Venn 07 is here!


We are off to Venn Festival this weekend, just recovered from the namerica dates with Björk. We leave early Saturday morning, until then we are working on the Radium concerts with Finnbogi and hope to have a release ready very soon. Here is a small information sheet we got from Venn Festival which we duly share!
31st MAY – 3rd JUNE 2007, VARIOUS VENUES, BRISTOL, UK
A Hawk And A Hacksaw with The Hun Hangár Ensemble…Faust with Colin
Potter…Luke Vibert…Spring Heel Jack with M Sanders and J Spaceman…Jason Forrest Band…Paavoharju…Vladislav Delay…KTL…Green Gartside (Scritti Politti)…Extreme Noise Terror…SJ Esau…Lawrence…Quadrode (Portishead/Goldfrapp)…Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip…Ted Milton ‘Odes’…Ghostigital …Jack Rose…Adrian Orange…Baby Dee…V.I….Thee, Stranded Horse…Arrington de Dionyso…Manyfingers…Aufgehoben…Yellow Swans…Goodiepal…Silver Pyre…plus many, many more acts, full art programme, workshops, mistakes and magic
Updates:
– Bargain-priced advance tickets still on sale for all days – see the Venn website for info and detailed Saturday timetable…what’s your itinerary to be?
– German legends Faust hit Venn with two more very special guests in tow alongside Nurse With Wound collaborator Colin Potter: GEOFF LEIGH (known for his work with seminal UK avant-rockers HENRY COW) and GERALDINE SWAYNE of feted space-blues trio BENDER. Friday 1st June, Arnolfini
– Check out the Venn podcast – a 55-minute flavour of the festival kindly hosted by our friends at Olo Worms: STREAM IT HERE
– Exciting reports reach Venn of recent Spring Heel Jack/J Spaceman live collaborations – including a nerve-melting take on an old favourite. They play Arnolfini at the climax of Saturday Side 1
Ghostigital have been tearing it up and scaring the locals in support of Sugarcubes cohort Bjork on the US leg of her ‘Volta’ tour. They explode into action aboard Thekla Social as part of Saturday Side 1
– Which side of Luke Vibert will Venn see at Clockwork on Saturday night/Sunday morning? Upcoming releases on Planet Mu suggest an old-school acid house party awaits…only one way to find out
– Come one, come all, come Venn.