Down The Rabbit Hole Special Edition. 2014

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The Black Keys · Damon Albarn · Foals Admiral Freebee · Analog Africa · Balthazar

Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba · Benji B The Black Marble Selection · The Bohicas

The Brian Jonestown Massacre · La Chiva Gantiva Courtney Barnett · Dewolff · Eaves · Electric

Eye FilosofischeStilte · Floating Points & Motor City Drum Ensemble · Frikstailers · Greg Wilson Half Moon Run · Hallo Venray · Hozier · James Vincent Mcmorrow · John Wizards · Kid Karate

Kuroma · Little Dragon · Lone · Los De Abajo MGMT · The Naked And Famous · Parquet Courts The Strypes · Poliça · The Soft Moon · De Staat

Superfood · Syd Arthur · Taymir · Temples Tentempiés · Thomas Dybdahl · tUnE-yArDs Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats · The Veils Warpaint · Bosmos · Cinevan · De Steiger

Driving Decks · Het Gat · Idyllische Veldje Los Conejos Bravos · The Other Side

Tower Of Bouwer · Vuige Veld

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For the best Down The Rabbit Hole experience, you’ll need to immerse yourself fully in the festival. There’s the obvious head-

liners – we can’t wait to hear The Black Keys jam out to the latest tunes from their brand new release, Turn Blue, or watch Blur

frontman Damon Albarn, co-founder of the virtual mega-band Gorillaz and now renowned solo artist, sample flavours both old and new. But that’s just scratching the surface: the festival boasts a slew of obscure gems, like Oakland’s neo-post-punk band The Soft Moon and Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett, who has taken her sincere serenades on their first global tour.

Liven up your night with Greg Wilson’s exclusive record collec-tion, and don’t forget to cut loose with Teddy Widder at Rabbit Radio. Give in to that wanderlust and get lost in the extensive

festival grounds. Discover the wild rock’n’roll hotspot the Vuige Veld and the serene and soothing atmosphere of the Idyllische Veldje. Gather around the beach campfire and get swept up in impromptu performances sparked by cabaret artists, authors,

musicians, poets – and who knows, maybe even you. Free your mind and expect the unexpected!

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Drumfanfare Michaël & De Staat

Wary of exploring Down The Rabbit Hole’s strange land all on your own? Fear not, Dutch alt-rock heroes De Staat and Nijmegen percussion corps Drum-fanfare Michaël offer up their services at 15.00 on the opening day to give you a musical tour of the DTRH grounds. Ex-pect fluttering banners, rhythmic drums and a merry marching band that’ll likely break out in that festive Dutch tradition, a joyous Polonaise Holandaise.

Tour starts at 15.00 at the festival gate.

Bosmos

Each night from 23.00 onward, wild woodland adventures await with the audio-visual mysteries of cryptic cre-ators The Bosmos. Trek into the un-known, if you dare. We can only say it’ll be trippy and disruptive.

Location: Het Bos - entrance through the Idyllische veldje.

To help you tumble further down the rabbit hole, the festival organisers have put

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Idyllische Veldje / Los Conejos Bravos

Dutch visual artist André Amaro, who runs a young collective of budding art-ists called ‘Los Conejos Bravos’, sets the scene at the ‘Idyllisch Veldje’ (Idyl-lic Field). Inspired winds sway through these meadows, with space for yoga, rope-walking and even welding. The lovely songstress Janne Schra will bring some extra sweetness, present-ing a selection of her paintings. In oth-er words: relaxed vibrations to soothe both eyes and ears.

Location: behind the Teddy Widder stage.

De SteigerEscape the rolling lands and feral for-estation and mellow out to the ebb and flow of the lake ‘De Steiger’. Peer into its depths or ripple someone’s cosmic clairvoyance with a splash in the cool water. If you fancy a challenge, sift through drifting fishbones and craft a raft to conquer the lake.

Location: on the beach.

Cineville met de Cinevan

Spot the Cinevan at Idyllische Veldje and scramble in for a little escape in this tiny cinema safehaven. The four-wheeled picture palace will screen a Cineville selection of touching, bizarre and magical films.

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Rabbit Radio

The Teddy Widder is the place to be for your nocturnal Rabbit Radio tunes. In the vast no man’s land between you and your camping bed you can ex-pect to hear some straight indie, ga-rage, psych-pop, rock’n’roll and some of those cross-over bangers you know you like. This means Temples and Arc-tic Monkeys – but we also know how to sate your varied appetite and will just as likely play Macklemore or Lon-don Grammar. Or Vance, or Jake, or Iggy, back-to-back with the Sonics or some Pixies. Afterparty? You needn’t even ask.

Location: after hours at the Teddy Wid-der stage.

The Other Side

While you catch your breath and huddle around the campfire for a little even- ing warmth, keep an open eye and an open mind ’cause before you know it you’ll be in the midst of a pop-up per-formance. Think cabaret, plays, a spontaneous reading or poem, musi-cians bursting into song: it’s all possi-ble. Hosts Stephanie Louwrier, Johan Fretz and Willem Bosch will chaperone you into chaos and comedy, tugging at heartstrings along the way. Don’t miss special guests Roosbeef on Friday, Car-olien Borgers on Saturday and Michael Prins on Sunday.

Location: at De Vuurplaats on the beach.

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Vuige Veld

Next to the caravans and the barbe-cue corner you’ll find Down The Rabbit Hole’s meanest DJs. From early after-noon to the wee hours of the morn-ing, the Vuige Veld boasts a different line-up each day. Let yourself go to the sounds of DJ-collectief Dave Grohl & The Topless DJ’s, The Hippie Hippie Hoorahs or Blonde-Redhead. Expect an ecclectic mix of sleazy psychedel-ic, punk, garage, rock’n’roll, hillbil-ly, zydeco, surf, ska/reggae, beat and northern soul. You’re hearing it all right; it’s time to get nasty.

Location: behind the Fuzzy Lop stage.

Het GatBroadcasting the most recent news, the latest nonsense and the finest photos, that small stone building you spotted in the Hotot field is the core of Down The Rabbit Hole’s festival newspaper – Het Gat (The Hole). This one-sheet will be published extensively throughout each day, with demand for your latest updates on the shows you loved, the girl you just fell for and the tips ’n’ tricks you want to share with your festival peers. Who knows, you might even be sent out to document the latest festival trend! Send your contributions to redactiehetgat@gmail.com and they’ll publish the best drawings, stories, pictures and more. Forget Facebook newsfeed, you’ll find the latest of everything here.

Grab your copy at Het Gat/Infopunt (near the Hotot stage).

Driving DecksThese mobile sound systems bounce across the festival and make for a spon-taneous party. During the day and through the night, you can expect one of these wheeled stages to hit the breaks right next to your tent.

Location: various locations throughout festival grounds.

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Down The Rabbit Hole. Interview

Though its probably not tough to stand in stark contrast to Captured Tracks’ stable of shimmering guitar pop and indie folk,

The Soft Moon’s brooding post-punk makes even his most moody label mates sound

angelic. Having relocated to the Italian countryside to work on his new album, Luis Vasquez talked to us about the bitterness of Italian espressos, the dark side of the Soft

Moon and being obsessed with the self

The SoftMoon

Phone Interview by Brenda Bosma

Photos shot by Julie Lansom in Paris, France

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Finally, la Dolce Vita!Yes, I’m living it. My manager, who’s from Venice, suggested this

when I told him I was looking for a place in Europe where it could be simple and quiet. Are you hooked on that kind of life now?

Pretty much, but in a week I’m moving to Berlin.That’s quite the contrast. Do you like to go between extremes?

Normally I kind of like stimulation in that way, yes. It’s nice to take a break from the hecticness of touring and be able to come down from that.So, how simple is your life now in Italy?

Right now I see mountains, trees and clouds, I’m smelling espres-so. Got an aftertaste of bitterness, but that’s just literally. [Laughs]You could say The Soft Moon tastes quite bitter.

Well, I really don’t know where the darkness comes from if that’s what you mean. I’m generally a pretty optimistic person, but whenever I express myself musically, it just comes out full with all these heavy emotions. Writing is therapy for me and a way for me to understand myself.Is it getting clearer?

Actually the further I go, the worse it gets.Hmm...

It’s strange, I guess I’m revealing the things that I’ve purposely or subconsciously hidden from myself. Once revealed I realise how fucked up I am internally.Revealing your own fucked upness sounds like something you shouldn’t do every day.

Well… the music itself is a way to conquer that. There’s actually hope if you look for it. Naturally I’m having fun also, but there’s a big-ger purpose.

The Soft Moon. Continued

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You’re a servant? I feel like my own servant. I have this uncontrollable obsession

to create for myself to learn about who and what I am, why I’m on this planet, why I feel certain ways. For me music is the only means to explore all these things. It’s like I’m searching for answers and mean-ings of my own existence. The final product has to be as honest and true and has to reflect how emotional I feel.

‘It’s like I’m searching for answers and meanings of my own existence. The final product has to be honest and true and

has to reflect how emotional I feel’

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What does ‘true’ mean in that sense?There’s something unknown inside that guides me physically to

create and I just let go. Usually what comes out is painful, but there’s always some sort of revelation. It’s my truth. Also, everything has to have a purpose – not just the lyrics, every sound, everything. Some-thing as little as a snare drum, if I’m writing something aggressive, I want something to accompany that. It’s exhausting, but I can’t stop.How does learning about yourself mix into the newest songs?

They are probably the most emotional songs I’ve ever written, and also the most aggressive. I’ve had a lot of time to spend by myself here in Italy. I have to look at myself constantly.Why do you do that?

Because I want to be happy, I don’t want to feel the way I feel any more. It’s my goal to conquer this and become a happy person.Do you also peel an orange slowly?

Yeah, my everyday thoughts, decisions and movements are just like in the music; slowly and with focus.Is music your everything?

I guess music is my everything.Is that liberating to say?

It is. At least I have a way of learning about who I am, and what I am. It is the only way to express myself. It’s funny, because I’m expressing such personal thoughts, but I don’t know how to express myself in day-to-day situations and am pretty uneasy in public. I find it ironic that I have so much to say in music.

The Soft Moon. Continued

The Soft Moon plays at 19.45 on Friday at the Fuzzy Lop stage.

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Down The Rabbit Hole. Interview

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Lone is no stranger to going down the rabbit hole. This, after all, is the producer who

titled a track ‘1am Portal’. Matt Cutler may make music in a little room in Manchester,

but he’s a master of creating portals to

other times and places: the UK rave scene circa 1993, New York hip hop a few years

before, or perhaps the fuzzy landscapes of a half-remembered childhood

‘I think music or art or anything like that is almost like a portal into something else. I

think it is a doorway into maybe a different frequency of consciousness’

LoneSkype Interview by Angus Finlayson

Photos shot by Mary Stamm-Clarke in London, UK

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What means of escape did you have before discovering music? Did you daydream as a child?

Very much so. I used to draw pictures all the time, obsessively. I remember going through a phase of drawing pictures of skyscrapers, for some reason. My parents would sit me down with a pad and paper and that would keep me quiet. Until I discovered music, and that just took over, and it’s been the same ever since.People say that your imagination diminishes as you get older. Is that something you’ve experienced?

Yeah. But for me, discovering music – I still feel exactly the same way when I make a tune now as I did when I was getting into it as a nine-year-old. I think with any creative outlet it’s a way of holding on to that thing. Whereas for a lot of people, it gets drummed into them that they have to get a proper job and stuff like that. And sadly I think it’s knocked out of them a little bit. This childlike quality to making music, is that where the nostalgia comes in?

I’ve always been really sensitive to music – that’s always the main thing for me, that it’s able to trigger emotions. So I like to use it as a tool for getting back to certain memories or certain feelings from a long time ago. And at the same time I like to document what I’m doing as I go – so it’s like a diary entry for me, almost. I can listen to tracks that I’ve made that are old now and they’ll take me straight back to where I was [when I made them]. So it’s an interesting tool, a way of evoking things for me.To me your music is very escapist – it creates a space outside of the environment you’re in.

I’ve always had an interest in... I don’t really like the term spiritual [Laughs], but I guess spiritual things. And I’m not really sure how it comes out in the music, but it just does. Without going too deep

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into it, I think music or art or anything like that is almost like a portal into something else. I think it is a doorway into maybe a different frequency of consciousness. Well, that’s what it does for me. If it can do that for other people as well then that’s perfect.Hence the title of your new album, Reality Testing – it’s a reference to dreaming, right?

If you find yourself questioning what’s happening in a dream, a reality test is a way of trying to prove that you’re in a dream and you’re not awake. There’re certain tests you can do. So maybe if you try and fly and it works, then you know you’re in a dream. I like the idea of being in between sleep and awake. I like the idea that it’s got the word ‘reality’ in it as well – I like to ponder what reality actually is a lot of the time [Laughs]. Do you ever feel an urge to escape more literally? To leave the city, get away from things?

I’d love to at some point. I’m cooped up in a little room making music, and it’s just pure imagination, in a sense. I think if I could set up a studio in a really beautiful place then I’m sure that would have a strong impact on it. As soon as I can afford it and get a bit older, I’d love to get out into the countryside – get out of the city. I think it could get really interesting from then on.

Lone. Continued

‘I’ve always had an interest in... I don’t really like the term spiritual [Laughs],

but I guess spiritual things’

Lone plays at 00.45 on Saturday at the Fuzzy Lop stage.

Political songwriters are stuffy. And Merrill Garbus, aka tUnE-yArDs, certainly doesn’t want to be one. But she’s got something to say – several things, in fact, and over three

albums she’s bawled, roared and purred

those things to increasingly unanimous acclaim. Discussing her latest, Nikki Nack, she philosophises over how best to tackle

the world’s injustices to the beat of a scrapyard drum – saving the children of the

future by reverting to childhood.

‘I believe we all have worthwhile stories to tell in our lives’

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tUnE-yArDsInterview by Callum McLean

Photos shot by Van Robinson in Los Angeles, USA

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From the outset of your new album it sounds like you almost weren’t going to make it at all. Why is that?

I find the process of making an album totally uncomfortable. I think never singing again is quite a drastic thing to propose, but when you come from a lifetime treating money as your enemy to suddenly being able to support yourself from a tour, then what is there? Did it feel like it was too easy?

Yeah, it was too good. But just being an observer to what’s hap-pening in my city in California or in my country or all over the world – that’s also what I grapple with. I believe we all have worthwhile sto-ries to tell in our lives. I’m able to acknowledge that in other people, but somehow I can’t acknowledge that in myself.The working title of your first album was White Guilt, and there are a lot of big questions about privilege on the last one. Do you consider yourself a ‘political’ songwriter?

It’s definitely not so clear now. The song ‘Stop That Man’, for ex-ample, didn’t come from the killing of Treyvon Martin specifically, but it started to grow and to touch on it. It was this huge cultural moment and cultural disappointment for a lot of people. But at the same time there was a crimewave back home in Oakland, and I was coming closer to my own fear of crime. In other words, there’s a political through-line in my personal experience, and I think that’s true for most people. As in people’s experiences colour a certain political perspective?

Certainly most artists, if they think they’re not being political, they’re representing something, they’re coming from a certain per-spective. So I don’t want to push these things down people’s throats, but I do want to poke them until they think a little bit more.There’s one helluva sinister poem midway through the record. Where does that come from?

It comes from Jonathan Swift, ‘A Modest Proposal’. I was in

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‘In other words, there’s a political through-line in my personal experience, and I think

that’s true for most people’

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university studying theatre when Radiohead’s Kid A came out and it had this really creepy imagery of a parent selling their kid to the butcher to fatten themselves up – this great metaphor of completely denying the future generations a future, of parents literally eating their children. Does that metaphor still have meaning today?

Yeah, I think we see that happening in the destruction of the environment, and the mistreatment of smaller developing countries by bigger developed countries like mine. I have this through-line from my childhood – you know, Roald Dahl and those stories – that adults are kind of menacing.There are kids all over your albums, and a kind of childishness to your songs. How do you approach all these harsh subjects by using such playful notions?

Well, that’s exactly it. Part of dealing with harsh things is to go back to play, or to allow yourself that childish view of the world – a simple view, although I don’t think it’s actually that simple. We get so attached to versions of ourselves, which I think I have been for a long time, where you have this myth of yourself as this type of person with this story and this family and this background. It becomes a heavy weight on your shoulders, and I think that’s what we don’t have as kids. Does that make kids more open-minded?

Well, there’s this freedom that we can be whoever we want to be. Lately I see this in other people and I think, Well, it’s up to me too to just let go of things. Can I really let go of the things that I think I have to be? But these things imprison me in some way – can I just drop them, like a kid would drop a hobby? Like, ‘I don’t play with dolls any more.’ That it’s that easy to be free. Does that sound cheesy?

tUnE-yArDs. Continued

tUnE-yArDs plays at 19.45 on Saturday at Teddy Widder stage.

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South Africa’s John Wizards seamlessly blend the warmth of afro-pop genres like township soul, mbaqanga and shangaan with electro-pop and R&B. If that eclectic sonic journey isn’t adventure enough, the song titles of last year’s revered debut –

‘Limpopo’, ‘Hogsback’ and ‘Lushoto’ – allude to exotic escapes and fond memories. We

asked mastermind John Withers to dig deep and recount one such tale

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Down The Rabbit Hole. Short Story

A camping story by

John Wizards

Words by John Withers

Artwork by Ane Lopez

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A few years ago I went camping in Tanzania with my girlfriend. She had already been there for a while, living on a boat, and was deter-mined to get away from the sea and head inland. This was unfortunate because snorkelling and swimming were essentially all that I wanted to do. Thinking that my chance would come, I conceded and we be-gan our trip by heading inland. Many strenuous hikes and weeks later my chance came: we were heading back to the coast, and there was a beach in the north that I wanted to visit.

The bus ride there was uncharacteristically eventful: a severed right mirror, a woman knocked out in a particularly bumpy patch (to most passengers’ amusement) and a breakdown.

By the time that we arrived it was dark, and I could hear and smell the sea. We made dinner on our tragically small gas stove, pitched our tent (which, in its small size, is almost equally as tragic) in a spot that would give us a beautiful view of the beach in the morning.

I woke with such anticipation, opened the tent and looked out. Filling my entire view, and dwarfing our tent, was a strangely military looking vehicle. It was occupied by a German couple who were travel-ling through East Africa, who I imagine came very close to squashing us in their effort to occupy the beach. The moment was spoiled, the climax of my journey ruined, and I spent the next few days in the shadow of this enormous truck, feeling very hard done by and trying my best to avoid asking the friendly German couple if I could use their almost equally enormous stove.

John Wizards. Continued

John Wizards plays at 14.45 on Sunday at the Fuzzy Lop stage.

‘By the time that we arrived it was dark, and I could hear and smell the sea’

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Cooking With...By Phil van der Krogt. Image by Lonneke van der Palen

If his moniker, FilosofischeStilte, hints at anything, it’s that Luuk Graham isn’t a man of many words. The young producer, whose string of beat tapes, EPs and high-profile festival appearances at just 20 years of age already make him something of a veteran, prefers to let his atmospheric instrumental compositions speak for themselves. You might even call him an old soul, ’cause he isn’t much of a party animal either. Instead of late-night binges, he’s more at home chasing a manufactured high by riding the wavelengths of his own hazy beats.Where does that resolve come from and what else goes into his belly? Years of holidaying on the Zeeland coast with his family.

‘When I was a kid we always went camping in Zeeland. We’d stay in our own tent. When my little brother was born that tent got big-ger. Until my 16th birthday, I went on trips like that twice a year. One of our family friends would always go fishing, and he would give

whatever he caught to my mom. My mom, who’s a cook – she has her own catering company – would then prepare it on a little gas stove. Once ready, we’d get together with a few families. Kind of like hud-dling around a campfire but then instead it was a picnic table. That was really nice.’

How to make FilosofischeStilte’s Barbecued Sea Bass

• Gutandcleanyourseabass.• Grabafewsheetsofdriedseaweed

andcutthemintothinstrips.• Openuptheseabassandstuffitwith

theseaweed.• Coattheoutsideoftheseabasswith

lemonjuice.• Seasontheseabasswithfreshly

groundblackpepperandseasalt.• ThrowtheseabassontheBBQand

cookuntilthemeatiseasilyflakedwithafork.

FilosofischeStilte plays at 23.45 on Satur-day at the Fuzzy Lop.

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1 freshly caught sea bass1 handful of dried seaweed

1 lemon, juiced

crushed peppersea salt

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Raised on the frontier of the Texas desert, all four Parquet Courts know a thing or two about sunbathing and animals. With their third record in stores, we discussed influences

What album made you want to be in a band?

Trio and Error by Trio. They’re very minimal, a simple but at the same time very conceptual band. They're definitely artists. They’ve had a great influence on Parquet Courts and Sunbathing Animal in particular.Which album gets played the most in your tour van?

That would be Henge Beat by Total Control, a band from Austra-lia. They’re one of the best bands on planet Earth right now. They’re friends of ours, we toured the US with them, and played with them in Australia when we went there.

Which album would you want to throw into a volcano?

But then I would never be able to hear it again. So you’re asking me to put an album on blast? An album I don’t like? I just don’t think it’s in my character to throw something into a volcano. Maybe there’s an album that should be thrown into a volcano because it’s so good. But then where the hell am I going to find a volcano?What is the most obscure album you (and no one else) know?

That would have to be, like, my own band's 7" that I made when I was in high school, but no one wants to hear about that. So how about SMD – King of Drunks. Why is that one so obscure? I don’t know. Probably because no one likes it.

Parquet Courts plays at 21.45 on Saturday at Teddy Widder stage.

Crate Digging With...By Koen van Bommel. Image by Van Robinson

Parquet CourtsWe asked Andrew Savage some questions

about albums by other bands

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Damon AlbarnAfter a hugely successful career fronting Blur, Gorillaz and The Good, The Bad, & The Queen, musical mag-pie Albarn has finally released an al-bum under his own name. Incorpo-rating elements of reggae, soul and African music, his downbeat vision of the modern world and our place in it is a truly captivating, thought-provok-ing listen.

De StaatDirty, sludgy guitars and thundering drums are this alternative rock band’s calling card. Singer Torre Florim de-livers lines with just the right amount of sneer to show he really means it, while the rest of the band dutifully pounds out the grooves.

Floating Points & Motor City Drum Ensemble

Few who witnessed London’s Sam Shepard and Stuttgart’s Danilo Ples-sow go at it on the decks in Utrecht’s EKKO last December will forget it. Mixing organic funk into dubstep and techno, and soul into deep house re-spectively, individually these two are pioneers; together, they’re irresistible.

FrikstailersThere’s more to this Mexican duo than bright wigs and keytars; mixing dancehall, cumbia and reggaeton with EDM’s beats and bleeps into a heady party cocktail, they know how to get people moving on the dance floor.

Little DragonInspired by ‘Janet Jackson slow jams’, Little Dragon’s fourth studio album, Nabuma Rubberland, is sure to see the Gothenburg group crack the big time. Rolling, shiny synths and immac-ulate production lend their modern pop a timeless quality and make it im-possible to resist.

SuperfoodThere’s plenty to get excited about re-garding Superfood, one of the best of the new wave of UK guitar bands. With sweet melodies, razor-sharp gui-tars and rolling drums, they recall the best of mid-’90s college indie rock.

The Black Marble SelectionThe raw, visceral thrill of the Deep South’s Delta blues and good ol' fash-ioned rock’n’roll are what inspire this Dutch band, whose boisterous live shows hark back to those genre’s gid-dy heydays of the '50s and '60s.

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embraced a diverse range of styles over the years; drone rock, freakbeat, Beatles pop and Dylan-esque folk. Recent output may not match that of his heyday, but he’s rightly revered as a living legend and one of the ’90s’ biggest talents.

The Soft MoonWhat started as a solo project for multi-instrumentalist Luis Vasquez has developed into a full-on, pedal-to-the-metal juggernaut; his driving, hyp-notic rock sounds like an angrier Nine Inch Nails, complete with heavy kraut-rock and darkwave influences.

The StrypesBeing mere teenagers hasn’t stopped this Irish four-piece garnering a host of fans of their raucous bar-room blues and R&B. Counting Bo Diddley, The Yardbirds and Chuck Berry as in-fluences, their stomping guitars and wailing harmonica are best experi-enced live, up close and as sweaty as possible.

FriDAy SiDE PrOGrAMME

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15.00 - 17.00 Planet Trash

17.00 - 19.00 DJ-Collectief Dave Grohl & The Topless DJ’s

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00.00 - 03.00 POW! City DJ team

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BalthazarBelgium has long been fertile ground for glorious, leftfield indie-pop groups, and Balthazar are no exception. With quirky lyrics, artistic flourishes and melodies and hooks by the bucketful, they possess an unabashed sense of fun and joy that’s as infectious as it is refreshing.

Bassekou kouyaté & ngoni BaMaster of the 'ngoni', an ancient, banjo- like instrument, Malian Bassekou Kouyaté creates surprisingly mod-ern pop songs with an African heart – and just a hint of blues – alongside his wife, Amy Sacko, and two sons.

Benji BOne of the UK’s leading DJs, his deep love for soul and pioneering electronic music is showcased every Thursday on his eponymous Radio 1 music show, bringing the newest and best sounds to the masses.

DeWolffDrums, guitar and Hammond organ: the Holy Trinity of all good psyche-

delic blues bands. And that’s exact-ly what these three Dutch brothers play on their fun, up-tempo, classical blues songs.

Electric EyeThere’s a cosmic brilliance to these Norwegians’ psych-rock creations; part shamanic, part demonic, it’s trippy and foreboding in equal measure. One for fans of the Black Angels, Wooden Shjips and early Monster Magnet.

FilosofischeStilteKnown as the Dutch Flying Lotus, The Hague native Luuk Graham makes languid, melodic, electronic hip hop that stealthily creeps up on your brains and limbs. Beautifully layered and me-ticulously produced, his tracks give pause for thought and seek a deeper interaction between body and mind.

half Moon runIt’s amazing to think that the Montre-al four-piece barely knew each other when making their debut album. Light yet atmospheric, the delicate instru-mentation and whimsical lyrics lend a solemn air to their richly detailed mod-ern folk tales.

hallo VenrayLocal trio stitch together well-worn influences from the Beatles to Neil Young to Tom Petty. Some 25 years and 13 records after their debut, they’re still creatively restless enough to release a concept album about the

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number seven, another reason they’re hailed as one of the Netherlands’ best-loved groups.

James Vincent McMorrowInspired by Sufjan Stevens and Band of Horses, this Irish musician didn’t pick up a guitar until he was 19. De-spite being a late bloomer, his second album Post Tropical is a lush collection of glacial piano and horn-led confes-sional ballads, his haunting falsetto in-spiring comparisons to Bon Iver.

kid karateThis Dublin duo certainly bring the noise. Along with song titles such as ‘Louder’ and ‘You Need Violence’, Ste-ven Gannon’s four-to-the-floor drum-ming and Kevin Breen’s thrashing gui-tar and primal howls leave their impact on your ears and your gut.

La Chiva GantivaA melting pot of influences and nation-alities, this collective mix afrobeat, ska, funk and rock into good-time Latin par-ty anthems, and are guaranteed to bring the sunshine whatever the weather.

LoneSimilar to Gold Panda, Brit Matt Cutler doesn’t let dance-floor dynamics cur-

tail his creativity. Combining abstract beats with wistful, dreamlike textures and melodies, his affinity for early ’90s hardcore, house and rave still shines through, but not enough to turn his mu-sic into standard dance stompers.

Parquet CourtsAustin Brown and Andrew Savage create a joyous racket that borrows heavily from a well-trodden NYC aes-thetic and alt-rock deities like Wire. But when the tunes are this zippy and catchy, it’s easy to overlook a few borrowed motifs. Garage rock never sounded so fun or life-affirming.

TenTemPiésIt’s easy to get lost in the sunshine mel-odies of eight-piece collective TenTem-Piés, who are gearing up to release their second album. Their upbeat mix of Latin rock, ska, and reggae grooves coolly along and provides an infectious, fun-filled party atmosphere.

The Black keysFar from sticking to tired guitar’n’ drums, thrash’n’bang stereotypes, The Black Keys have recently turned to exploring melody and groove. With help from Brian ‘Danger Mouse’ Bur-ton, they’ve found a more populist sound that’s seen them become one of the biggest, bestselling bands in the world today.

The BohicasHaving garnered significant attention by signing to Domino Records and touring the UK as part of the NME Ra-dar Tour, 2014 is shaping up to be a

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big year for these four Essex lads and their arresting, dynamic take on mod-ern rock’n’roll.

The VeilsOnce compared to a young Nick Cave and David Bowie, lead singer Finn An-drews has a magnetic, manic stage presence that’s backed by rabid elec-tric guitars, acoustic warmth and sun-ny melodies. Few bands have sus-tained such quality over ten years and four albums.

Thomas DybdahlThis ridiculously talented multi-instru-mentalist has enjoyed quite the ca-reer; over six studio albums his ele-gant and expressive songs of love and loss have won plenty of acclaim and a loyal, international following.

tunE-yArDsMerill Garbus has long ploughed her own furlough, but recent album Nik-ki Nack sees her tone down the play-fulness and eclecticism in favour of something slower and more spiritu-al. She still deals with big issues, but from a more confident, assured po-sition; in her hands, maturity never sounded such fun.

uncle Acid and the DeadbeatsA thunderstorm of psychedelic doom metal, this heavy English band sound like the apocalyptic soundtrack for the four horsemen. Or, put another way, imagine Black Sabbath jamming with Alice Cooper, fronted by Iggy Pop and Charles Manson. Truly original, truly spellbinding.

Festival Guide. continuedSaturday

SATurDAy SiDE PrOGrAMME

VuiGE VELD

13.00 - 15.00 DJ Slowpoke

15.00 - 17.00 Kees Biet

17.00 - 19.00 De Rooie Neger

19.00 - 22.00 Planet Trash

22.00 - 24.00 DJ Manthem & Short Fuse

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Down The Rabbit Hole. Festival Guide

Admiral FreebeeSupport slots with indie legends dEUS and Neil Young tell you all about Tom Van Laere’s songwriting talents. His sweet, melancholic acoustic tales are deceptively life-affirming, something that five albums and a loyal following ably demonstrate.

Analog AfricaCrate diggers extraordinaire Pedo Knopp and Samy Ben Redjeb scour the globe for rare African and Latin grooves from the '60s and '70s, mix-ing them together to create warm, funk-filled odysseys to forgotten times and places.

Courtney BarnettThere’s a languid, laid-back feel to this Australian singer-songwriter’s care-free music. She specialises in wit-ty, self-deprecating tunes about the mundanity of suburban existence, backed up by rambling, rolling indie-folk that slowly worms its way into your brain.

EavesJoseph Lyons is aiming high, with lit-tle more than a guitar and his craft for company. His angelic voice, wry tales and haunting acoustic songs cast him as a modern-day Jeff Buckley or Elliot Smith; high praise, but fully deserved.

FoalsYannis Philippakis & co have carved out a unique niche for themselves over the last six years; moving from angular post-punk and math rock to something far more expansive and emotive, they’ve become one of the UK’s best live bands. Personal yet populist, acclaimed by critics and pub-lic alike, their talent made the move from indie fringe to headliner as ef-fortless as it was inevitable.

Greg WilsonThe first DJ to appear on British tele-vision, Greg Wilson is something of a veteran; he’s been spinning his unique versions of post-disco electro funk for over 40 years now. Visionary, pioneer and tastemaker, he’s one of the disci-pline’s most influential practitioners.

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hozierAndrew Hozier-Byrne grew up listen-ing to soul, jazz and Deep South R&B, and it shows. A self-taught pianist and guitarist, and alumnus of Trinity Col-lege Dublin, his music is raw, soulful and emotional, full of the gospel and lush orchestration that was his mus-ical education.

John WizardsA multinational band brought togeth-er by fate as much as anything, John Wizards’ debut LP has a lo-fi, dream-like quality and employs a dizzying-ly eclectic range of influences: Con-golese rumba, tropicalia, dance music and Malian meditative music to name but a few. No wonder the Guardian named it 2013’s most magical album.

kuromaTouring as a guitarist for MGMT has clearly influenced Hank Sullivant, as sunshine riffs and hook-laden psych pop are the order of the day for his new band Kuroma. A joyous explosion of bright, fizzy indie.

Los de AbajoEvery fiesta should have a romance-tinged mariachi band who cherry

pick from rock, ska, and merengue with skill and taste, and these Mexi-cans are ours. Party punk salsa of the highest order.

MGMTThere’s more to indie darlings MGMT than meets the eye. Look beyond the mega hits of ‘Time to Pretend’ and ‘Kids’ and you’ll find a thoughtful duo infatuated with the off-kilter charm of 1970s art-rock – think Brian Eno, Spacemen 3 and Television Person-alities – and what they lack in hooks, they more than make up for with in-telligence.

PoliçaCombining Ryan Olsen’s smooth, electronic soundscapes and Channy Leaneagh’s hazy, manipulated vocals, Poliça’s thoroughly modern goth-pop sounds at times more like sprawl-ing jams than actual songs. Twitchy rhythms and dystopian synths add to the intrigue of a band not afraid to take risks.

TaymirThese four fresh-faced lads build songs stuffed with razor-sharp guitars and catchy-as-hell melodies, a throw-back to indie-pop’s halcyon days and the easy charm of mid-Nineties US college radio.

TemplesFor fans of the Byrds, the Kinks and all things British Invasion; Tem-ples make trippy, psychedelic pop that harks back to the late 1960s. But there’s craft behind the familiar-

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ity, and the songwriting prowess of James Bagshaw and Thomas Warms-ley saves their music from being mere pastiche.

The naked and FamousFormed in 2008 by five students at Auckland’s MAINZ music college, The Naked and Famous fuse fuzzed-out rock guitar and indie motifs to stomp-ing disco grooves and upbeat dance music, a formula that’s seen them tour the world, relocate to the US and re-lease two widely acclaimed albums.

Syd ArthurCaterbury’s Syd Arthur have mastered the kind of cosmic serenity that was so prevalent in '60s psychedelic rock, and adding a dash a funk and contem-porary rock guitar makes them stand out as originals, not mere revivalists.

WarpaintThere’s a dream-like haziness to Warpaint’s music, alluring and intoxi-cating in equal measure. Structure and hooks may be sparse, but their gorgeous, winding jams have a hyp-notic quality; coupled with ghostly vo-cals, it’s nocturnal indie in thrall to trip hop and glacial R&B.

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SunDAy SiDE PrOGrAMME

VuiGE VELD

13.00 - 15.00 DJ-Collectief Dave Grohl & the Topless Dj's

15.00 - 17.00 Kees Biet

17.00 - 20.00 De Rooie Neger

20.00 - 22.00 DJ Tommi

22.00 - 24.00 DJ's Blonde-Redhead & The Hippie Hippie Hoorah's

24.00 - 03.00 DJ Dab

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22.45 - 3.00Teddy Widder after hours

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