BoomTown was once again an Epic adventure into Music and Festival randomness

BOOMTOWN FAIR, BIGGER, BETTER AND BY FAR THE BEST YET!

THURDAY 9^th – SUNDAY 12^th AUGUST 2012

MATTERLY ESTATE – WINCHESTER

BoomTownfair.co.uk

Arcadia @ BoomTown Fair 2012:  

BoomTown Mayor’s Mix: http://soundcloud.com/championsoundldn/mayor-of-boomtown-the-boomtown/s-cZpCe

Skatepark Pages photo Montage to follow very soon.

The untameable beast of BoomTown Fair once again took over the Matterly Estate in Winchester last weekend (9^th – 12^th August). Unleashing madness and mayhem within the streets of a mock-up, make-believe, fantasy town for 28,000 lucky residents to embark on a voyage to infinity and beyond!

BoomTown Fair does things its own way, steering clear from the usual festival formula BoomTown transports the festival goer into a fully working town. Behind the gilded walls of the town are all sorts of treasures just waiting to be found, from semi-clad jelly wrestling at the Bearded Kitten’s Bank, accidently stumbling across the secret entrance to the Prohibition Den via a pensioners caravan, or 20ft fiery tornadoes twirling outside the Lion’s Den, there is entertainment behind every nook and cranny and at BoomTown imagination is boundless!

With the town Mayor taking in all the feedback from the 2011 residents, this year’s annual fair was a rip roaring success. With the noticeable expansion of camping facilities, a new, friendlier security team, a crack down on graffiti and a general feeling of mutual respect and love in the air, 2012 saw the festival take it to the next level and all its residents take one small step for BoomTown and one almighty aerial summersault for the future of UK festivals by raising the bar higher than it’s ever been set before!

The secret to BoomTown’s success is the collaborative nature of the project; with over 8,000 crew working on the event throughout the year; the creativity, artistic skill, bonkers ideas and sheer hard graft that goes into building a whole new town for nearly 30,000 people is unfathomable! And then add in to the mix the BoomTown residents and the streets come alive with body paint, fancy dress, glitter and big, happy smiling faces filled with fun!

Highlights of the weekend included a secret appearance by the legendary Jimmy Cliff, who set the Town Centre alight with sunshine vibes and nostalgic tunes for a perfect way to kick start the Sunday evening. Nightly 40ft mushroom cloud pyrotechnics; the new Hidden Woods stage, set up like a beach bar under the sun dappled canopy of the surrounding trees that provided the perfect spot to sit and soak up some live reggae. Then there was the awe inspiring Arcadia! This mega spider structure of lasers, fire, pounding bass, moveable limbs and swirling acrobats, created a mind expanding experience that all who experienced will never forget!

Arcadia crash landed at BoomTown for the first time this year and took over a whole section of the site for the Arcadia Spectacular show, normally reserved for the fields of Worthy Farm at Glastonbury but this year the settled in to their true hometown of BoomTown! Due to the gargantuan success of the combined brains of BoomTown and Arcadia, the BoomTown officials are ecstatic to announce that Arcadia will certainly be back next year with more colossal flaming, moveable metal sculptures to undoubtedly shock, awe and blow the minds of 2013 Boomtown residents!

Keep an eye on the BoomTown website (BoomTownfair.co.uk) for upcoming details for BoomTown Fair 2013, and if that is too long to wait, the mad professor minds behind BoomTown are putting on the End of the World party on 21^st December, details can be found on the facebook page here: http://www.facebook.com/

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LINE UP:

SKA, SWING, PUNK, ROCKABILY - explosion in the Town Centre and Devil Kicks dancehall stages:

Secret Sunday Headliner TBA / Reel Big Fish / Caravan Palace / The Skatalites / Balkan Beatbox / Asian Dub Foundation / The Beat / Dub Pistols / Capdown / The Slackers / Gadjo / Sick Note / Pronghorn / Sonic Boom 6 / Movits / Dunkelbunt / Babyhead / Urban Voodoo Machine / The Meteors / Batmobile / Mad Sin / Molotov Jukebox / The Filaments / Swing Zazou / Gypsy Hill

RAGGA, DUB, DANCEHALL – on the UK’s biggest reggae stage:

Alborosie / Beenie Man / Tanya Stephens / Natty / Gappy Ranks /Jah Shaka / David Rodigan / Zion Train / Makka B / Trojan Sound System / South Rakkas Crew / Blak Twang / Mungos Hifi / Bush Chemists / Serial Killaz / Laid Blak / Jaya The Cat / Channel One / The Heatwave / General Levy / Lady Chan / Soom T / Laid Blak / Jacky Murda / The Barley Mob / Demolition Man / Aries / Stylo G / Stush / Serocee / YT / Curtis Lynch (JR) feat Mr Williams / Krinjah / Solo Banton vs Deadly Hunta / David Boomah / MC Xander

SERIOUS RAVE AND BASS HEAVY MUSIC - Arcadia and Bassline Circus:

Dirtyphonics / Jack Beats / Kill the Noise / Luke Vibert / The Panacea / Caspa / Stanton Warriors / DJ Hype / Breakage / 16 Bit / Benny Page / Marcus Visionary / Roska / The Nextmen / Plump DJ's / Krafty Kuts / Racknruin / Foamo / Far Too Loud / Engine Earz / Dub Phizix / Tomb Crew / Freestylers / Ratpack / SL2 / Slamboree / Chris Liberator B2B Dave the Drummer / Shy FX / JFB / SL2 (live) / Ed Solo / Deekline / Illbilly Hitec (love) / Parker / Kanji Kinetic / Woz / Coda (live) / Mr Benn / 2 Bit Thugs / Jinx in Dub / Audio / Drumcorps / Producer / Heist

NOTES TO EDITOR:

TICKET DETAILS:

Date:                         

               9^th – 11^th August 2012

Location:                     

              Matterly Estate, Winchester

Ticket Price:                            SOLD OUT

BOOMTOWN FAIR BACKGROUND:

Going in to its 4^th year, BoomTown is unlike any other festival: the legend of BoomTown tells it was once a small but prosperous retreat now overhauled into a land of lawless rebels, with only the town official’s to uphold its former glory. The 2011 heavily themed event saw the festival sell out for a third time in its three year history with the festival goers brining as much of the entertainment to the show as the organisers.

With so much packed into the huge mock town, last year’s highlights included; high octane headline performance from Gogol Bordello, more reggae, dub and ska then you can shake a stick at, dance-offs, marriages and body crunching bass round the clock from Bassline Circus and The Lion’s Den as well as all the hidden gems scattered around the town in tiny nooks and crannies, eccentric side streets and secret alleyways!

ARCADIA BACKGROUND:

Arcadia first came into existence in 2007, spawned from an ambitious group of craftsmen whose imaginations border on madness! Over the past five years it has evolved into a multifaceted entity drawing an ever growing number of eccentric brains, skills and visionaries into the mix. Already a mainstay fixture at some of the UK and Ireland’s leading festivals such as Glastonbury, Bestival and Electric Picnic; the Arcadia machine is galvanised by the audience’s reaction to this untamed beast that wreaks havoc where-ever it treads!

For the past three years at Glastonbury, Arcadia has been given free reign over their own field. Slotted in next to the likes of Shangri-La and Block 9, they have been given the space and opportunity to develop, attempt and achieve the unimaginable. This year at BoomTown, Arcadia will be taking over a whole zone of the town with Sci-Fi, flame throwing, smoke blasting, fully moving structures complete with exclusively designed sets and gravity defying aerial trapeze shows!

WHAT THE PRESS SAID - 2011

Punk, rock, burlesque, gypsy blues in an imaginary wild frontier town – The Daily Telegraph

This 10,000 capacity, escapist festival promises a site that resembles a fairy tale town – The Sunday Times

BoomTown truly is great if you love bass heavy music, with plenty to explore if you don’t. It’s getting better every year – The Brighton Source

‘Best Value Festival’ – Skint Magazine 

A diverse world party is the order of the day at BoomTown with its top class bill of ska, cabaret, folk, reggae, dub and rave – Toast Magazine