Wow! That was amazing! We can’t sleep with excitement – tomorrow features Atari Teenage Riot, Caribou, Cluster, These New Puritans, Chrome Hoof, Mount Kimbie and loads more.

Photos from day one at Offset are now up at http://photos.offsetfestival.co.uk – and we’ll be updating these all weekend!

Plenty of day tickets are available on the door tomorrow so stick on your shades and join us for more fun!

All advance tickets are now sold out.

Our licensed capacity has been increased to accommodate more people, so plenty of non-camping tickets will be available on the gate all weekend!

Day tickets: £39
Weekend tickets: £75

Weekend with camping tickets are sold out (but we’re only 30 minutes from Central London, so jump on the tube!)

See you there, but bring sunblock and shades, it’s going to be a hot one!

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It looks as though it’s sunglasses and sunblock for this weekend’s festival, and we’re getting pretty damn excited.

Read on for lineup times on all stages – we’ve done absolutely everything we can to avoid similar artists clashing. x

Just in case you aren’t excited enough already about Atari Teenage Riot headlining Offset Festival, we’ve got an exclusive video clip of new single Activate that’ll really get you going. Shot at the band’s comeback gig in March, it’s the official video for the ace track made by revolutionary London artist and film-maker Zan Lyons. It’s a killer single and this video really gets the unique live experience of ATR – excited!

On an electronic tip, two of the most acclaimed, innovative acts around right now – Caribou and Mount Kimbie, are set to play live, showcasing tracks from their critically lauded albums, “Swim” and “Crooks and Lovers” respectively. Over on the main stage, the much beloved Art Brut are set to storm the day with their very distinctive strain of barbed, singularly British pop, while Pulled Apart By Horses will burn a hole in your cranium with their mind meltingly demented take on rock.

We are also excited to announce that White Heat, for the first time ever, will be hosting their very own stage at Offset, and for their debut outing they have collated a brilliantly eclectic lineup, ranging from Connan Mockasins’ fantastically twisted pop to Esben and the Witch’s spellbinding twilight gloom, to Banjo and Freakout’s gorgeous, layered, electronic-tinged soundscapes and Anna Calvi’s entrancing, guitar-led tales of love and loss.

And there’s more. Joining an already incredible lineup:

Anna Calvi
Banjo or Freakout
Bitches
Blurt
Bunny Come
Calories
Caribou
Castrovalva
Cold In Berlin
Cold Pumas
Colours
Connan Mockasin
Esben and the Witch
Ghost of a Thousand
Gramme
Holy State
Horse and Condor
Hyrst
Koudlam
La La Vasquez
Meddicine
Mount Kimbie
Not Cool
Novella
Oh! Gunquit
Paper Crows
Peepholes
Please
Proxy Music
Pulled Apart By Horses
Sauna Youth
Screaming Tea Party
Slapper
Special Recreation Wish Club
Team Ghost
Teeth of the Sea
The Bridport Dagger
The Eyes In The Heat
The Neat
The Receeders
The Rifle Volunteer
Thomas Tantrum
Visions Of Trees
Xcerts

A more radical and galvanising festival lineup you’re unlikely to find anywhere else – with 7 stages, around 200 artists and a huge vintage clothing fair, Victorian fun fair, village fete, psychedelic sports day, nature treks, performance art area, craft workshops, delicious food stalls, fifties hairdressing salon and even a rare breeds farm, Offset 2010 promises to be an absolutely unmissable experience.

It’s time.

We’re getting ready to rip the festival season right open with the announcement of our hardcore stage, spearheaded by some of the most vital names in the scene in 2010.

By now, everyone should be well acquainted with Rolo Tomassi – the incendiary Sheffield band who first set the world alight with their riproaring debut “Hysterics” in 2008, before returning this year with the highly acclaimed sophomore album “Cosmology”, co-produced by Diplo. Californian powerhouses in the making Trash Talk will also be playing songs from their brand new album “Eyes and Nines”, while their Belgian compatriots Rise and Fall will also undoubtedly prove to be a potent live act, as they hurtle through their oeuvre of earthshaking metalcore. Devil Sold His Soul will return to the fold after ripping apart the festival in 2009.

Dead Swans will pummel audiences into submission with their incredible hardcore live show, while the UK five piece Your Demise take some time out from recording their new album to slay crowds once more. Add to that the white hot likes of Throats, Hang the Bastard, Chickenhawk, Pay No Respect, Brontide and many more and you have a hardcore lineup quite unlike anything else in any other festival.

The full lineup:

Rise and Fall
Rolo Tomassi
Trash Talk
Devil Sold His Soul
Dead Swans
Ghost of a Thousand
Throats
Hang the Bastard
Lavotchkin
Pay No Respect
Brutality Will Prevail
Brontide
Chickenhawk
Last Witness
Hammers
Our Time Down Here
Lone Wolves
Pariso
Antares
Ergon Carousel
Jackals
Dead in the Woods
Diet Pills

More bands join These New Puritans, Liquid Liquid, Mystery Jets, Comanechi, Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster and more for this year’s festival on September 4-5 2010.

If you thought Offset’s 2010 line up thus far – a radical mix of cutting edge pioneers (Liquid Liquid, Cluster, Charles de Goal), critically lauded acts (Mystery Jets, These New Puritans, 80’s Matchbox B-Line Disaster) and brand new, hotly tipped, emergent bands (Flats, Factory Floor, Male Bonding, Comanechi) was outstanding enough as it is, brace yourself, because it is only getting better.

Among the acts being announced for Offset 2010 are the likes of Atari Teenage Riot, Chrome Hoof, Egyptian Hip Hop, Good Shoes and much more, all of whom will play over the weekend of September 4-5, deep in the lush environs of Hainault Country Park, but a 30 minute ride away from London.

The mighty Atari Teenage Riot are the headliners for Sunday, and a more apt way to close out this wildly revolutionary and groundbreaking festival cannot be imagined. Responsible for coining the phrase “digital hardcore” and virtually creating a whole new genre of incendiary, punk-driven electro, this rare live appearance is sure to leave an indelible impression. As will the live theatrics of the strange, and strangely compelling, Chrome Hoof, the London band whose “experimental orchestra” encompasses metal, electro, funk, disco and chamber music in their sound; not to mention a startling visual punch.

Meanwhile, Egyptian Hip Hop will lead the indie charge with their gloriously mutating brand of doss pop, where anything can and often does happen. Good Shoes will also be present and correct, playing short, sharp, bursts of indie brilliance from their new album “No Hope, No Future”, while French duo John and Jehn will have people swooning with their meltingly beautiful love songs.

O.Children will also be casting their dark, mysterious spell, while Graffiti Island’s stripped down, pared-back, fuzz laden lo-fi will no doubt win people over to their cause. New young critical darlings Wild Palms will inevitably incite mayhem with their angular, whipsmart post-punk, and La Shark and Relics will also be turning up on people’s top tips for 2011.

As can be seen, once more Offset are celebrating the new and established, the groundbreaking and galvanising, avant-garde and pulse-racing. And with this all-ages event boasting 8 stages, 200 artists and a huge vintage clothing fair, Victorian fun fair, village fete area, psychedelic sports day, nature treks, performance art area, craft workshops, delicious food stalls, fifties hairdressing salon and even a rare breeds farm, there is more reason than ever to make it to Offset in 2010.

Earlybird tickets now available – £55 non-camping/ £65 camping – click here to purchase yours now.

Ali Love, Late of the Pier Soundsystem, Batty Bass featuring Hannah Holland & Mama Shamone, Serge Santiago, Dan Beaumont (Disco Bloodbath), Punks Jump Up (Kitsune), Mikki Most and Ian Robinson (Trailer Trash), Rory Phillips (Durrr), Stopmakingme, The Lovely Jonjo, Wild Geese and more to join the lineup!

So, did we mention that those legendarily incendiary party starters Trailer Trash are curating the dance tent at this year’s Offset? And that the theme for the dance tent this year is Miami Beach Party – with all the requisite beach balls, cocktails, palm trees and all round summer fun which that entails?

So, on Saturday, Trailer Trash have got Late of the Pier bringing their soundsystem to the Offset masses, playing a genre-hopping DJ set which will undoubtedly reflect their own mindbending proclivities, as seen on their massively acclaimed debut album “Fantasy Black Channel”. Joining them are London’s very own Batty Bass, the clubbing institution with Hannah Holland and Mama Shamone at the helm, Kitsune white hot heroes Punks Jump Up, Bugged Out’s Stopmakingme, Trailer Trash’s very own Mikki Most and Ian Robinson, and Harry James from East End doom rockers O Children among many others, creating a madly hopping environment like no other.

And then, on Sunday, Trailer Trash have tapped reborn electro pop maestro Ali Love to head up a packed dance lineup hot on the heels of his long awaited debut album, “Love Harder”. Along for the ride is Durrr’s legendary Rory Phillips, and the world renowned Serge Santiago, one of the hottest and most lauded producers in the UK, Dan Beaumont, figurehead of the highly influential, world conquering dance crew Disco Bloodbath, proto-house enigmas Wild Geese, dancefloor starters Riotous Rockers and The Lovely Jonjo, whose Hot Boy Dancing Spot nights are causing riots all over the East End.

They join an all-star cast of the best and brightest in cutting edge music today, deep in the heart of the Hainault Forest, just 30 minutes from London by tube. As well as the music on offer, this year’s Offset Festival will host a huge indoor vintage clothing market, fanzine counters and record stalls, and even an old-fashioned Victorian funfair (Ferris wheels, chairoplanes, a helter skelter, candy floss and swing boats!), plus craft workshops (learn dressmaking, screenprinting and metalworks design), in addition to our famed choice picks of delicious foods from around the world.

Earlybird tickets now available – £55 non-camping/ £65 camping!

SATURDAY

Late of the Pier Soundsystem
Batty Bass featuring Hannah Holland & Mama Shamone
Punks Jump Up (Kitsune)
Mikki Most (Trailer Trash)
Ian Robinson (Trailer Trash)
Stopmakingme (Bugged Out)
Firas
Harry James (O.Children)
John and On
Josh Caffe
Jamie D. Winter

SUNDAY

Ali Love live
Serge Santiago (Arcobaleno)
Dan Beaumont (Disco Bloodbath)
Rory Phillips (Durrr)
Wild Geese
Riotous Rockers (ASBO)
The Lovely Jonjo (Hot Boy Dancing Spot)
Kezokichi (Back to Back)

Set deep in the heart of the lush Hainault Forest and taking place over the weekend of September 4-5, this year Offset is already boasting the likes of No Wave pioneers Liquid Liquid, critically lauded art rockers These New Puritans, white hot Sub Pop signings Male Bonding, legendary Krautrock innovators Cluster and Brooklyn’s singular purveyors of eerie, hazy electro Telepathe, among many others. To that distinguished first round we can now add London-via-Eel Pie quartet Mystery Jets, who look set to conquer the summer with their forthcoming brand new album, stocked full with shiny anthems-in-waiting.  Also making a storming return to the live arena are the incredible psyche/garage heavyweights The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster, hot on the heels of their critically acclaimed new album.

Tearing up the stage – both literally and figuratively – will be the famously untethered Monotonix from Tel Aviv, who have been bowling over audiences from one end of the globe to the next with their wildly unpredictable onstage antics and furious brand of garage rock, as will Comanechi, the punk rock duo who produced one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2010, and Lovvers, who carry with them a well-deserved reputation as being an unmissable and ferocious live act. And on the dance side of things, returning electro pop juggernaut Ali Love will ignite the crowds with tracks from his long awaited debut album while Durrr’s Rory Phillips will deliver a masterclass in how to destroy the dancefloor with an undoubtedly propulsive DJ set. And true to Offset’s policy in spotlighting the best and brightest artists from across the world, Texan/London experimentalists Sh*t and Shine, and Parisian nutters 10LEC6 will be joining Graffiti Island, The Murder Act, Round, Flats and Oral Oral.

Once again, only the most compelling and groundbreaking in music and art, from the fresh to the classic, is offered at Offset – and this all-ages event is only 30 minutes from central London by tube to boot. Performances from over 200 artists will be joined by an all-new craft space and pop-up workshops, our eclectic vintage clothing market, organic and delectable foods from a multitude of cuisines, and even a Victorian fun-fair.

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