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Orbital for London's BLOC weekend

plus Flying Lotus, Gary Numan, Ricardo Villalobos, Squarepusher, & more

By Scott Williams | Published:

<s>BLOC weekend</s> - CANCE.. 2012 - Orbital
Photo credit: Taya Uddin


Orbital have revealed they will be headlining this year's BLOC Weekend which takes place at a new venue at London Pleasure Gardens, Royal Victoria Docks, in London, on Friday 6th and Saturday 7th July 2012.

Orbital
Also confirmed today is Flying Lotus, Gary Numan, Ricardo Villalobos, Squarepusher, Battles, Jeff Mills, Carl Craig, Apparat, ATOL = Modeselektor + Marcel Dettmann + Shed, Scuba, Shackleton, Ellen Allien, Sandwell District, Doom, Four Tet, Actress, Clark, Martyn, Joy Orbison b2b Jackmaster, and Raster Noton.

Also confirmed are Joker, Scion feat Tiki Man, Jacques Greene, L-Vis 1990, Bok Bok, Digital Mystikz, Cosmin TRG, Martyn, Levon Vincent, Appleblim, Objekt, Lucy, Daniel Stefanik, Byetone, SND NMBRS vs Swamp81 feat Hudson Mohawke, Addison Groove, Boddika, Pinch, Loefah, Oneman, Deadboy DJ, Redinho, and Spencer, with more acts still to be announced.

All of the venues for Bloc are being intelligently designed, from scratch, with sound in mind - using acoustic draping, sound proofing and high spec systems.

Tickets are now on sale priced at £99 for the weekend, or £125 for an express weekend ticket offering quick entry queue jump, separate bars and more. To buy tickets, click here.

For more on the London Pleasure Gardens and an interview with team leader Debs Armstrong, who is also the creative Director and co-producer of the Shangri-La area at Glastonbury Festival, click here.