Field Day announce the seriously great Wild Beasts, Fanfarlo, King Charles, Jon Hopkins, The Invisible and Devil Made Me Do It..
Field Day 2009 are over the moon to announce some ace new acts to their already super brilliant line up. The hotly-tipped Wild Beasts’ big, intelligent baroque pop and falsetto-voiced grandeur, will no doubt ensure they secure the moniker this summer as the thinking-man’s-festival-anthem-providers.
David Bowie-endorsed, London-based indie poppers Fanfarlo were formed in 2006 by the Swedish musician Simon Balthazar. Comparisons to Arcade Fire and Talking Heads abound, they utilize instruments including trumpets, violins and mandolins, as well as the ubiquitous guitars and drums.
Having already won the patronage of Radio 1 lynchpins Zane Lowe, Huw Stevens and Rob da Bank, King Charles’ Pixies meets Syd Barrett explosion of chaos and melody is set to fry brains live this summer. Expect a highly entertaining, theatrical and unique live performance from the sonic and sartorial vanguard that is King Charles.
Pitch-perfect for a glorious summers day are groovesome, 80s soul influenced, punk funkers The Invisible. They comprise members of Polar Bear, Hot Chip and Zongamin, Acoustic Ladyland, Gramme and Jade Fox, so between them is a massive wealth of experience at rocking a crowd. Their Field Day performance is set to put The Invisible firmly in people’s hearts and dancing shoe-adorned feet.
Londoner Jon Hopkins makes, bold electronic music using walls of synths, lustrous melodies and amorphous bass rumbles. Hopkins has received plaudits and worked with luminaries including Brian Eno, Herbie Hancock, David Holmes, King Creosote and Coldplay. As the BBC stated, his ‘epic, soaring, emotional and mysterious’ music will transport Field Day revellers into the cosmos and beyond.
Starting fires in discos all over London and the U.K, The Devil Made Me Do It join the dots between the NME cool list, sleazy rock n roll and the French underground electronic scene. Sell your soul at the crossroads and head for the floor.
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