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Flipron return once more with their strange Hawaiian island stage decorations and fantastic baroque pop, along with crazy-inventor and last year’s leading man Thomas Truax, and a host of similarly mouth-wateringly odd indie heroes augment the cast. There’s the new rave-shagging New Young Pony Club, Aberystwyth pop heroes Radio Luxembourg, Canadian pop-theatre legends Of Montreal, and the classy New York retinue Mia Riddle and her band. I’m From Barcelona will be regaling crowds once more with twenty-nine head wonder, Au Revoir Simone do their sultry verse and all-keyboard action, while the outlandish and romantic poetry of Herman Dune is absolutely made for the place. The Garden ethos is one of laughing non-commerciality, charming asides like open fires, a kids cr・che, the tasty Pie-Minister and all the Nu-organic food traders helping it on its way, and the rolling Huntingdon countryside has never been so welcoming. Miwsig Monkey’s Festival Rating: 9 © 2007Neil Jones Line-up The Great Stage Friday: Alabama 3, Little Barrie, Echo and The Bunnymen, Noisettes, The New York Fund, Horsebox, Indigo Moss, Euros Childs Saturday: Rinocerose, Sunshine Underground, New Young Pony Club, Fujiya & Miyagi, Drive By Argument, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, Hafdis Huld, Hot Puppies, Candie Payne, Evi Vine, Frank Turner, Earl Okin, Head Gardener Sunday: Prince Buster, Of Montreal,Terry Reid, Keren Ann, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, I’m From Barcelona, Radio LXMBRG, Tallulah Rendall, Moonbabies, Hush The Many (Heed the Few) The Remix Arena “Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.” – Billy Joel Eddie Temple Morris - Xfm legend, author of the blistering 'Dance Rocks' mix album and the SGP’s patron saint is back with his own arena; mixing the hottest new producers, DJs and genre-crossing bands to give you three days of unbridled foot stomping musical wizardry. Friday: Utah Saints, Reverend & the Makers, Shy Child, Jagz Kooner, Mark Jones + Alvin C, A. Human, The Girls, TC + MC Jakes, Rhysmix, Precious RGB Saturday: Coburn, Goose, EddyTM, South Central, The Officers, inFERNo, Subsource, Union of Knives, GoHomeProductions, Does It Offend You, Yeah? Sunday: Hexstatic, Radar, Shakes, Moneyshot & Parker, Headland, Benny Lightyear, Phil n Dog, Nick Luscombe, Ultimate Power DJs, The Head Gardener Pagoda Stage ‘You can only be young once. But you can be immature for ever.’ - Dave Barry The Garden Party’s most iconic floating stage is back and bigger than before, complete with all the (ab)normal trimmings. So row up an ‘rock’ out. Friday: Robots In Disguise, Skylarkin Soundsystem, Jstar, Laroca, Campari Safari, Urban Myth Club Saturday: Adam P, Ceythundertone, Jim Slim, All Funked Up, DJ Shorty, Scratchclub & Bass 6, Hair Bears, Z List, Pathaan Sunday: Jon Wright, The Sugarfoot Ladies, Shuffle DJs, Chris Pedley Where The Wild Things Are ‘I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.’ – Elvis Presley A new and electrifying addition to the garden party, WTWTA is a stage for the beautiful, darkly joyful and twisted hopefuls. Music with love, soul, filth, intimacy and suspect intentions… Friday: Prinzhorn Dance School, Kristoffer Ragnstam, Timid Tiger, Glad Rags, Scouting For Girls, Officer Kicks, Hey Negrita, Life At The Pines Saturday: Fujiya & Miyagi, Das Pop, Soho Dolls, Metronomy, Vote Show Pony, Eskimo Disco, Electric Boy Shock, Mancini, The Deadbeats, Shuffle, Beans On Toast, Unkle Bob, The Hair Sunday: I Am Kloot (solo), Au Revoir Simone, Peter & The Wolf, Passenger, Mia Riddle, Monkey Swallows the Universe, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobious Pip, The Scarlet Street Resistance, Electric Soft Parade, Natty The Shelter Living Room ‘It isn’t the toes so much as it is the ears’ – Piglet Returning for 2007 after an incredible debut last year; we invite you into the relaxed surroundings of the Shelter Living Room Tent. Lord Bridge, your eccentric host for the weekend invites you into his classically themed Living Room to enjoy the wonderful array of music from the best acoustic performers around. Experience sets from the well known right through to the hidden gems who you will fall in love with and never look back. Relax on the sofas, and feel right at home in the fully furnished Living Room. Hungry? Crumpets, Port and much more available to delight your taste buds. Be prepared to grow that facial hair for the daily beard stroking contests and win fabulous prizes, again hosted by the eccentric Lord Bridge! Friday: Belinda Gillett, Josh Weller, Fugazirum, Hamfatter, Dan Collins & Lia, Jon Redfern, Madam, The Diarys, Paris Motel Saturday: Emma York & Galactica, Josephine Oniyama, Pale Marble Movie, Newton Faulkner, Anna Leddra Chapman, Park Bench Poet, Daniel Flay – solo only, Earl Okin, Gabby Young – solo only, Helene, Jon Bilbrough, Stewart Charlesworth, Moe Foe, The Shivers, Narkosis, Rough Edge Quartet Sunday: Kate Walsh, Mia Riddle, Ross Martyn, Chris Symth, Paul Goodwin, Una Monaghan,The Winter Kings, Damien Mercer, The Brute Chorus, Buffalo 77, The Venkman Project, Ecki, Emily Maguire Up All Night ‘Since when did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?’ – Bill Hicks (on manufactured pop) Friday: Duke Special, The Krak, VWF, Opaque Saturday: Mayor McCa, Flipron, Thomas Truax, Envy & Other Sins, Shabby Rouge, John Hills, Shoes, The Cut Outs, The Rips, Kovak, The Social, Lana, Hicks-Milligan Prophesy, Version 88, The Hoodoo Masias, The Zoltan Kodaly School For Girls, Starling Sunday: Imperial Leisure, This Is Seb Clarke, Pimigi, Stefan Abingdon, Grantura, Dan Razza, Jason Norris, Conrad Vingo, Trouble Over Tokyo, Pegabovine, Dany & the Horns Of Fury, Apricorn Quartet, The Hanging Ropes Weekend tickets £110
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The fifth in Miwsig's summer festival series takes in Huntingdon's Secret Garden Party

July 26th to 29th. Abbots Ripton, Huntingdon

Last year the Secret Garden Party turned out to be something of a magical event. It has been described as an affair of inspired lunacy and the best-kept secret on the festival circuit, and you’d have seen why if you’d attended, people flying down steep hills in wheelchairs and ninety crazed dancers crammed into a ten-man caravan awning masquerading as a dance tent with flaming limbs.

From lakeside scenery to bona fide “ganga tents”, crazy shape pullers to floating dance floors and tree houses, last year’s Party had most things, but if anything this year the musical fare goes up a couple of notches. Flipron return once more with their strange Hawaiian island stage decorations and fantastic baroque pop, along with crazy-inventor and last year’s leading man Thomas Truax, and a host of similarly mouth-wateringly odd indie heroes augment the cast.

There’s the new rave-shagging New Young Pony Club, Aberystwyth pop heroes Radio Luxembourg, Canadian pop-theatre legends Of Montreal, and the classy New York retinue Mia Riddle and her band. I’m From Barcelona will be regaling crowds once more with twenty-nine head wonder, Au Revoir Simone do their sultry verse and all-keyboard action, while the outlandish and romantic poetry of Herman Dune is absolutely made for the place.

The Garden ethos is one of laughing non-commerciality, charming asides like open fires, a kids cr・che, the tasty Pie-Minister and all the Nu-organic food traders helping it on its way, and the rolling Huntingdon countryside has never been so welcoming.

Miwsig Monkey’s Festival Rating: 9

Line-up

The Great Stage
Friday: Alabama 3, Little Barrie, Echo and The Bunnymen, Noisettes, The New York Fund, Horsebox, Indigo Moss, Euros Childs

Saturday: Rinocerose, Sunshine Underground, New Young Pony Club, Fujiya & Miyagi, Drive By Argument, Kitty, Daisy and Lewis, Hafdis Huld, Hot Puppies, Candie Payne, Evi Vine, Frank Turner, Earl Okin, Head Gardener

Sunday: Prince Buster, Of Montreal,Terry Reid, Keren Ann, Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, I’m From Barcelona, Radio LXMBRG, Tallulah Rendall, Moonbabies, Hush The Many (Heed the Few)

The Remix Arena
“Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.”
– Billy Joel

Eddie Temple Morris - Xfm legend, author of the blistering 'Dance Rocks' mix album and the SGP’s patron saint is back with his own arena; mixing the
hottest new producers, DJs and genre-crossing bands to give you
three days of unbridled foot stomping musical wizardry.

Friday: Utah Saints, Reverend & the Makers, Shy Child, Jagz Kooner, Mark Jones + Alvin C, A. Human, The Girls, TC + MC Jakes, Rhysmix, Precious RGB

Saturday:
Coburn, Goose, EddyTM, South Central, The Officers, inFERNo, Subsource, Union of Knives, GoHomeProductions, Does It Offend You, Yeah?

Sunday: Hexstatic, Radar, Shakes, Moneyshot & Parker, Headland, Benny Lightyear, Phil n Dog, Nick Luscombe, Ultimate Power DJs, The Head Gardener

Pagoda Stage
‘You can only be young once. But you can be immature for ever.’
- Dave Barry

The Garden Party’s most iconic floating stage is back and bigger than before, complete with all the (ab)normal trimmings. So row up an ‘rock’ out.

Friday: Robots In Disguise, Skylarkin Soundsystem, Jstar, Laroca, Campari Safari, Urban Myth Club

Saturday: Adam P, Ceythundertone, Jim Slim, All Funked Up, DJ Shorty, Scratchclub & Bass 6, Hair Bears, Z List, Pathaan

Sunday: Jon Wright, The Sugarfoot Ladies, Shuffle DJs, Chris Pedley

Where The Wild Things Are
‘I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.’
– Elvis Presley

A new and electrifying addition to the garden party, WTWTA is a stage for the beautiful, darkly joyful and twisted hopefuls. Music with love, soul, filth, intimacy and suspect intentions…
Friday: Prinzhorn Dance School, Kristoffer Ragnstam, Timid Tiger, Glad Rags, Scouting For Girls, Officer Kicks, Hey Negrita, Life At The Pines
Saturday: Fujiya & Miyagi, Das Pop, Soho Dolls, Metronomy, Vote Show Pony, Eskimo Disco, Electric Boy Shock, Mancini, The Deadbeats, Shuffle, Beans On Toast, Unkle Bob, The Hair
Sunday: I Am Kloot (solo), Au Revoir Simone, Peter & The Wolf, Passenger, Mia Riddle, Monkey Swallows the Universe, Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobious Pip, The Scarlet Street Resistance, Electric Soft Parade, Natty

The Shelter Living Room
‘It isn’t the toes so much as it is the ears’
– Piglet

Returning for 2007 after an incredible debut last year; we invite you into the relaxed surroundings of the Shelter Living Room Tent. Lord Bridge, your eccentric host for the weekend invites you into his classically themed Living Room to enjoy the wonderful array of music from the best acoustic performers around. Experience sets from the well known right through to the hidden gems who you will fall in love with and never look back. Relax on the sofas, and feel right at home in the fully furnished Living Room. Hungry? Crumpets, Port and much more available to delight your taste buds.

Be prepared to grow that facial hair for the daily beard stroking contests and win fabulous prizes, again hosted by the eccentric Lord Bridge!

Friday: Belinda Gillett, Josh Weller, Fugazirum, Hamfatter, Dan Collins & Lia, Jon Redfern, Madam, The Diarys, Paris Motel

Saturday: Emma York & Galactica, Josephine Oniyama, Pale Marble Movie, Newton Faulkner, Anna Leddra Chapman, Park Bench Poet, Daniel Flay – solo only, Earl Okin, Gabby Young – solo only, Helene, Jon Bilbrough, Stewart Charlesworth, Moe Foe, The Shivers, Narkosis, Rough Edge Quartet

Sunday: Kate Walsh, Mia Riddle, Ross Martyn, Chris Symth, Paul Goodwin, Una Monaghan,The Winter Kings, Damien Mercer, The Brute Chorus, Buffalo 77, The Venkman Project, Ecki, Emily Maguire

Up All Night
‘Since when did mediocrity and banality become a good image for your children?’
– Bill Hicks (on manufactured pop)

Friday: Duke Special, The Krak, VWF, Opaque

Saturday: Mayor McCa, Flipron, Thomas Truax, Envy & Other Sins, Shabby Rouge, John Hills, Shoes, The Cut Outs, The Rips, Kovak, The Social, Lana, Hicks-Milligan Prophesy, Version 88, The Hoodoo Masias, The Zoltan Kodaly School For Girls, Starling

Sunday: Imperial Leisure, This Is Seb Clarke, Pimigi, Stefan Abingdon, Grantura, Dan Razza, Jason Norris, Conrad Vingo, Trouble Over Tokyo, Pegabovine, Dany & the Horns Of Fury, Apricorn Quartet, The Hanging Ropes

Weekend tickets £110