Field Day

Event: 09/08/08

Location: London Victoria Park, United Kingdom

Links: www.fielddayfestivals.com

One day outdoor indie plus extravaganza with Dirty Projectors, The Mae Shi, The Notwist, Modeselektor, Richie Hawtin, Les Savy Fav, Dan Deacon, Efterklang and more. London Victoria Park, 9 August, £26.50

Dislocation

From 14/08/08 to 16/08/08

Location: Luton various venues, United Kingdom

Links: www.dislocationfestival.com

Experimental music and multimedia event with two evenings followed by a full day of performances and film scores with artists including Silk And Dogs, Arcam, Euhedral, Canidae and more. Luton various venues, 14–16 August, £5/Saturday event (evening performances free)

Robot Vs Dinosau

Location:The island bar Birmingham

Links: www.robotvsdinosaur.co.uk

Robot Vs Dinosaur is all set to return to Island Bar on Friday 15th August, and as ever we’ve got a storming live line-up in store as well as DJs playing everything from Daedelus to Delia Derbyshire!

This time ’round we have a headline set from ex-Plone and current ZX Spectrum Orchestra/Modified Toy Orchestra mainstay Mike In Mono, a man who’s passion for bubbling analogue synth-pop and gorgeous vocodered vocals is matched only by his unswerving penchant for binary and hexadecimal numbers.

In sharp contrast, Milton Keynes-based Girljoy’s cute yet nerve-shredding chipcore assault will be coming at you like a goomba on fire, taking us back to the good old days when high-scores meant everything and (more often than not) you had to blow into the cartridge to get it to work.

And as per usual we’ll also have DJs playing the likes of aphex twin, autechre, battles, the books, broadcast, ceephax acid crew, chris clark, cornelius, cylob, dntel, the flashbulb, four tet, germlin, holy fuck, matmos, max tundra, mouse on mars, the notwist, OOO, plone, polysics, polygon window, the postal service, prefuse 73, pulseprogramming, ulrich schnauss, squarepusher, stereolab, amon tobin, to rococco rot, tortoise, venetian snares, luke vibert, xiu xiu, susumu yokota and whatever else we can find knocking about in the dark corners of our hard discs.

Entry is £3, or just £1 if dressed as a robot or dinosaur, with a free badge on entry! Doors open at 8:30, with the night going on ’til last man standing! Massive selection of cocktails available! Got any requests? Drop us a line!