In case you hadn’t noticed, almost all of the incredible line up for this year’s London Field Day music festival has just been released to the public and it’s clear that once again, they’ve spared no expense to put on a great show.
The annual field day festival has been held in Victoria Park every year for eight years running and returns once again to our favourite, canal side London Park the weekend of June 6th and 7th for two days of music, street feasting and enough beer from the London Brewer’s Market to paddle around in with one of those rented row boats. (We certainly don’t recommend attempting this, they typically sell the type of beer that most civilized governments would imprison you for wasting.)
First of all, electronica legend David Snaith (aka Caribou) is set to headline day one of the festival but not before some of the past few years’ other festival favourites take the stage.
You can check out the full line up list for full details but some highlights will include London art rockers Django Django, who should be cranking out some new tunes for this summer’s set, electronica singer songwriter Chet Faker, who will be over from his native Australia to continue promoting his 2014 release Built on Glass, undergroundLondon DJ duo Elijah and Skilliam as well as the unbelievably talented FKA twigs, who is known just as much for her brilliantly artistic live show as she is for her genre bending version of electronic alt-pop.
On day two, Oxford rock veterans Ride will take the stage to a seething sea of fans that will ultimately be responsible for another new layer of grass seed being laid down in Victoria mid-June. The just as headline worthy (and if not, more so) Patti Smith is slated on day two as well. Smith and her band have agreed to play her 1975 album Horses in its entirety and probably won’t do so again for another forty years so, if you’re into 70’s punk, you’d be wise not to miss this one.
Field Day has sold out every year since its inception, which is why we’re writing about it in January and not in the middle of May when we’ve nothing left but to tune into Field Day Radio. Let’s make it so that we can do both at the same time, eh? Like any worthy music festal, tickets are a bit more than your average Sunday down the pub but like anything worth doing, Field Day is worth doing right.
