Aeon Festival 2009

Aeon Festival is back for the August Bank Holiday for 3 days of fun and wicked music at the gorgeous Shobrooke Park Estate in Crediton, Devon. Taking place from the 28th – 30th August, the theme is Sci-Fi Adventures, so get planning your dressing up box. This year the little festival sees its best line up yet with some of the country’s hottest up and coming acts playing over the weekend across 3 stages. There’s also a cinema tent and chill out space, children’s area with art workshops, forest school, puppet theatre and play space, a new urban stage featuring HipHop, Breakdancing, MC and graffiti crews and a Buskers’ corner where songsters can have their 15 minutes of fame and raise money for charity at the same time. And all this for just £45 for the long weekend including camping from Friday through to Monday. Under 12s are free. Got to www.aeonfestival.com for details of how to purchase tickets or join us on our facebook forum : Aeon 2009.

Main Stage
Portico Quartet (Mercury Music Award nominees 2008) ‘Sound like nothing you’ve ever heard” Time Out “A phenomenon in the making” The Independent “A strikingly original sound."The Times
And So I watch you From Afar (Smalltown America (UK) / Xtal (Japan) from Belfast "And So I Watch You From Afar..march over introspective horizons....(they) can do nothing wrong "
KERRANG MAGAZINE.
The Kingsize Five "A bunch of musical rogues!" Steve Lamacq, Radio 2 New Music Show "Ungodly, infectious melodies. The most entertaining band I've ever seen? Damn right!" Artrocker "A veritable slice of jazz infested, good time swing" Mischa Pearlman, Fly Magazine.
Kava Kava “should be on every funk and disco playlist, period!.....Love it!" (4.5/5) DJ MAGAZINE "the future of dance .......... you can hear why they are an essential live experience...." FUTURE MUSIC
Kav 'New Band of The Day' March 2008 THE GUARDIAN - The man behind the highly successful GetLoaded club night and GetLoaded in the Park festival and former guitarist with The Happy Mondays. "Reminiscent of The Stone Roses when they swapped Frankie Knuckles for John Bonham, Kav’s debut is a bluesy, swaggering affair, with the singer refusing to pull his punches... Clash Magazine – One’s to Watch – May 2008
Lets Tea Party A fusion of kazoos, woodblocks and dirty bass teamed with catchy vocals and a wardrobe your grandpa might well be proud of” - NME
“Your next favourite band”- BBC Radio 1 “Bristol’s brightest young thing’s for sure” - Lo-fi Hi-fi
Luke Leighfield "A breath of fresh air in this world of gloomy winters and moody blues."
Huw Stephens, Radio 1 "Urban troubador." Time Out
Plus The Breaks Collective, Tim and Sam’s Tim and The Sam Band, Evi Vine, LaFaro, Count to Fire, Targets, The Mandibles, Nova Robotics, The Hitchcock Rules, Letters to leaders, The Dharma Bums, Head of Programmes, Peachy Farmer, The Thujones, Melosa and many more!
Jam the Channel Dance Tent
ELITE FORCE
Lot49/Used&Abused
BREAK
Symmetry Recordings
HIJACK
Jack Union/Potty Mouth Music/On The Brink
SKITZ
Silent Soundz
2 BIT THUGS
A New Hope/Freek records
ROLAND THE BASTARD
Bionic Orange/Bad Robot
MIKE LENNON
Z Audio/Blurred Vision
And the finest Westcountry Dancefloor Action with superior Disc Jockeys from the following Establishments.
BEATZ & BOBZ:RINSEOUT:JAMTHECHANNEL:THE DEEP END:FREERANGE:BAD ROBOT:VAPOUR:GOBBSTOPPER:OUTOFTHEVOID:PERSPECTIVE MUSIC:BASS KITCHEN:MUSICISMYPOISON:WAXTHEVAN:FILTH INFACTUATED:CABARET VOLTAIRE:BEATS WORKIN:PHONIC FM: + MORE
Amazing sound by Propa & Funktion 1 Visuals by V-Lux
+ Live broadcasts on www.southwestunderground.net & The All New JamTheChannel Café featuring Benji’s Reggae Bus + More
Cabaret Voltaire
Cabaret Voltaire conjure up a tent full of comedy genius, global sounds and funky DJs mixed up with fine ales, local cider and other delectable beverages.

Murray Lachlan Young :a British performance poet whose humorous work enjoyed a spectacular vogue during the mid-1990s. He was the first poet to be given a £1 million record deal, when he signed to EMI amid a blaze of publicity in 1996. He released an album, Vice And Verse.

Byron Vincent a regular at many of the UK’s most prestigious music and literary events including, Cheltenham festival of literature, Oxford literature festival, Glastonbury festival of performing arts and Latitude festival.

Jude Simpson Stand-up poet and slam winner combines insightful observational comedy with witty wordplay, poetry, rap and song to create a unique act which leaves audiences smiling, laughing and occasionally hungry. “Hilarious” - Guardian. “A joy. Her lines sparkle with wit and panache“ - Scotsman.

Nathan Filer The award winning stand-up poet has been described as blurring the edges of poetry, comedy and theatre. He maintains that these edges were never all that defined in the first place, unlike say: competetive swimming and badger baiting. Of which he condones neither."

A.F. Harrold A performance poet and odd chap who does things with words on stages and radio stations around the country. He was 2008’s poet-in-residence at Glastonbury Festival.’
Tim Clare has appeared on Radio 1 and 2, written for the Guardian and The Times, and presented the Channel 4 series How To Get A Book Deal. His memoir is about giving up your dreams is called We Can't All Be Astronauts.

Plus musical interludes from Sheelanigig, 6ix Toys, Helele, Gringo Ska, Fromage en Feu, RSVP Bhangra, Mankala, Magic Hat Stand, Heavy Stylus, Wreckreation and a whole load more to boot.

So join us all for a weekend of good times by a lake, under the trees in a park in Devon!