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First Acts Revealed for Field Day 2010

• 14th Feb 2010

Saturday 31st July 2010 will see the return of Field Day to London’s leafy green corner of Victoria Park. Embarking on their fourth annual outing, Field Day have an incredible array of acts lined up that will ensure that you’ll have no choice but to mark the date for one of this summer’s truly essential festivals firmly in your diary.

Brought to you by London’s most forward thinking and bold promoters – Eat Your Own Ears, Adventures In The Beetroot Field, Bugged Out! – Field Day will once again deliver the freshest line up of bands and DJs of the 2010 Festival season, plus the Village Mentality, village fete area complete with Brass Band, tug o' war, sack racing and much more.

Tom Baker of Eat Your Own Ears and main booker for Field Day says: “We are delighted to be back now in our fourth year, incredible how time flies; it seems so long ago that Field Day began. I am really excited to have Phoenix headline, a great live band and a band that will get you dancing and singing… The rest of the bill is really shaping up, there are so many great albums out in 2010, it feels like an exciting time for music…”

Starting with a bang, Field Day are proud to announce that Grammy award winning Gallic indie-pop sensations Phoenix will be headlining 2010’s event. With their fourth album ‘Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix’ gathering accolades left right and centre, whilst continuing to bowl over their fans and win them a whole new audience of admirers, the band’s irresistible blend of strutting disco and blissful euphoric pop all topped off with their effortless insouciant indie vibe will be the perfect end to what promises to be Field Day’s most amazing event yet.

Other acts to be unveiled include Amiina, the spellbinding Icelandic female four-piece who have graced the albums and shows of Sigur Ros, who will be showcasing their enchanting take on minimalist and contemporary classical music. Beth Jeans Houghton will be performing her experimental folk with keyboards, xylophones and a looped choir of herself and will be joined on stage by her band the Hooves Of Destiny. Caribou, whose amazing new album ‘Swim’ (out in April) will be taking the dynamic interplay between visuals, electronics and live sound to the next level with a set of brightly textured, rapturous gems that gleam with astonishing production. Chilly Gonzales, the world record holder for the world’s longest solo performance, will be tickling the ivories in his own inimitable style and partaking in some mass audience participation. Corsano And Flowers featuring Mick Flower (Vibracathedral Orchestra, Sunroof, Magik Markers, Michael Flower Band) and Chris Corsano most well know for his incredible percussion work with Bjork, will be revelling in their virtuoso collaboration, drawing on influences from primitive blues, La Monte Young and John Cale. Strains of Kate Bush or Siouxie and the Banshees can be heard in the echoing, eerie vocals of Esben And The Witch who present the dynamics of post-rock in an bewitching, electronic, pop context. The Brighton three piece's sound has also drawn comparisons with PJ Harvey, Portishead, Bjork, Radiohead and Cocteau Twins but present a dark, haunting music that is very much of their own. Gold Panda started writing beats and collaborating a few years ago, working with the likes of Infinite Livez and Shuttle (both Ninja Tune) as well as creating his own beautiful, glitchy electronica, referencing a multitude of influences and born out of samples constructed partly from charity shop vinyl and VHS. This BBCs “sound of 2010” and MTV-dubbed “remix king” created raved-about reworkings for the likes of Telepathe, Bloc Party, Simian Mobile Disco and Health. Hypnotic Brass Ensemble's insanely catchy and upbeat instrumental hip-hop is sure to get your feet working as the 9-piece work up a frenzied sweat. Born in Chicago, with Phil Cohran (Sun Ra Arkestra) as their dad, the 8 brothers began their career as street musicians, busking on the sidewalks before they laid anything down on tape. Their jazz roots are evident, but jazz from 100 years ago, solid, dancefloor music which differs from the avant-garde offerings of their father's community, but is as individual as anything you'll ever hear. The group feature on the new Gorillaz album ‘Plastic Beach’ alongside Lou Reed, Bobby Womack, Mos Def and more.

The man to get even the most jaded dance music aficionado excited about music again, James Holden, will be dropping a superlative set that takes in elements of house, electro, breakbeat, techno and beyond. Plus there will be must-see appearances from Bristolian beat maverick Joker And MC Nomad who will be supplying the pressure. The mighty Max Tundra will be throwing down an intricate mosaic of sounds and styles, and as anyone who saw him supporting Hot Chip on their last tour will testify, Max Tundra knows how to get the party started! Memory Tapes will be dropping their cutting edge 80-s infused catchy, wistful grooves, electronic pioneers Mouse On Mars make a rare live outing to come and play Field Day, they are currently working on their brand new album, so expect new music and exciting new sounds. Pantha Du Prince who has just released a brilliant new album, ‘Black Noise’, on Rough Trade, will be communing with nature playing his pastoral techno made with sounds sampled from the great outdoors. All the more appropriate that he should bring his shoegazey, psychedelic soundscapes in the open air of Victoria Park. And the incredible psychedelic experimental synth genius Silver Apples, whose interstellar drones and driving, minimalistic music pre-empted krautrock, 70s electronica and 90s rock, will be bringing a healthy dose of New York attitude to the east end of London.

There will also be the return of 'Village Mentality', the off-the-wall Village Green area within the festival that supplies the masses with some bucolic treats away from the hubbub of the main festival. Inspired by summer sports days and country fetes – Field Day's very own village green will host stalls and activities throughout the daytime, ranging from sack-racing, to whack-the-rat, Bowling for Bacon, you can try your luck on the tombola, crack a few nuts on the coconut shy – or just sit on some hay bales and stuff your face with homemade cake… and lots more to be announced, and as the country saying goes – “be like an ant in the days of summer”.

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EVENT INFORMATION:
FIELD DAY 2010 – VICTORIA PARK, LONDON E3
SATURDAY 31ST JULY – 11.00AM – 11.00PM
TICKET PRICE: £33.33 + BF