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
The best bands and artists of the world
VENN 2007 WAS:
- A HAWK AND A HACKSAW with THE HUN HANGÃR 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
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