Less Than 2 Weeks Until Offset Festival

To be held in Hainault Country Forest Park in East London, the Offset Festival is set for September 5th-6th.  Featuring over 150 acts, the weekend event with 8 stages is the second installment in a move to steer away from overpriced music festivals with less creative line-ups.

Main Stage (artrock, indie ~ curated by Artrocker):
Saturday, September 5th-
The Slits
The Futureheads
Bombay Bicycle Club
Future of the Left
Good Shoes
The Chapman Family
Pulled Apart by Horses
Kasms
An Experiment on a Bird
In the Air Pump
John and Jehn

Sunday, September 6th-
The Horros
Dananananaykroyd
A Certain Ratio
Official Secrets Act
Let’s Wrestle
Die! Die! Die!
Ulterior
Panico
S.C.U.M.
Fiction
Wild Palms

DJs-
Artrocker
LAST.FM
Offset Festival

Loud and Quiet (indie, electronic, lo-fi ~ curated by LOUD AND QUIET):
Saturday, September 5th-
Metronomy
Damo Suzuki
Drum Eyes
Male Bonding
Cold Pumas
Teen Sheikhs
Mazes
Speak and the Spells
Spectrals

DJs-
Sex is Disgusting
Science is a Lie
Dirty Bingo
Loud & Quiet
This Is Music
The Quietus

Clash Live (indie, alternative, electronic, twee ~ curated by Clash):
Sunday, September 6-
Wild Beasts
Gold Panda
The XX
Maps
Ipso Facto
Tubelord
Sian Alice Group
She Keeps Bees
Sunderbans
Shrag

DJs-
Clash Magazine

Hardcore Stage (hardcore, rock ~ curated by Holy Roar and Thrash Hits):
September, September 5th-
Devil Sold His Soul
Eyes of a Traitor
The Plight
Shaped by Flight
The Tupolev Ghost
Brides
Dead Swans
Rinoa
Attack! Vipers!
Turbowolf
More Than Life
Runwalk!
Easy Hips

Sunday, September 6th-
The Gost of a Thousand
Rolo Tomassi
Blackhole
Throats
The Stupids
Outcry Collective
Lower Than Atlantis
Maths
Kong
Holy State
Azriel
Crocus

DJs-
Holy Roar Records
Thrash Hits

ECC Stage (post-punk, experimental, electronic ~ curated by The She Set and Exp Circ. Club):
Saturday, September 5th-
Kep Bambino
Factory Floor
R O M A N C E
Cheval Sombre + Sonic
Boom (Spacemen 3)
Teeth of the Sea
Gyratory System
Death in Plains
Advert
Disconcerts
Private Trousers

Sunday, September 6th-
Hatcham Social
The Ruling Class
Connan Mockasin
Electricity in our Homes
Methodist Centre
Chapter Sweetheart & Skip Theatre
No Bra
Goodnight and I Wish
Miss Something

DJs-
Tim Burgess
Douglas Hart
ECC DJs
She Set
Math Head
Chelmsford
Ravers Association
Kool Kids Club
The Junkettes
Discipline
Chris Flatline

Nuke Them All! Dance Tent (electro, italo, house ~ curated by Nuke Them All!)
Saturday, September 5th-
Casper Clark
Fonteyn
Niyi
Buster Bennett
Cooks
Arno de Beaufort
Milan O
Smith Tropical
Scally Dan Dan
Neon Skullz
Trash Fashion DJs
K-Tron
Snitch DJs

Sunday, September 6th-
Kool Kids Klub DJ’s
Dogshow (Live)
Ali Renault (Heartbreak)
Harry James
Buster Bennett
Ladynoise (Live)
Paul St Paul
Fonteyn
Jamie Winter
John & On
Jim Warboy
Not Shy
Josh Caffe
‘RRR’

New Bands (indie, electronic, artrock ~ curated by Guitar Hero):
Saturday, September 5th-
Dead Kids
Rayographs
Friendship
Wet Dog
Tulipomania
Lekiddo – Lord of the Lobsters!
The Duloks
Berlin Brides
What Would Jesus Drive?
Fables
The Nuns
Nullifier

Sunday, September 6th-
Detachments
Quad Throw Salchow
Stranger Song of WB
Bearsuit
Magic & Fur
Bo Ningen
Artefacts for Space
Travel
Death Cigarettes
LR Rockets
Brontosaurus Chorus
London Blackmarket
Newislands

DJs-
The Beat!
Schpunk
Offset Festival DJs
Katie Dane
Arno

Other Attractions:
Bob Slayer’s Comedy Tent
Top Nice Disco
Anti Chill Out with Cementamental
Performance Art
Vintage Clothing Fair
Rare Breeds Farm
World Food Cafes
A Good Old Fashioned Funfair and the Skiptheatre School Sports Day