Rootsville Festival

Yes people, Rootsville Festival will not be stopped by Rain, the event has marquees ready to go, there will be no mud as the area is all classic concrete, some tarmac but mostly paving or wooden decking. You won’t need special footwear, there won’t be mud to worry about and you won’t need to worry about flooding, the Festival site is on higher ground. The Festival is going to be a lot of fun and you are all invited. Rain or no rain, the Rootsville Festival is full steam ahead.

There’s been a lot of preparation going on this end and you’ll see it all on Saturday. But just when you thought the rain and the floods couldn’t make it more complicated for Kent (His house got flooded and he’s been wading around knee deep in water trying to put the finishing touches to the event organisation for the Festival)…..things have now got really weird. Hello Magazine are rumoured to be coming to Rootsville Festival. Yes, thats right, Hello Magazine. Here’s a message just in from our man John Mostyn to you all:

This lovely lot are coming:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMoKqFiJvRwThey are from here:
http://www.godsgoldenacre.org.uk/

A real island of hope in a sea of despair.

They are flying in on Friday morning from Kwa Zulu-Natal, Friday night they are performing at the SA embassy in London introduced by some fella called Jude Law. Sounds flash but it’s gonna be stuffy and lots of standing around for our visitors.

Point is when they arrive with us on Saturday afternoon we really want to make them feel properly welcome in the UK in a way only a chilled, funky Birmingham crowd can do. In return they are going to give us a special selection of their favourite songs and dances from Saturday night back home.

Kent has arranged for them to play under one of the massive arches by the Custard Factory on GibB St. so lots of room to get out of the rain. Please come and welcome them.
We are filming them for a DVD release which will go around the world and we want to show the world that we are not phased by a bit of water - we are British, it’s what we do!

Before they hit the stage we have tremendous entertainment from Steve Gibbons, Chrissy van Dyke, Soweto Kinch, The Birmingham Community Gospel Choir, many other fine folk AND IT’S ALL FREE!

We will also have a few words from the remarkable Heather Reynolds who set up God’s Golden Acre and bizarrely I’ve just heard that Hello Magazine have made an offer for exclusive pictures of the tour so maybe we’ll all be in Hello so put your best mac on!

Now for Sunday another cunning plan - get out of the rain by going underground. Have a look here, it looks fab:
http://fiercetv.co.uk/index.php?controller=event&mm_action=view&id=136
Cool eh!
So see you under the arches and down the tunnels.
Please pass this on,
Best to All,
John

You are invited to join us and a whole festival full of other mad people at

Rootsville on 30th June 2007,
Custard Factory, Gibb Street, Digbeth, Birmingham, B9 4AA, UK

Here are the Rootsville Festival confirmed performance times.

The Music Line up is confirmed as

Under The Arches
Bryan Corbett 1.00 - 1.40pm
Summary 1.55 - 2.35pm
Chrissy Van Dyke 2.50 - 3.30pm
Soweto Kinch 4.00 - 4.40pm
Zulus 5.15 - 6pm
The Lovechild Electric 6.15 - 6.45pm
Hot Monocles 7.00-7.30pm
Oneyesblue 7.45 - 8.25pm
Misty’s Big Adventure 8.40 - 9.20pm
Kubichek! 9.35 - 10.15pm
Inspiral Carpets 10.35 - 11.35pm
The Ripps 11.50 - 12.30am
Dandi Wind 12.45 - 01.25am
The Presets 01.40 - 02.20am
Plastic Toys 2.35 - 3.15am

Rooty Pool
Birmingham Community Gospel Choir 12.15 -12.45pm
Juldeh ( African Violinist ) 1.00 - 1.30pm
Lonesome Dogs 1.45 - 2.15pm
1 Eye 2.30 - 3.00pm
Steve Gibbons 3.15 - 3.55pm

Gibb Street
Gospel Choir 4.40 - 4.45pm
Zulus 4.45 - 5.10pm

Lakeside Stage
Midas 6.00 - 6.30pm
Voodoo Johnson 6.45 - 7.15pm
Dholblasters 7.30 - 8.00pm
Thee Single Spy 8.15 - 8.45pm
Benjamin and The Sirens 9.00 - 9.40pm
Destroyers and Dholblasters 9.55 - 10.55pm
Osibisa 11.10 -12.10am
Cracked Actors 12.25 - 1.05am
Shimm 1 1.15 - 1.55pm

Medicine Bar (performance times to be announced)
Boom Room
Hip Hop and Drum n Bass
Soulthump DJs
MDK Cartel
Makoto + Deeizm
Bryan Gee
Al(liquid V)
Breakthru DJs

plus more surprise acts to follow….
and Theatre, films street art poetry slam debating chamber dance battles b boys beatboxing vj tunnel fashion show thrillout zone chillout zone casino festival food childrens room with Mad Pete.

Rootsville - A Festival the weather cannot spoil.
The marquees are ready to go up (the rain holds no fear for us), there is no mud, and with an attitude to party like a DESTROYER, the only forecast we are concerned with is:

THE ROOTSVILLE HURRICANE – BRING IT ON.

ROOTSVILLE WILL BE ALL IT HAS PROMISED – MAKE NO MISTAKE. WE ARE JUST A FEW DAYS AWAY. - it’s gonna be FANTASTIC!

Midday-6pm Free to get in, families welcome.
6pm-6am £20
http://www.rootsvillefestival.com

Umbrellas and stilts are optional but to be honest, you’ll only lose them. Rootsville will be the best music and Fun for all, all day and all night.

Bring your friends, come and meet a load of new ones who can’t wait to meet you too, no computer skills necessary, it’s gonna be a big one…..

Stop Press!! The organisers of the Rootsville Festival are delighted to announce that the internationally acclaimed Young Zulu Warriors will be special guests of the Festival in Birmingham on June 30th 2007, performing for free in the afternoon before officially opening the evening’s entertainment at 7.30pm.

The Young Zulu Warriors are a remarkable group of 18 boys and 10 girls, all teenagers, from Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, who have been raised by God’s Golden Acre, a charity that cares for orphaned children and young people abandoned as a result of HIV/AIDS and violence.

Following last year’s sensational sell-out tour of Europe, the young Zulu performers are returning to the UK for the first time in five years to present Thula Siswe, an AIDS-themed musical written by GGA founder Heather Reynolds.

Jude Law will launch the month-long tour at a special reception at South Africa House on Friday June 29.

The following day, the 28 strong cast will make an exclusive appearance at the Rootsville Festival, thrilling audiences with breathtaking Zulu tribal dancing, thundering drumming and blood-stirring songs drawn from their celebrated Saturday night concerts in Natal, all performed in full traditional regalia.

Young Zulu Warriors will perform free around 5pm. Then again to launch the paid for entertainment

Other artists taking part include Inspiral Carpets, Soweto Kinch, Osibisa, The Ripps, Kubichek

Midday-6pm Free, families welcome. 6pm-6am £20 (first 500 tickets £15)

For further information contact

Mike Davies
Tel: 0121 443 3600
E-mail: rootsville@mikedav.co.uk

Rootsville Festival Tickets:
Available Nationally from The Ticketsellers.
Call 08707 544445 (9.30am – 6.00pm mon-fri, and 11- 4pm Saturday)
or try www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Tickets available in Birmingham
Jibbering Records 0121 449 4551
Old school Daze 0121 472 0777
Swordfish 0121 633 4859
And other selected local retailers (check in store for details).

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