Maps, These New Puritans, Lovvers announced for Truck festival

by Alex Denney [Edit this content] ▾ 26 comments 17:23 March 4th, 2008

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.

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Can't say

that that grabs me so far. Not sure if I'll go this year.

poor_thing | 4 Mar '08, 18:16 | X | Reply

So far

Lovvers and Noah & The Whale are excellent. We'll see what else gets thrown up.

tobyprice @poor_thing | 4 Mar '08, 18:27 | X | Reply

Clashes with Latitude

Sorry Truck - you lose.

therapyrock | 4 Mar '08, 19:48 | X | Reply

Television Personalities?!

REALLY?

There's your news story DiS!

Clashes with Melt! this year though. STILL not seen Camera Obscura.

roastthemonaspit | 4 Mar '08, 20:34 | X | Reply

..and camp bestival.

Johnny Foreigner doing Truck too me hears..

tishandfipsy @ady_f | 4 Mar '08, 22:20 | X | Reply

hmm, i might not bother

i might just go to indietracks.

utm_usic | 5 Mar '08, 00:44 | X | Reply

hang on.... aren't tickets less than last year?

pieces_of_reece | 5 Mar '08, 09:46 | X | Reply

That's tickets for Wood

Truck tickets aren't out until April, apparently.

simon_t @pieces_of_reece | 5 Mar '08, 10:12 | X | Reply

chances of Televison Personalities

turning up - 1/10

hotspanners @vacuouspop | 5 Mar '08, 10:21 | X | Reply

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.

rossiterandy @vacuouspop | 5 Mar '08, 12:09 | X | Reply

i sure

hope so...

skylarkin @tishandfipsy | 6 Mar '08, 01:32 | X | Reply

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.

rossiterandy @freestresstest | 6 Mar '08, 12:26 | X | Reply