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Artist News Festival Line-Up Update Gigs & Festivals
Festival line-up update – 21 Jul 2011
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 21 July 2011
COMPRESSEDFEST, The Miller, London Bridge, London, 23 Jul: Squeezing a full programme of live events and performances into a single tiny day’s worth of fun, this charitable bash will welcome the likes of Douga, Stewart Warwick, Sarah Grace, Skyscratcher, Eschar, Different Cloth and Andrew Cunningham. Also provided is a comedy line-up that includes stand ups Jim Campbell, Joe Rowntree and Chris Martin, all proceeds from the festivities will go children’s charity Kids Company. compressedfest.eventbrite.com
ICELAND AIRWAVES, Various Venues, Reykjav’k, 12-16 Oct: Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band lead the latest bookings for this year’s Iceland Airwaves roster, with synth siren Glasser, Owen Pallett, Oklahoma indie troupe Other Lives and Bristolian tropical thrash act Zun Zun Egui also fresh on the bill. The existing line-up stars Beach House, Tune-yards, Austra, The Vaccines, Suuns, îlafur Arnolds, SBTRKT and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. www.icelandairwaves.is
SUPERSONIC, Custard Factory, Birmingham, 21-23 Oct: Amidst the strange and wonderfully-named array of new additions to this year’s niche Supersonic bill are electronic experimental act Alva Noto & Byetone, free-form instrumentalist Cut Hands, doom chamber-pop purveyor Alexander Tucker and psych-rock seventies revivalists Teeth Of The Sea. Well, there you have it. Silver Apples, Electric Wizard, Wolves In The Throne Room and Secret Chiefs 3 are amongst those previously announced. www.supersonicfestival.com