bluedot festival adds Air, Brian Eno art and more
A new festival at Jodrell Bank, bluedot, has today announced new additions to the line-up, which already features Jean-Michel Jarre, Underworld and Caribou
French duo Air will join the line-up for the first bluedot festival, taking place at Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre this summer (22-24 July).
The electronic/space-rock pioneers are the latest high-profile name to join a bill that already includes a UK festival exclusive performance from Jean-Michel Jarre, with co-headliners Underworld and Caribou – plus Everything Everything, Steve Mason, Public Service Broadcasting and many more.
Also added to the three-day programme are Warehouse Project resident Krysco and BBC 6 Music's Marc Riley, both on DJ duties, while a new projection art work by Brian Eno made especially for the festival will be displayed across the site's Lovell Telescope.
Elsewhere, we're promised 'a unique, mesmerising live collaboration' between Kev Bales of Spiritualized, an artist, a scientist and 40,000 bees, entitled Be play One.
The festival isn't just about music, programming a mix of artists, speakers, scientists and performers across five distinct arenas. On the Contact Stage, there will be a celebration of sci-fi author Alan Garner, who will make a rare appearance to sign books. Also appearing will be writer Andrew Smith, discussing his experience of tracking down every astronaut who walked on the moon between 1969 and 1972 for his book Moondust: In Search of Men Who Fell to Earth.
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There's physical theatre in the form of Urban Astronaut in the Science Garden, which imagines a future where air pollution has grown to a crisis point; an audio-visual performance featuring remixed signals from spacecraft, Hello Moon; and a seven-course menu devised by Aiden Byrne especially for the event, promising to take diners 'on a space odyssey, navigating an entire cosmos of experimental tastes'.
And there's even a comedy bill, including the brilliant Foxdog Studios, who combine their brains and technical wizardy from careers in computer science and IT with comedy (read our interview with them here), plus James Veitch’s Dot Con show, which charts his correspondence with email scammers and con artists, Helen Keen performing her standup show It Is Rocket Science, Dr. Steve Cross’s chaotic cabaret Science Showoff, Helen Arney and Steve Mould from Festival of the Spoken Nerd, and lots more.
Finally, The Clangers will be there.
The Clangers.
Tickets are on sale now. Full weekend camping (from £129) and day tickets (from £35) are available.
bluedot
Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre
22-24 July 2016
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