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Venn 2008 will take place on 5th-8th June 2008. More info soon. What do you think?

Overlapping claps to all that came, played, made Venn '07 quite a session. A pictorial story of the weekend courtesy of Adam Faraday can be found here

Meanwhile, check out:

Blackout Arts / Light controlled experiments and events.. The Cube Cinema / Standing on the shoulders of giants.. Cuisine / Cutting-edge audio/visual chow-down.. Motorboy / Teaser and pleaser.. Polar Produce / Researching into art media dynamics.. Qu Junktions / Music for the open mouthed.. Under_Score / reconstructed electronic nites

EYES FOR UPDATES: WWW.VENNFESTIVAL.COM

My Interests

VENN QUOTES:

'One of the best festivals I've been to...a real sense of discovery and urgency and fun, all put together in an attractively haphazard way'
Frances May Morgan, editor, Plan B

'Very different to the raft of samey indie festivals that now infest the UK...this is probably their most stylistically broad programme yet'
Flux

'One of the most vital (festivals) on the UK circuit'
Rock-A-Rolla

'Everything is happening everywhere at once...there's nothing for it but to just dive in...Venn gets better every year'
Venue

I'd like to meet:

The best bands and artists of the world

Music:

VENN 2007 WAS:

- A HAWK AND A HACKSAW with THE HUN HANGÁR ENSEMBLE (Eastern European folk, gypsy song, Mexican fanfare and cinematic flourishes)
- LUKE VIBERT (UK dance music’s premier chameleon)
- PAAVOHARJU (Fonal) (stunning psych/Bollywood-tinged folk from Finland)
- FAUST w/ COLIN POTTER (the incendiary, the legendary, the originals get a live sonic reshaping from Nurse With Wound key collaborator)
- KTL (Stephen 0’ Malley from Sunn O)))/Southern Lord and Pita (Mego) in a doom and electronics face-off)
- SPRING HEEL JACK w/ MARK SANDERS and J SPACEMAN (heavy electro-acoustic juxtapositions with the Spiritualized main man)
- VLADISLAV DELAY (Huume, Chain Reaction, Mille Plateaux)(Finland’s don of the deep and the dubbed-out - also performing as microhouse playboy LUOMO)
- SCRITTI POLITTI (Sage UK post-punk/hip hop reinventor with unique pop instincts)
- SCROOBIUS PIP vs DAN LE SAC (Scything invective and explosive beats from the country's hottest leftfield properties)
- GHOSTIGITAL (Dadaist electronic punk w/ Einar Orn of The Sugarcubes)
- THE ONE ENSEMBLE ORCHESTRA (wild card chamber-folk group performing a specially commissioned piece called ‘Other Thunders’)
- EXTREME NOISE TERROR (seminal purveyors of ultimate UK grindcore punishment)
- MAHER SHALAL HASH BAZ (revolutionary and humble pop from Japan)
- LAWRENCE (Novamute/Ghostly/Kompakt) (sparkling minimal house narratives)
- JACK ROSE (12 string and slide guitar raga-time)
- YELLOW SWANS (organic noise immersions from Portland, Oregon)
- QUADRODE(experimental Goldfrapp/Portishead side project)

BRONNT INDUSTRIES KAPITAL ... ISLAJA ... JASON FORREST AND HIS BAND ... JUSTICE YELDHAM & THE DYNAMIC RIBBON DEVICE + HELENA GOUGH ... SAFETY SCISSORS ... ROBIN FOX ... SJ ESAU ... VOE... AUFGEHOBEN ...WITHERED MAN ... BABY DEE ... MANYFINGERS ... MOTOR GHOST ... ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO ... ADRIAN ORANGE AND THE CHILD SLAVE REBELLION + TRIMSOUND ... VEXKIDDY ... DIRECTORSOUND ... SILVER PYRE ... THEE, STRANDED HORSE ... SOFT CIRCLE ... IGNATZ ... SLEEPING STATES ... ANNI ROSSI ... BELLATRIX ... MORNINGSTAR ... FREEZE PUPPY
+ many more acts, DJs, workshops, art & interventions

Movies:

VENUES:

Venn Day 1: CUBE MICROPLEX, BRISTOL
KTL, Withered Man, Silver Pyre

Venn Day 2: ARNOLFINI GALLERY & THE TUBE, BRISTOL
Faust w/ Colin Potter, Vladislav Delay, Voe, Luomo, Principal Participant & more

Venn Day 3, Side 1: ARNOLFINI GALLERY, THEKLA SOCIAL & LOUISIANA, BRISTOL
Paarvohaarju, Spring Heel Jack w/ J Spaceman & Mark Sanders, Scritti Politti, Ghostigital, Safety Scissors, One Ensemble, Adrian Orange & many many more

Venn Day 3, Side 2: CLOCKWORK, THE CUBE & THE CROFT, BRISTOL
Luke Vibert, Scroobius Pip vs Dan Le Sac, Jason Forrest & His Band, Lawrence, Trimsound Live, Bellatrix & many, many more

Venn Day 4: ARNOLFINI GALLERY, BRISTOL
A Hawk & A Hacksaw, Maher Shalal Hash Baz & more

My Blog

Venn Podcast

55 minutes of music from artists performing at Venn '07, hosted by our pals at OLO RadioCLICK HERE TO STREAM Tracklisting:Ghostigital feat. Mark E. Smith  Not CleanFaust  Sad SkinheadAdrian Orange ...
Posted by Venn Festival on Fri, 25 May 2007 08:10:00 PST

TIMETABLE/PROGRAMME

The full timetable for Venn Saturday Sides 1 & 2 is now up on our website: www.vennfestival.comYou can also download and gaze upon our full-colour programme at the very same site...Check out our Last....
Posted by Venn Festival on Fri, 11 May 2007 02:49:00 PST

SCRITTI POLITTI

The latest addition to the Venn 07 line-up is Green Gartside aka Scritti PolittiGREEN GARTSIDE is also known as 'Scritti Politti'. He has written for Chaka Khan, enjoyed blue eyed chart infatuation an...
Posted by Venn Festival on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:11:00 PST

More additions

Some more confirmed acts for Venn 07JASON FORREST AND HIS BAND - 2 sets inc. at Clockwork, Sat Side 2 - http://www.cockrockdisco.comFREEZE PUPPY - Saturday Side 1 at Thekla Social - http://www.freeze...
Posted by Venn Festival on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:04:00 PST

Line-up developments

Some exciting line-up additions in recent days...Confirmed to play at Clockwork as part of Side 2 of the Venn Saturday(2nd June) are SCROOBIUS PIP VS DAN LE SAC, the UK duo whosebile-laden electro-pop...
Posted by Venn Festival on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 03:59:00 PST

Word

Hello to the friends of Venn!After months of brain-wracking and agent-tapping we've settled upon what we feel is Venn's strongest programme to date. Hopefully some of you will agree...Keep checking ba...
Posted by Venn Festival on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:53:00 PST