The Aerosolics Festival - Fusing Music with Art

Released on = March 13, 2006, 5:47 am

Press Release Author = The Aerosolics Festival - Fusing Music with Art

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = This summer the first ever Aerosolics will rewrite festival
standards and concepts as it fuses visual and acoustic art together. At a secret
location TBA in Surrey (30th June to 2nd July), Aerosolics will thrill eardrums,
dazzle eyes, electrify limbs - and all whilst opening minds! It is a festival
designed to flout expectations and offer fresh and new experiences.

Press Release Body = "..will enliven dance parties from New York to Baghdad" -
Rolling Stone Magazine on Gogol Bordello

"There's revolution in the air" - John Peel, introducing The Bays

"Buy, beg, steal, borrow or Myspace it, just do whatever you can to get a piece of
the underground" - NME on The Sunshine Underground

"Skitz has successfully managed to reflect a culture and upbringing that is entirely
UK." Like the man says, \"The revelation will not be civilised. It will be unruly,
grimy, low down and raw\". - BBC

This summer the first ever Aerosolics will rewrite festival standards and concepts
as it fuses visual and acoustic art together. At a secret location in Surrey (30th
June to 2nd July), Aerosolics will thrill eardrums, dazzle eyes, electrify limbs -
and all whilst opening minds! It is a festival designed to flout expectations and
offer fresh and new experiences.

Bending genres between indie-rock, reggae, hip hop, gypsy beats, electro, deezie
beats, drum n bass, ska, rock n roll, Brazilian beats and breaks, Aerosolics
attendees will enjoy an eclectic mix of premium live acts across three main stages.
On Friday, Aerosolics showcases the finest in new British rock music. The Sunshine
Underground, The Departure, The Young Knives, The Feeling, The Rumble Strips,
Winterville, Spunge and The John James Newman Band will be warming up the crowd,
ready for a headlining rock act of titanic stature. A sonic switch on Saturday will
then arrive courtesy of dance music maestros The Bays, who are programming the
stage with their hand-picked selection of acts TBA. On Sunday, gypsy-punk madness
from Gogol Bordello, funk from The Baker Brothers and some funk-dub from the
collective Monster Piece (Babyhead and Think) round everything off in style
alongside massive acts that festival lovers have been longing to see at a UK
festival for years. Programming the Hip Hop and Reggae stage are the legendary
Skitz and The Sea, recruiting the freshest homegrown talent. Skitz says his stage
is "a jamboree of top notch order, a family affair bypassing musical boundaries and
direction." There is also the globally orientated Drifts Stage: all manner of weird
and wonderful beats conducted by festival extraordinaires Continental Drifts (Lost
Vagueness, Glastonbury). Quality acts are being confirmed all of the time.

For your visual intoxication, the Aerosolics festival site will be an evolving,
interactive work of art. Witness graffiti guru Blade paint live and speak about the
origins of aerosol art. Special guests 54 Crew, TMP, AAGH and Sickboy will be
spray-painting not only boards but also classic cars, tanks, trains and planes.
Empty spray cans will be recycled as massive field sculptures and preserved at
Aerospace, Aerosolics' very own exhibition space. On Saturday, Aerosolics hosts the
first ever UK round of the worldwide contest Write4Gold, where 8 selected crews will
be judged by respected Writers like Bates. Festival goers can also get creative at
the massive target wall with paint bombs, brushes, cans and rollers.

On the bill at Cable Street Cinema will be the latest releases from Manga
Entertainment and Tartan Extreme, underground short films and graffiti
documentaries. The Nizim Soundsystem are orchestrating these rare sights, alongside
top VJs and the first 3D technology to be used at a UK festival.

Parkour crews, witnessed around the world lunging across building tops and
skyscrapers, all trying to compete as the real Spiderman, will be running riot
across the site to attendees' amazement, allowing them to experience this crazy new
art form up close and personal.

If all this wasn't enough, MPs have already accepted invitations to attend the
community debating area, to discuss graffiti as an art form.

Tickets are limited and go on sale very soon - strictly OVER 18s only, £75 for the
weekend

For more information, please contact James Brennan at Bright Young Things Press on:
james.brennan@brightyoungthingsco.com or call Lucy Wilson on 01242 588070


Web Site = http://www.aerosolics.com

Contact Details = James Brennan
Green Knowe, School Lane, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3RE
+44 (0) 7740363889
james.brennan@brightyoungthingsco.com

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