Overkill Tent @ Glade Festival: PICS & VIDS
March 01, 2006
a few pics & words from a wonderful weekend filled with amazing musical surprises, sun burn and lovely people...
after watching the Glade areana being built around us, its great to see the tent open and the music pumping. The Overkill Tent @ Glade 2006 was a lovely 1000 capacity, function 1 rigged, light & laser blasting party dome:
Friends arrive and contribute to the Overkill visuals around the tent.
- Dan Sparks making Overkill Graph:
The vibes get more sweaty as the first evening plays out. the tent is packed when Vex'd come on and they pave the way for a glorious rave up.
Dan Sparks finishes his Overkill Graph as the sun goes down.
almighty friday night mash up :-)
Scotch Grind kicks off day 2 and the tent is packed again!
A crazy afternoon of bands and experiments including the wonderful Trencher
Jackson rips it up as the crowd get all hyped up..
The vibes build as Bang Face make their final preperations:
Ceephax explodes the Overkill tent as Bang crew release 100 inflatable acid faces (i've never seen anything like this.. intense partyraveness)
This was the one they were all waiting for..
The lasers kick in
Bong Ra takes the tent into hyperdrive
Jimmy & Pablo
Scotch Egg busking
Sunday afternoon sees awsome sets from 65 Days Of Static & Max Tundra
next to Overkill tent, Tim Exile's Bass Boxing fun zone!
HK119 surprise the audience with her minimal pop futurism!
Exile angel
OVERKILL TENT @ GLADE FESTIVAL 14TH - 16TH JULY. UK
FRIDAY: 13:00 - 02:00
Hellfish & The DJ Producer
PCM
Jason Forrest (aka Donner Summer)
Ebola
Tim Exile
Chevron
Modeselektor
Vex'd
DJ Ed DMX
Team Doyobi
Freeform
Rob Hall
Blir (aka SND)
Chevvers Acid Sandwich set
Jay Pace
Visuals By Flat-E
(The Gasman has cancelled!)
SATURDAY: 12:30 - 02:00
BANG FACE EVENING, featuring:
Altern 8
Luke Vibert
Ceephax Acid Crew
Knifehandchop
Bong-Ra
Saint Acid
DJ Rephlex Records
Jackson & His Computer Band
Unique 3
MatKore vs DJ iKore
Gay Against You (aka Germlin)
Trencher
Countryside Alliance Crew (Wrong Music)
Ack Ack Ack
Scotch Grind (aka Scotch Egg) vs Drumcorps (aka Aaron Spectre)
Electroplegic Allstars
SUNDAY: 12:00 - 08:00
B12
Jimmy Edgar
HK119
Bavin
About
Max Tundra
65 Days Of Static
Voltek
Mike In Mono
N>E>D
Welcome to The Overkill zone, brought to you by Littlebig. Oh yes, we are back at Glade with a rollercoaster ride of extreme entertainment, a non stop barrage of the worlds finest live acts to add methanol to your Glade cocktail. Yup, its PartyRave time…
After Brighton’s Jay Pace from The Black Box System gets things warmed up we have Chevron officially lighting the touchpaper on the weekend’s proceedings. Bringing his slamming Planet Mu / Wrong Music 3D tweak-rave sound, we start as we mean to go on! Blir is a new live project from the minimal northerners aka SND suitably leading into a special showcase from Manchester collective, Skam Records:
Head honcho Rob Hall + Freeform + Team Doyobi
= UK Party Electronics at its best.
ED DMX of Rephlex & Breakin Records fame will edge the tent towards rave with one of his finely tuned DJ sets that have been taking the roofs off clubs for many years. Meanwhile Flat-E visual collective will be getting busy with their hyper edit eye treats. Vex’d and Modeselektor are leading the way for new club music in our books. Bristol based Vex’d (Planet Mu) have played a big part imprinting Dubstep on the UK consciousness while Berlin based Modeselektor (B-Pitch Control) are ripping up the Electro-Techno rule book. The Gasman & Tim Exile’s mini mash sets will turn the party on its head. Both Planet Mu’ers, their unique styles are gifts from the Gods. (Tim’s set will be available for download from www.bleep.com the week after – and look out for his new live album “Nuisance Gabbaret Lounge”).
We’re excited to bring in Jason Forrest (aka Donner Summer) for a rare UK show. From his home in Berlin he’s been experimenting with new styles of mayhem-party music best described by the title of his recent album “Shamelessly Exciting”. PCM are rave captains from Birmingham who will unleash their home brewed acid jungle firmly putting us on collision course with the masters of hardcore gabba Hellfish & The DJ Producer. These two legends have been mashin up beats and releasing records since most of you were suckling on mother’s breast milk. It’s an ultra rare treat when they come together for shows and this makes the perfect end to day 1 in Zone Overkill.
Day 2: Wakey wakey. What’s that? You want some chilled sets to massage you back to life, sorry, wrong tent. Saturday afternoon is the time for live experiments and we have a turbulent selection of the most worthy weird and wonderful acts for you. After the Electroplegic Allstars get us up to speed Scotch Grind (aka Mr Egg) performs a special new noisy set just for Overkill. Ack Ack Ack are Brighton’s most exciting new band and not to be missed. Uncle Shitmat and The Wrong Crew are back to present their new offering especially prepared for Glade, The Countryside Alliance Crew (CAC). The Urban takeover will feature Ebola as DJ Pylage, Mully as Scrumpy Jack Frost, Shitmat as Farmer Giles Peterson and many more special guests (inc John Deere ‘traktor dj’, Wul-Pac & Roots Manure).
Next up is the mighty Trencher, best described as the UK’s answer to Lightening Bolt. Gay Against You (aka Germlin) are the Adaadat Record label’s hot new noisy gabba live band. Coming in especially from Prague where he has been introducing the locals to rave, Mattkore switches the mode to mash-up before a special set from the masters of bass Unique3. We are proud to have Warp Records’ new electronic hero Jackson over for a rare live set. His fresh style showcased via his recent album ‘Smash’ has pricked ears all over the world. DJ Rephlex Records makes a welcome return taking us deeper into the zone with his specialist selector skills before we hand over to Bang crew. Never has there been a team so dedicated to making true rave and we are honored to yank them out of their London cycle to host the first ever Bang Face festival experience…
BANG FACE XXXIV - THE LEAGUE OF SPIRITUAL DISCOVERY
CEEPHAX ACID CREW - The Original Acid Mentalist
LUKE VIBERT - An Acid and Jungle hero to us all
ALTERN 8 - Full on mask hysteria / Rave Legends
KNIFEHANDCHOP - The Canadian Neo-Rave General
BONG-RA - The Dutch Ragga Jungle Master
SAINT ACID - The Patron Saint of Bang Face
Come masked-up and bring the toys ;)
BANG FACE - A Neo-Rave Explosion of Acid, Jungle, Old Skool Rave, Drum & Bass, Breakcore, Techno and Abstract Dance.
FRAGOR FACIES - LUDEMUS UNA (Bang Face - We Play Together)
Full Hype: www.bangface.com
Day 3: A sumptuous selection of live acts take the stage for The Overkilled Sunday Service. True performers with a hint of theatre is the remit for the afternoon before we wind up with an evening shindig. After our very own N>E>D goes from silence to sound at the flick of a switch, Mike in Mono (ex Plone / Warp) plays a rare show to get things fully underway. The up-and-coming musical maverick from Brighton Voltek warms it right up before we proudly present 65 Days Of Static. Their blending of live instruments and electronicness has earned them a diverse range of fans and their shows have gathered a lot of momentum over the past year.
Max Tundra is a long running exponent of quirk, his releases (Domino, Warp, Tigerbeat) show off a huge range of explored avenues and after taking a break from gigging to finish a new album, this live performance should not be missed. Over from Amsterdam, About are a new act who just released their debut album of fucked up morish pop music ‘Bongo’ on the excellent Cock Rock Disco. Matt Yee King’s voodoo improv band Bavin bring the heavy sounds, they use an entire studio’s worth of kit and live trigger-jam their way through it all.
HK119 will blow your mind open with her theatre show. Resembling a zooped up female version of Bowie in his space-race hay day, HK is the wild card in the Sunday service before we hand over to the young Detroit beat meister Jimmy Edgar. With his recent ‘Color Strip’ album on Warp and super slick live set, Jimmy’s style of retro-futuristic electro-dance is causing a stir. B12 of Artificial Intelligence / Warp fame have recently burst out of hiding with a new live set. There are rumors of new recordings and hopefully some releases.. The B12 duo make a welcome visit to Glade to complete the Overkill session on a very high note.
Thanks to everyone whose helped. Enjoy. Ned.
Ps Keep an eye out for the new OVERKILL COMPILATION CD featuring all your favorite extreme entertainers, onsale (cheap) at the Glade.. and watch this space for Overkill shows around UK!
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