So Festival number 2 is now done (in a series of 6) and what a weekend it was! This one was The Secret Garden Party in Cambridgeshire and I could not believe the transformation. I last went to SGP about 6 years ago when it was a rather rough, simple affair with 3 entertainment areas, about (rather posh) 1200 punters and an awful lot of rubbish - not my ideal weekend, it had to be said. Over the last few years friends have been increasingly speaking highly of the event, much to my skepticism so, riding on the coat tails of Echaskech (another day time gig so I happily took the role of roadie for the weekend again) I went with low expectations. At least this way, I figured I wouldn't be disappointed. Though to be honest, I would have had some pretty princessy expectations to come away from this feeling let down. The site has expanded to accomodate at least ten times the audience I'd seen previously, and comfortably at that, The weather turned out in spectacular fashion, as did the beautiful festival people who attended the weekend. The site crams in so much entertainment, blending stalls and stages next to each other interwoven with many pieces of site specific art. It's so difficult to describe the vibe of the place, but if you took Bestival and dragged it through the Green fields of Glastonbury you'd get close to what it's like there. A lot of organically grown fun. The musical line up might not jump off the page on first glance, but with so much going on round the site at any one time, it was pretty easy to find something of interest. Anyway, it comes highly recommended. Big thanks to CJ, Toby, Dave and Dave, Erin, Penny, Chris, Chris, Ginny, Sarah, Vera, Saul, Alex, Liz, Chloe, Jools, Roger, Rupert, Nick, Hugo (hope I got everyone) for helping make the weekend very special and special thanks to Dom and Andy for being the best techtronica band on the planet and playing an absolute blinder on Sunday. :) Anyway - as mentioned on the show below - it's Big Chill next weekend so, no show next week, but in the meantime here's this week's...
Tracklisting
Stornoway - Watching Birds Radiohead - 15 Step Animal Collective - No More Running Underdog (save me) - Turin Brakes Beak - How a Hot Air Ballon Works Tunng - it's because... we've got hair The Long Lost - Amiss (Tunng rmx) Shugo Tokumaru - Mushina Cornelius - Watadori The XX - Islands LCD Soundsystem - One Touch Hot Chip - Hand Me Down Your Love Datassette - Humans Jonsi - Animal Arithmatic Dntel - In which our hero is decapitated by the evil king Datassette - The Aviatrix Sarah Jaffe - Under The Village Orchestra - Love Theme from "Two Man Rumble" Freescha - The Sun Is Still... Still The Field - I have the moon... you have the internet
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Ok so this one's already sold out but for those lucky few who are coming you're in for a very special night in a fantastic location - visually this one is going to make you freak. For those who didn't manage to get a ticket, well you'll have to wait 5 days (see the next post)
It's about time you lovely people got a new "proper" mix from me, one with planning and no talking and I'm extremely chuffed that it's for the fantastic 
Pre-order our new album 'Shatterproof' to arrive on launch day (August 10th). The CD is a beautiful gatefold festooned with pretty artwork...and we can guarantee the sound quality will be better than a download. Here is the link!
Ok, ok, - fair does. The astute amongst you will realised that this blog posting is being made while I should havin' it large to Jeff Mills at The Roundhouse but, hmmm, after a pizza and sitting on a sofa (and well, it was raining) I decided to lunch it. In my defence I did go and see School of Seven Bells yesterday (see pic) and tomorrow night (after a busy stag do for my good friend Dr Em.) I'll down at Concrete on the South Bank, next to the Hayward Gallery for our monthly "Echaskech Presents..." do, featuring Live performances from Yimino and Infinite Scale. And apologies to those using the Soundcloud streaming features, I've exceeeded my monthly upload file limit this month so can't upload this show - hopefully I'll be be allowed back on next week. Anyway, here's Friday's
We're back behind the best decks in London. On Thursday, Dom, Andy and I will be playing the best tunes we know at The Big Chill Bar, Dray Walk, Brick Lane to try an convince you that working on a Friday is a bad idea. ;)
We're celebrating xmas with a full acid rave party at our South Bank home, Concrete (next to the Hayward Gallery) from 8pm till 1pm (free entry). Expect party hats, streamers and you dancing to kick ass acid fulled techtronic breaks! Alongside Echaskech, we've also got the Ravetastic AGT Rave Kru playing Live so that's two top notch bands and all for nowt! :)
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