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Let’s not pussyfoot around the fact – ‘Nail The Cross’ does sound a teensy bit like the kind of night where you might end up leaving behind either a tooth or your trousers. But set your sado-masochistic assumptions aside; this one-day festival pulls up the New Cross roots that gave it its name to bring some of the hottest live acts and DJs to Peckham’s Bussey Building. This year’s collaboration between No Pain In Pop and 580 Ltd promises a line-up to rival the festival’s already impressive roll-call of past performers (only the XX, These New Puritans, Benga and Joy Orbison). Saturday 27th November sees the cream of London’s breaking bands and freshest DJs all jammed into one warehouse for your personal pleasure.
Can you compare a music festival to a chocolate bar? Well if you could then this one would be as full of chewy/crunchy goodness as a Fruit & Nut… '60s dream-poppers (and Spoonfed favourites) Still Corners make the raisins, while Weird Dreams will rock you into a teenage daydream with their shimmering guitars and surfer sounds. Nuts. Echo Lake’s psychedelic jangles could be likened to the fizz in the middle of a Refresher bar – if that wouldn’t be taking this whole candy shop thing too far..
Later acts take a pretty spectral direction with DJs like Becoming Real making deep sounds that bubble like a witch's brew. Headliners Darkstar bring their syth-heavy spine tinglers to top the night off with a rare live performance in support of their new album ‘North.’
If that’s not your cup of tea then the festival’s organisers live up to their reputation as the kind of trend-setting selectors who include as broad a range of breaking artists as possible and then see what happens – a policy that seems to have worked so far. The likes of Bad Autopsy, Mosca and Jam City will be keeping the party going until the early hours…
Tickets for Nail The Cross on Saturday 27th November are available from Gigantic
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