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Ms Dynamite, & Shy FX lead The Desperados Factory line-up

By Scott Williams | Published: Thu 4th Oct 2012

Ms Dynamite

Friday 26th to Saturday 27th October 2012
Battersea Power Station, Wandsworth, London, England MAP
£65 season ticket
Last updated: Thu 4th Oct 2012

Hot on the heels of yesterday's line-up announcement this month's Freeze Festival has just unveiled The Desperados Factory line-up heading for Battersea Power Station.

Ms Dynamite
Ms Dynamite
The Desperados Factory will host DJs and MCs as well as their very own skate ramp, drummers and body graffiti artist 'The Urbanist'.

Friday the Factory plays host to Ms Dynamite with support from hip hop meets electronica duo The Nextmen. Then on Saturday drum and base specialist Shy FX will close the Freeze party for Desperados following support from Raf Daddy (The Two Bears) with Major Look , Murkage, Star One, Madam X, Duke, and Rebel Bingo also confirmed for the Factory stage.

After all the sports are completed the festival plays host to live music acts, with DJ Shadow, and Public Enemy, headlining. Also confirmed are A-Yo! (Mark Ronson vs. Zane Lowe), Grandmaster Flash, Stanton Warriors, DJ Ez, Snatch the Wax, Swami Baracus, Riz MC, Smiler, Astroid Boys, Future Disco, Vagabondz, Beat Medikz, Wolf Music, PBR Streetgang, Sean Brosnan, Dom Chung, Slothboogie, Wookie, Planas & Nightowl, Rattus Rattus, Scratch Perverts, Jacob Plant, Plastic Thumbs, Phuture Phunk, Crooked Cats, Urban Knights, Loud Minority, Jay Da Funk, and DJ Natty, withthe line-up for The Lodge stage still to be announced.

For the line-up details, and day splits, as available please click here.

Movies will be presented in the O'Neill Cinema including exclusive UK premier of Jeremy Jones' Further. Other films include 2112, Unique 8 and Superheroes of Stoke.

After all the sports are completed the festival plays host to live music acts beneath the Battersea Power Station towers. This is the last chance to enjoy the festival with the iconic cooling towers overhead with the new Malaysian owners having confirmed they will be knocking down when the site gets redeveloped next year.

Now in its fifth year, the Relentless Energy Drink Freeze Festival, the snow sport and music event takes place on Friday 26th and Saturday 27th October 2012, and sees several of the world's best winter sports athletes fiercely competing in a world class snowboarding and freeski event on the specially erected 100m long, 32m high real snow kicker, which for two days becomes an iconic site in London's skyline. The riders will be hurling themselves down the huge jump, performing their best tricks for world ranking points and a share of the prize purse.

Tickets are priced as follows:
Season ticket: Adult £60 - Children £35.
Adult day ticket (for either day) £40, Children £20.
Please note all under 16's must be accompanied by an adult of 18 or over.

This year's snowboard competitiors are Gjermund Braaten, Jamie Nicholls, Janne Korpi, Marko Grilc, Roope Tonteri, Staale Sandbech, and Ulrich Badertsher.

This year's ski competitiors are Bene Mayr, Henrik Harlaut, Jacob Wester, James Woods, Matt Walker, Mike Riddle, Oscar Harlaut, Paddy Graham, and PC Fosse.

Elsewhere there will be a resort style retail village with the brands showcasing their latest stock and selling all the new winter gear for the season ahead. Around the event there will be a number of bars and caterers serving up food and icy cold pints with Apres style resort bars and the winter themed chill out zones.

To buy tickets, click here.



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