LOVEBOX 2009: FIRST HEADLINERS ANNOUNCED
SATURDAY: DURAN DURAN | NERD | FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE | FRIENDLY FIRES | FAT FREDDYS DROP
SUNDAY: GROOVE ARMADA | LADYHAWKE | SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO | HORSE MEAT DISCO | SECRETSUNDAZE
DAY TICKET £42.50+booking fee
WEEKEND £75.00+booking fee
Allegedly, the music cognoscenti have dubbed 09 as the “year of pop”, which is a good thing, as if we believe the newspapers then any chance to be transported away from the miserable climate should be rejoiced.
Better still and by no mere coincidence we are ever so slightly pleased to announce a one-off UK exclusive festival performance from Duran Duran at Lovebox in July. ‘Kings of Pop’, ‘rock legends’, all terms apply as they top the bill on Saturday night; expect to hear all the classics of many a misspent youth from one of the biggest selling bands in the history of British popular music.
Adding more weight to the Main Stage on Saturday we have hip hop crossover collective N.E.R.D. featuring the ladies choice Pharell Williams. After witnessing first hand their Lovebox Dublin show last year, we’re definitely guaranteed an historic and super-charged performance.
If you haven’t yet heard of Florence and the Machine where have you been!?, she’s just picked up the Critics Choice Brit Award and will be making a Lovebox debut with her blend of quirky, eccentric and utterly brilliant blend of blues, soul and indie pop.
Over on the new improved and wildly unique Gaymers Stage, complete with bandstand, hammocks, and a tree top cider bar, Friendly Fires headline Saturday. This marks a return to Lovebox for the band, who first played back in 2006 while still newly formed, but who have subsequently gone a bit stellar with an amazing debut album and some amazing 2008 shows. We’re already looking forward to the show stopping hands in the air under the stars moment when they drop ‘Paris’ on Vicky Park.
Rounding off the first artists confirmed for Saturday are New Zealand’s very finest musical exports, Fat Freddys Drop who will be taking to the Main Stage on Saturday afternoon with their dubbed up reggae, ska, fat bass funk and lack of apostrophe.
On Sunday
As always, Lovebox Masters of Ceremonies, Groove Armada are back to lend a steady hand to the tiller; performing on Sunday with their only live festival appearance in the UK this year. As we have the inside track on the boys we can assure you that they will be showcasing sounds from the new album with an all new live show, which will continue to up the game of these dyed-in-the-wool festival showmen and bring Sunday to a shuddering climax.
Having experienced rapid success with her brilliant self-titled album since her performance at last year’s Lovebox, Ladyhawke is back once again. While we’ve still got loads more to announce on all the stages and soundsystems we can reveal that Simian Mobile Disco will be rocking one dance arena on Sunday, and since we’ve been after these dudes for a while now we expect them to step up to the plate and deliver us some sonic home runs.
And finally for now, Lovebox would not be Lovebox without two of London’s perennially popular party sound-sytems and muscical buddies secretsundaze and the house of Horse Meat Disco; you’d have to have been living under stone on another planet to have missed out on the fuss that both continue to cause with residencies and nights in far flung corners, radio shows, mixes, and fly-off-the-shelves vinyl releases. We haven’t yet decided which day they’ll both appear on yet so watch this space.
Stay tuned for more additions and friend us on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and all that jazz for news on line-up additions to what will be the best and broadest line-up London will see this year.
Lovebox Limited edition T-shirts
To celebrate kicking off the year and to clothe our backs while we graft into July we’ve released a tee-shirt to coincide with the posters appearing around town right now. These are a limited edition run of a hand-screened design printed on a beautiful, premium crew-neck white vintage washed Alternative Apparel t-shirt. So order one now before we sell out or they disappear into our wardrobes. CLICK HERE £15 + pp
Lovebox Allstars . . . . a few disco dates for your diary
If you are in London or Manchester in the next couple of weeks, The Lovebox Alllstars, Messrs Fillary & Butterfield, will be directing the dance at a few places: The REX Club at The Royal Exchange, Bank, Friday 27th February, 7pm-11pm, Superfilth @ 93 Feet East, Friday 27th February, 11pm-3am, Horse Meat Disco @ Eagle London, Kennington Lane. Sunday 1st March, DiscoDisco @ Label, Deansgate, Manchester. Saturday 7th March
Free music from Groove Armada
one of our headline acts… If you haven’t already done so – don’t forget to sign up to the new B-LIVE Share music platform so you can get your hands on exclusive new Groove Armada tracks 3 weeks before anyone else! It’s so simple – click on the link below, create a profile, download track one and then start sharing it with your friends to unlock further tracks.
Sharing is simple – you can simply paste your unique URL (given to you once you create your profile) into an email, send it to your friends directly from the site, install the Facebook app or the B-LIVE share widget.
www.bliveshare.com
Track 2 Pull Up (Crank It Up), which only requires 20 shares, is currently tearing up the dance floors worldwide.
- Love from Lovebox
