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Mercury Rev Added To Wilderness Festival Line-Up

Thursday, 02 June 2011 Written by Jon Stickler
Mercury Rev Added To Wilderness Festival Line-Up

Wilderness have announced a host of unique additions to its ground-breaking new festival of music, food, theatre, literary debate and outdoor pursuits at the spectacular setting of Cornbury Park in Oxfordshire on August 12th-14th.

American rock band, Mercury Rev, will make their only UK festival appearance of the summer, performing their seminal masterpiece ‘Deserter’s Songs’ for the very last time on this sell-out tour. A concept album which NME named it’s ‘album of the year’ in 1998 captured the pre-millennial mood with a feeling of child-like wonder, merging Disney-esque orchestral ballads, female sopranos, flugelhorns and the eerie whine of a bowed saw. It was an acclaimed success that heralded Mercury Rev’s rebirth as purveyors of a cosmic brand of Americana not yet seen before...

The Secret Garden Party, the award-winning festival which last week sold out of all tickets for this year’s event, will be presiding over a late-night concept party on the Friday night. Aptly titled ‘Where The Wild Things Are’, this will be the only other opportunity to catch the antics of the Secret Garden crew this summer.

Jim Whewell, Secret Garden’s Creative Director says, “We spent a couple of days up at Cornbury picking the exact spot for this party – it’s an absolute gem and we can’t wait to roll over to Wilderness and finish the summer in style.”

Renowned for their radical, magical and wild style of entertainments, they promise to transform an ancient forest clearing into a theatrical landscape of make-believe with the help of resident performers Tax Deductible, The Artful Badger and The Feast of Fools.

The Last Tuesday Society, London’s undisputed purveyors of eccentricity, host their first ever headline show at a UK festival with a Midnight Masked Ball on Saturday night. Following Gogol Bordello’s closing main stage show on Saturday Night, the festival site will be turned over to Viktor Wynd and his accomplices who will
oversee a multi-tented extravaganza of weird and wonderful entertainments including ballroom dancing, late night story-telling, puppet theatre, processional bands, séances and life drawing classes.

Including headline shows from The Urban Voodoo Machine, a second performance from the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and aerial displays from the amazing Empress Stah, the Ball promises to be a spectacular Balkan
boogie carousal into the early hours of Sunday morning…

Mercury Rev, Fyfe Dangerfield of Guillemots, The Low Anthem and the previously announced Robyn Hitchcock will all be collaborating in a very special Sunday Night Songbook Finale with cult singer-songwriter and Wilderness Artist-in-Residence 2011, Daniel Johnston. Without any fear of hyperbole, Daniel’s ensemble late-night show under canvas is a truly unique happening and illustrates Wilderness’ innovative, adventurous and altogether new approach to festival programming.

The new names join a line-up including Antony and the Johnsons (and The Heritage Orchestra), Laura Marling, Daniel Johnston, Gogol Bordello, The Low Anthem, Dry The River, Guillemots, Toots & The Maytals, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, Hayseed Dixie, chefs Skye Gyngell and Sam and Sam Clark from Moro, The Old Vic Tunnels, Tax Deductible Theatre Company, Factory Theatre, Bristol Natural History Consortium, Headspace and Boutique Babysitting

Early bird tickets are selling-fast! Click Here to Compare & Buy Wilderness Festival Tickets

Family Tickets (2 x adults 2 x under 16 children ) are also available - £250
Early Bird Saturday Tickets - £49.50 + Booking Fee
Early Bird Sunday Tickets - £49.50 + Booking Fee
Boutique Camping available from £550 + Booking Fee
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