The Big Chill Festival, Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire

5th – 8th August 2010

The Big Chill Festival is delighted to confirm that the fabulous Lily Allen will be returning to the festival, four years after she began her rise to international stardom at The Big Chill 2006. Amongst the other names to be added to this year’s festival are the eleven piece rock-funk-metal orchestra Chrome Hoof and kooky pop siren Paloma Faith.

In the last week, The Big Chill festival bookers have been hard at work setting the soundtrack for the Herefordshire summer. Ivor Novello nominee Lily Allen, one of modern music’s most influential British female singer-songwriters, is set to return to Eastnor Castle Deer Park and take to the Deer Park Stage at this year’s Big Chill Festival (5th – 8th

August). With an explosive music career to date, Allen is undeniably a major contributing factor to the emergence of so many strong female British acts in recent years. Allen joins previously announced acts such as Massive Attack, M.I.A., Kruder & Dorfmeister, Thom Yorke, Kelis, Roots Manuva and Plan B who are all set to take to the rolling hills of Eastnor this year. Lily Allen shot to stardom with hit single ‘Smile’ and was the first of a new wave of social network artists that grew their following through the internet. Her single ‘The Fear’ has been nominated for this year’s prestigious Ivor Novello Awards in not one but two categories: Best Song Musically and Lyrically and PRS For Music Most Performed Work. Allen played The Big Chill 2006 as one of her first UK festival dates; now returning in 2010 Lily Allen will be one of the must-see acts on The Deer Park Stage on Sunday night. The Big Chill are honoured and thrilled that she will taking to the Deer Park Stage on Sunday night in what will be one of Allen’s few festival appearances this year.

Sunday’s main stage line-up is starting to take real shape as Paloma Faith, whose own rise to stardom has seen her perform as a former clown, burlesque dancer and life model. Since the release of album ‘Do You Want the Truth or Something Beautiful?’ last year, which spawned the sing-along singles ‘Stone Cold Sober’ and ‘New York’ put the

East London singer firmly amongst the top UK female singers of the moment. Known for her unique taste in fashion which verges on the sublime and the ridiculous, Paloma is set to brighten up the typical carnival atmosphere on Sunday at The Big Chill this year. Also announced to perform on the stage on the final day are The Magic Numbers, who back in 2005 made people smile with the jangle-guitar and brother-sister harmonies of their eponymous debut album ‘The Magic Numbers’ and single ‘Love Me Like You’, the band are set to return with a third album this year with a similar sound to their great pop tracks of 2005.

The Deer Park Stage on Saturday will also be playing host to the metallic robe wearing 11-piece experimental orchestra, Chrome Hoof, whose music is a stunning hybrid mix of rock-funk-metal and a live show that is just as electrifying as their outfits as we saw with their storming Big Chill set last year. Bassist Leo Smee started a bass and drums duo under the moniker Chrome Hoof with his brother Milo at the turn of the millennium to celebrate their

shared love of mid-seventies funk and disco. Like sequined pied pipers, they recruited everywhere they played, building an army of multi-instrumentalists including a full horn and string section, generating a devoted cult following with their legendary live shows. Taking the stage on Friday is the also announced today, Martina Topley-Bird, the smoky songstress who became the distinctive voice behind the trip hop revolution, collaborating with both Tricky

and Massive Attack, who headline the Friday.

Other names announced today include the ambient pop sounds from the Finnish band Husky Rescue who will be performing on the Revellers Stage on Friday. Also included in this year’s festival line-up is Falling Up, a club night in Starburst focusing on futuristic soundsystem shakers served up by some of the worlds most respected and individual DJs; from the freshest underground sounds in broken beat, house, dubstep & detroitisms to future jazz,

soul & hiphop and the party starting shake of afro, disco, boogie and beyond.

Away from the major stages Chillers can still find a raft of treats on offer in the Chill X tent. Be it burlesque and cabaret from Hoochie Coochie, the finest world music sets from DJ Ritu or a good old fashioned Tea Dance those venturing further afield will be well rewarded. Also performing under the Chill X canvass will be performances from The Heavy and Phantom Limb, both prime slices of home-grown blues tinged rock, Randomonium, The Temperance Society and The Incredible Sound Track Film Band. Chillers will be invited to dance whilst

completely changing outfits with other festival goers at the Swap-A-Rama nights as well as Randy & Earl’s Old Record Club who will be spinning some of the finest country, soul, gospel, jazz, blues and swing. 

After joining the Festival Republic family at the end of last year, this year promises to be the best yet, combining innovative programming and unique content that the festival is renowned for with the added expertise of the UK’s premier music promoter. Expect it to be bigger, brighter and more fantastic than ever before.

“Since its early beginnings in 1994 The Big Chill has set a tone and a standard with the creation of ‘Boutique Festivals’. Many have followed, but The Big Chill started it and maintains pole position. I have been a regular visitor to The Big Chill during that 15 years and it is with massive delight that I am now able to take it forward with Katrina and my Festival Republic Team. And take it forward we will. Musically unique among festivals but diverse in its offering, The Big Chill stands alone in not relying on guitar bands in the crowded boutique market and nowhere else presents art like Katrina does at The Big Chill. Our inclusion of Spencer Tunick is testament to that. It’s going to be a fantastic weekend at Eastnor.”

Melvin Benn, Festival Republic

“The confidence in my relationship with Festival Republic has meant I have pushed the creative boundaries this year to create a real life festival fantasy.”

Katrina Larkin, Big Chill

Big Chill 2010 line-up at a glance

http://www.bigchill.net/festival/info/line-up

Music

20:20 Soundsystem

Alice Russell

Andreya Triana

Andy Weatherall

Appleblim

Ashley Beedle & Darren Morris

Present MAVIS (Live)

- Candi Staton, Cherilyn McNeil,

Kurt Wagner, Ed Harcourt.

Edwyn Collins, Danielle Moore,

John Turrell, Chris CoCo

Bebel Gilberto

Breakage

Bristol Hi-Fi feat. Daddy G

Chrome Hoof

Craig Charles Fantasy Funk Band

Crazy P (DJ)

Dãm-Funk

Daniel Wang

DJ Derek

Easy Star All-Stars

El Diablo's Social Club

Explosions in the Sky

Falling Up

Fat 45

Foreign Beggars

Futureboogie

Giggs

Gilles Peterson

Greg Wilson

Henrik Schwarz Live

Hospital Records presents

- High Contrast, London Elektricity,

Danny Byrd, Netsky

Husky Rescue

Hope Sandoval & The Warm

Inventions

Joker

Kelis

Kruder & Dorfmeister

Layo & Bushwacka!

Lily Allen

Little Dragon

M.I.A.

Mad Professor

Magnetic Man

Martina Topley-Bird

Martyn

Massive Attack

Matthew Herbert's One Club

Maurice Fulton

Metronomy

Morcheeba

Mr Scruff

Natty

Newton Faulkner

Nicola Conte Jazz Combo

N-Type

Norman Jay

PBR Streetgang

Phenomenal Handclap Band

Plan B

Redlight

Roots Manuva

Roy Ayers

Seth Troxler & Jamie Jones b2b

Smoove & Turrell

Starsmith

Taylor McFerrin

Tensnake

Terry Callier

The Black Seeds

The Bug (Live)

The Heatwave

The Magic Numbers

The Shoes

Theo Parrish

Thom Yorke

Tinariwen

Tinie Tempah

Toddla T with Serocee

Tom Middleton

Top Shelf Jazz

Wax Tailor

Zero 7 (DJs)

Chill X

Andreya Triana

Bristol Hi-Fi feat. Daddy G

DJ Ritu

Fat 45

Hoochie Coochie

Incredible Soundtrack Film Band

Natty

Phantom Limb

Randomonium

Randy & Earl's Old Record Club

Smoove & Turrell

Swap-a-Rama

Taylor McFerrin

Tea Dance

The Heavy

The Temperance Society

Arts

Bompass & Parr ‘Zigguart of Flavour’

Illusion

Mark Jenkins’ Carousel

Spencer Tunick

Tate Britain presents Rude Britannia featuring: Cedar Lewisohn, Doug

Fishbone and David Shrigley

London Drawing Presents: Adventures in Drawing Life

The World Famous

Lazyland

Dry the River

Fluidnation

Gaggle

John Shuttleworth

José Padilla

Kirsty Almeida

Lol Hammond

Mixmaster Morris

Mano de Dios

Roger Eno

The Keyboard Choir

The Leisure Society

The Port Isaac’s Fisherman’s Friends

Tom Middleton’s Life Tracks

Words In Motion

Charlie Dark – School of Dark

- Kate Tempest

- Polarbear

- Sound of Rum

- The Speakers Corner Quartet

Cringe

Doodlebug presents…

Harry Shearer

John Harris - Hail Hail Rock Quiz and Hail Hail Foundation Lecture

John Hegley

Loops Journal talks including: Owen Hatherley and Matt Thorne

Lynn Barber

Mischief Makers Protest Camp

Paul Morley on Michael Jackson

Peter Hook and Howard Marks

Kids’ Zone

Carnival Arts - Kids Workshops

Charlie Dark

Hang - Aerial Trapeze

John Hegley

Puppet Planet

Puppets and Pizza

No Strings puppet show

Squiggle Kids entertainment

The Igloo

3D Disco™ feat. Lowlife

Quiet Voices

Solid Steel AV Special

Enchanted Garden

Body & Soul

Disco Shed

Selvedge Craft Workshops

Shoot Experience – Love Shack

Solar Aid Buskers Stage

Swap Meet

Tatty Devine Craft Workshops

Teen Tent

The Floating Hat Collective

Videopia – Lord of the Rings

www.bigchill.net/festival