Offset Festival

[emmy27]

Consistently good, and consistently cheap! £45 for the full weekend, with about 150 artists and 6 stages...

Headliners this year are The Horrors on Sunday, with the Slits, The Futureheads, A Certain Ratio, Good Shoes, Hatcham Social, Future of the Left, Jesus and Mary Chain, Kap Bambino etc.

They have a beautiful forest location, rare breeds farm, comedy tent, dance tent and it's on the end of a tube line - but a real escape from London!

Very cool festival - last year was great and this year looks even better.

http://www.offsetfestival.co.uk

[Ponyegg]

Just heard about it at the weekend. I'm going if only because Damo Suzuki (ex Can) is playing, A Certain Ratio and of course The Slits (will they bring their washing line :-).. oh, and it's only about 7m away... Jeez... I could get a cab there.

Anyone know what the rules on taking booze in are (can you, in which case the Ice Bucket is coming with me), is it a cash bar or is it those bloody token things.

[Lordscopie]

I got excited thinking that JAMC were playing. It's just a DJ set.

[Fat Rain]

Just heard about it at the weekend. I'm going if only because Damo Suzuki (ex Can) is playing, A Certain Ratio and of course The Slits (will they bring their washing line :-).. oh, and it's only about 7m away... Jeez... I could get a cab there.

Anyone know what the rules on taking booze in are (can you, in which case the Ice Bucket is coming with me), is it a cash bar or is it those bloody token things.

[duncanparks]

cash bar last year

[emmy27]

Loads of new bands added ie. Wild Beasts, Bombay Bicycle Club, Metronomy, etc.

[Snacktapus]

Yeah line up looks good. Do they not tell you which bands or playing on which day??? Cant seem to find it on the website?

[mischa_b]

Yeah line up looks good. Do they not tell you which bands or playing on which day??? Cant seem to find it on the website?

[emmy27]

They've added Clinic and Gramme to the lineup...£45!!!

Full lineup from last.fm is:

The Futureheads, Good Shoes, The Horrors, Clinic, Metronomy, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Slits, A Certain Ratio, Maps, Arno, Dananananaykroyd, Wild Beasts, Bearsuit, Devil Sold His Soul, Discipline, Future of the Left, The xx, The Ghost of a Thousand, Panico, Kap Bambino, Gramme, Let's Wrestle, Rolo Tomassi, Ipso Facto, Die! Die! Die!, The Eyes Of A Traitor, Dead Swans, Hatcham Social, Tubelord, Azriel, Turbowolf, Official Secrets Act, Sonic Boom, Sian Alice Group, BlakFish, Dead Kids, Pulled Apart By Horses, Kong, The Nuns, No Bra, John & Jehn, Shrag, More Than Life, KASMs, DAN, the ruling class, She Keeps Bees, Gold Panda, Tim Burgess, Shaped by Fate, The Stupids, Maths, Ulterior, Wild Palms, Fiction, Ali Renault, The Plight, Mazes, Throats, Niyi, Detachments, The Chapman Family, Electricity In Our Homes, Blackhole, Rinoa, Brides, Quad Throw Salchow, Factory Floor, Disconcerts, LR Rockets, S.C.U.M, Teeth Of The Sea, The Duloks, Artefacts for Space Travel, Lower Than Atlantis, Holy State, An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump, Outcry Collective, LEKIDDO, crocus, Attack! Vipers!, The Tupolev Ghost, Friendship, Tulipomania, Daniel Savio, The Rayographs, what would jesus drive, rrr, Fables, Cheval Sombre, Brontosaurus Chorus, MALE BONDING, R O M A N C E, Damo Suzuki, The Brownies, Casper Clark, Spectrals, LONDON BLACKMARKET, Wetdog, Gyratory System, Advert, Paul B. Davis, Ghostcat, Magic & Fur, Cold Pumas, The Danger, Connan Mockasin, Stranger Son of WB, Death Cigarettes, run,WALK!, Methodist Centre, sniTch DJs, Teen Sheikhs, Goodnight And I Wish, DogShow, Berlin Brides, Easy Hips, Whole Sick, cra, Koogaphone, NewIslands, Death In Plains, Nullifier, Buster Bennett, complexxion, speak & the spells, Not Shy, Jake Moore, K-Tron, Fonteyn, Arno de Beaufort, Sunderbans, Chapter Sweetheart, Bo Ningen, Paul St Paul, Miss Something, Milan O, Drum Eyes, Kool Kids Klub, Chris Flatline, Neon Skullz, PRIVATE TROUSERS, that boy kana, Katie Dane, The She Set, Jim Warboy, Bob Slayer, David Freedom, Heidi Heelz, The Junkettes, Offset Festival DJs, Douglas Hart (Jesus and Mary Chain) DJ set, John & On, Hampus Time DJ, Last.fm DJs, Jamie Winter, Holy Roar DJs, Ladynoise, Smith Tropical, Trash Fashion DJ's, Scally Dan Dan, Josh Caffe, ECC DJs, HARRY JAMES (Snap Crackle & Pop), Artrocker DJs, The Beat DJs, PENS DJs, Math Head (DJ), Dice Club DJs, Louis Enchanté, Orbid-Sill, Lee Hume & Friends, Thomas Shitneck, Ciaran Quite, Tiger Reid, Cooks DJ, K.Wale, Sex Is Disgusting DJs, Dirty Bingo DJs, Loud And Quiet DJS, Chelmsford Raving Association, Science Is A Lie DJs, This Is Music DJs, The Quietus DJs, Clash Magazine DJs, Trash Hits DJs, The Beat! DJs, Schpunk and Skiptheatre

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i'm going, quite looking forward to it now, roll on saturday!

[MJC]

The line up is amazing for the money, none of my friends want to go so i dunno whether to just go and camp on my own *shrugs*

Edited September 3, 2009 by MJC

[Fat Rain]

The line up is amazing for the money, none of my friends want to go so i dunno whether to just go and camp on my own *shrugs*

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i thought it was a really good couple of days, saw some quality bands!

[Carpetburn]

I was a bit depressed that the summer was coming to an end and, fancying a wee bit more festie action before winter decided at short notice to get day tickets for the Saturday for myself and Mrs. Carpetburn. We also took our two girls (under 12s got in free). Good value I have to say, and even the food & drink was priced reasonably compared to other fests I'd been to this year. They even had Adnams

It's a very compact site shaped a bit like a polo mint, with all the stages arranged around a central backstage area and all the punters having a circular access to the stages, tents, bars etc.

Had the feel a bit of a village fete with a decent soundtrack. Fair few scenesters in evidence but overall it was a nice relaxed atmosphere with most there first & foremost for the music. You get the feeling from the well put-together line up it's a labour of love for the organisers.

Capacity is 5,000. Main Stage is the main draw and the supporting tents are quite small but not too difficult to get to the front of any of them.

I enjoyed Future Of The Left, also KASMS, Bombay Bicycle Club, Friendship, Cold Pumas and The Futureheads. The girls loved ROMANCE in the ECC tent. Gutted to miss Metronomy but the girls ran out of steam. Still, we were back home within the hour.

Hope to go back for more next year.

[Fat Rain]

Pictures here.........see if you are on these?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/musicprowler

Edited October 11, 2009 by Fat Rain