Sep 5 ↓ Sep 6

Offset Festival 2009

Past event

The Futureheads, Good Shoes, The Horrors, Clinic and 197 more

www.offsetfestival.co.uk/

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284 attending | Lineup (201 artists) | 127 shouts | Added by gregorygraham

Saturday 5 September 2009 – Sunday 6 September 2009

Hainault Country Park

Chigwell, London
United Kingdom

Offset Festival is a unique event that joins the dots between exciting new bands and the artists who influenced them. Taking place in a beautiful forest location just 30 minutes from London, the event features 7 stages with over 150 artists, hand-picked to represent the most exciting and creative lineup you’ll see at any festival this year.

Put together by a team with over ten years of experience in putting together festivals, the event also offers camping, organic food stalls, art, a funfair, kids areas and a rare-breeds farm.

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Lineup

The Futureheads, Good Shoes, The Horrors, Clinic, Bombay Bicycle Club, Metronomy, The xx, The Slits, Maps, A Certain Ratio, Wild Beasts, Dananananaykroyd, Arno, Bearsuit, Devil Sold His Soul, Discipline, Future of the Left, The Ghost of a Thousand, Kap Bambino, Let's Wrestle, Panico, Gramme, Rolo Tomassi, Hatcham Social, The Eyes Of A Traitor, Die! Die! Die!, Tubelord, Official Secrets Act, Azriel, Turbowolf, Sonic Boom, BlakFish, Sian Alice Group, Gold Panda, Pulled Apart By Horses, Dead Kids, More Than Life, Kong, No Bra, KASMs, The Nuns, She Keeps Bees, Shrag, The Stupids, the ruling class, DAN, The Plight, Maths, Tim Burgess, Shaped by Fate, Ulterior, Blackhole, Wild Palms, Detachments, Mazes, Ali Renault, Throats, Fiction, The Chapman Family, Rinoa, Niyi, Electricity In Our Homes, LR Rockets, Quad Throw Salchow, Factory Floor, S.C.U.M, Disconcerts, Outcry Collective, Brides, Teeth Of The Sea, An Experiment On A Bird In The Air Pump, Lower Than Atlantis, A Grave With No Name, The Duloks, The Tupolev Ghost, Artefacts for Space Travel, Holy State, crocus, LEKIDDO, Attack! Vipers!, Daniel Savio, Wetdog, Friendship, MALE BONDING, R O M A N C E, Tulipomania, The Rayographs, Cheval Sombre, Fables, Spectrals, Brontosaurus Chorus, what would jesus drive, rrr, Gyratory System, The Brownies, Ghostcat, Magic & Fur, Cold Pumas, Damo Suzuki, LONDON BLACKMARKET, Tommi, Casper Clark, Hook and the Twin, Advert, Paul B. Davis, Connan Mockasin, The Danger, run,WALK!, Stranger Son of WB, Magnus Betner, Cementimental, Death Cigarettes, Teen Sheikhs, Methodist Centre, Easy Hips, Death In Plains, Whole Sick, Goodnight And I Wish, sniTch DJs, DogShow, Berlin Brides, NewIslands, Devil Man, Koogaphone, cra, Not Shy, Bo Ningen, Nullifier, Buster Bennett, complexxion, speak & the spells, Chapter Sweetheart, Arno de Beaufort, Jake Moore, K-Tron, Fonteyn, Sunderbans, Miss Something, Drum Eyes, Paul St Paul, Milan O, Kool Kids Klub, Chris Flatline, Neon Skullz, PRIVATE TROUSERS, that boy kana, Katie Dane, The She Set, Jim Warboy, Bob Slayer, David Freedom, El Bizzaro, Heidi Heelz, The Junkettes, Offset Festival DJs, Douglas Hart (Jesus and Mary Chain) DJ set, John & On, Hampus Time DJ, Last.fm DJs, Jamie Winter, Holy Roar DJs, Ladynoise, Smith Tropical, Trash Fashion DJ's, Scally Dan Dan, Josh Caffe, ECC DJs, HARRY JAMES (Snap Crackle & Pop), Artrocker DJs, The Beat DJs, Math Head (DJ), Dice Club DJs, Louis Enchanté, Orbid-Sill, Lee Hume & Friends, Thomas Shitneck, Ciaran Quite, Tiger Reid, Cooks DJ, K.Wale, Sex Is Disgusting DJs, Dirty Bingo DJs, Loud And Quiet DJS, Chelmsford Raving Association, Science Is A Lie DJs, This Is Music DJs, The Quietus DJs, Clash Magazine DJs, Trash Hits DJs, The Beat! DJs, Schpunk, Skiptheatre, Daniel Simonsen, The Real Brian Blessed, Kap Bambino (DJ), Home.Underground DJs, God Don't Like It DJs, Pete Blackett DJ, Atomik DJs, Vinyl Vendettas DJs and Daniel Devine DJ

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SarahIsPi wrote:
last month

It was damn good, but I am never sleeping near a generator at a festival again.

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nn_2008 wrote:
September 2009

Hahaha, I'm on this vid: http://dazeddigital.com/Music/article/4532/1/Offset_2009

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wtf_missile wrote:
September 2009

THE FUCKING RIOTS MAN

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J_Ymmit wrote:
September 2009

...and Sunday review with photos here: http://thefourohfive.com/articles/1915

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mrko5 wrote:
September 2009

Read my review here! http://www.chasingsafety.co.uk/zine_reader.asp?zineID=261

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J_Ymmit wrote:
September 2009

Saturday review with photos: http://thefourohfive.com/articles/1903

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chaileywatts wrote:
September 2009

Yeah, Damo Suzuki was amazing. Deserved a bigger crowd for sure being an absolute legend!

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kierand wrote:
September 2009

Damo Suzuki was utterly, utterly incredible...anyone catch it?

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Phender1990 wrote:
September 2009

riot is a huge exaggeration. there were a lot of poser cunts though and they dont seem to respect the hardcore line-up judging by the photos on the website.

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theappletwee wrote:
September 2009

one of the highlights was overhearing the following conversation in the middle of the night, when tucked away in my tent: young girls: "hello!" guys next door: "uh... hi!" girls: "do we look like midgets to you?" guys: "a little, yeah." girls: "well... how old do we look?" guys: "about ten." girls: "ACTUALLY, we're eleven."

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eyetoons wrote:
September 2009

"TENT PARTY!, TENT PARTY!, TENT PARTY!"

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nn_2008 wrote:
September 2009

Riot? Hardly! Apparently someone made a hoax call to the police, it was just typical idiots you get on campsites. The festival was AMAZING, so many incredible bands. Wild Beasts were awesome, as was the secret performance by Gramme and shitloads of other stuff. Bo Ningen!!!! Lovely atmosphere and the sports day was well fun.

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chaileywatts wrote:
September 2009

catatonicxtoy, I agree entirely there were many very very upsetting human beings about. The fact that about a third of the photo coverage on the website is like some kind of Vice Magazine street fashion coverage is especially worrying........ You can say what you like about (slightly horrific) festivals like Reading but at least it's an unpretentious crowd!!!

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theappletwee wrote:
September 2009

chaileywatts - VERY good point. but - I could've done without the dodgy hairy chests waggling in my face! ;) and agreed about the security - for the whole of a certain ratio a security guard stood in front of my sister and refused to step down to let her see.

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catatonicsxtoy wrote:
September 2009

got to agree with WirelessE, last year seemed so much more relaxed, amicable and about music, this year was just a pretentious mess with extra knobheads, all downhill from now?

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chaileywatts wrote:
September 2009

Ha! Must've been out cold for all that rioting 'cause I don't remember a thing!

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WirelessE wrote:
September 2009

I back up the comments about the security, they should be there to keep you safe, but all they did was create a hostile and aggressive atmosphere. Also a real shame about the idiots on the campsite on Sunday night, this festival has so much to offer in terms of line-up and providing an alternative to other events out there, but it decended into Reading/ Leeds territory, and the security added to this. Hope it can be sorted out for next year.

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wtf_missile wrote:
September 2009

THOSE RIOTS FUCKING CRAZY

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stu_f wrote:
September 2009

ha I heard the helicopter but didn't put two and two together. We were camped near the tower and at one point on the sunday there was about 20 people up it getting rowdy and some bloke walking around in red speedos

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maxupthevolume wrote:
September 2009

Thats because they were all too busy not wanting to do their jobs. When we asked why we werent allowed back into the arena at 11pm one of them said because they didnt want to have to be walking around asking people to leave when the acts were finished.

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Tracks from the Lineup

	Clinic - 1906 free download	3:47
	The Futureheads - Hounds of Love full track	3:02
	A Certain Ratio - Flight full track	3:36
	The Slits - I Heard It Through… full track	3:59
	The Horrors - Draw Japan full track	3:23

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We went to Offset Festival and it was a-mazing. by musosguide | 8 Sep 2009 | Add comment
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