Constellations Festival 2010 Unveil Full Line-Up!
aaamusic | On 03, Nov 2010
New artists confirmed for Sunday 14th November:
Liars are legendary three-piece band formed in 2000 consisting of Filipino-born Angus Andrew (vocals/guitar), Aaron Hemphill (percussion, guitar, synth), and Julian Gross (drums). Although initially lumped into the New York dance-punk scene of the early 21st century, they have come to be categorized by their dramatic stylistic shifts between albums, while retaining a consistent interest in rhythm and sound texture. They are ones not to be missed.
Having covered every inch of the UK touring the country’s length and breadth, the band have established themselves as one of the hardest working in the country. With new album “Modern Bodies” released on 1st November through Leeds label Brew, Chickenhawk are sure to be one of the highlights of the festival.
Gold Panda is a left-field producer and remixer called Derwin who makes instrumental soundtracks to half-remembered, dreamy summer days. He scours charity shops for old records and VHS tapes to turn into distorted samples, and wraps them in minimal, warm beats. Gold Panda were also featured in the BBC’s Sound of 2010 poll.
Amidst a genre growing exponentially with each passing week, Tom Marshall’s music stands apart with a distinct Technicolor sound palette and a rich seam of raw musicality running through it. Marshallsay’s previous exploits are rooted in post rock and experimental folk; the echoes of these bleeding into Dam Mantle, an entirely electronic project he dove into as 2009 came to an end. His songs are infused with a love of music far broader than the niche he now inhabits.
Also confirmed:
The Vaccines
Very Special Guests
Which means the line-up so far is now:
Broken Social Scene/Four Tet/Los Campesinos!/Les Savy Fav/Local Natives/Liars/Esben & The Witch/Chickenhawk/Gold Panda/Spectrals/Dam Mantle/The Vaccines/Cloud Nothings/Honour BeforeGlory/Breton/Wingman/Eagulls/The Runaround Kids/Very Special Guests
We’re also pleased to announce the following artists and collaborators:
Providing visuals and installations for the event will be Nous Vous, xiiixiii and Chris Paul Daniels
Nous Vous (We / You) is a collective based in London and Leeds, working as designers, illustrators and artists. They’ve been creating exciting pieces of work all over the country for a few years now, previous clients include SkyLarkin, Leeds Light Night and Tokyo Police Club. Constellations are huge fans and we’re really excited to have them on board.
xiiixiii is a multi-disciplinary designer originally from Bradford and now based on the South Coast of England. He’s spent the last couple of yearsdirecting and animating music videos for the likes of Blue Roses (Laura Groves); animating stereoscopic films forGerman telecommunications companies and coding lots and lots ofwebsites. He really doesn’t like coding websites and much prefers tospend his time experimenting with computer vision, interaction andgenerative techniques. Don’t we all?
Dance To The Radio will be channelling the talents of film and video maker Chris Paul Daniels. Chris is a graduate of The Royal College Of Art and winner of the prestigious RCA Deutsche Bank Award in Art 2010 and will be showing a selection ofhis works.
Poster Roast was set up in 2007 by husband and wife Chris White and Alex Curtis with the intention of helping develop and promote Poster Artists within the UK. During each Poster Roast there is a curated exhibition of some of the mostinfluential poster artists in the UK, there is also live screen printing throughout showing the process, and the option of leaving with your own freshly printed poster.
We’re also please to welcome Drowned in Sound on board who amongst other things will be providing DJ entertainmentthroughout the day along with the wonderful people at Dance To The Radio.
Tickets are £22.50
Official box office: www.lunatickets.co.uk
Website: www.constellationsfestival.com
Plus New Event added – Official Constellations pre-party
Saturday 13th November
The Brudenell Social Club – Leeds
P45 (DJ set)
More TBC
18:00 till late
This is a separately ticketed event (£10) but ticket holders for Sunday 14th November can buy special discounted tickets from www.lunatickets.co.uk.
