Field Day
By: Thomas Hannan
Date: Saturday 9th August 2008
Location: Victoria Park, Hackney, London (nearest tube: Bethnal Green)
Ticket details: £26.50 face value, available HERE.
Why is this worthy of my time and money?: Well, sure, everyone knows how last year at the inaugural Field Day it was impossible to get a beer and the toilet queues were enormous (though you'd have thought the former problem would have solved the latter?), but we're assured that both these and other niggling little teething problems have been ironed out to leave nothing but a silky smooth surface which one can glide over enthusiastically toward the best one day festival line up of the summer.
The full line up follows, but for our picks, let's just say that anyone missing Jeffrey Lewis, Les Savy Fav, Modeselektor, Foals, Laura Marling, Simian Mobile Disco or Of Montreal is a person we hold in similarly low regard to racists, homophobes or anyone who enjoys the film 'Mama Mia'. Price wise, it's incredibly reasonable for the amount of stuff on show also. Here's the list of acts in its entirety:
THE CONVERSE CENTURY STAGE IN ASSOCIATION WITH EAT YOUR OWN EARS: EL GUINCHO / FOALS / HUW STEPHENS / HOWLING BELLS / LAURA MARLING / LES SAVY FAV / MYSTERY JETS (cancelled - get well soon Blaine!) / NOAH AND THE WHALE / OF MONTREAL / THE FIELD /
ADVENTURES IN THE BEETROOT FIELD / NME STAGE: BENGA DJ SET / CRISPIN DIOR DJ SET / DAN DEACON / FILTHY DUKES / HELDERS (ARCTIC MONKEYS) DJ SET / MAGISTRATES / SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO / STOPMAKINGME DJ SET / THE EMPEROR MACHINE / THE MAE SHI / THE NOTWIST / WHITE LIES /
HOMEFIRES STAGE: ALASDAIR ROBERTS / EFTERKLANG / EMMA POLLACK / FIONN REGAN / JEFFREY LEWIS / KING CREOSOTE (DUO SHOW) / ONE LITTLE PLANE / PICTISH TRAIL / ROB DA BANK / TUNNG /
BUGGED OUT STAGE: BRODINSKI / CROOKERS / DISCO BLOODBATH DJS / HANNAH HOLLAND AND MC CHICKABOO / JAMES HOLDEN / MATT WALSH / MODESELEKTOR / RICHIE HAWTIN /
BLOGGERS DELIGHT STAGE: CASPER C (BLOGGERS DELIGHT) / CORMAC (WET YOURSELF) / HEARTBREAK / IAN ROBINSON (TRAILER TRASH) / JACOB HULSEY (WET YOURSELF) / MATT AND OLLY (WHITEHEAT) / MIKKI MOST (TRAILER TRASH) / PETER PIXZEL (WET YOURSELF) / PRIMARY 1 / RORY PHILLIPS (DURRR) / SKULL JUICE (BLOGGERS DELIGHT) / THE LOVELY JONJO (DURRR)
As last year, the whole thing will be documented by the Rockfeedback cameras for upcoming broadcast on the fourth of our terrestrial Channels later in the year - so will the preceding day's Underage Festival (eyes on the floor, gents), with Melt! Festival in Ferropolis, Germany, having been given a right seeing to by RFB TV already.