities and heart-warming ways with a melody and psychedelic troubadour King Charles who is currently getting the Radio 1 specialists hot under the collar with his kaleidoscopic riffing and consciousness-expanding lyrics. Once the music’s done the BFI will be showing the Hal Ashby directed cult classic Harold & Maude soundtracked by Cat Stevens or for those wanting to keep their feet moving there will be Field Day DJs smashing out the beats in the bar late into the night.

A village fete in all its quintessential, eccentric English glory, fresh locally-sourced food and a pioneering musical line-up at the truly unique Field Day festival 2009

Brought to you by London’s most daring promoters Eat Your Own Ears, Adventures In The Beetroot Field and Bugged Out, Field Day transform the heart of East London into a Village Fete. Away from the stages featuring UK festival exclusives from Mogwai and Santigold, plus Little Boots, The Horrors and much more, the masses can seek out countrified fun and games in the Village Mentality area.

Win brick a brac and retro desserts on the Tombola, fight through the tears to win the Onion Peeling Contest, crack a few nuts on the Coconut Shy or delve into the sawdust for the Lucky Dip (everyone’s a winner). For a quieter pursuit, why not try your hand at Pea Shelling? The fastest podder of the day wins a special prize and runners up get a bag of fresh peas.

Plus, knock out huge teeth with massive toy sweets in the Giant Pick and Mix to win jewellery from East London based designers Lady Luck Rules OK and unleash your destructive urge at the Crockery Smash – there are no prizes, but no-one seems to care.

Still want more? Field Day also has Sack and Egg and Spoon racing, Tug of War, a Watermelon Relay Race and Splat The Rat. Alternatively, just sit on some hay bales and stuff your face with homemade cake.

SATURDAY 1st AUGUST 2009
VICTORIA PARK, GROVE ROAD, TOWER HAMLETS, LONDON, E3
TICKET PRICE: £29.50 + BF
TIME: 11.30 – 10.30PM
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