Music at Antic Banquet will be wide, varied and super top quality. There will be a large MAINSTAGE bringing you the best in live reggae, hiphop, gypsy, ska, African, folk and everything to make you bounce, a DANCE DOME making your chest and belly vibrate with cutting edge dubstep, b-more, baile, jungle, breaks, tech house, bassline and more, and an ACOUSTIC TENT (the antic study) for intimate performances from some of the UKs best acoustic artists, as well as some jamming. There will even be a special classical and African concert in the local church on Saturday evening, free to Banqueteers...  Read on for more info….

LIVE MUSIC: featuring some of the best up and coming UK artists, the festival will include:

Beardyman - www.myspace.com/beardyman - UK beatbox champion for the last two years, creator of the acclaimed 'kitchen beatbox' on youtube (type in 'kitchen beatbox' it's well worth a look!), this man is so much more than just a beatboxer. Transcendental live performer.

Joe Driscoll - www.myspace.com/joedriscoll - nomad from NYC, Joe Driscoll uses guitar, voice, loop pedal and beatbox to create his own amazing uplifting hiphop poetry. The man is a wizard

Jamie Woon - www.myspace.com/jamiewoon - young singer and songwriter with a voice of gold mixed with pure blossom honey, this is beautiful, magical music from one of the most exciting up and coming performers in the UK today

Blackberry Wood - www.myspace.com/blackberrywood - on a 2-week tour all the way from Vancouver, Canada, we are privileged to have Blackberry Wood blessing our stage with their bluesy, acid gypsy sound 

Brothers Bab - www.myspace.com/brothers bab  - fruity, bouncy ska/calypso from these amazingly talented musicians

Dr Syntax - www.myspace.com/drsyntax - highstyle lyrical hiphop from this acclaimed MC and Foreign Beggars family member - CA NCELLED WITH APOLOGIES

Zej - www.myspace.com/zejmusic - superheavy live dance music from this amazing london-based Israeli duo

Magic Lantern - www.myspace.com/themagiclantern - magical jazzical jellical folkical. clarinetical

Sara Schiralli - www.myspace.com/saraschiralli - sweet voiced swanky dressed seamstress stroke songstress opening the festival with style and her guitarist. his first name is ed but his surname is riches

Gipsydelica – www.myspace.com/gypsydelica - psychedelic acid gypsy straight from bulgaria - CANCELLED WITH APOLOGIES

Captive State – www.myspace.com/captivestatemusic - live 8-piece acoustic electro folk from Lemonjelly producers - CANCELLED WITH APOLOGIES

Lazy Habits – www.myspace.com/lazyhabits - London’s finest live hiphop who are mashing up every festival this summer from Glastonbury to Gibletfest

Death Ray Trebuchet – www.myspace.com/deathraytrebuchey- 'turbo gypsy punk'. nuff said  

Sion Live – www.myspace.com/sionlive - live drum and bass from a duo who have worked with Roni Size’s Onnalee. Yaow

The Delegators – www.myspace.com/thedelegators - sweet-ass 60s roots reggae

Illegitimate Sons of the King – www.myspace.com/iskmusic - exciting rock/hip hop fusion

Illaman - www.myspace.com/illaman - full power MCing over a diverse range of styles from acclaimed London hiphop head/junglist/metalman Illaman with DJ Klose One

J-treole – www.myspace.com/jtreole - live jazzy hiphop 5-piece

Planetman and the internationals – www.myspace.com/planet7 - London reggae niceness

The Common Moral Cause – www.myspace.com/thecommonmoralcause - live hiphop funk and soul

Mole and Iris – www.myspace.com/moleandiris - honest and passionate UK hiphop

Beatroot - good vibe old time blues, funk, rock

DANCE DOME:

Our Dance tent, a beautiful geodesic dome with big fat soundsystem provided by the wonderful Muddy Promotions, will be curated by London bass leaders Man Make Music, amazing live dance outfit Honey Weasel, original dubsteppers DOTS (Drumz of the South), Manchester mash-ups Phush and Cambridge and East Anglia’s finest funk and soul promoters, Uptight.

Man Make Music present...
Pirate Soundsystem / Tony Poland (Slutty Fringe) / Man Make Music DJs / The Priory DJs / Bridgewater Reggae Soundsystem / Micromattic / Ben Dubstar

Drums of the South present...
Hijak / Cluekid / Unlikely / Boomnoise / Dokkebi Q / Octopussy

Honey Weasel present...
Hungry Man + Aaron Audio / Honey Weasel / Teknoist / NAPT / The Doubtful Guest / Yes Boss Music + Septic Insurgent / Virgil Howe

PHUSH present...
Mr Psik & G-Kut (live B2B) / Testrack & Analog / Peter Mangalore / Xander

Plus...
Uptight DJs!
Muddy Promotions
Filthy Few
Avant Garden Crew

OVERVIEW

Programmed by the team that brought you Valley of the Antics at the Secret Garden Party, with heads from a diversity of young music organisations including Wormfood, Yes Boss, Man Make Music, Deviate, DOTS, Uptight and more, Antic Banquet will bring you the best in fresh live music and digestible bouncy dance music!

Two main music stages, a café for acoustic acts and the Projector Tank film marquee for intimate DJ sets will ensure there is something for you to bug out to whatever your mood!

All the music chosen is hand-picked to ensure the bounciest, most exciting and most danceable line-up possible, drawing from a variety of genres including: reggae, live hip-hop, bassline, ska, calypso, mali blues, dubstep, electro, gypsy, drum and bass, dub, African, ragga, funk and jazz.

There will even be specially programmed classical and African concerts by candlelight in the village church near the site for those Antic Banqueters wanting something different.

Full line-up will be announced soon but to give you a flavour, we are programming Valley of the Antics at Secret Garden Party, 24-27th July 2008 – www.secretgardenparty.com All banqueters are strongly recommended to attend!

Lineup for Antic Banquet will not be the same as for Secret Garden but it will give you a good indication! Acts booked for Valley of the Antics at Secret Garden include:

Line Up (click!)