With three days of indie/electronic music, comedy, charity and art this year’s festival is gearing up to be bigger and better than ever before. Over 100 acts will be performing across several arenas including the main live stage, dance tents, a local heroes stage and on the comedy stage at the Sunday Jestival.
The latest announcements include the Plump DJ’s (Lee Rous and Andy Gardner) a DJ and producer team in electronic dance music, who will perform in the main dance tent. Early pioneers of the breakbeat genre in electronic music, the Plump DJs, have diversified in recent years to incorporate new styles such as electro, house and bass music. Throughout the 2000s, they released a string of singles and remixes of well-known dance music names such as Fatboy Slim, Orbital, Deadmau5 and the Stanton Warriors.
New to the Saturday main dance tent, is Canadian BBC Radio One DJ and music producer B Traits, who provides listeners with their ‘official start to the weekend’ at 7pm every Friday.
She will be joined by Shy FX (aka Andre Williams), a London DJ and producer who specialises in Drum and Bass and Jungle music. He has collaborated with T Power, Dizee Rascal, Plan B, Ms Dynamite and DJ Fresh among others and is well-known for records including ‘Junglist’, ‘Gold Dust’, ‘Light Up’ and ‘Wolf’. Finally Bristol dubstep DJ and producer Joker, who has been heavily championed by Radio One DJ Mary Anne Hobbs, will also perform.
Friday 13th September kicks off the three-day extravaganza with gates opening at the earlier time of 2pm for campers. The Friday warm-up will see music from local acts The Taste, Doppelganger, MK Zero, Lucidity and more to be announced on The Local Heroes Stage. In the Main Dance Test hosted by local music consortium Invasion, will be a Faithless DJ set from Sister Bliss as well as the newly announced acts. There will also be music in the Liquid drum and bass tent.
Saturday 14th at the Shropshire Showground on Berwick Road will see headliners mercury prize nominees Maximo Park performing on the main stage, and supported by twice platinum selling Athlete, radio darlings The 1975, Shropshire’s biggest Indie export The Sunshine Underground and Masters In France, the local battle of the bands winners and many more.
The main dance tent is headlined by mercury prize winning Roni Size, who will be supported by the acts above, plus K90, hot music producer Rockwell and the local DJ competition winner plus many more.
There will also be an experience tent, a boat party, a silent disco and a VIP hospitality area, all featuring countless more acts.
For the second year, The Sunday Jestival returns, featuring as-seen-on TV comedians including and headlined by the inimitable Dylan Moran who is performing only a handful of gigs this year, plus acoustic acts including James Walsh of Starsailor fame.
Dene Edwards, festival organiser, said:
“I cannot express enough the fantastic caliber of acts that are performing across the weekend here in Shrewsbury. We have tried to provide something for everyone so although some of acts such as Maximo Park and Athlete may be very well known to some people, there are some really gifted people, from internationally acclaimed to local acts, that everyone will be able to enjoy.
“With comedy, art and charity involvement, everyone is working really hard to make this a festival to remember. I hope as many people as possible join at the festival – as it’s rare to get such a great line-up together in one place, for one event. And to have it all here in Shrewsbury will really be very special.”
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