The Secret Garden Party 2010
'Fact or Fiction'
In 2010 The Secret Garden Party will be prizing open the chinks in man’s most carefully constructed edifice: Reality.
Join us this summer as we explore the fantasies, mysteries, legends, visions and illusions that exist between Fact and Fiction.
Inspired by Adventures and Legends, we present…
The Great Stage:
Gorillaz Sound System (DVJ)
Mercury Rev / Marina & The Diamonds
Skatalites / The Jessie Rose Trip
The Whip / Kate Walsh / David Rodigan
Bellaruche / Golden Filter / Apples/ Kid Bombardos / Charli XCX/ Death Metal Disco Scene
Pearl and The Puppets / The Crookes /Panda Su / more to announce...
Headlining this year will be the multi-sense experience of the Gorillaz Sounds System (DVJ), featuring the music of Gorillaz mixed and remixed with a full visual display, sanctioned by none other than Murdoc Niccols himself. Roland, the official VJ, controls the visual synchs and content along with DJ Kofi, visual and aural mix master extraordinaire! GSS percussionist Remi adds another layer to the DJ performance with a variety of live instruments, while Pauli bangs the drums, no mean feat. With extra “treats” promised, it’s sure to be a truly unique experience.
Joining the Gorillaz Sound System is Marina & The Diamonds, with one of few festival appearances, an act tipped by almost every new music pundit from corner to corner of Britain. Mercury Rev, the critically acclaimed winner of NME best album, will make an incredibly rare appearance at a UK festival. They will be joined by ska legends Skatalites and Secret Garden Party’s debut signing to its new record label, The Jessie Rose Trip…. creating one of the most exciting and eclectic music bills the festival has ever programmed.
The Wild Things stage, suspended amongst the trees and showcasing the finest independent music;
The Feast of Fool’s mead-powered Elizabethan stage of theatre and merryment;
and of course a surprise sculpture in the lake's center, only reached by boat and open to partying all day.
From the Twilight emerges…
The all-new Crossroads Soul Stage, mellow by day, voodoo by night and open till dawn;
Tax Deductable’s theatre arena, an Imaginarium of interactive performance;
The Bearded Kitten’s Collo-silly-um, a games arena unlike any other in the world;
And the UK’s only floating dance music stage, The Pagoda.
Between Dreams and Fables we discover…
The One Taste Collective and Ramblin’ Restaurant’s dining and performance pleasure dome;
Small World and The Living Room’s dusk-till-dawn acoustic tents;
Within in the shell of a giant turtle, Tortuga Island’s stage of storytelling;
And our beautiful lakeside world music & dance workshop, The Gaia Stage.
And from the Edge of The World arrives…
Our all-new outdoor Dance Rocks arena, with hovering DJ’s, towering robots and 360 degree projections, all curated by Eddy Temple Morris;
The Valley of Antics stage and its galaxy of high energy collectives, including Wormfood, Man Make Music and Hammer&Tongue;
And our most cherished debut, The Woodland Arena hosted by The Artful Badgers, showcasing tree houses, rope bridges, workshops, games, music and bare-footed mayhem.
For the kiddies and families…
An arena dedicated to the needs of Young Gardeners, adjoining our Family Camping field. Workshops by the acclaimed Panic Circus, ferris wheels, DJ Duplo, baby-changing yurts, art tents, parades and much much more.
For the Epicureans…
The Soul Fire Restaurant, serving unmissable brunches and five course meals to your own private dinning yurt;
Eighty food stalls offering delicious treats and belly-filling plate-loads;
Ten bespoke bars of ales, wines, Aspall's Cider, cocktails, lagers, champagnes and mead by the barrel;
Forty clothing and pampering stalls, offering the finest fashions or the wildest make-overs;
And the heavenly Boutique Camping Fields, filled with beautiful tents and five star facilities.
For the rebels and intellectuals…
The Forum, for debate, discussion and controversy all weekend;
Guerilla Science, mind-bending experiments, theories and lectures;
Explorer Camp, tales and talks from the globes most fearless humans;
The Theatre Stages, from Elizabethan through to Brecktian performance (and always with a Secret Garden twist);
And the Soul Fire Restaurant, with talks on food and sessions of wine(tasting).
For the Artiste…
Artists and Art Installations from across the globe building shrines, airships, serpents, kinetic sculptures, draw-dropping light installations, Art Boats, Art Cars…and tiny hidden worlds. All free to be climbed over, crawled under, journeyed in, touched, tasted and of course, burnt to the ground.
For rejuvenation…
Limina present feasts and workshops to explore the best ways of living.
The Sancutary’s therapies, massage, yoga, saunas and steam rooms.
And The Garden itself, with swimming and boating on The Lake, hammocks and houses amongst trees, beautiful green fields and intimate fire circles.
And for the brilliantly insane…
Parades of Fire and exploding life-size galleons, mud wrestling and suicide Olympics, Dance Off arenas and life drawing classes, kinky parlours, shamanic journeys, boat races, badger dens, B Movie karaoke, Twilight games and wide-eyed fire-side jamming sessions.
Join us for a journey through to the other side…
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