Field Day (festival)
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| Genre | Various, primarily alternative rock |
| Dates | Summer |
| Location(s) | Victoria Park, London Borough of Tower Hamlets |
| Years active | 7 |
| Founders | Tom Baker (Eat Your Own Ears) and Marcus Weedon |
| Website | http://www.fielddayfestivals.com/ |
Field Day is an outdoor music festival which takes place in Victoria Park in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The first festival took place on 11 August 2007. It has continuously expanded in every year since, with an eighth event scheduled for 7/8 June 2014. Since its inception, ticket allocation for the festival has sold out every year the festival has taken place.[1]
Village Mentality
The festival hosts an annual village fete, titled Village Mentality. Beginning in 2008, the area includes a sack race, tug of war and egg and spoon race.[2] In 2008, the events took place until 5pm, finishing earlier than the rest of the festival.[3] In 2009, the area was extended to include its own musical line-up, playing on the Village Mentality Stage. Acts included Mumford & Sons, Toumani Diabaté and Malcolm Middleton. The area is handled by organiser Tom Baker's girlfriend Natalie. Village Mentality was formerly known as Homefires,[4] who hosted their own London festival until 2007.[5]
Press Quotes
- 'Field Day: Hackney's annual hive of hipsters and, priding itself on the most cutting-edge lineup of the festival calendar, a change to gauge the health of the alternative nation' 4/5 The Guardian
-Taking place in east London's Victoria Park, yesterday's (2 June) Field Day festival mixed indie, dance and DJ's from the 'cooler' end of the musical spectrum' Q Magazine
- 'Now in its sixth year, east London's Field Day festival has built its reputation on being one of the best places to encounter brand new talent before it hits the mainstream.' 4/5 The Independent
- 'Field Day has finally found its niche of choosing the right bands at the right place to maximum effect. Bring on next year; though probably pack a jacket next time, preferably vintage.' Planet Notion
- The Line of Best Fit - photo gallery
Field Day Radio
Field Day and Eat Your Own Ears founder Tom Baker, together with forward-thinking radio production company Folded Wing recorded a series of exclusive radio shows in the run up to Field Day festival in 2012.
Featuring an array of Field Day specific guests and music, the show reflects the festival’s diverse and pioneering line-up and showcases the best new music and exclusive interviews, mixes and live recordings. Field Day Radio streams through the Field Day & Eat Your Own Ears online channels, and archived on Mixcloud and SoundCloud.
Guest artists featured on the radio shows include: Franz Ferdinand, Grimes, Chilly Gonzales, Four Tet, Martin Creed, Liars, Zulu Winter, Metronomy, Django Django and Tim Burgess. To listen visit the Field Day Radio website.
2007 festival
The inaugural Field Day festival took place on 11 August 2007, with the first Underage Festival taking place the same weekend. Over fifty artists featured across four stages, as well as a musical bandstand.[6] Artists included the 1990s, Absentee, Adem, Alberta Cross, Andrew Weatherall, Archie Bronson Outfit, Bat for Lashes, Battles, Caribou, Casper C, The Cock N Bull Kid, Crispin Dior, El Plate, Electrelane, Erol Alkan, Euros Childs, Fanfarlo, Filthy Dukes, Florence and the Machine, Foals, Four Tet, Fridge, GoodBooks, Gruff Rhys, Hannah Holland, James Yorkston, Jo Jo de Freq, Justice, Kid Harpoon, Late of the Pier, Laura Marling, Liars, Matt Walsh, Matthew Dear, Miss Odd Kidd, Mystery Jets, Nadia Ksaiba, Patchwork Pirates, The Pictish Trail, Pull Tiger Tail, Skull Juice, The Aliens, The Concretes, The Earlies, The Lovely Jonjo, Vetiver, Warboy, White Rabbits, Young Turks and Zombie Disco Squad.[6][7] Originally being billed as a capacity of 6,000, the amount was increased to 10,000 shortly before the festival.[8]
2008 festival
The 2008 event took place on 9 August 2008, with the Underage Festival taking place the previous day. The entire site was redesigned by Vanguardia Consulting, who provide specialist advice on sound control. Capacity was increased to 20,000, and bars and toilets across the site were doubled.[9] More than fifty artists were again billed for the festival, including Simian Mobile Disco, Les Savy Fav, Mystery Jets and Laura Marling. The event was headlined by Foals, in what was their first UK headline festival performance.[10][11] A 25-member brass band was also added as a final addition to the line-up.[12] The event now featured five stages, an increase from the previous year. The main stage was retitled the "Converse Century Stage", to reflect the company's 100-year anniversary in 2008.[13] A similar stage was used at Underage Festival the previous day.[14]
| Converse Century Stage | NME Stage | Homefires Stage | Bugged Out! Stage | Bloggers Delight Stage |
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- Dan Deacon had been due to play on the NME stage, but was later forced to pull out due to passport issues.[11] Mystery Jets also pulled out due to illness.[15] They were later replaced by Lightspeed Champion.
2009 festival
The 2009 festival took place on 1 August 2009, one day prior to Underage. The first line-up announcements were made on 28 January 2009, when NME announced that Mogwai would headline the event. Four Tet, James Yorkston, Apes and Androids, Malcolm Middleton, Fennesz, Errors and Skream were also announced.[16] Further line-up additions were announced on 7 April 2009, including The Horrors, Little Boots, Santigold and Mystery Jets.[17] Other line-up announcements have been sporadically announced through the festival's Twitter account.[18]
| Eat Your Own Ears Main Stage | Adventures in the Beetroot Field Stage | Village Mentality Stage | Bugged Out! Stage | Bloggers Delight Stage |
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2010 Festival
The 2010 event was confirmed to take place on 31 July 2010,[20] in their fourth annual outing in Victoria Park.[21] On 9 February 2010, it was announced that Phoenix would headline the event, with Amiina, Beth Jeans Houghton, Caribou, Esben and the Witch, Chilly Gonzalez, Corsano and Flowers, Gold Panda, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, James Holden, Joker & MC Nomad, Max Tundra, Memory Tapes, Mouse on Mars, Pantha Du Prince and Silver Apples also announced to perform.[22] Further acts were announced on 12 March 2010, when Babeshadow, Carte Blanche (DJ Mehdi & Riton), Chapel Club, Hudson Mohawke, Lightspeed Champion, No Age, Simian Mobile Disco, Tamikrest, The Fall, These New Puritans and YucK were added.[23][24] The festival is set to expand further to six stages, including the Outdoor live stage, Adventures in the Beetroot Field arena, Homefires stage, Bugged Out! arena, Bloggers Delight stage, and the musical bandstand.[25]
For the first time in 2010, Field Day is to take part in a festival 'twinning' scheme, organised by the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF). The initiative encourages twinned festivals to swap artists and cross promote each other's events.[26] Field Day was 'twinned' with the Øya Festival in Oslo, Norway.[27]
| Eat Your Own Ears Stage | Adverntures in the Beetroot Field Stage | Bugged Out! Stage in association with Full Circle and Dummy | XOYO / Lock Tavern Stage | Bloggers Delight Stage | Village Mentality Stage in association with The Quietus |
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2011 Festival
The 2011 event took place on 6 August 2011.
| Eat Your Own Ears Stage | Bugged Out! Stage in association with Resident Advisor | Village Mentality Stage in association with The Quietus | Bloggers Delight / Lanzarote Stage | Laneway Festival Stage in association with Last.FM | Shacklewell Arms / Lock Tavern Stage | Do You Come Here Often? Stage |
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2012 Festival
The 2012 festival date moved from the traditional August month to Saturday 2 June 2012 (bank holiday weekend). This was due to Victoria Park being used for events to celebrate the London Olympics.
| Eat Your Own Ears Stage | Bugged Out! Stage | Laneway Festival Stage in association with Last.FM | Village Mentality Stage in association with The Quietus | Bleed / Lanzarote Stage | Shacklewell Arms | Red Bull Music Academy Stage |
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2013 Festival
Following on from 2012's change in date, Field Day 2013 took place on Saturday 25 May (bank holiday weekend).
| Eat Your Own Ears Stage | Bugged Out! Stage | Laneway Festival Stage in association with Last.FM | Village Mentality Stage in association with The Quietus | Bleed / Lanzarote Stage | Shacklewell Arms | Red Bull Music Academy Stage | Back Stage Area |
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2014 Festival
Field Day 2014 took place on 7/8 June 2014, headlined by Pixies.
References
- ^ "Pantha Du Prince announced for Field Day 2010". Resident Advisor. 9 February 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
- ^ "Field Day - Village". Field Day official website. Archived from the original on 22 August 2008. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
- ^ "Field Day Timings - Final Version" (PDF). Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
- ^ "Organiser Tom Baker talks the origins of Field Day". Rockfeedback. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
- ^ "Homefires IV line-up announced". NME. 20 March 2007. Retrieved 23 December 2009.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b "FIELD DAY - 11TH AUGUST - LAST FEW TICKETS ON SALE". Eat Your Own Ears official website. 6 July 2007. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
- ^ "Field Day 2007 Lineup". Virtual Festivals. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
- ^ Kharas, Kev (13 August 2007). "Exclusive: Field Day organiser answers festival criticism". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
- ^ a b "Field Day 2008". Virtual Festivals. Retrieved 22 December 2009. Cite error: The named reference "VF 2008" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ "Foals play first UK festival headlining show". NME. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ a b "Foals bring soggy Field Day to sizzling close". Virtual Festivals. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
- ^ "UPDATED: Downloadable Field Day stage times HERE". Drowned in Sound. 8 August 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
- ^ Matheson, Whitney (3 November 2008). "That iconic Converse shoe steps into centennial". USA Today. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
- ^ "Foals, Gallows, Glasvegas play Underage festival". NME. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Mystery Jets cancel more festival appearances". NME. 6 August 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Field Day Festival headliner announced". NME. 28 January 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "The Horrors, Little Boots, Mystery Jets join Field Day line-up". NME. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Field Day on Twitter
- ^ a b c d e "Field Day - Lineup". Field Day official website. 15 April 2009. Archived from the original on 30 July 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
- ^ "Field Day". Field Day official website. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
- ^ "Field Day announces headliners for 2010 including main act Phoenix". The Independent. 9 February 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
- ^ "Phoenix to headline Field Day festival 2010". NME. 9 February 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Simian Mobile Disco, The Fall, These New Puritans added to Field Day 2010 line-up". NME. 12 March 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "The Fall, and These New Puritans for Field Day". eFestivals. 10 March 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
- ^ "Field Day Festival (UK)". Gigwise.com. 12 April 2007. Retrieved 25 December 2009.
- ^ "AIF Launch New Initiative To 'Twin' Independent Festivals". The Association of Independent Festivals. 1 March 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2010.
- ^ Parkinson, Ben (1 March 2010). "AIF launches festival 'twinning' scheme". Virtual Festivals. Retrieved 13 March 2010.