Daily Measure

Playgroup Festival

Playgroup Festival


by: Spoonfed Festivals

Line-ups, news and updates on Playgroup Festival 2012.

When: 3rd - 5th August 2012
Where: Eridge Park, Tunbridge Wells
How much: Adult - £95, Under 12 - £10

Playgroup Festival began as a multifarious, fancy-dressed, uplifting and generally shiny night in Brighton. This year marks their third festival and they have a special formula lined up for you.

Their festival is an intimate, magical affair crammed full of silliness, amazing music, fancy dressed fripperies: friends having fun in a field. Magicians, cabaret, off-the-wall-art and play, lovely food and drink, healing - on a donation basis, films.

Fans last year bought tickets safe in the knowledge that Playgroup always provide excellent music (gypsy swing to dubstep, glitch hop to rockabilly via skweee) and an amazing, friendly atmosphere in a beautiful location.

The dress up theme is Lost Toys.

Line up so far:

AK/DK
Alison and The Earthquakes
Amity
Anchorsong
Atlantiks
Barulho
Belleruche
Beatabet Collective
Beta Hector
Blah Blah Balh DJs
Blind Yackety
Boy Com
Buffo's Wake
Carnival Collective
Cate Ferris
Coda
The Corresposndents
Derriere
Dizraeli and the Small Gods
DJ Format
Electric Playboys
Emma Divine
Fish Fry DJs
Gypsy Hill
Herbaliser
Hint
Hidden Orchestra
High Rankin
Hyperpotamous
Dr Bluegrass and the Illbilly 8
Joe Driscoll
John Crampton
King Lagoon's Flying Swordfish Band
Kalakuta Millionaires
King Porter Stomp
Los Albertos
Man Ray Sky
Nedry
Nimmo and the Gauntlets
Ojo de Gringa
Prince Fatty
Qemists
People's String Fioundation
Perhaps Contraption
Reeps One
Resonators
Reso
Running Numbers
Samsara
Sam and the Womp
Shamblin Sexton
Sheerlanagig
Smerins Anti-Social Club
Stay Sick DJs
Submotion Orchestra
Sweet Sweet Lies
The Dirty Divine
The Scallywags
The Wild KNights
Transformer
Us baby Bear Bones
Yes Sir Boss
Za-Zu


Click here to read our review of Playgroup 2011

Click here for more UK festivals in 2012

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