For immediate release: 17 june 2004
placard: headphone concerts for headphone people
state51 extension #3
LONDON HEADPHONES FESTIVAL 2004
14 hours, 39 acts.
listen. don't listen.
17 July, state51 factory, 12pm-2am
The London Headphones Festival returns ... 14 hours of
headphones-only performances from the cream of UK
underground electronica and beyond.
Last year over 500 people packed into the state51 factory
space to experience a day of headphonics. Think of a
festival in reverse. Forget about background chatter: for
once, it's a chance for some focused listening.
All performances are heard only through headphones, Artists
play 20 minute sets and the whole thing is streamed live on
the Net.
Confirmed performers so far include Ars Electronica-winners
Janek Schaefer and Leafcutter John, alongside Main, David
Toop & Max Eastley, Antenna Farm, John Chantler, Adem Ilhan,
Paul Hood, SSetrieb/OST, The Sound Of Squaljax & Farbulous,
Jonathan Coleclough, sAnso-xtro, Heller, Dallas
Simpson,Jacob Kirkegaard, Table, Claire Hope, 87 Central,
Fisk Industries,
Dual, A.M.P. Studio, Smack Miranda, Karina ESP, Ed Bennett
vs Cormac Heron, Yellow6, Recon, Emanuella De Angelis and
Akira the Don.
The Festival is organised by a network of London-based
promoters, labels and artists: highpoint lowlife records,
coombe records, idoia, murmer, [no.signal], slub, midRange,
state51 and the slow sound system.
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when: 17 July, 12pm-2am
where: state51 factory, 8-10 Rhoda St, E2
what: headphone performances, films and video, bar, food,
merchandise
how: free entry
remember: bring your own headphones!!
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max@slab.org
http://state51.org/placard
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Praise for last year's festival:
'massively straight-faced' The Guardian
'one of the highlights of a long hot summer' The Wire
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placard: headphone concerts for headphone people
The London Headphones Festival is part of the 7th global
placard conspiracy, a three-month, non-stop, self-organising
festival of headphones listening taking place across the
globe and streamed online.
somewhere>anywhere
placard95.dokidoki.fr
placard7.ath.cx
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