These New Puritans, Lovvers and Maps are among the first acts to be announced for this year’s Truck festival.
The event, held at Hill Farm, in Steventon, near Abingdon, South Oxfordshire, aims to bounce back from a water-logged last summer with two days of hot-and-sticky shenanigans from July 19-20.
Other scalps claimed by the festival thus far include Camera Obscura, Abort, Retry, Fail?, Robots In Disguise, Danny & The Champions Of the World, Noah And The Whale, Television Personalities, Emmy The Great and the Small Faces’ Ian Maclagan & The Bump Band. Expect headliners to be announced sometime over the coming misty months.
And away from the Mother Trucker the event’s organisers have announced details of a new, environmentally-sound bash to take place down the road at Brazier’s Park, Oxfordshire.
Wood Festival is set to feature solar-powered stages and yurts for your convenience and will be logging on from May 16-18. There’ll be sets from Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, Ashley Hutchings’ Rainbow Catchers with special guest Judy Dunlop, King Creosote, Danny & The Champions Of The World, The Coal Porters and many more.
Tickets are available now at £45 for the weekend; under-14s get in for free. Click here to get some.
Can't say
that that grabs me so far. Not sure if I'll go this year.
So far
Lovvers and Noah & The Whale are excellent. We'll see what else gets thrown up.
Clashes with Latitude
Sorry Truck - you lose.
Television Personalities?!
REALLY?
There's your news story DiS!
Clashes with Melt! this year though. STILL not seen Camera Obscura.
i hate these festival clashes
and benicassim is the same weekend too.
atp and the great escape clash too. yet again!
..and camp bestival.
Johnny Foreigner doing Truck too me hears..
and Glade...
I'm still going to Truck though.
Yeah
But aren't you booking a load of the bands this year Ady?
nope
i sure
hope so...
might be
;-)
hmm, i might not bother
i might just go to indietracks.
hang on.... aren't tickets less than last year?
That's tickets for Wood
Truck tickets aren't out until April, apparently.
i think
the £45 above refers to Wood Festival, not Truck.
Hmmmm, I might not bother doing anything, at all, ever...
Tickets
Now Dawsons is closed in Abingdon and Polar Bear is closed in Oxford, I don't know where I shall get a ticket.
wegottickets
innit.
or windjammer (or whatever it's called) in D*dc*t.
chances of Televison Personalities
turning up - 1/10
i dunno
i'd have thought there's a fair chance julian barratt and noel fielding will turn up.
TVPs turning up...
One of them made it to the launch last night, so i'd say that bodes well for them turning up to the ACTUAL festival :)
how was it
yesterday?
in my opinion
Truck has gone massively downhill in the last few years. Way too many agency &/or average bands playing. There used to be loads of bands i'd never heard of, many were amazing. I can't imagine the likes of Robots in Disguise or Noah & The Whale living up to that.
maybe
this year will be different...
true enough, Truck was never really about the "names" in the past, it was the joy of discovering a wealth of new talent. It's nice to have a few decent well known names in there though I reckon.
it was...
really fun last night. lots of nice people hanging about on a cold night in hackney looking forward to the summer! :)
i think also, in ref to the 'loads of bands playing you'd neve rheard of' thing- maybe consider the fact that a few years ago (or even when truck first started), it was pretty easy to have not heard of bands due to lack of blogs/media, you know? the whole trail of finding-out-about-bands now is so different... everyone's so hungry for new stuff and to hear new things, and it's so easy to do that now- its virtually impossible to have not heard of a half decent band, at least in passing... no?
good to hear
really wish i could have made it but i had to be at work.
I see what you're saying
and also I guess I know more than I did a few years back music wise. However, I don't think the bands they book now are as good. It used to be predominently oxford acts, a few 'name' headliners and a bunch of really great bands, a lot were unsigned and had no pr / agency / label backing them. That seems to have been replaced by acts who are being pushed a lot, rather than going for quality.