Rootsville Festival 30th June 2007
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
Boom Room
Hip Hop and Drum n Bass
Soulthump DJs
MDK Cartel
Alix Perez
Makoto + Deeizm
Bryan Gee
Al(liquid V)
Breakthru DJs
plus more surprise acts to follow….
Extra acts and in Other Venues
Theatre, films street art poetry slam debating chamber dance battles bboys beatboxing vj tunnel fashion show thrillout zone chillout zonecasino festival food childrens room with Mad Pete.
The Rootsville Hurricane Blows In To Birmingham.
If it’s summer, it must be festival season. You’ve been there,you’ve done that. You want something new, something different,something inspirational.
That’ll be Rootsville, then.
Picture this.
• Four stages set against the Victorian buildings of the UK’s mostunique venue with non-stop music of all sounds, sizes and shapes.
• From homespun heroes to global giants, from expansive to eclectic, from noon to 6am.
• Totally free from midday to 6pm. Just £20 for the next 12 hours.
“The spirit of Rootsville is hiptripstic and happy withrandom acts of spontaneous entertainment and explosive catharticperformances in a carnival like atmosphere,” says festival maestro KentDavis. “And don’t think we’re saving the best till last either – one ofthe biggest acts will be before 6pm.”
Agroundbreaking not-for-profit festival, Rootsville takes place Saturday30th June amid the cool, colourful contemporary surroundings of theCustard Factory in downtown Birmingham.
From indie to Indian, from gypsy to jazz, from punk to funk.
Under The Arches Stage
Headlining the Festival and marking the debut of the venue’s newUnder the Arches stage, will be 90s Madchester indie legends andmasters of three minute pop perfections INSPIRAL CARPETS.
They’ll be joined under the massive railway arch by a line-up thatincludes Aussie electronic beats sensations THE PRESETS; Canadianglo-sticks electro groove nu rave outfit DANDI WIND; Newcastle’sfeedback swamped incendiary indie guitar finest KUBICHEK!; andBirmingham’s eclectic eccentric exponents of the weird and wonderfulMISTY’S BIG ADVENTURE.
Lakeside Stage
Making the Lakeside Stage their own with irresistible percussiondriven rhythms as warm as solar flares, the headliners are the hugelyinfluential Afro-Caribbean godfathers of World Music, OSIBISA.
Sharing the bill will be Birmingham’s 15 piece multi-ethnicfirebrands of Eastern European folk, THE DESTROYERS; the dynamiteDHOLBLASTERS with their Banghra batteria; Coventry’s explosiveflag-wavers of ska-punk pop THE RIPPS; skunkrockers CRACKED ACTORS; andhomegrown fuzzed out Americana fourpiece ONEYESBLUE.
Rooty Pool
Fresh from glowing reviews for his A Life In The Day Of B19 - TalesOf The Tower Block album, Birmingham based MOBO award winningalto-saxophonist and rapper SOWETO KINCH leads a strong line up of freemusic.
Keeping the jazz and blues flame burning, he’ll be sharing the stagewith, among others, jazz dub octet SUGARBEATS; acclaimed riti (that’san African 1 string fiddle, but you knew that) virtuoso JULDEH; bluesysinger-songwriter CHRISSY VAN DYKE; local living legend STEVE GIBBONS;rising stars BENJAMIN AND THE SIRENS; and the full vocal glory of theBIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR.
Medicine Bar
Hailing from Birmingham, MDK CARTEL are a troupe of Asian rappers,mc’s and DJ’s who fuse modern day grime with Bhangra inspired beats ontheir current Hostile Takeover EP. Helping to keep the mood chilled andthe air hot will be Boom Room, the Soul Thump DJs, Makoto and Bryan Gee
As well as the live acts already announced and special surpriseguests, there’ll also be DJ sounds from the likes of Scott Bleeps,Bobby & Sam, and Mama Feel Good plus Theatre, Films, StreetArt,Poetry Slam, Dance Battles, Beatboxing, fashion show, Thrill-out andChill-out Zones and loads of daytime children’s entertainment andfabulous Festival Food.
Rootsville Midsummer Festival
Saturday June 30. Custard Factory, Digbeth, Birmingham.
Midday-6pm Free. 6pm-6am £20 (first 500 tickets £15)
http://www.rootsvillefestival.com
For further information contact:
For interviews, press info, review or competition tickets: Mike Davies 0121 443 3600
E-mail rootsville@mikedav.co.uk or see online epk: http://www.sonicbids.com/RootsvilleFestival
Festival Organiser: Kent Davis @ Rooty Frooty 07747 037821
Artist Information
Under the Arches Stage
Inspiral Carpets
Top chaps, all round nice blokes and leading lights of the 80sMadchester scene, the Inspirals are probably best known for theglorious pop rush that was This Is How It Feels, but in the lateeighties and early nineties they were more consistent chart visitorsthan either the Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses.
Note: Tom Hingley is available for interviews
www.inspiralcarpets.com
Kubichek!
Roaring out of Newcastle with Not Enough Night, a debut album asincendiary as the intentionally explosive exclamation mark thatdoorstops their moniker, like all the best bands they come armed with amusical manifesto that encompasses their lust for uncompromising DIYpunk jitter, noir tinged, New Wave tainted atmos, and feedback swampedmelodic sass.
www.kubichek.co.uk
Dandi Wind
Fronted by the striking figure of vocalist, dancer and all roundvolcanic presence Dandilion Schlase, the Canadians have been taking theelectro nu rave scene by the scruff of the neck and giving it a goodtalking to with their glo stick friendly grooves.
www.myspace.com/dandiwind
The Presets
The latest big thing out of Australia, the Sydney-based electronic duoarrive with the sort of buzz for their new album and in your face liveshows that you normally only get from a warehouse full of very angryhornets.
www.myspace.com/thepresets
Misty’s Big Adventure
A glorious 8-piece band from Birmingham in the UK, made up of brothersand sisters and twins and saxophones and trumpets and cute, weirddancers who produce the most uplifting, life affirming tunes you’veheard since Louie Armstrong played with the Lovin Spoonful.
www.mistysbigadventure.co.uk
Hot Monocles
A new young Birmingham outfit with the stomping tunes to match their stage presence and infectious excitability.
www.myspace.com/hotmonocles
The Lovechild Electric
Rapidly making a name around the burgeoning Birmingham scene, thequartet meld musical passions with an eclectic mix of influences, andwrap them up in nagging melodies, impassioned harmonies, and asmattering of good old fashioned indie-rock. With a violin.
www.myspace.com/thelovechildelectric
Lakeside Stage
Osibisa
Emerging in the 70s with their dancingly irresistible hit Sunshine Day,the influential self styled ‘Godfathers of World Music’ remain adynamite live experience, blending African and Caribbean beats withrhythmic melodies and hints of jazz.
www.osibisa.co.uk
The Ripps
Drawing on hometown Coventry’s Two-Tone heritage and ramming it withthe high-energy punk of The Buzzcocks and The Clash, their cool pop,punk ska has seen them named by the NME as one of the movers andshakers of the new Midlands scene.
www.myspace.com/theripps
The Destroyers
A Birmingham based 15-piece multi-cultural group with a big love offiery Balkan gypsy folk, ignited by banks of brass, fiddles,accordions, and drums. And hats! Loads of hats.
www.thedestroyers.co.uk
The Dholblasters
Drums a go go in a rhythmic torrent of urgent Bhangra beats,spearheaded by Dholi Gurchanan Mall, one of the world’s most prolificand dynamic Bhangra personalities.
www.dholblasters.com
Cracked Actors
A heady brew of old school punk, ska, counter-culture folk, andpolitical conscience with added didgeridoo and a stockpile of Rizlas,they coined the term Skunkrocker with their debut album and have talesto tell about squatter parties and Glastonbury that would makeJackanory turn green.
www.crackedactors.com
Oneyesblue
Recently dubbed The Sweethearts of the Rodeo for their fuzzed outrevival of (bluegrass roots 60s Basement Blues and sweet three-partharmonised Americana, the Birmingham four piece bring togetherinfluences ranging from Neil Young and Nina Simone to Bright Eyes andthe Zutons.
www.myspace.com/oneyesblue
Shimm I
Homegrown fresh and funky rap and hip hop with a social streetsconscience and some serious spine-bending beats that slide from thesharp to the mellow with a streak of humour in the middle. The videofor his Party single, lifted from last year’s The Silencer albumfeatured cameos by Craig David and Sharleen Spiteri.
www.shimm1.com
Rooty Pool
Soweto Kinch
The hottest name to drop when you talk about the cutting edge ofcontemporary British jazz, a sometime member of the Jazz Jamaica AllStars, the jazz alto saxophonist and rapper earned a Mercury MusicPrize nomination for his debut album while his latest, A Life In TheDay Of B19, has received glowing critical acclaim for its narrative hiphop jazz from all quarters. Currently exploring baroque and earlyclassical music in an African setting, a raft of awards includes a MOBOfor Best Jazz Act.
www.myspace.com/sowetokinch
Chrissy Van Dyke
Raised on opera and psychedelia and formerly singer with drum ‘n’ bassmeets jazz outfit Plutonik, she’s now got back in touch with heracoustic roots, belting out country tinged blues that will make yoursoul ring.
www.myspace.com/chrissyvandyke
Steve Gibbons
What can you say, the man’s been in the music business for over fourdecades, surviving a roller coaster of ever-changing fads simply bystaying true to himself and his love of classic countrified soulfulrock n roll. A living legend, and then some.
www.stevegibbonsband.com
Birmingham Community Gospel Choir
Quite simply the best gospel voices in Birmingham, gathered together in one volcanic roof-raising ensemble.
Juldeh
Born in Gambia and now based in the UK, he’s one West Africa’s leadingriti (a traditional one-string fiddle) players and one of the mostprominent Fulani musicians of his generation, his music has encompassedtraditional Fula tunes and music for veteran West African electric bandIfang Bondi
www.myspace.com/juldehcamarauk
Sugarbeats
A young Birmingham based octet, with influences from broken beat to funk to jazz.
www.sugarbeats.co.uk
Summary
Graduates from the Birmingham Conservatoire jazz course, led bysaxophonist Mary Wakelam and featuring vocals from Naomi and Taharka,the octet fuse jazz and hip hop into a hot, clubby groove.
www.myspace.com/summaryband
1 Eye
A 7-piece outfit with deep roots in the Birmingham reggae scene, fusing the genre with elements of hip hop and Latin.
www.industryrecords.org
Thee Single Spy
Out of London with a somewhat fluid line up that can vary between onelone singer and ten thumping, howling, melodica-touting rhythmaficionados in a clarinet driven riot of bruised and battered songsabout drowning towns, Christian campfire traditions and cult indieharpists eloping with Russians.
www.myspace.com/theesinglespy
Benjamin & The Sirens
Based in both Bath and Birmingham, rising singer-songwriter BenjaminMortimer also leads a double musical life, writing for a performingwith his two bands, Ben Mortimer and his Natural Kicks, and this outfitwhich sees him behind the piano, accompanied by a female string quartetwho double up on bohdran, melodica, accordion, and, er, typewriter.Their shows have been known to include word games and raffles.
www.myspace.com/benjaminmortimer
Lonesome Dogs
Three piece Birmingham based country-blues outfit and proud owners oftwo albums, the now utterly sold out and thoroughly rare Unleashed andthe spanking brand new Not Strictly Blues
www.lonesomedogs.co.uk
Medicine Bar
MDK Cartel, Soul Thump, Makoto & Deeizm, Bryan Gee, AI (Liquid V)
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