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The Secret Garden Party Announce 2010 Line Up

• 7th Mar 2010

Blooming this July, Secret Productions have now released tickets for the main event this summer and are pleased to announce the following artists are now confirmed:-

Gorillaz Sound System (DVJ)
Mercury Rev
Marina & The Diamonds
Skatalites
The Jessie Rose Trip
The Whip
Kate Walsh
David Rodigan
Crystal Fighters
Example Soundsystem with DJ Wire
+ MANY, MANY MORE ACTS TO ANNOUNCE

Headlining this year will be the multi-sense experience of the Gorillaz Sounds System (DVJ), featuring the music of Gorillaz mixed and remixed with a full visual display, sanctioned by none other than Murdoc Niccols himself. Roland, the official VJ, controls the visual synchs and content along with DJ Kofi, visual and aural mix master extraordinaire! GSS percussionist Remi adds another layer to the DJ performance with a variety of live instruments, while Pauli bangs the drums, no mean feat. With extra “treats” promised, it’s sure to be a truly unique experience.

Joining the Gorillaz Sound System is Marina & The Diamonds with one of their few festival appearances, an act tipped by almost every new music pundit from corner to corner of Britain.

Mercury Rev, the critically acclaimed winner of NME best album, will make an incredibly rare appearance at a UK festival. They will be joined by ska legends Skatalites and Secret Garden Party’s debut signing to its new record label, The Jessie Rose Trip…. creating one of the most exciting and eclectic music bills the festival has ever programmed.

The Party is once again set to undergo a transformation, with this years theme unveiled as Fact or Fiction, tearing down the boundaries between the two assumptions.

In 2010 The Secret Garden Party will be prizing open the chinks in man’s most carefully constructed edifice; Reality. The Garden will be exploring the theories, fantasies, mysteries, legends, visions and illusions that have created a rich world between Fact and Fiction.

For artists they take inspiration from Heath Robinson, Escher and Dali; from authors and poets they look to H G Wells, Lewis Carol and Coleridge; for inventors and scientists, figures such Da Vinci, the Wright Brothers and pioneering astrophysicists.

From the past, the focus will be on the beliefs, which now seem like pure fiction, but in their day were ‘proven fact’… the edge of a flat world and the riches of alchemy. For impossibilities of our own world the festival will be exploring urban legends, magic and illusion, geographical twilight zones, conspiracies and mysteries; areas of our culture which defy explanation.

The Secret Garden Party has always been a place where fantastical happenings take place. Join us this summer as we venture beyond the boundaries of reality more than ever.

New this summer is an entire land for young gardeners, featuring Egg Hunts, Fancy Dress, Discos, Kite Flying, Circus shows & workshops, Jewellery Making and Karaoke.

For the more mature Gardeners there will be restaurants, food talks, cocktail bars, ale tents, massages and the delights (if your pockets are deep enough!) of the Bellboy-served boutique camp ground. Also new is the Forest, an area of woodland dedicated to acoustic music, barefoot discos and twilight fire circle tales.

Elsewhere on site Gardeners can indulge in Parades, Art tents, Walkabout Theatre & Theatre workshops, Big Wheel Rides, Boat Rides, Swimming, Treasure Hunts, Bands in trees, a festival-wide train service, open mic stages and as always, participatory games of all descriptions. For four days the Garden will be an Imaginarium waiting to be discovered…

Also new this year, the event has launched it’s own record label, Garden Records. The first single to be released on the indie will be ‘You Won’t Forget Me Boy’ by The Jessie Rose Trip via download on March 22nd.

Head Gardener Freddie Fellowes was recently featured in the Top 5 Courvoisier ‘Future 500’ entrepreneurs, celebrated for his dedication to designing experiential parties for twenty and thirty-somethings.