Saturday, March 02, 2019

Twisted Village - Second Wave / CANCELLED

UPDATE: 19/06 - Unfortunately, owing to poor ticket sales and the financial risk this has incurred, the organisers of the Twisted Village Festival have made the sad decision not to proceed with year's event. A full statement on the event's cancellation can be found on the festival's website and Facebook page.

UPDATE: 25/06 - The Portsmouth News is reporting that the festival's production company has gone into liquidation; the festival's website is still active, however its social media presence has been shuttered. 




Following on from their initial line-up announcement the organisers of boutique festival Twisted Village have released details of more acts and artists performing at the inaugural event. Joining the already mouth-watering selection of acts, which include Alabama 3 and The Lovely Eggs, are bhangra drummers The Dhol Foundation, players of tiny instruments Babsie Brown and the Miniature Orchestra, the quite fantastically named Johnny Kowalski & The Sexy Weirdos, the funky brass of Tuba Libres and the excellent Fake Empire.

In addition to the live music on offer there'll also be sets on the decks from Brandon Block, the rebel dread himself Don Letts and the one and only DJ Format. Twisted Village also sees the welcome return of Portsmouth’s legendary Hipshaker DJs to the festival circuit, if you want a taste of what they'll bring to the party check out their Express FM radio show (past episodes of which are available online). On the performing arts side of things the Circo Rum Ba Ba troupe will bring some joyful anarchy to proceedings and, if it all gets too much, there's always a relaxing game or two of Drag Queen Bingo to look forward to.

With more acts, including headliners, yet to be announced all is looking very good indeed for Twisted Village. The festival takes place at Vicarage Farm, Woodmancott, from Friday 16th to Sunday 18th August, Early Bird tickets may have sold out but Tier 2 tickets (priced at £105) are available now from the festival website.



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