ATP, Pitchfork and Primavera have announced the next wave of announcements for this year’s inaugural Jabberwocky Festival in London. 

NEWLY CONFIRMED ACTS: 

Friday James Blake, Darkside, Thee Oh Sees, Perfect Pussy, Amen Dunes, Patten, Paus 

Saturday The Bug, Sun Kil Moon, Forest Swords, The Van Pelt, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, Oso Leone, Joana Serrat

Last year’s Mercury Prize winner James Blake joins Jabberwocky as the second headliner of an already incredible lineup. From his roots as a club DJ, Blake’s sound progressed into a tender and melancholy mix of modern electronic music and lo-fi indie more akin to contemporaries the XX than his dubstep peers. 

The fractured sounds of his self-titled debut lead into the chilling sophomore full length, ‘Overgrown’, an album that achieved widespread critical acclaim and unlikely guest spots from the likes of Wu-Tang legend the RZA. Jabberwocky are ecstatic to welcome James Blake to London for an oh too rare performance in the nation’s capital.   

New York duo Darkside is comprised of Brooklyn multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington and electronic producer Nicolas Jaar. Their 2013 debut for Matador, ‘Psychic’ fused the two musicians’ vastly different backgrounds into a wholly original mix of experimental and ambient rock and brooding, downtempo house and techno. It is an uncompromising vision and works as a whole to clearly display the progressive and incredibly talented minds at work. 

With their recently announced hiatus still fresh in people’s minds John Dwyer and co softened the blow with the announcement of their upcoming Castle Face Records album ‘Drop’ and now ATP are thrilled to announced the addition of garage rock heroes Thee Oh Sees to this year’s Jabberwocky Festival! The prolific band’s live show is one of the most energetic and exciting you’re likely to see anywhere in the world and to say that their set will be one of the clear highlights of the weekend is no exaggeration. 

Matthew Barnes, aka Forest Swords, debut ‘Dagger Paths’ EP catapulted him into the public consciousness with its skulking, abstract, electronic psych-pop making him stand out from other chillwave contemporaries. Four years on and with full length LP ‘Engravings’ under his belt, he has become one of the go to names in electronic music with remixes having been commissioned by the likes of These New Puritans, Wild Beasts and The Big Pink.  

Plus DJs:

Fra Soler (Primavera)  + 

Pitchfork DJs + 

DJ Coco (Primavera) 

DJ Cherrystones 

Spencer Hickman (Death Waltz Recordings)

Daevid Phillips  

FULL LINEUP SO FAR:

Neutral Milk Hotel, James Blake, Caribou, Darkside, Electric Wizard, Connan Mockasin, Forest Swords

Thee Oh Sees, Sun Kil Moon, The Bug, Kode 9, Deafheaven, The Ex, Pissed Jeans, Forest Swords, Perfect Pussy, Earth, Iceage, Jesu, Amen Dunes, Speedy Ortiz, I Break Horses, Metz, The Van Pelt, Patten, Eaux, Vatican Shadow, Paus, Yamantaka//Sonic Titan, Joanna Gruesome, Chelsea Wolfe, Hookworms, The Growlers, Oso Leone, Joana Serrat 

Friday 15^th – Saturday 16^th August 2014 Excel London 

For more information and ticket links click here.