End of the Road festival 2014 programme by Fleeing from Pigeons

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Welcome Useful Info Environmental Initiatives Art Installations Woodland Library Healing Retreat Workshops Cinema Extra Activities Catering Bars Artist Features Artist A–Z Thank Yous Listings Site Map

WELCOME

Welcome to End of the Road 2014 Soon after every festival, around October, when it’s time to face the music choices for the following year, I have a flash of concern (horror is perhaps too strong a word) that I can’t get it right and deliver to expectations. However, it’s only a matter of time until I find those first few bands whose music lifts me out of myself and leaves me with the confidence that “you’re gonna love this!”. Year on year, that same process makes me happy and in this, our ninth year, I hope you’ll once more share with me that happy feeling. I’m particularly chuffed to present End of the Road’s one-offs: the Gene Clark project, Yo La Tengo and The Flaming Lips. Plus another one hundred bands who will thoroughly enjoy themselves playing for you, the most appreciative audience in the land.

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I hope you will be inspired and carry with you, even into the dark days of next January, luminous memories of End of the Road 2014, so that when you encounter fellow End of the Road goers, you can End of the Road goers, you can recover the pleasure and feel again recover the pleasure and feel again warmth of September past and the warmth of September past and one to come. the one to come. know, this is the first year we finish (I know, this is the first year we finish short of September, and maybe not short of September, and maybe not everyone knows that we are called everyone knows that we are called End of the Road because we were End of the Road because we were once the last festival of the summer.) once the last festival of the summer.) wish you a great weekend. I wish you a great weekend. Thank you, as always, for your Thank you, as always, for your support. support. Here we go... Here we go... Simon Curator

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USEFUL INFO Hearing Protection Exposure to loud noise can damage your hearing and in particular the hearing of children. Please be prepared with well- fitting ear protection for you and your children. If you haven’t come prepared – noise protection ear plugs can be obtained from the Information Point. First Aid The First Aid Point is situated along the tarmac road, opposite the Cinema, not far from the entrance to the Garden Stage. At night there will be a foot patrol in the campsite but the main First Aid Point will remain open at all times, complete with ambulance. Please ask the stewards or security if you need help. Children Children should always be supervised by an adult. The white infant wristband is designed to allow a parent’s mobile number to be written on it. Lost and unaccompanied children will be taken to the Information Point by stewards/security. Nappies should be tied up in a plastic bag and disposed of in the general waste bins. Smoking Please respect that smoking is not allowed inside any tents or venues.

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Camping – Don’t leave valuables in your tent. Friends of the Earth provide a free Lockup. – At night, keep your valuables inaccessible – for example with you in your sleeping bag. – Please consider those around you and keep the noise down. – Family camping will have lots of children, so quiet evenings and early mornings. – Bin bags are available from the recycling points. Where possible, try to keep recyclable stuff separate when you leave the bags at the recycling point. Showers – We have doubled the number of showers this year and hope the queues will be shorter. – They are generally open 24 hours a day, so if you do find queues, try a different time. – We aim to steward the showers from 7am to 11pm. – Keeping your shower short helps reduce both waiting times and waste water. Disabled Facilities There are disabled toilets in the Disabled camping area, near the Garden Stage and near the Big Top Stage. The Woods Stage and Garden Stage have disabled viewing platforms, and there will be a viewing area in the Big Top too. Please ask the stewards if you require assistance.

Bars We have eight bars on site, located all over the Festival Village. – The Peacock Bar Close to the main entrance into the Gardens – The Black Crow Near the Woods Stage – The Badger Inn Inside the Tipis – The Garden Bar Behind the audience at the Garden Stage – The Garden Courtyard Bar Near the Garden Stage, behind the Singing Theatre – The Bear Tavern Our new real ale tent in the main village next to Rough Trade – The Elephant Inn the Woods At the Woodland Disco – The Somerset Cider Bus Near the Tipis and the open fire See the Bars page 26 for further information. Souvenir Plastic Cups We are introducing a Festival Glass... it is not glass of course, but durable plastic with our logo on it. If you wish to take part, buy one from any bar for £2. Each time you come back to any bar serving draught, we will provide a clean replacement for your next drink. Learn more on page 8.

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Frank Water – FreeFill FRANK Water is opposite the Tea Bus. Support a great charity and drink chilled water all weekend for £5 (or £3 with your own bottle). For more info on the project’s success, see the Environmental Initiatives on page 8. Garden Stage We ask that you don’t take camping chairs and blankets to the Garden stage after 6pm. This allows more people to see the evening bands. Lock up and Phone Charging Friends of the Earth provide a lock up service near the entrance gate to the village. You can also charge your mobile phone for £2 if you have your charger, and for £3 if you need a charger. Lost and Found The Information Point sheds will deal with anything lost and found.

Wi-Fi We are trialing a public Wi-Fi area. It costs £8 for the whole weekend and will cover a marked area near the food traders and picnic tables in the main village. It will prohibit file sharing or streaming, but will allow email, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and general web surfing. One voucher can be used on only one device. Vouchers can be purchased from the End of the Road shop. Sorry this isn’t free. We are miles from the exchange and the cost of enough bandwidth for a free service for everyone is prohibitive. Merchandise The End of The Road shop has plenty of stylish (and reasonably priced) stuff, much of it designed by Kai Wong whose art has long been at the heart of the festival. Screen-printed festival posters are available in limited edition. There is also a small stall where you can purchase merchandise from the bands playing. And Rough Trade playing. Rough are here with CDs and vinyl. are here with CDs and vinyl.

Early Bird offer Early Bird tickets will be on sale from our website on the Tuesday after the festival. They don’t last long: www.endoftheroadfestival.com End of the Road Ticket Deposit Scheme We are planning a deposit scheme that will allow you to secure your ticket with a relatively small payment. The balance will not be payable until next Spring. The scheme will not apply to early birds. Keep an eye out for it once we move to Tier 2.

ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVES Recycling All waste on site goes into general bins this year as it’s all going to one big recycling plant where everything will be divided up into its rightful home, not one thing will go to landfill. Souvenir Plastic ‘Glass’ As a trial we are introducing a Festival Glass. It is not glass of course, but durable plastic with our logo on it. If you wish to take part, buy one from the Black Crow or The Peacock for just £2. Each time you come back to any bar serving draught, we will give you a clean replacement for your next drink. If you don’t want to take it home, we will give you £1 back. The environmental plus is a lot less one-use plastic cups to recycle. On the downside, we have to provide washing machines for the re-usable cups, but on balance it is a much better system. The normal one-use cups will still be available, but we hope the trial will succeed and can be developed in future years. Lift Share Scheme Thank you to those who have signed up to our Lift Share Scheme. It helps save money by sharing the travel costs, it reduces fuel consumption and congestion on the roads and perhaps makes new friendships. Please sign up next year if you have or would like a spare seat: www.liftshare.org

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Food and Market Stalls Exciting food is one of the priorities at End of the Road. Caterers are asked to provide as much organic and locally sourced food as possible. We require all utensils and containers to be biodegradable, so no polystyrene. We ask that traders’ products are ethically sourced and Fair Trade wherever possible. For more information on food, see pages 24–25. Boutique Camping (to be booked in advance) You can book tents, bell tents, yurts and tipis with or without airbeds, sleeping bags and stoves and kettles. If you’re in a group you can be pitched with your friends. All the tents are looked after and reused; sleeping bags are yours to keep or, if left behind, will be passed onto charity. This year we have offerings from Hotel Bell Tent, Tangerine Fields and Fairlove Yurts. Freedom Lager End of the Road is proud to involve Freedom Brewery for an eighth year running. Freedom is a small UK brewery using water from a natural underground spring lake, which helps contribute to an excellent tasting, organic and vegan lager.

Site Lighting and Generators All the lamps used are low energy, and much of the high power site lighting is controlled by light sensors to reduce waste. Generators are not efficient outside their designed ranges, so as power consumption falls over night we switch, where possible, to smaller generators to make best use of the fuel. Frank Water – FreeFill Thirsty? Save money, save waste, save lives… FRANK Water and its FreeFill initiative have been a part of End of the Road since 2010 providing chilled, filtered drinking water. FreeFill has generated enough income at End of the Road to fund a complete clean water project for a village in rural India. And at the same time the amount of plastic going to recycling has been greatly reduced. How does FreeFill work? Simply purchase a £5 FreeFill water bottle on site and receive unlimited refills of chilled, filtered drinking water for the duration of the festival. Or, bring your own bottle and buy a £3 wristband to receive the same unlimited refills (opening hours apply).

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The Programme Our programme is printed on 100% recycled paper using ecofriendly ink. The manufacturing process scores 98 out of 100 on the WWF benchmarking. Festival Wood “Give Something Back” This year for the first time, we teamed up with A Greener Festival’s ‘Festival Wood’ campaign to provide you with the opportunity to “give something back” by purchasing a tree (or two!). These trees are planted by a team of volunteers in The Festival Woods, a 10,000 acre area located in Dundreggan, Scotland. All trees. of the funds raised are spent on trees. Collectively, you have donated over 600 trees so far this year, so thank you! Consider buying a tree when you next go to our ticket page.

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ART INSTALLATIONS A Quiet Position Drawing on his own extensive field recording archives, alongside pieces by other leading artists, Jez Riley French invites you to stop for some time and enjoy the subtle simplicity of listening to the world closely. Whether it’s the sound of fence wires singing, the wind across Icelandic glaciers or ants eating apricots. Climb in, open your ears and travel in the company of sounds from around the world. Boomerang Bowling A roller-coaster of a bowling alley with voluptuous curves, Boomerang Bowling twists the concept of a ‘curve ball’ to the extreme. Watch it return via a vert wall, striking the pins just a few feet from where you are standing. David Shillinghaw Since graduating from Central Saint Martins in 2002, David has exhibited in galleries in Japan, China, Holland and key cities such as New York, Beijing, Berlin and Istanbul. His work gravitates towards the subject of the human condition. “Life is a struggle for everyone,” he says. “From the smallest insect to the greatest beast, each of us experiencing ups and downs. Peaks and troughs. Like a game of snakes and ladders.”

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Flux Walking beneath the coloured ribbon canopies Jess has installed throughout the gardens you gain a real awareness of the festival’s unique setting. Look up and you can see a constant shift in the shapes between the ribbon squares and the changes they reflect in the light and leaves above. Made entirely of floristry ribbon, the installation deals with themes of movement and flux in the environment, unnoticed spaces and our relationship to the ordinary. ‘Oh, My Darling, Cling To Me’ Words of wisdom and beauty have been left in the gardens, cut from the leaves, there for those who take time to appreciate their surroundings. Edward’s work will live on beyond Monday morning, amongst the foliage or in the hands of those who experienced it, until the summer ends and the leaves begin to disappear. Ping Pong Thunderdome Insert your head and hands into this 6 player Ping Pong Arena and enjoy a game with very few rules! Make sure you visit at night too for the UV illuminated outer space Ping Pong experience.

Photobooth The Photobooth is a portrait machine created at End Of The Road Festival by London-based illustrator Rosie Curran. Taken and processed within 5 minutes with roughly a 30% accuracy rate (!), your images are perfect for passports or as gifts to loved ones! Open daily from 11am until 5pm. See board for opening times at night. Print to the People An interactive art installation created by art student Harry Pizzey, this project aims to bring the power of creativity to the masses by allowing you to print your very own unique artwork to either take home or display for the rest of the festival audience to admire. The driving force behind this project is to deliver the unique and splendid experience of bringing a piece of art into existence. Here the process of creation is celebrated as a work in itself, inviting you to become part of the installation. This Must Be For You This Must Be For You is an anonymous gift-giving project, hiding free presents all around the festival for anyone and everyone to find. Set up to encourage human kindness via a tangible format – it’s not just a nice picture on the internet but something that you can hold in your hands and measure the real value of. The project also provides a unique free platform for artists, musicians, writers, photographers and film-makers to display their work.

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‘World Within’ Come and visit Tori and Joseph’s miniature version of the Larmer they play host Tree Gardens as they play host wonderful festivals. to one of their wonderful festivals. landscape captures This diminutive landscape captures special and sublime some of the special and sublime well as a few surprises moments, as well as a few surprises Road. at the End of the Road.

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WOODLAND LIBRARY The Woodland Library is open for business as usual with literary talents lined up to entertain you each morning. We’ve even added a new midday slot to Saturday and Sunday to catch the late risers amongst you. You’re invited as always to browse the shelves wrapped around our ancient tree. Feel free to check out any titles you wish for return at next year’s festival – we won’t even fine you if you’re late. Friday ---------------------------------------------------Will Burns – 10:30 Born in London and raised in Buckinghamshire, Will didn’t finish his English degree, choosing instead to start an ill-fated band with his brother. Having published his work in Structo Magazine, South Bank Poetry, Illustrated Ape and the Independent online we’re pleased to have one of the four Faber and Faber new poets for 2014 return to End of the Road library this year. Mark Ellen – 11:15 Mark has written for Record Mirror and NME, edited Smash Hits, Q, Select and helped to launch Mojo. For ten years from 2002, he edited The Word. Reading from his own Rock Stars Stole My Life: A Big Bad Love Affair with Music – his funny and touching personal memoir maps out his eventful journey, telling stories and settles scores, charting the peaks and disappointments.

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Saturday ---------------------------------------------------JP Bean – 10:30 Here to talk about his recent book Singing From the Floor: A History of British Folk Clubs. JP Bean will capture your imagination with his story of the folk revival of the 1950s and 60s with luminaries including Shirley Collins, Martin Cathy, Peggy Seeger and Ralph McTell plus figures Billy Connolly, Jasper Carrott and Mike Harding, all who started their careers within the folk circuit.

Sunday ---------------------------------------------------Seb Emina – 10:30 Author of The Breakfast Bible (Bloomsbury), a breakfasters’ compendium of recipes, essays and miscellany, shortlisted for ‘Food Book the Year’ in the Guild of Food Writers Awards 2014. Seb will be discussing both his written and digital culinary themed work which includes a sunrise-chasing internet radio station called ‘Global Breakfast Radio’.

Will Hodgkinson – 11:15 Author of Guitar Man, Song Man, The Ballad Of Britain and The House Is Full Of Yogis. Will has written music and culture articles for the Guardian, Mojo and Vogue and is currently rock and pop critic for The Times. Reading from and discussing his latest book The House Is Full Of Yogis you’ll gain a comedic insight into his childhood when it was turned upside down by his father joining the Brahma Kumaris.

Viv Albertine – 11:15 After forming The Flowers of Romance with Sid Vicious in 1976, Viv joined The Slits and made musical history as one of the first generation of punk bands. Speaking from her new memoir Clothes… Musics… Boys, Viv will be telling the story of what it was like to be a girl at the height of punk and the hard lessons learnt. Viv Albertine has influenced a range of exceptional artists and will be telling her story of a life lived unscripted.

Laura Barton – 12:00 Having covered music and other matters for The Guardian, Radio 4, The New York Times, Q and Intelligent Life. Laura’s first novel, Twenty-One Locks, was published in 2010. At End of the Road this year, she will be reading from new material focusing on the subject of music and sadness.

Travis Elborough – 12:00 Freelance writer, author and cultural commentator for more than a decade now, Travis’ books include The Long Player Goodbye, a hymn to vinyl records and Wish You Were Here, a survey of the British beside the seaside. Speaking of his most recent work, London Bridge in America: The Tall Story of a Transatlantic Crossing, Travis will be talking about the 130 year old bridge which travelled 3,000 miles.

HEALING RETREAT

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There aren’t many that have spent a weekend festivaling and not wished for a massage at some point. Thankfully the Relaxation Room will be returning to host the Healing Retreat for the ninth year running so that wishes can become reality. Whether you’re retreating for some ‘me time’ after the night before or scheduling a session with your favourite practitioner, we’ve got it all in hand.

At any time of day you’re more than welcome to wander around and meet the team – just because we have an online booking form doesn’t mean we can’t help you out with on-the- day enquiries. The usual treatments – from Acupuncture to Reflexology – will be back with some new ones, including an extended barber service. Whether you want to really heal or just retreat, we’re here to give you the most relaxing experience possible. Payments can now be made by card so there really is no excuse not to treat yourself!

Treatments for 2014 Acupressure Massage Acupuncture Aromatherapy Massage Beauty and Hairstyling Crystal Healing Chakra Balancing Chinese Cupping Clinical Massage (Advanced) Craniosacral Therapy Deep Tissue Massage H.E.A.R.T.S. Holistic Facials Holistic Massage Hopi Ear Candles Hot Stone Massage Hot Towel Wet Shaving Indian Head Massage Japanese Facial Massage (Tsuboki) Lomi Lomi Massage Mongolian Sky Energy Massage Natural Facelift Massage Osteopathy (Classical) Pindesweda Massage Physiotherapy Pregnancy Massage Reflexology Reiki Seated Acupressure / Seated Shiatsu Shamanic Healing Shiatsu Sports Massage Swedish Massage Thai Body Massage Thai Foot Massage Thai Yoga Massage Traditional Thai Body Work Warm Bamboo Massage

WORKSHOPS

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Arts & Crafts -----------------------------------------------------Clay Making Open outdoor clay creation sessions for the whole family. Come and make magical creatures and stretch the limits of your imagination. Drop in often throughout the weekend, let your work be part of a large collective display and then take it home on Sunday afternoon.

Origami A chance for beginners and more experienced origami enthusiasts to get together and learn new designs.

Hats and Badges Pomme De Tete invites you to create a simple sculptural hat, badge, rosette or medal using a range of wonderful materials and colours.

Stories and Felt Puppets Lead by Sam Baldwin, this workshop consists of a story telling session, followed by a craft class in which the kids make their own felt creature.

HungaMunga’s Space Craft HungaMunga brings a galaxy of arts and crafts fun to the weekend. At HungaMunga Mission Control you can make your own spaceships, spacesuits, robots, planets and aliens or get involved with astronomical storytelling and lots of tin foil. Whatever you make, it’s sure to be out of this world!

The Far Away Tree Whether you want to decorate a lampshade or create a miniature tree house, The Far Away Tree is a magical enchanted place where you can create beautiful artwork to display in a tree.

Junk Crafts Long live the rubbish! Junk Crafts encourages you to get creative with your waste products.

Stonk Knots Stonk Knots offers up multiple workshops covering different topics, from how to make rope dolls and monkey fist key rings to macramé bracelets and mats.

The World Of Bobby Dazzler Delve into a collection of vintage buttons and jazzy found fabrics to create your own Bobby Dazzler doll with a needle and thread. Please note that workshops are not drop-in and are suitable for the age of 5+.

Upcycling My Ella is a fashion accessories and home-wares label founded by fashion graduate and experienced designer/ pattern cutter, Helen Ball. Join her workshops to make your own. Woodland Crafts Our creative workshops reinforce environmentally-conscious ideas using only natural materials. Dance and Exercise -----------------------------------------------------Afternoon Yoga Yoga in the late afternoon to relax and restore that tent-bound body before the sun sets and the sounds of the night call. Circus Skills Circus Kaos and Solo Circus join forces to give all ages the chance to try something new, improve their skills or just sit back and watch the professionals do their thing to superb tunes. Hula Hoop HoopHoopHoop is a Birminghambased hoop dance group who wants you to enjoy hooping as much as they do. The HoopHoopHoop experience keeps kids (and grownups) entertained for hours and provides the opportunity to learn new moves.

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Qi Gong Kick start the day with the gentle stretches, self-massage, posture and energy awareness exercises of Mark Pogson’s Magpie Qi Gong class. Yoga Inspired Games for Families and Children Yoga provides us all, young and old, with a wonderful way to explore our bodies, hearts and minds. Join us for games designed to enhance teamwork, movement and creativity, as well as guided stories to help relax and restore. Food -----------------------------------------------------Make your own PittaBread with Pizza Tabun Kids can make their own Pitta, watch it being cooked and then eat for their breakfast while it’s still warm! For ages 2–10. Saturday –Sunday: between 9:30 to 11:00 (15 minutes per session). Please book in advance at Pizza Tabun’s marquee as places are limited. All donations will go towards BUSTAN. www.bustan.org

Music, Performing Arts & Stories -----------------------------------------------------A Wild and Wonderful Musical World Hop, wiggle, squeak and ROAR along to original family animal songs full of happiness and love. Poco Drom create a wild and wonderful musical world full of badgers, squirrels, monkeys and other noisy animals, connecting children and families with nature through music and poetry. Chalk Board Theatre The wonder of a chalk board and the genius of mind mapping come together to create an original piece of drama. Comedy Workshops Discover the spontaneous comic within. Our games and activities are designed to liberate you from thinking, planning and judging so that you can explore the world of creativity through the ‘power of now’. Humanimation Whether you’re an individual or a group of friends, you’re invited to create 5-10 seconds of stop-frame animation using the background, story, props and prompts provided. The final results will be shown in the Cinema Tent.

Folk Tales A mix of the old and the new, Folk Tales brings together folk stories and music. Listen Hear A listening experience that takes you into the world of binaural recordings. Let your ears transport you to another realm. Miniature Music Aimed mainly at toddlers and their keepers, this workshop starts with rhythm work using djembe, tambour and bongos. Once you’ve had a play on the ukulele you’re invited to freestyle with a large selection of instruments including a special home-made trumpet! One Line Theatre Company A hilarious and unpredictable workshop based around small pieces of paper, pens, a hat and quirky input from the audience! Using the volunteer cast, Hands in Song’s props bucket and the ‘Genre Tree’, the team at One Line create theatre using only the lines from the hat. Where will the story take you… who knows?

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Stop Motion Animation An intuitive and creative experience for our younger festival goers. They will quickly learn the basic techniques of stop motion animation before seeing their creations come to life! The Big Loud Crash Band Music Project This workshop does exactly what it says on the tin: it’s loud, it’s proud, it’s chaos! Using a selection of weird and wonderful instruments including pots, pans, kettles, kazoos and dinner plates the team will work with you to create a piece of “soundscape” musical theatre.

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The End of the Road Songbook Using Beck’s ‘The Song Reader’ as a template, you can work with experienced musician Dean Brodrick to write your own lyrics to a simple melody made just for you. He’ll even upload your track online for later listening. The Rig The Rig is made out of recycled materials and everyday objects that have been turned into fun musical instruments and whacky scientific sound experiments. Sessions are open for the whole family to create and explore. Ukelele Workshops The perfect opportunity for beginners to learn to strum and singalong to well known songs but if you’ve played before, they’ll but if you’ve played before, they’ll challenge you with some harder challenge you with some harder music too! music too!

Mystery Fun -----------------------------------------------------The Love of it Over the past four years of summer festival fun this team have brought you all manner of entertainment; from Alternative Olympics (frying pan badminton! hat fencing!) through to photo treasure hunts and board game mash-ups. We’ve got something new planned for this year, but we’re keeping it under wraps for now – rest assured it’ll be silly, sparkly, colourful and above all – FUN! -----------------------------------------------------You can see the line-up and timings of all our workshops in the listings at the back of this programme.

For more than eight years, THE LINE OF BEST FIT has been at the forefront of music discovery with an honesty and integrity that makes it a perfect match for End of the Road. As the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official online media partner for the second year running, the UKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favourite new music website returns to curate surprise performances, collaborations and weird and wonderful happenings at secret locations throughout Larmer Tree Gardens. Follow us on twitter.com/ bestfitmusic and keep your eyes peeled for on-site notices. You might just stumble into the woods at midnight to find your favourite band playing a secret set! New Music Discovery begins at thelineofbestfit.com <<< Frightened Rabbit playing a secret pop up show for THE LINE OF BEST FIT at End of the Road 2013

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Whether you want to get inside the mind of a young folk singer, keep your Saturday morning cartoon tradition, escape into another world or indulge in a Q&A heavy Sunday; the Cinema Tent has you covered. There’s something for the cult film fanatics, the geeks, the intellectuals, the kids and the more childish adults amongst us throughout the weekend. Thursday -----------------------------------------------------00:00 Pulp: a Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets 22:00 Calvary The Double 20:00 The Double Inside Llewyn Davis 18:00 Inside Llewyn Davis

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Friday -----------------------------------------------------Curated by Peter Strickland, director of Katalin Varga and Berberian Sound Studio: 00:35 The Burglars 23:00 Flesh for Frankenstein 21:00 Star 80 19:30 Fabulous World of Jules Verne 18:30 Q&A with Peter Strickland and Will Hodgkinson 17:30 Selection of short films: – Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky) – Allures (Jordan Belson) – The Movement – The Movement of People Working of People Working (Phill Niblock) (Phill Niblock) – The Love Life – The Love Life of the Octopus of the Octopus (Jean Painleve) (Jean Painleve) – Street of Crocodiles – Street of Crocodiles (Brothers Quay) (Brothers Quay) Sun Ra – Space 16:00 Sun Ra – Space is the Place 14:20 Overnight Selection of Shorts: 13:35 S election of Shorts: – Where Evil Dwells – Where Evil Dwells (David Wojnarowicz, (David Wojnarowicz, Tommy Turner) Tommy Turner) – O is for Orgasm – O is for Orgasm (Helene Cattet (Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani) & Bruno Forzani) – Thumbelina – Thumbelina (Lotte Reiniger) (Lotte Reiniger) 11:30 Innerspace The Lego Movie 9:50 The Lego Movie

Saturday -----------------------------------------------------Curated by Ben Wheatley, director of Kill List, Sightseers and A Field in England: 00:00 A Clockwork Orange 22:00 Final Programme 20:00 Altered States 17:30 Intro with Gruff Rhys – American Interior 16:00 Koynasquatsi 14:00 Doctor Who, Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D 12:00 Speed Racer 11:00 Adventure Time 10:00 Ren and Stimpy Sunday -----------------------------------------------------Curated by Andy Rook, producer on Kill List, Sightseers and A Field in England: 00:00 Beyond the Valley of Dolls 22:15 Vanishing Point 20:30 Harold and Maude 18:30 Escape from Planet of the Apes 16:45 Fearless Freaks 15:15 Village of the Dammed 14:15 Q&A with Ben Wheatley, Peter Strickland and Andy Rook – hosted by Will Hodgkinson 12:15 The Red Shoes 11:30 Star Trek: The Original Series – The Way to Eden (Space Hippies) 10:00 Dougal and the Blue Cat

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Peter Strickland ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Described by the Guardian as Those influences are running through It’s a lesson in suffering for your the “key British filmmaker of his his Friday line-up in the cinema tent. art that – on the face of it – isn’t generation,” Peter Strickland’s work From the Sun Ra written and starring too far removed from the pain Jones’ is steeped in the musical avant-garde Space is the Place to the twisted but character goes through in Berberian and obtuse. Taking inspiration from brilliant, Andy Warhol-produced Sound Studio. Friday’s line-up in a the oddities of library music such as Flesh for Frankenstein. rare glimpse into the influences of Vernon Elliot’s score for the Clangers one of modern cinema’s most forwardand the work of Joe Meek, his second After growing up in Reading, his thinking writer-directors, so make picture Berberian Sound Studio – entry into filmmaking came via a sure you stop by. the oblique story of an English sound £25,000 inheritance, a relocation engineer working on an Italian horror to Romania and a Transylvania-set There will be a Q&A with Peter film – was widely acclaimed, with a masterpiece called Katalin Varga Strickland in the Cinema tent spectacular performance from Toby that took just 17 days to shoot but at 18:30 on Friday Jones and a soundtrack that proved three years, a return to the UK and to be the final album from legendary no full time employment to get Birmingham electronic act Broadcast. finished and released. Ben Wheatley ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Director of the truly brilliant, twisted The obtuseness displayed in his work Highlights include Gruff Rhys’ comedy Sightseers, as well as comes through in his selections for recent road trip film American Interior, acclaimed horror Kill List and last Saturday’s cinema line-up. Kicking off the 1966 Doctor Who film Daleks – year’s Julian Barrett-starring, civil with the Nickelodeon cartoon Ren and Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D., and the war thriller A Field in England, Ben Stimpy, which was controversial in cult classic Koyaanisqatsi, the 1982, Wheatley has worked on some of the its particular brand of toilet humour, Godfrey Reggio picture with music UK’s best TV and film productions right the way through to the Kubrick from Philip Glass. of the past ten years – as director of classic A Clockwork Orange, banned the aforementioned trio of big screen by its creator in response to perceived There will be a Q&A with Ben pictures, as a writer on the Armando links between its portrayal of a Wheatly in the Cinema tent Iannucci created Time Trumpet, and violent, dystopian Britain and a series at 14:15 on Sunday as director of the first two episodes of murders in 1971, the programme is of Peter Capaldi’s forthcoming debut a mixture of classic and modern film. as Doctor Who.

EXTRA ACTIVITIES Comedy This year our comedy stage is back in full force with a selection of fantastic artists to entertain you over the weekend. We have some old regulars and some new additions. You can see the line up and timings in the listings at the back of this programme along with some more detailed biogs in the A-Z. Please note our comedy stage gets very busy, we always advise arriving early for the best seats! Where Is My Mind? music quiz with Charlie Ivens Piano Stage. Sun. 15:00 Back for a sixth year, Charlie Ivens’ ‘Where Is My Mind?’ music quiz will fill a relaxed-but-oddly-alert hour of your Sunday afternoon with another bursting barrel of tricksy questions about End of the Road bands past and present (plus some terrible puns). Breakfast With The Ink Spots Tipi Tent. Sat/Sun. 10:00–11:30 Get out of your clammy three man tent and join us in the cool environs of the Tipi Stage. Be soothed into the day with the records of The Ink Spots. BYOB (bring your own breakfast).

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Ringo Music Bingo Piano Stage. Fri. 18:00–20:00 Sat/Sun. 12:30–14:00 Ringo Music Bingo is a firm fixture at End of the Road these days. It’s Bingo, but instead of numbers on your sheets it’s bands! It’s free to play and you might be in with the chance of winning prizes.

Team Ice cream Pro Tandem Team Ice cream have an ice cream churner on their bicycle made for two! Learn how to make your own mixture, then hop on the back for a lift in lycra. Chat as the ice cream churns and ten minutes of pedaling later you’ll leave with your own delicious dessert!

Kubb Main Village. Daily. 12:00–17:00 Why not challenge your friends to a game of Kubb, known to some as ‘Viking Chess’, where you can play one against one, or in teams of up to six players on each side. It’s a fun and social game and it’ll give your throwing arm a good workout before you head into the arena.

Life Drawing Library Stage. Sat/Sun 13:15–15:15 & 18:00–20:00 Fancy a relaxing and artistic thing to do one afternoon or evening? Why not pay our drop-in-and-out life drawing workshops a visit. With rotating live models, it’ll be the perfect opportunity to draw a natural (almost nude) image in a natural themed setting. Make sure you visit at night too for a special lantern lit session!

Videopia Main Arena. Every day Ever wanted to be in the movies? Well here’s your chance to fulfil those childhood dreams of stardom. The videopia film studio will be inviting festival goers to act out classic moments from classic films. Step aboard the converted vintage Oakley trailer for the full silver screen treatment. Grab some co-stars, pick a scene from your favourite movie, get suited and booted in the dressing room before acting your socks off in front of the camera. The miniature masterpieces will be screened on site before being uploaded onto the videopia website for the viewing pleasure of your family, friends and newly acquired fan-base.

Ten Minute Plays Library Stage. Sat. 16:00 A ten-minute play conceived, devised, costumed, scripted, musically scored, rehearsed, and staged all in one hour. Part improvisation, part design- your-own-play, this is an exercise in frenetic creativity under unbelievable pressure.

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Austentatious Library Stage. Sun 16:00 Undoubtedly Undoubtedly one of the most talkedabout about shows on the UK comedy scene, scene, Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Jane Austen Novel is a comedy play play spun in the inimitable style of Jane of Jane Austen – and based entirely on audience on audience suggestions. Secret Postal Office Decorate Decorate postcards, write long love love letters, get your photos taken, choose choose delivery times and make large large parcels. Everybody is asked to mark to mark their post with an address (campsite (campsite / tent colour etc) or a description description of recipient and general whereabouts. whereabouts. Our hardworking postmen postmen and women are constantly out on out on rounds looking for the correct address address and delivering the mail with help help from our own official bicycles, megaphones, megaphones, post trolley and post boxes boxes placed around the festival site.

Scrabble Sunday Wonderlands Lawn. Sun Afternoon We bring the boards, you bring the brains. Pit your wits against your friends at the world’s favourite word game. You can be as competitive or relaxed as you like. We won’t judge though we will provide a referee (with official Scrabble dictionary, of course) to rule on any arguments. So whether it’s your first time or you’re a seasoned pro, come and join us for some wordplay, tea, biscuits and cake. Tipi Stage... In Conversation with Uncut Special guests from this year’s lineup in discussion with our favourite music magazine (see boards for details). Sat. 11:45 Sun. 11:45

CATERING

Each year we handpick our caterers and whether you’re a meat eater, a vegetarian, or a vegan we have a fine mix of independent speciality foods for every meal; be that breakfast at the much loved doubledecker bus Tea Stop, indulging your Kedgeree cravings at Goan Seafood, grabbing lunch from Luardos, or getting your dumpling fix at the Tibetan Kitchen. You will see several familiar faces returning again this year along with some brand new delights to tease your taste buds. We pride ourselves on providing you with the strongest mix of caterers seen on the UK festival calendar. Without further adieu, for your culinary delight in 2014... Pizza Tabun Alon and his pizza crew have been with the festival from the very beginning and it’s not hard to see why. Put simply, they create the best freshly cooked pizza around. Top tip: We also recommend Alon’s Lemonade. Goan Seafood A firm fixture on the festival circuit. David and his crew know their fish! Goan fish curry, Kedgeree for breakfast. Need we say more?

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Roaming Rotisserie Succulent roasted chicken cooked on a rotisserie where below, roasted potatoes slowly infuse with the juices. A French market favourite. Moorish Kada has won many an accolade with his authentic North African fare. Based in Leeds, his restaurant is a hard place to book a table. At End of the Road, we will all get the chance to understand why. Top tip – spicy fish bourek! Sea Cow Simply the best fish and chips you will ever find on the festival circuit. Barnaby Sykes – Pie Maker Returning to End of the Road for a third year, Barnaby Sykes will be offering the finest pie, mash and chips – fresh out of their ‘Ye Olde London’esque shop. Bhatti Wraps Organic lamb and free range chicken – direct from James’ Dorset based farm – cooked to utter perfection in genuine Delhi tandoor ovens that reach up to 460 degrees. Phew! Tibetan Kitchen Authentic Tibetan food cooked onsite using good quality ingredients and lots of love. Menu includes: Beef stew and a variety of stuffed steamed ‘momo’ dumplings. Vegan and gluten free options are available.

Luardos Luardos sell big, fresh, delicious burritos and plates of totopos (nachos). Slow-cooked meats, four homemade salsas, black turtle beans, rice, homemade guacamole, sour cream, fresh coriander, melted Monterey Jack cheese, shredded lettuce all wrapped up in a 12” tortilla or laid on a bed of tortilla chips. Puravida Well known on the festival circuit for their great food and friendly service, Puravida offer a variety of Mexican food including enchiladas, quesadillas, fajitas, burritos, chili and nachos. The Breakfast Club Trading from a big purple bus named Madame D’Arblay, The Breakfast Club serve a British/American breakfast centric menu with a range of food including bacon butties, pancakes, eggs benedict and breakfast burritos. Meatcure Taking inspiration from the meatpacking district of New York and prohibition era diners, Meatcure is a hip interpretation of American fastfood classics. The street feast menu offers something a little bit different; pulled pork sandwiches with slaw, carb-free boxes of pulled-pork and beans, racks of ribs, smoked beef dogs and kraut.

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Paelleria Paellaria’s kick-ass, award-winning Paella is 100% homemade onsite using only the finest Spanish ingredients, sourced and imported from the Valencian region in Spain.

Dish Café Located within a magical Midsummer Night’s Dream setting, Dish Café freshly bakes on site and is the perfect place to relax and contemplate the wonderful surroundings.

Le Grande Bouffe Cecile knows a thing or two about mountains. Brought up being moved from French market to French market in the Haute Savoie by her father, she learnt the art of Tartiflette and saucisse at a very early age. There is Gallic passion within the ‘Big Eat’.

The Tea Stop Come relax in the tranquil setting of the double decker bus’ garden. Tea, coffee and wonderful cakes for you to enjoy all day.

Le Creperie Perfect sweet and savoury French crepes and barista coffees. Andy, a master chef, has perfected the simple by using the best ingredients available. Wide Awake Café This is one of the best loved vegetarian/vegan cafés catering for the hungry people of the festival world. They aim to offer a sensory experience full of flavour and focus on sourcing high quality, organic, fairtrade and ethical ingredients. Highly recommended – Hot Dog (vegan) and Rum Duck Wrap (vegetarian)! The Curry Shed Generous portions of a selection of authentic Indian vegetarian dishes, fully prepared on site using fresh ingredients.

Soup a Juice A bevvy of homemade organic vegetarian soups, organic fresh fruit and vegetable juices and fresh fruit smoothies. Dorset Blue Soup Co Keeping it simple – fresh, piping hot soup plus a mouth watering ploughman’s, served with Dorset Blue Vinny cheese and local farmhouse cheddar. Hedgerow Frozen Yoghurt A boutique frozen yoghurt company based in Cornwall, who source local and foraged ingredients for all their tasty offerings. What better way to start a hot summer’s day than with a cool yoghurt topped with wild berries and honey from our native fields and wild hedgerows. Piaggio Coffee cart Italian coffee, Italian piaggio, Italian Antonio. Need we say more? Churros Spanish deep fried yumminess to dip into melted chocolate.

Sheppards Ice Cream Martin and family have been making sheep’s ice cream for many a year. They never stop exploring taste combinations and push the boundaries of perfection that everyone else follows in time. Their ice cream is quite simply the best around. Dorset Farmers Market Firm favourites at End of the Road year after year, once again Karl and Chrissy have gathered some of Dorset’s best Farmers Market Traders. Make your own lunches from breads, cheeses, chutneys, meats, and much more – located in the campsite. Falafel Falafel specialise in freshly prepared vegetarian Mediterranean foods. Their signature dish is freshly cooked, organic falafel served in a toasted pitta with homemade hummus with a variety of exciting salads and tasty fillings. They also serve other delicious Greek dishes including Mezze – a Mediterranean combination plate of hot and cold vegetarian goodies that’s big enough to share. The Bell and Brisket New for 2014, The Bell and Brisket are championing the classic, and old fashioned combination of salt beef, pickles and mustard, served street food style. Their dishes of hand brined salt beef bagels and rye bread based mains are supported by ‘Dirty and Filthy’ seasoned chips. Their home brew Ginger Beer is one to add to your taste cards too.

BARS

Welcome to the End of the Road Bars pages, packed with useful info to enhance your drinking pleasure on this lovely weekend. Back at The Really Good Bar Co HQ we’ve been doing lots of tasting ‘research’ and after much indecision, many tipples and general shenanigans we’ve come up with a plan... We are lucky to have some of the country’s best real ale breweries near the festival. So this year we are sourcing 100% of our real ale direct from these local breweries, reducing road miles and supporting local business while at the same time serving excellent beer. There are real ales from Somerset, Wiltshire, Dorset and the New Forest: enough styles, colours and flavours to tickle the most demanding taste buds. Also when we say Real Ale, that is exactly what we mean: beer that has been brewed by true craft producers, using the best ingredients in a process that ends with a second fermentation in the barrel. We can then draw it by hand pump from the barrel without the need for extra gas – just the way Real Ale was intended to be.

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The main house ales are coming from our festival favourite – Milk Street Brewery based in Frome. This year they will brew our End of the Road Ale, and (amongst others) a lovely vegan stout. For the first time we have a dedicated Real Ale Tent – The Bear Tavern. At midday each day there will be free ale tasting and the chance to meet some of the brewers. A little hair of the dog while asking questions should be good. Check the daily boards for the beers menu and who is speaking. There are lots of bars this year. The Black Crow serves draught, ale, spirits and wine near the Main Stage. The Peacock Bar is serving draught, ale, spirits and wine near the main entrance to the Garden Stage. The Badger Inn is serving early morning Bloody Marys, late night cocktails and a single malt menu in the Tipis. The Badger Inn serves Freedom Pilsner beside the late night fire pit. The Garden Bar is serving classic cocktails, Pimms and an organic wine menu. The new Court Yard Bar, tucked in behind the Old Singing Theatre to the right of the garden stage, will be open late into the night. Plus the Elephant Inn the Woods by the Woodland Disco: just follow the lights and the smell of rum...

On draught we have Becks (brewed under the Reinheitsgebot purity laws in Bremen), Freedom Pilsner (craft lager makers from Staffordshire) and Stowford Press (cider makers from Hereford). We also have a local scrumpy cider from Cranbourne Chase, a local brew made in the next door village. However if you like scrumpy cider you need to visit the Cider Bus: a festival institution and producers of fine ciders made with apples harvested from their orchards down at Burrow Hill. They also produce some mighty fine brandy! We have lots of fun producing the bars for End of the Road and hope you enjoy them. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. We have tried to avoid the horrors of tasteless mass-production, instead encouraging individuality, the art of the bartender and, of course, the best and most interesting drinks. Enjoy! Cheers, Jess and Chris ---------------------------------------------------The Really Good Bar Co. www.reallygoodbars.com

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THE BLACK CROW AND PEACOCK BAR ---------------------------------------------------Milk Street Brewery Frome, Somerset ---------------------------------------------------The End of the Road Ale At the time of writing these programme notes, the End of the Road Ale is only a glint in the eye of the head brewer at Milk Street. The fermentation process starts early August, ready for us to drink at the beginning of September. So we can’t write any tasting notes or ABV details yet. This is what it’s all about, nothing mass produced going on here, just amazing skills and a tasty brew. Funky Monkey (ABV 4%) A bar crew favourite often resulting in the word ‘monkeys’ being shouted randomly late at night. In the glass however, the Funky Monkey is a copper-coloured little chap with tints of gold and orange. The nose features toffee, a soft pliant sort of toffee that also veers towards fudge, along with a juicy burst of orange blossom sweetness. On the palate there’s more of the juicy, orange blossom sweetness, which makes for a thirst-quenching fruitiness, that then clears the way for a dry finish also featuring a citrus return and a hint of passion fruit.

The Usual (ABV 4.4%) Pint of the Usual? And why not, shy beer, indeed. This is a shy beer, bashful slow to trumpet its subtleties even, slow to trumpet its subtleties emerging it creeps up on the but on emerging it creeps up on the unwary. There’s a pear drop meets There’s a pear drop meets orange marmalade note on the nose, marmalade note on the nose, a well-rounded fruitiness, with well-rounded fruitiness, with wisps of caramel also dropping caramel also dropping by The caramel and the orange caramel and the orange marmalade combine on the palate, marmalade combine on the palate, a restrained sweetness that offering a restrained sweetness that counter-pointed by a dry, bitter, is counter-pointed by a dry, bitter, finish that also brings forth grainy finish that also brings forth raspberry notes. some raspberry notes. Zigzag Stout (ABV 4.5%) black sheep of the family. Ah, the black sheep of the family. nose is wood smoke, creamy The nose is wood smoke, creamy chocolate, mocha and freshly chocolate, mocha and freshly ground coffee beans, plus a coffee beans, plus a whisper of fragrant floral fruitiness. of fragrant floral fruitiness. It’s a luxurious velvety nose, which luxurious velvety nose, which continues this lustrous feel to the continues this lustrous feel to the palate. Think cold coffee topped Think cold coffee topped with chocolate sprinkles alongside chocolate sprinkles alongside the creaminess of milk stout. creaminess of milk stout. Suitable for vegans. for vegans.

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THE BEAR TAVERN REAL ALE TENT ---------------------------------------------------Sunny Republic Brewery Winterborne Kingston, Dorset ---------------------------------------------------Beach Blonde – Pacific Pale Ale (ABV 4.4%) Straw blonde appearance and a tantalising tropical aroma of mangos, grapefruit and lychees which come from the unique blend of New Zealand, Australian and West Coast American hops. The upfront bitterness gently yields to a light malt body provided by barley that is sourced solely from farms around the brewery. Huna Red – Hibiscus Ale (ABV 4.2%) A beautifully red hued ale with fruit and berry aromas and the first brewery in the world to brew with Hibiscus Flowers (Hibiscus Sabdariffa). The hibiscus adds to the flavour and the red hue provided by the Munich and Chocolate malts. With 14 days cold conditioning with Willamette rounding off the smoothness of the beer. Hop Dog (ABV 5.5%) An India Pale Ale. This is a citrus dominated IPA with a slight astringency in the first sip that warns you of what’s about to come and an enduring bitter finish. Back end taste and aromas of tropical fruits from the New Zealand Kohatu hops with Dana hops.

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Six Penny Brewery Sixpenny Handley, Dorset ---------------------------------------------------6D Best (ABV 3.8%) The brewery’s flagship session ale. A well balanced and moreish ale, with a good rounded malt flavour that leads to a bitter finish. Rushmore Gold (ABV 3.9%) A refreshing golden ale, clean and smooth tasting with a distinctive citrus hop aroma and flavour, leading to a long bitter finish. Addlestone Ale (ABV 4.2%) Six Penny’s original flagship ale which launched the brewery back in 2007 under the name Addled Ale. Introduced by a pleasant estery aroma, where hops slightly dominate, this continues into the lingering rounded and hoppy aftertaste of this pale copper best bitter. IPA (ABV 5.2%) Multi award winning traditional IPA. Brewed using four different hop varieties. Full flavoured, powerful hop character with a long rounded malt finish. Keystone Brewery Salisbury, Wiltshire ---------------------------------------------------Bedrock Bitter (ABV 3.6%) A mid coloured beer with a balance of locally grown malts and fresh fruity hoppiness. This beer has subtle sweet citrus flavours from the English Goldings hops.

Gold Spice (ABV 4%) The Multi Award Winning lightcoloured beer with plenty of late Boadicea hops and stem ginger added to the cask for a delicious ZING of fresh ginger. Large One (ABV 4.2%) A best bitter with a distinct malty flavour and a delicate addition of bittering hops with hints of fruit and spice in the aftertaste. Hopback Brewery Salisbury, Wiltshire ---------------------------------------------------Summer Lighting (ABV 5%) A trendsetter in the brewing industry; the original summer ale brewed all year round. An extremely pleasant bitter, straw coloured beer with a terrific fresh, hoppy aroma. This, coupled with an intense bitterness, leads to an excellent long, dry finish. Probably the beer to receive the most awards in Britain. Golden Best (ABV 3.5%) Golden, with the sort of light clean tasty quality which makes an ideal session ale. Tasted to destruction by our brewers, Golden Best has a hoppy aroma and is packed full of the very best East Kent Goldings, leading to a good dry finish. Entire Stout (ABV 4.5%) A rich dark stout with a strong roasted malt flavour and a long, smooth aftertaste. Suitable for vegans.

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Downton Brewery Salisbury, Wiltshire ---------------------------------------------------Honey Blonde (ABV 4.3%) A golden straw coloured bitter. A superb blend of spicy and floral hops, added to the smooth sweetness imparted by Flaked Maize and Mexican honey, make this a beer that never hangs around for long. Champion Beer at the Alton Beer Festival 2008. Route 66 (ABV 4.8%) A red premium bitter brewed with 100% North American Hops. Summit, Chinook, Liberty, Mount Hood and Willamette hops provide an orange peel bitterness with a spicy, floral aroma. Dark Delight (ABV 5.5%) A complex, dark brown ale combining subtle coffee and chocolate flavours with a rich, hoppy aroma. Dark roasted berry and caramel characters sink deep into fantastic roasted bitter flavours which linger long into the finish Box Steam Brewery Holt, Wiltshire ---------------------------------------------------Tunnel Vision (ABV 4.2%) A well rounded traditional bitter beer. Clean tasting with a slight bitterness on the palate.

Chuffin Ale (ABV 4%) A full flavoured bitter, chestnut brown in colour with a fruity aroma and smooth rich taste. Steam Porter (ABV 4.4%) This porter is smooth, has hints of chocolate and well-balanced. Stonehenge Brewery Salisbury, Wiltshire ---------------------------------------------------Heel Stone (ABV 4.3%) A crisp clean, refreshing bitter, deep amber in colour, well balanced with a fruity blackcurrant nose. Bitter flavour. Eye Opener (ABV 4.5%) Eye Opener is a beautiful golden, dry and smooth premium bitter with a hint of toffee, which compliments the citrus and spicy flavours. A touch of magic and a hint of mystery is left on the palate. Five Rings (ABV 4.5%) A deep golden premium bitter brewed with malt from the ancient Great British landscape and added Chinook hops grown on the tribal land in Oregon where the Chinook tribe once lived.

Ringwood Brewery Ringwood, New Forest ---------------------------------------------------Best (ABV 3.8%) The perfect supping beer. Ringwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first brew and still a favourite tipple.Tempting hop aroma with fruit notes. Good malt feel in the mouth with a dry, tangy fruit finish. Forty Niner (ABV 4.9%) Golden in colour and brewed to 4.9%, Ringwood has been brewing this classic beer since 1978. Light, fresh hop bouquet. Rounded malt in the mouth with strong hop balance, deep bittersweet finish. Showmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tipple (ABV 3.8%) A pale amber bitter with richly malty and slightly nutty flavour. Originally brewed for workers in the New Forest. True Glory (ABV 4.5%) An all-time favourite and back by popular demand, this glorious amber ale with a smooth malty finish delivers true glory. Glastonbury Ales Somerton, Somerset ---------------------------------------------------Mystery Tor (ABV 3.6%) A delicious light golden ale packed with zesty fruity hops to give a refreshing citrus hop flavour. Hedge Monkey (ABV 4.8%) Full-flavoured deep amber ale. A full-on, well rounded bitter! Devilishly malty, rich, and very very hoppy.

ARTIST FEATURE BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE

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Benjamin Clementine Garden Stage. Fri. 16:45–17:45 ---------------------------------------------------Last autumn, London-born songwriter Benjamin Clementine appeared on BBC Two’s muchlauded live music show, Later... with Jools Holland. Everything about his act was different: the way he peered candidly out into the audience, the way he made performing look like breathing, the way he obsessively bellowed his ode to loneliness. It was beguiling but, at last, it was something different.

After a feud with a flatmate in 2008, Clementine flocked to Paris at random and spent five years busking – at times homeless – to whoever would listen. He developed his unique singing style, picked up the guitar and, once he had saved enough money, bought a keyboard on which to compose on late into the night from the dislocated comfort of Parisian hostels.

“I think my kind of music is the music you preferably adore, or totally hate”, Clementine admits. “I hope that people spare me a minute or two, to listen, to read and most importantly to understand what I am trying give.” What Clementine is trying to provide is an honest account of his experiences, feelings and things he wants to change about the world. A brief “hello” to a stranger, for instance, could dispel the territorial postcode angst among youths in his native Edmonton (“I ain’t talkin about revolution / Just a simple ‘hello friend’ will do / Ain’t much of a duty in this part borough / Of never ending field”), and honouring a small promise could safeguard against disappointment and loneliness (“Cornerstone”).

Whilst best known as a burgeoning pianist and singer, Clementine is perhaps less known as an artist in the broader sense. He has an ardent desire to articulate through poetry, philosophy, literature and beyond – not just music. “I consider myself an expressionist”, he says. “A lot of people have tried putting me in a category and I don’t blame them, but my philosophy is that music is music; listen to what you want. My music is just a part of me and I have many more things to express. Writing poetry, philosophy, politics and the ultimate cause of religion; God.” As a result of his natural disposition to the interchangeable nature of art, Clementine has understandably been referred to as having an old head on young shoulders. But he prefers to think of himself as having a “young soul in a battered body and mind”. Brought up in Edmonton, London, Clementine has in the past touched upon the experiences that have nurtured his battered being: a strict upbringing, difficulties with friendships, a close encounter as a victim of local gang violence. He insists, however, that he is “lucky” to come from the area. “Most of my ambitions are based on the overall state of the people living in Edmonton; Edmonton itself as a county and Edmonton being a county in every City in the world.”

We don’t delve too deep into the reasons behind his sudden uprooting, nor his extensive feelings about Edmonton (he says he’d rather write a book than explain in one answer) because it’s clear Clementine has a huge amount to say and is constantly thinking ahead. “I am always on the move living in different places. At the moment I want to spend some time in Bristol but overall I find Paris the most inspiring. I am hoping to release my first book this winter before my music album.” A book before his debut album? Benjamin Clementine: the musician, the outsider, the author. We did say he was different. (CK)

ARTIST FEATURE CATE LE BON

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Cate Le Bon Garden Stage. Sat. 16:45–17:45 ---------------------------------------------------“All I ever hope to achieve is an album that I am happy to stand by,” muses Cate Le Bon, who, fresh from releasing her third album, will be heading to Larmer Tree Gardens to make her debut End of the Road appearance. Le Bon is famed for pouring emotion into every fibre of her creations and the magnetism of her talent can be felt everywhere in her work, from the vivacity of her lyrics to the gracefulness of her voice, and a passion that made the likes of Gruff Rhys and the Manic Street Preachers so eager to collaborate with her.

Cate Le Bon’s debut album Me Oh My was released on Rhys’s Irony Bored label in 2009, followed by her second full length, Cyrk, in 2012. A return to her welsh homeland following a lengthy tour soon became the driving force behind what would become Le Bon’s third and most recent record, Mug Museum – an album whose recording coincided with Le Bon’s relocation to the sunny west coast of America, to the city of LA that she now calls home. “I’ve found a pocket of the city that fits me well,” says Le Bon of her new surroundings. “It’s been the best place to return to after a lengthy tour, it’s ripe for taking it easy. My accent makes it hard to order water which is tricky in the heat, but other than that it’s been a treat spending so much time outdoors.” For an artist whose homeland has always been considered intrinsic to her work, such a move must have been quite the upheaval. “Everything is much the same,” she responds to the suggestion, “but has the beauty of feeling different against the new scenery. I am lucky in that I speak Welsh everyday with my partner, which accentuates the feeling of being foreign.”

Cate Le Bon’s End of the Road set will cap off a busy season of live appearances for the artist, ranging from a US tour supporting Franz Ferdinand, to performances at Glastonbury and Latitude. Of all her festival memories, are there any that vividly stand out? “As an artist, it was setting up to play a festival with Neon Neon in Sydney and ‘I’ve Had the Time of My Life’ came over the sound system,” she replies, “it stirred up an unexpected moment of taking stock, worthy of a Sarah Jessica Parker straight-to-DVD movie.” We’ve high hopes that this feeling will be emulated at End of the Road, so what does she have in store for her appearance? “I’m hoping that Perfume Genius and I will finally sing the duet [‘I Think I Knew’] together,” she responds. “Fingers crossed we’ll find a quiet moment to sit together beforehand. Other than that it’s going to be a straight up performance circulating heavily around Mug Museum, with bells and whistles provided by my magnificent band, H.Hawkline, Stephen Baboo and Daniel Ward.” And any special surprises? “If all goes well, we may throw some Thin Lizzy into the fold.” (FG)

ARTIST FEATURE EZRA FURMAN Ezra Furman Tipi Tent. Thu. 22:00–23:00 Garden Stage. Fri. 18:30–19:30 ---------------------------------------------------Following two UK tours already under his belt in the last 12 months, Ezra Furman’s latest album Day of the Dog – which garnered a five-star review from the Guardian – appears to be the catalyst that finally set off the spark behind Furman following three rip-roaring garage rock ’n’ roll albums with his former band The Harpoons. The Harpoons are now gone, and in come The Boyfriends, but it’s still all Furman, his robust, but surprisingly modest and reserved character is key to his endearment. “Now’s not the time to slow down,” says the native Illinoian sagely as he acknowledges his surge in popularity. And he means it too – he’s coming back once more, this time to End of the Road, where he plans to shake some long-overdue rock ‘n’ roll into your festival-weary bones.

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“I’ve built my own world in music and I’m ready to play around in it now, and see where that takes me,” he continues, but while there’s clearly something about Furman that UK audiences feel compelled to embrace, whether it’s his lesser-sheened approach to rock, or his narrative structures, full of his own, entirely unique characterisations, he doesn’t think we’re asking the right guy when enquiring on crowd-drawing abilities. “Don’t ask the leaf on the breeze about aerodynamics. It’s an unfathomable mystery to me why, after four or five records, this record would all of a sudden catch on, on this particular island,” he says. “[But] I credit your nation for noticing that. I’m very grateful for the UK’s good taste and passion for music.” It wasn’t just word of mouth that led to Day of the Dog becoming Furman’s most successful record – Marc Riley over at BBC 6 Music championed the single ‘My Zero’, a wandering acoustic anthem, ladened with sax and passion – the two most interchangeable motifs in modern music, of course. It’s an instrument that has crept steadily further into Furman’s music, and his live shows – and with his band The Boyfriends, he’s found a winning formula.

“People are excited, they’re telling their friends. They actually want to spend money to hear and watch music! Who would have thought?” he muses, before continuing; “We are, to be fair, hitting our stride as a live band. We’ve got something really lively going onstage, the Boy-Friends and I. We make our tickets worth the price. Brag, brag, brag.” Of course, with tickets already having been sold, hence why this programme is in your hands, all that remains is for Furman to persuade those already here to attend. He describes festivals as a great opportunity to encounter strangers, “killing time before The Flaming Lips go on or something,” but it won’t be a passive relationship, oh no. While he admits he gets luvvie-duvvie with his regular audience – festivals are an opportunity, to “take ‘em by the lapels and shake ‘em.” Which is a good tone for a rock ‘n’ roll singer to take. “As Sam Cooke said,” he concludes. “‘You must make your audience feel what you feel. You have to stir up [their] emotions and literally lift them from their chairs.’” Let’s see what happens when he finds out there’s no seating in front of the stage. (AP)

ARTIST FEATURE GRUFF RHYS

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ARTIST FEATURE GRUFF RHYS

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Gruff Rhys Garden Stage. Sat. 20:15–21:15 ---------------------------------------------------Gruff Rhys’ most recent, multimedia undertaking, American Interior, saw the sometime Super Furry Animal retrace footsteps once trodden by his 17th century forebear, John Evans. The road this weekend of course leads instead to Larmer Tree Gardens, and whereas Rhys has been “playing most concerts alone” in support of said record, he’s been readying it for this, the Great British exterior, with “some musicians” whose identities are as yet unknown, in order to better “concentrate on the songs.” Alas, there may be no tragicomedic slideshow this weekend, although Rhys is staunchly intending “to play the songs to their fullest” and with the likes of ‘American Interior’, ‘Liberty (Is Where We’ll Be)’ and ‘Iolo’ likely to fill his setlist, his slot ought to prove as noteworthy as Evans’ legacy itself. Of the show, he’s anticipating more of “a hedonistic experience”, especially when set against the sit-down shindigs of, say, his Soho Theatre residency. No pressure then, men, women and children of End of the Road: “People are on holiday – they’ve saved up for months, so they tend to make more of a racket” he reckons in that appositely gruff South West Walian brogue of his.

But whether here, there or in Haverfordwest, Rhys has quite rightly become a long-standing festival favourite in his own right. He’s done so under many inharmonious, so too chameleonic guises although this latest incarnation is, by his own candid admission, “a different draw” to Super Furry Animals, or indeed Neon Neon, for instance – “but they’re all equally enjoyable” he reiterates. And unlike many, if not most most of times artists, Rhys has the best of times be at festivals – whether that be occupying the performing, or when occupying the “I’ve been to role of the lowly punter. “I’ve been to it’s always End of the Road before – it’s always the bands been really enjoyable, and the bands As for this are always good” he says. As for this weekend, he suggests you remain remain “open to being in the moment” with moment” with his apparently, as has been the case the case so many times before, right here here and with that, right now. (JH) (JH)

ARTIST FEATURE HOOKWORMS

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Hookworms Big Top. Sat. 18:45–19:45 ---------------------------------------------------Hookworms emerged last year as a singular beacon of integrity and intelligence. They shone in interviews, taking the conversation across themes that created a defining mission objective for their gloriously invigorating take on the DIY guitar sound. Debut long-player Pearl Mystic fizzed with an energy and vigour that didn’t compromise their live reputation and was among the year’s best records.

The Leeds five-piece still operates with the same egalitarianism, honesty and aptitude they set out with despite their obvious achievements and the doors opened by Pearl Mystic’s success – not least signing to Domino imprint Weird World. “Over the last couple of years the band has really grown arms and legs,” agrees MB, “and I think that if we really wanted to we could probably go full-time with it in terms of the workload... it’s a really delicate balance between the band and our day jobs at the moment, but it seems to be working out ok.”

“The way we saw it is that no one really gave too much of a shit about our band before the album came out,” explains bassist MB, “and then all of a sudden we actually had an ‘audience’, so to speak.”

“Any money made by the band gets reinvested, either on gear, the studio or getting merch made.”

“That really piled the pressure on in terms of making the new record [the follow up to Pearl Mystic is, we’re promised, out before the end of the year] and I’d say that was the defining theme of 2014: we spent the first half of the year procrastinating over the second album and finally finished it in June.”

MB – who has played End of the Road before with an earlier band – recalls, “the forest full of fairy lights was particularly beautiful”. Do you think there’s something very special about playing here? “[I] completely agree that it’s very far removed from the majority of UK festivals, the atmosphere is very relaxed, and you can tell that a lot of love goes into the preparation.” “We’re hopefully going for the whole weekend, so I’m looking forward to seeing Yo La Tengo, Woods, British Sea Power, The Gene Clark Band, the Radiophonic Workshop and our buddies Mazes.”

He’s justifiably upbeat about how the band’s live show will go down with the End of the Road crowd despite a sprinkle of self-deprecation. “I’m sure that everyone says this, but we genuinely just started this band for ourselves, for our own amusement, so the fact that anyone pays to hear our music is still a mindboggling concept to me,” he says. “I think it’s a very cathartic release for us all when we play, and hopefully for anyone watching too.” “I guess the intention of our live show is to try and induce euphoria through volume and repetition... we’re extremely thankful that anyone extremely thankful that anyone comes to watch us at all, it means comes to watch us at all, it means the world.” (PB) world.” (PB)

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ARTIST FEATURE JOHN GRANT

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John Grant Garden Stage. Sat. 22:00–23:00 ---------------------------------------------------“I suppose for me it’s about the beauty of the site and the people who run it,” explains John Grant, talking about why he’s back for a third time at End of the Road. “It’s not so gigantic that you have no idea about anything. And I like the peacocks. It is definitely different and special. I feel very comfortable... that means and says a lot.”

“I was genuinely chuffed [about it],” he reveals. “I got all decked out and met Boy George and saw Prince. I had a really nice time. I’ll admit it was a tad overwhelming and I felt a bit overstimulated, but overall [it was] just fun.”

Pale Green Ghosts found some of its unique sound via co-producer Biggi Veira, a member of Iceland’s Gus Gus. Grant’s introduction to Veira came via moving to Reykjavik after an appearance at the 2011 Iceland Airwaves festival. An even It’s been a remarkable few years higher profile collaboration came for the Michigan-born Grant. 2011’s back in March this year when he solo debut – the Bella Union-released was invited to cover “Sweet Painted Queen of Denmark – announced the Lady” for the reissue edition of 45-year old former Czars frontman Elton John’s 1973 album Goodbye as something of a mould-breaker. Yellow Brick Road. The character he cut onstage and across interviews gave the music “What I’ve discovered about myself world something rare: a charismatic, [this year] is that I can usually do intelligent and endlessly fascinating much more and go much further than individual who matched fearless, I thought I could initially,” he says. says. confessional songwriting with and “The theme for 2014 is ‘keep going, going, equal talent for musical innovation. keep striving to be better, but also also Pale Green Ghosts – last year’s follow just keep being yourself’.” up to Queen of Denmark – saw that talent pushed even further, netting Grant a BRIT nomination for Best International male.

Grant’s past appearances at the Festival have been suitably intense spectacles; distillations of his strengths, magnetism and audienceconnection set against late summer sunsets – there’s no better place to see him shine before he gets stuck into album number three. “I’m just doing the demos and it seems like it’s shaping up to be a mixture of the first two, but once I get into the studio and start working with various people, I’m sure there will be soundscapes you didn’t hear before,” he says. “I’m excited to get into the meat of the project. I know what it’s going to be called. I have the tracklist and I can say I’m happy with the way things are going at the moment.” (PB)

ARTIST FEATURE RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP

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Radiophonic Workshop Big Top. Sun. 17:00–18:00 ---------------------------------------------------The band who’ve always been in your life. The band who never were. The band who will dazzle you. The band bending time. The Radiophonic Workshop’s legacy is virtually unfathomable but make no mistake; the wisdom of these true gents should be bowed down to. “We never considered the fact that we were setting up something to be appreciated in the future” says composer Roger Limb. But appreciated they are.

Their live show has become notoriously phenomenal – it features tracks from the revered Radiophonic history – Doctor Who, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Astronauts, Paddy Kingsland’s ‘Vespucci’ and classics such as Delia Derbyshire’s brilliant Ziwzih Ziwzih, whose work of course could not be omitted. She is too well respected and revered to be forgotten. Mills says of his former colleague: “she was a vox pop manipulator. She could take acres of interviews and weave them in to a sound tapestry and poetry.”

The story starts in 1958 when the British Broadcasting Company commissioned a special new division to explore new possibilities and limits, to scare, impress and wow listeners and viewers with the effects made by sound. For more than forty years these pioneers not only soundtracked many of our childhoods but also made an incredible impact on popular music, playing a huge impression on pivotal acts such as Pink Floyd. “What we really appreciate most of all is that many of the best known artists in the world have graciously said that we were instrumental in getting them interested in techniques that they made use of” explains Dr Dick Mills, BBC Radiophonic Workshop veteran, now Radiophonic Workshop star.

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop closed its doors in 1998. Times had changed, technology had changed, music had changed and the rise of home computers and digital sound was in full effect. The Beeb had moved on. Going their separate ways but never retiring from music composition, production and performance, it seemed the Workshop would be no more. It was the tireless work of honorary member Mark Ayres who brought the group of sonic masters back together after he and Dick Mills took on the vital task of salvaging the library of original tapes that were due to be dumped by the BBC. This project led to the reformation, you could even call it a renaissance, of the Radiophonic Workshop whose line up now comprises of long standing, original members Dr Dick Mills, Roger Limb, Mark Ayres, Peter Howell and Paddy Kingsland who have been joined by former Prodigy drummer Kieron Pepper, who it seems is a man after their own hearts. Dick Mills explains “We went up to Manchester, Trafford Park, there’s beautiful sculpture of an anchor going up in to the sky. Most of the world comes to admire the structure; Kieron wondered what it would sound like if you hit it. Which he did, and sampled it. He’s on the listen all the time. He’s incredibly talented.”

You can also expect new material from the forthcoming album at the live show; a lot of which has been recorded in Peter Gabriel’s studio. A place which has inspired the most inspiring of men: “It doesn’t matter what sort of creative person you are, you feel you could do something in that studio. It doesn’t have to be music, it could be played on a potter’s wheel” says Dick Mills. “Over the past month Mark and Peter have been trying to organise this raw material and other stuff that we’ve done” – Roger Limb tell us, as he confesses that the album is rumoured to be called Electricity – “which would be rather appropriate for us”, he laughs. (LG)

ARTIST FEATURE ST. VINCENT

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St. Vincent The Woods. Fri. 21:30–23:00 ---------------------------------------------------You’d be forgiven for being surprised to see Annie Clark topping the Woods Stage billing, merely a year (almost to the day) since her collaboration with David Byrne wowed with its high-art, brass-heavy spectacle. The immense effort in the measured aesthetic and attention to detail in the choreography of said tour was impressive alone – but coming immediately after Clark’s own Strange Mercy tour, which not only stretched to over a year in length, but was well documented for the visceral approach with which she began to commit to. The looming gloaming of the record’s thematic content was piqued by a manic on-stage derangement, where Clark would lay her physical well-being on the line in a nightly series of stage dives and vocal exhortations. At the tail end of 2013, you’d have thought Annie Clark had probably earned a couple of weeks off.

It was a mere 36 hours before she was back in action. “I never feel like I need to take a vacation from music,” she tells us. “I don’t actually think I could. Music is one of those rare forces that gives me more energy than it takes to make it – it’s like some sort of wacky inverse equation”. Rather than road-weary, she emerged road-ravenous, describing how she “went into making this album with a lot of confidence” and with the experimental impulse to “try anything and do anything”. This invigoration sparked the development of her fourth, widely critically acclaimed record, St. Vincent – self-titled because she finally felt like she sounded like herself. If her last record, Strange Mercy, found her bloodlust targeted at more personal, emotional circumstances – she’s now got her sights trained on a whole new galaxy. Poised and lean in its construction, the record confronts the possibility and practice of communication in the digital age head on, clenching a sense of otherworldly futurism in one hand, and a tendency to taut grooves in the other. “Every time I write a record, a different archetype emerges,” she explains, going on to talk about her fascination with the “black mirror”

aspect of futurism, “where things are just near enough to be recognisable, but with a strange twist”. It’s what makes the St. Vincent project so thrilling – Clark’s unwillingness to accept a spade as a spade, and instead striving towards finding the lunacy in pop, or recasting traditional guitar sounds and methods to make them sound like different beasts entirely. In her words – it’s the magic in the middle ground when you go “through the looking glass a little”. This is no more present than in the current incarnation of her live show, which follows on from the movement style of the Love This Giant tour with its robotic style of choreography, and intention with light, darkness and symmetry, but takes a further jump towards considering itself as not just a live show, but a piece of performance art, and the artifice that goes with such a performance. “Music and art, to me, are things that never feel demystified,” she elaborates. “I don’t know anything else like that. If one thing’s fit to worship, then it’s music”. “I guess everything’s a cult, just some things have more members than others”. Consider us signed up – any cult with Annie Clark as its patron saint is one worth following into the darkness. (LMB)

ARTIST FEATURE UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA

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Unknown Mortal Orchestra Big Top. Sat. 20:30–21:30 ---------------------------------------------------“Why do beautiful, intelligent people have this self destructive need for escape?”, Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra ponders with compelling rhetoric. “I was always fascinated and disturbed by the way we self medicate and how my favourite people and closest friends always seem to have demons in this area.”

But Unknown Mortal Orchestra isn’t just Nielson’s baby. Bassist Jake Portrait and drummer Riley Geare join him on tour and contribute to writing. Nielson explains: “I write the songs as they appear on the records and then I try to make sure my bandmates feel inspired and able to improvise around that. I don’t want them to be robotically coughing up the album version every night but instead use that spirit as a guideline and play it fresh so it stays fun and alive.”

It’s an interesting point. Why is it that some of the most apparently stable types – the ones blessed with a heightened understanding of the world around them – feel the need to escape from it? Does the onslaught of information and the emotions experienced throughout one’s lifetime simply become too much to contain, the slate partially wiped clean through long nights spent on mind-bending drugs? Nielson says: “addiction and drug use is woven into my life. I write or record under the influence now and then.” Perhaps Nielson is one of these “beautiful” and “intelligent” people. His songs reflect that anyway. No artist over the last few years has better mashed together elements of psych, soul and lo-fi rock to create such alluring and original music over the course of two records; sometimes the type of transportive music that accompanies such intoxication.

Drugs have always played their part in Unknown Mortal Orchestra’s creations in some way – be it under immediate influence or Nielson’s upbringing in New Zealand by musical parents who were partial to substance use. “I don’t think my upbringing in NZ was typical”, he says. “Both my parents were musicians and I guess it was pretty bohemian. There was a lot of partying in my home as a kid and it was dysfunctional. “Also my parents’ relationship was interracial and there was some social tension around that because of the time”. If Nielson’s family background is a dysfunctional one, it’s not so easy to tell in his writing. His music is grounded, comforting and more than a little easy on the ears. It brims with gorgeous, soulful hums, pretty guitar loops and eternally buoyant rhythms. Most songs have a cyclical structure that offsets their blanket psychedelic noise, as if Nielson teases 15-minute tangents but consciously reigns them in. This marks him out differently to his Antipodean contemporaries like Tame Impala who often go beyond the traditional three or four-minute song duration, and why he likes to call his music “psychedelic soul” rather than the “psych-pop” it’s continually labelled as.

So with two critically-acclaimed albums under his belt, a happy family life of “having picnics under a big tree in my backyard” in Portland, US where he is now based, and writing and recording music for a living, what can we expect of his next album? “The sound is upgraded for the new record but it’s still beat heavy, still soulful and still creates a weird sexy alien mood, haha. The way it’s going is the same sound but moving away from late sixties psych towards Berlin trilogy Bowie and Can, and it’s even getting a little yachty”. Sounds like a beautiful and intelligent mind at work. (CK)

ARTIST FEATURE WHITE DENIM

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ARTIST FEATURE WHITE DENIM

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White Denim Garden Stage. Sun. 22:00–23:00 ---------------------------------------------------If you’ve ever spent more than a passing moment with White Denim’s last full-length outing – 2013’s widely lauded Corsicana Lemonade – you’ll likely already know that the Austin-bred fourpiece are the perfect festival band. Its ten whisky-breathed slabs of southern-tinged rock and roll come bursting with the sort of grit, energy and enthusiasm that’s impossible to deny; particularly when it comes flowing from stacked festival speakers on a sunny afternoon accompanied by a bourbon of your choosing. The importance of the live show is something the band are acutely aware of. Catching up for a quick pre-festival chat, bassist Steve Terebecki is quick to raise a sermon on the differences between stage and studio. “I think live rock and roll should be a better experience than on record,” he explains. “We can do our best making recordings, but we can’t control what people are listening to it on. In a live setting we have a bit more control of how it’s perceived. No matter how much you try, the adrenaline of playing in front of a crowd just cannot be simulated in a studio.”

It’s an undeniable sentiment, though these particular Texans have a knack for making the sort of racket that – studio-recorded or not – always comes out fighting; rough and ready for your attention. Whether it’s the cyclical, fuzz-laden riffs of “At Night in Dreams” or the swaggering stomp of “Let It Feel Good (My Eagles)”, there’s rarely a moment in the band’s catalogue that doesn’t feel fresh from the rehearsal space – something equally attributable to the effortless quality of their songwriting as to their garage and psych roots. “There are many different approaches, but my favourite is the three Ts: tightness, technicality and tonality,” Terebecki declares with the pride and precision of a lone star state preacher, guiding our conversation back towards their stage show. “Nothing excites me more than when a band just nails it and the sounds coming off the stage are excellent.” He’s speaking hypothetically about the perfect live show, of course, but in many ways he could be speaking directly of a White Denim set. The quartet have always been the sorts to place priority on their stage persona, and lord knows they’ve had plenty of time to master their craft: hitting the road extensively since their debut EP, Let’s Talk About It, was self-released as a tour-only 7” back in 2007.

The seven years since have brought with them six albums on labels as iconic as Full Time Hobby and Downtown, but they’ve never lost the relentless work ethic that’s a cornerstone of the band’s appeal. Clearing up on the live circuit as much as they ever have, they’ve just come off a string of dates with Tame Impala and End of the Road headliners The Flaming Lips; a clearly inspirational experience. “They bring the whole shebang,” says an enraptured Terebecki. “We definitely learnt that performing on a large stage is completely different than what we’re used to. It’s a different approach there, transforming from dude to rock star.” Truthfully though, White Denim will always be “dudes” on some level; it’s part of their everyman appeal. Whether mopping up the applause in a small town saloon or wowing the masses in goliath arenas, the hands-on nature of their music always scans as willfully inclusive – inviting you to join in on the fun. It’s a view that Terebecki is more than willing to play into. “We’ll be down there trying as much cider as we can after playing,” he confesses cheekily before adding, “come say hello!” Who could ask for a better musical ambassador on a boozy afternoon in Dorset? (AC)

ARTIST A–Z 9Bach Tipi Tent. Fri. 19:45–20:30 While their roots lie in a recognisable folk sound, North Wales’ 9Bach music is ripped through with transcendence; a brooding melancholy as much as a gossamer dreaminess.The band formed by Lisa Jen and Martin Hoyland almost a decade ago released their second long-player Tincian back in the spring and those with a good ear will know Jen’s contributions to Gruff Rhys’ Candylion and recent American Interior records. (PB) Adult Jazz Big Top. Sat. 13:00–13:45 With their debut album Gist Is, Adult Jazz prove themselves as one of the most exciting bands to emerge this year. On one hand exploring the experimental, wonky pop mentality of Dirty Projectors, whilst tackling abstract, philosophical lyrical concepts with the other. The result is intelligent, witty and fresh – as tight grooves and emotive wash meet in a thrilling, alternative middle. (SB)

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AK DK Tipi Tent. Thu. 19:30–20:15 A cacophony of dizzying 8-bit pop, AK DK offer an inventive barrage of high energy sound and melody. Fans of Factory Floor, Dan Deacon and Can will be in their absolute element. (RT) Alexis Taylor Tipi Tent. Fri. 14:45–15:30 As one of the central creative forces behind Hot Chip, Alexis Taylor’s earned the status as something of a British legend-in-waiting but his solo extra-curricular activities find him minding a sound a little different from the day job. Second solo record Await Barbarians sees the him joyfully darting across the genres, playfully challenging ears with an approach that has more in common with his other side project About Group. (PB) Alice Boman Tipi Tent. Fri. 22:15–23:00 “My lyrics are quite simple and maybe don’t give room for a lot of interpretations, so maybe there is not even any need for descriptions.” The wistful simplicity of the Malmö, Sweden singer’s craft is almost beyond words. With spellbinding emotional weight and a touching vocal fragility akin to Nina Simone, catching this intriguing singersongwriter is a definite must. (JM)

All We Are Garden Stage. Fri. 14:05–14:50 The multi-national All We Are describe themselves as the “Bee Gees on diazepam” and offer, as you’d expect from such an image – a subversive take on the bedroom disco revival. Yet the Irish/ Norwegian/Brasilian trio, formed at Liverpool’s answer to the BRIT School (LIPA), hide a depth and complexity to their lo-fi rumbling arrangements and superlative live experience. (PB) Andrew Combs Tipi Tent. Sun. 18:30–19:15 Dallas-borne Combs pitched up at last year’s End of the Road as guitarfor-hire in Caitlin Rose’s band and audiences were treated a glimpse of his talents via a rendition of early single “Too Stoned To Cry”. The Nashville resident – recently signed to Loose in the UK – is pushing the boundaries of the modern country sound, combining incredible musicianship and songwriting with an edge. (PB)

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Andrew O’Neill’s History of Heavy Metal Comedy Stage. Fri. 16:00–17:00 Comedian / Metalhead Andrew O’Neill knows far too much about metal – through this he’s found himself regularly performing on the comedy stages at the likes of Download, Sonisphere, Bloodstock, as well as presenting the Metal Hammer Golden Gods. His performance has already been nominated for Best Show at the Leicester Comedy Festival, demonstrating the latent fascination with heavy metal that resides in us all. (AP) Arc Iris Garden Stage. Fri. 12:55–13:40 A band led by former NASA researcher and erstwhile Low Anthem multi-instrumentalist, Jocie Adams, when Bella Union released their eponymous debut album last spring many considered it to be one of the more inventive, and intermittently ingenious folk recordings of recent years. Reminiscent of a slightly less left field Joanna Newsom at times and a burlesque Regina Spektor at others. Not to be missed. (JH)

Archie Bronson Outfit Big Top. Sat. 23:15–00:15 Hot on the heels of the release of new album Wild Crush, Archie Bronson Outfit are a band reconfigured and revitalised. Their new songs are both raw and romantic, brutal and soulful all at once. Expect dissonance, riffs, rhythm and “soul-psych pop” from their stripped back, not-to-be- missed live set. (JC) Arrows of Love Big Top. Sat. 14:15–15:00 Reclaiming grunge for the good of mankind, Arrows of Love come thundering into your eardrums with their own blend of sultry yet deafening, boisterous purring. The twin frontman frontwoman act never felt so right, as Nima slaps you in the mouth and Lyndsey strokes it better. Playing tracks from their Everything’s Fucked LP, if you like your rock ‘n’ roll real, Arrows of Love are not to be missed. (LG) The Barr Brothers The Woods. Sat. 13:45–14:45 One of the best bands coming out of Canada right now, The Barr Brothers bring an open-minded musicality to the rootsy folk sound as we know it. One half of the Montreal-quartet are the the titular siblings but the band’s more than the sum of its parts – a finely tuned machine that brings life to overwhelmingly beautiful songs. (PB)

Benjamin Booker Big Top. Sun. 14:00–14:45 Proving that rock ‘n’ roll definitely isn’t dead is 23-year-old New Orleans songwriter, Benjamin Booker. Completed by drummer Max Norton, Booker is an early expert at hitting all the best blues, rock and punk touchpoints without sounding divisive or stale. Having just released his self-titled debut through Rough Trade, and with tours alongside Courtney Barnett and Jack Black under his belt, expect a set of wellrefined and raucous rock gems. (CK) Benjamin Clementine Garden Stage. Fri. 16:45–17:45 25-year old Benjamin Clementine’s heritage is Ghanian but the bornand-raised Londoner moved to France after a fight with a flatmate five years back. Periods of homelessness followed and Clementine was eventually discovered busking on the Paris Metro. With a sound that draws from a more classically European approach to performance and delivery, he’s been compared to the likes of Antony Hegarty. Charismatic and involving during shows, he’s sure to be a standout this year at the festival. (PB)

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Benny Boot Comedy Stage. Fri. 14:15–14:45 Australian comic Benny Boot dabbles with the absurdist vein of comedy, his writing takes twists and turns, leading audiences down one path after another. His approach is occasionally anti-comedy – his last show saw him take on the guise of an inept comedian – but Boot’s far more playful, and laid-back, earning him comparisons to similar acts like Mitch Hedburg’s or Demetri Martin’s. (AP)

Black Lips The Woods. Fri. 16:00–17:00 The raucous antics may have mellowed but the rock ‘n’ roll certainly hasn’t. Sure, the bad boys of surf punk from Atlanta, Georgia get arrested less these days but they kick out the jams just as hard. Taking no prisoners, you’ll be dancing to their fresh but nostalgic, clean but oh so dirty hits until they exit the stage in a blaze of toilet roll streaming glory. Well, some things don’t change. (LG)

Bird Courage The Woods. Fri. 13:00–13:45 Brooklyn trio Bird Courage is made up of Erik Meier, Samuel Saffery and Clinton Van Gemert who began playing together after a succession of encounters in unconventional rehearsal spaces. They make gently romantic, nature-influenced folk, with a minimalist sensibility and an acoustic levity. Their debut EP A Promising Flee was released in 2012, followed by LP Maia Manu in 2013. (MH)

British Sea Power Garden Stage. Fri. 20:15–21:15 The Brighton-based, Rough Tradesigned six-piece have been quietly going about their business for the best part of 15 years now. Their intuitive, wordy brand of indie rock has lead them to receive critical acclaim spanning from Guy Garvey to David Bowie. Expect an anthemic live set with tracks spanning across their seven records, including the wonderful UK top-ten Do You Like Rock Music? One thing’s for sure, if you do, you will love BSP. (GOB)

Cate Le Bon Garden Stage. Sat. 16:45–17:45 Welsh-born, Los Angeles-based Cate Le Bon has enjoyed comparisons with the legendary Nico and certainly carries a subtle eccentricity that appears in both her live performances as well as her brand of floaty folk that lead 2013’s Mug Museum to enjoy critical acclaim from the likes of Pitchfork and NME. There will be understated, emotional and intricately personal musings from this brilliant songwriting talent. “Are You With Me Now” stands-out, with the Nico comparison pouring through; wonderfully woozy stuff. (GOB) Celebration Tipi Tent. Sat. 14:45–15:30 Baltimore’s purveyors of seismic live psychedelic rock and soul are only improving with age. With a new album (Hello Paradise) and new label (the brilliant Bella Union), their combination of pop savvy, anthemic melodies and the impassioned delivery of singer Katrina Ford, the band’s name is more apt than ever for for their celebratory, life-enhancing their celebratory, sounds. sounds. (JC) (JC)

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Celia Pacquola Comedy Stage. Fri. 13:45–14:15 Australian comedian Celia Pacquola brings her highly energetic act to End of the Road for the first time. Expect excellently observed anecdotes, often playing on her nationality and the differences between cultures. Her resume that pretty much splits UK and Australian work right down the middle gives her a unique and friendly delivery. (AP) Chad VanGaalen Tipi Tent. Sun. 22:15–23:00 Across five albums, Calgary-born VanGaalen has developed a take on the indie guitar sound that’s unlike anyone around. With his latest record a contender for Canada’s Polaris Music Prize, due to be announced at the end of September, his skewed, lo-fi and just plain weird songs finally see him emerge as one of his country’s most unique talents making music right now. (PB) Cheatahs Tipi Tent. Thu. 20:45–21:30 Wichita Recordings’ Cheatahs are a blend of ecstatic noise, ambient drone and visceral, ear-splitting alt-rock. A joyful noise. (RT)

Cold Specks The Woods. Sun. 13:00–13:45 Al Spx’s debut record found the Somali-Canadian hitting the ground running with a sound that paired the old with the new; a folk-tinged pop backdrop invigorated by her modern soul-infused bluegrass vocal. Neuroplasticity, her second longplayer under the Cold Specks name, was released last week and finds the frighteningly talented 25-year old taking her music forward with earned confidence and ballast. (PB) Come Heckle Christ Comedy Stage. Sat. 16:00–17:00 Joshua Ladgrove will bring his celebrated and controversial show to End of the Road this year following successful runs back in his native country at the Adelaide Fringe. In this show, Ladgrove appears onstage dressed as Jesus Christ, and reacts to audience members’ heckles – on any subject. This improv, audience driven show is really something to behold, and different every time. (AP) Connan Mockasin Big Top. Fri. 23:15–00:15 You’d be forgiven for thinking you were watching a Martian god, crooning out the slow jams, coaxing you to follow him back to his planet, but Connan is from New Zealand and his psychedelic RnB might lull you into a sexy stasis but you needn’t fret about interstellar abduction. (LG)

Daniel Rossen Garden Stage. Sun. 15:10–16:00 A man of many guises, the highly talented Daniel Rossen is known widely as guitarist and co-lead vocalist in Grizzly Bear and cofounder of Department Of Eagles. As well as his appearance alongside the Gene Clark No Other Band, we’ll also be treated to a solo set from the great man himself. (RT) David Morgan Comedy Stage. Fri. 13:00–13:15 Midlands comic David Morgan arrives with a backpack full of anecdotes about self image, dating misadventures and sexuality. Morgan has a confident and inclusive delivery that makes him a hit with crowds, which led to his debut show Triple Threat earning a nomination at Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival in 2011. Expect material from Morgan’s latest full-length show Social Tool. (AP)

ARTIST A–Z David Thomas Broughton Tipi Tent. Sat. 23:30–00:15 Broughton crafts folk-pop playing on the oft-sung about themes of love, pain, hurt, suicide, depression or teenage angst. But through warbling feedback loops and vocal colourings of bone dry humour he deftly engages both your heart and brain. The live experience brings a revelation as well, rarely sounding as the recording and taking unexpected turns throughout with a self-effacing improvisational style. (JM) Deer Tick The Woods. Sun. 16:00–17:00 Last year saw Deer Tick clock up their fifth album release, with the raw and mature Negativity providing a cathartic release for the emotional weight of central songwriting force John McCauley. The Rhode Island, Providence five piece masterfully walk the fine line between dirty roadhouse rock ‘n’ roll and punchy inventive Americana. (PB) The Districts Big Top. Fri. 13:00–13:45 A Pennsylvanian foursome that churn out jagged dirt-rock odes smacked with a country twang. Fans of The Black Keys will guzzle these guys up with delirious glee, but The Districts are rawer, wielding a truck-stop chic and oil slick grace. There’s less sheen than most bluesrock that traverses the Atlantic, but there’s every chance that these schoolyard pals will go just as far. (LD)

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Drenge Big Top. Fri. 17:00–18:00 The power of siblings. A deeprunning connection runs through the veins and it pours out in the form of distorted, awesomely aggravated rock when it comes to the brothers Drenge. The duo – Eoin (guitar and vocals) and Rory (drums) Loveless – feel like everything you wanted to be if you ever thrashed away in your mate’s garage; throw in a knack for massive riff-based songs and you’re looking at the recipe for a spinetingling, brilliantly ballsy live show. (GOB) Duke Garwood Tipi Tent. Fri. 18:30–19:15 With four solo albums under his belt guest appearances and an array of guest appearances collaborations with the likes of and collaborations with the likes of Bronson Outfit and The Orb, Archie Bronson Outfit and Mark Lanegan, Duke most recently Mark Lanegan, Duke above and beyond to Garwood goes above and beyond to assure there’s still plenty consistently assure there’s still plenty the muddy waters of life lurking in the muddy waters of the blues. (RT) Eagulls Big Top. Sat. 17:00–17:45 full-bodied Eagulls’ snarling, full-bodied was a highlight self-titled debut was a highlight of 2014’s first quarter. With a sound quarter. With a sound unflinchingly from jarring that moves unflinchingly from jarring hardcore to rage-filled emotional hardcore to rage-filled Leeds five piece offer post-punk, the Leeds five piece offer anyone wanting up a chance for anyone wanting and break skulls to sweat blood and break skulls speaking) this (metaphorically speaking) this weekend. (PB)

Ed Gamble Comedy Stage. Fri. 13:15–13:45 Part of The Peacock and Gamble podcast, Ed Gamble and comedy partner Ray Peacock have had wildly successful runs at the Edinburgh Fringe. But Gamble is also a hugely accomplished stand-up in his own right and has performed on Russell Howard’s Good News, Dave’s One Night Stand, and supported Greg Davies and Russell Kane on tour since winning the Chortle Student of the Year award back in 2007. (AP)

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Edward Aczel Comedy Stage. Sun. 13:45–14:15 In what The Guardian (and everyone else) firmly describes as “anticomedy”, and “the least funny comic on the fringe”, Aczel is in many ways a festival booker’s worst nightmare. This form of comedy could go two ways, based on how much the audience is willing to buy into it. Aczel’s comedy is shambolic, full of non-jokes, forgetfulness, and the ridiculous. The question is: do you find the unfunny funny? (AP) Eric Lampaert Comedy Stage. Sat. 14:45–15:15 Lampaert is a French-born, Belgianraised comedian, his style both playful and absurd, he delivers his material with a wide-eyed but engaging charm. In the past, he has performed a running commentary on his distinctive looks, biographical material on his journey before settling in the UK, and most recently, he’s also finished a run of Comedians’ Cinema Club – an improv show where comedians perform famous movies. (AP)

Ezra Furman Tipi Tent. Thu. 22:00–23:00 Garden Stage. Fri. 18:30–19:30 Ezra Furman and his first band The Harpoons were virtually unknown in the UK, despite releasing three phenomenal garage rock records. But after the native Illinoian returned with his new band, The Boyfriends, and the album Day of the Dog in 2013, this fair isle started to pay attention. Now, Furman’s bringing his raw-tinged, sax-laden, narrative driven rock ’n’ roll to End of the Road. (AP) The Felice Brothers Big Top. Sun. 20:30–21:30 Close-knit, self-taught and featuring two actual brothers, The Felice Brothers bring their ramshackle bar room blues and imaginative – sometime surreal – storytelling to the party, as amply demonstrated on their new album Favorite Waitress, released earlier this summer. If you like your Americana with a twist of rage and a garnish of honesty then these bros are for you. (JC)

The Flaming Lips The Woods. Sat. 21:15–23:00 Oklahoma’s prodigal sons The Flaming Lips have meshed heart and soul with bonkers levels of invention, chaos and surrealism over three decades and countless albums. They’ve redefined what it means to create, play and listen to music, carving out legendary status with reality-transcending live shows and an uncompromising vision. It’s a foregone conclusion that their headline set at this year’s End of the Road will be a highlight of the festival’s life so far. Be prepared to have your mind blown. (PB) Four Mile House Tipi Tent. Sat. 12:45–13:15 Bright and cutting on the upswing, percussive on the downbeat, and driven along by hypnotically intricate guitar licks. Young newcomers Four Mile House deliver compulsive tunes that will have your whole body itching to move to their melodic and entrancing wall of sound. (RT)

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Futur Primitif Garden Stage. Sun. 12:15–13:30 A project borne from the ever inspiring mind of songwriter and singer Daniel Lefkowitz, former member of American indie-folk gentry The Low Anthem. Along with musical partner Jared Elmore, Futur Primitif incorporate strands of many a genre – tirelessly reinventing elements of folk, rock and shoegaze with a fearless approach to the wall of sound the pair duly muster. (RT)

The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger Big Top. Sat. 15:30–16:15 If there ever were to be a rightful heir to the throne of kaleidoscopic 60s psychedelia it would have to be the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Sean Lennon’s latest project with girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl is a wonderfully intriguing offering. An electrifying, immersive sound packed with all the nostalgia baiting chords needed to embrace your inner hippie. (RT)

Gene Clark – No Other Band Garden Stage. Fri. 22:00–23:00 This is going to be Quite Something. An all-star band will perform No Other – the legendary 1974 album from Byrds founder Gene Clark, in an exclusive UK performance starring Beach House’s Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, Robin Pecknold from Fleet Foxes, Daniel Rossen (Grizzly Bear), Iain Matthews previously of Fairport Convention, along with members of Wye Oak and Celebration. The complete album will be replicated in playing order, and performed note for note as recorded, doing justice to this influential yet underrated classic. (JC)

Gruff Rhys Garden Stage. Sat. 20:15–21:15 Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys returns with his new album American Interior. Expect songs from the concept record, alongside tales of its inception, which saw Rhys travel to America in search of the legacy of John Evans before writing a companion book, and releasing a mobile app. Oh, we almost forgot – there’s a documentary film too. (AP) Hookworms Big Top. Sat. 18:45–19:45 If there’s anyone who didn’t love last year’s critically acclaimed Pearl Mystic, I’m yet to find them. Their hypnotic, chaotic blend of psychedelic noise and pounding motorik rhythm was universally acclaimed. There’s no better place to witness Hookworms than their hair-raising live show. (SB)

The Horrors The Woods. Sat. 19:00–20:00 The Horrors metamorphosis over the years has been as dramatic as their back-combed hairdos once were: from the great goth revival to the psychedelic beats of this year’s full length they seem to have finally settled on a wilder, weirder, krautrock rooted sound and are all the better for it. (LJD) Horse Thief Tipi Tent. Sun. 21:00–21:45 Hailing from Denton, TX (home to fellow Bella Union label mates and End of the Road veterans Midlake), Horse Thief offer a stunning take on psych rock with their assured debut album Fear In Bliss. However, it’s the band’s live show that truly inspires. A heady brew of exuberance and flawless musicianship, Horse Thief’s mission objective is to create an experience that sticks with you long after the show is over. (RT) Israel Nash Tipi Tent. Fri. 21:00–21:45 Missouri born Israel Nash makes bluesy folk that lies somewhere between the country rawness of Ryan Adams and the brash bravado of The Rolling Stones. Since recording his debut LP amongst the buzz of New York city and relocating to the Catskills for his sophomore effort, he’s moved again, this time to Texas, the landscape of which inspired his critically lauded third album, 2013’s Rain Plains. (MH)

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Jenny Lewis The Woods. Fri. 17:45–18:45 The former Rilo Kiley singer celebrates the release of her latest album The Voyager this summer, her first solo effort since 2008’s Acid Tongue. The record, coproduced by Beck and Ryan Adams, is the culmination of 6 years of insomnia, loss and life following the breakup of Rilo Kiley. If the irresistible earworm lead single “Just One of the Guys” is any indication, we’re in for a treat. (JM) Jessica Delfino Comedy Stage. Sat. 15:30–16:00 If you fancy some afternoon obscenity, Delfino is a pretty safe bet to deliver. This New York City based comedian, known for vagina jokes and taboo-breaking folk rock, will be bringing something new to the festival, the likes we haven’t seen before. Delfino is a multi-instrumentalist too – playing everything from a guitar, to ukulele, to rape whistle; enjoy. (AP)

Jessica Fostekew Comedy Stage. Sun. 13:15–13:45 Dedicated to joke-telling; stand-up Jessica Fostekew has written for TV and radio, including on Stephen K Amos’ Radio 4 Show and Channel 4’s ‘Stand Up for the Week’. Her 2013 show ‘Moving’ saw her tackle the subject of co-habitation to hilarious effect, peppering anecdotes with solid jokes and turns that we expect her to drag along to the comedy stage at End of the Road this year. (AP) John Cooper Clarke Big Top. Sun. 15:15–16:15 Wry, funny, satirical and sharp as a tack, John Cooper Clarke is more than his hackneyed “punk performance poet” label suggests. With rapid-fire delivery, singular style and dry Mancunian drawl, his influence has permeated pop culture from poetry and comedy to fashion and music (just ask Alex Turner and Plan B). Catch his set and understand why. (JC) understand why. (JC)

John Grant Garden Stage. Sat. 22:00–23:00 John’s set on the Garden Stage last year introduced many of the tracks from that year’s Pale Green Ghosts to a rapt audience. Alternating his beautiful, witty, angry and often sweary torch songs and electronic jams with a great line in betweensong anecdotes, we’re sure he’s going to provide a festival highlight again this year. (JC) Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit The Woods. Sat. 17:15–18:15 Actor-singer-songwriter Johnny Flynn has been making music since 2008’s A Larum, one of several albums of the time which ushered in a new wave of folk-infected popular music, alongside friends and peers like Laura Marling and Mumford and Sons. He and his accomplished band – The Sussex Wit – are now touring their newest release, Country Mile, inspired by everything from TS Eliot and old Southern soul records to Peruvian Chicha music. (JC) Peruvian Chicha music.

ARTIST A–Z Katerina Vrana Comedy Stage. Sun. 14:15–14:45 Vrana is a multi-faceted talent. The UK based Greek comedian has performed stand-up in both her native language, and English, while her radio credits are numerous. Did we mention she’s also been a TEDx performer? And started Greece’s first ever open mic comedy night? 2014 has mostly seen Vrana continuing to tour her show Feta with the Queen, performed in both Greek AND English. (AP) Katie Mulgrew Comedy. Sun. 13:00–13:15 Lancashire comedian Katie Mulgrew hits the festival with her confident, hugwely likeable presence and a dedication to the build up. Anecdotes; stories – it’s all there, but Mulgrew structures her jokes with dedication, ensuring every audience member is caught up before she drops a punchline – as demonstrated in her first full length show in 2013 titled Your Dad’s Not Funny, about her father, 80s comedian Jimmy Cricket. (AP)

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Kiran Leonard Big Top. Sun. 12:45–13:30 Incredibly talented, unbelievably young, Mancunian multiinstrumentalist Kiran Leonard came to the world’s attention this year with his Bowler Hat Soup LP, on which the 17 year old from Oldham plays no less than 22 instruments superbly on his Zappa influenced breakthrough album, which he has described as “a hexadecagonal pseudo-fortress of occasionally caustic and semiilliterate pop nonsense” – what more do you need? (LG) Knightmare Live: The Festival Expansion Pack Comedy Stage. Sat. 00:00–01:30 Not to be missed! Featuring Paul Flannery, Tom Bell, Paul Duncan McGarrity and Jessica Fostekew; Knightmare Live is a thrilling, ridiculous, and hilarious stage take on the cult kids TV show from the 80s and 90s. The show itself sold out at the 2013 Edinburgh Fringe, achieving numerous four and five star reviews. Dare you fail to grasp the opportunity to don the immortal opportunity to don the immortal helmet of justice? (AP) justice? (AP)

Laish Tipi Tent. Fri. 13:30–14:15 Brighton’s Laish have seen a flurry of line-up changes since their early releases in 2011, but their charming brand of alternative folk has remained constant under the steer of lead songwriter Daniel Green. Whilst Green has most recently been playing solo shows in London, this summer sees him completed by four other musicians fleshing-out his frilly and endearing melodies. (CK) Lau Garden Stage. Sat. 13:45–14:30 Taking their name from the Orcadian word for “natural light”, Kris Drever, Aidan O’Rourke and Martin Green’s folk three-piece have been at the epicentre (or are sometimes described as the epicentre) of the folk revival of recent years. Not just brilliant musicians but thrilling live performers too. Creative, inspiring and innovative. Illuminating, indeed. (JC)

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Lily and Madeleine Garden Stage. Sat. 12:30–13:15 With voices “as blameless as cornflowers” Indianapolis sisters Lily and Madeleine have been enchanting listeners with their take on folk-pop since they began uploading videos to YouTube in High School. The attention that followed led them to sold out shows and appearances on national television. They released their eponymous debut album last year on Sufjan Stevens’ Asthmatic Kitty imprint. (MH) Lonnie Holley Tipi Tent. Sun. 13:30–14:15 Artist and musician Lonnie Holley has a life story too fantastical to be described in any brevity. From being traded for a bottle of whiskey aged four, to being the seventh of twenty seven children, his eccentric upbringing only embellishes his performances, each of which is improvised, unique and constantly evolving, sitting somewhere between commentary spectacular social commentary and spectacular funk. (MH) space funk. (MH)

Lucius The Woods. Sun. 14:15–15:15 It’s all about sumptuous synchronisation for this Brooklynbased quintet: whether it’s their immaculate layers of harmony or Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig’s perfectly matching and chic outfits, Lucius have it all neatly thought through. Expect blissful, whimsical beauty from tracks like “Until We Get There” to the powerful, expressive punch of “Nothing Ordinary”, all wrapped-up with an effortless charm; a guaranteed weekend winner. (GOB) Lyla Foy Garden Stage. Sun. 14:00–14:45 Sub Pop star and London-based songwriter Lyla Foy (formerly WALLS), is shattering hearts and blowing minds with her recent debut LP Mirrors The Sky. It received rave reviews, and has seen Foy lurch from bedroom composer to One To Watch almost overnight. If you’re partial to a spot of bucolic lo-fi folktronica with fey vox, Foy should sate your palate. fey vox, Foy your palate. (LD)

Marcel Lucont Comedy Stage. Sun. 14:45–15:15 Venereal frenchman Marcel Lucont returns to End of the Road Festival following his last appearance, a good half-decade ago. But little has changed; he is still stereotypically rude, highly sexist but, as he’ll have you believe, is a highly trained expert in all things love. Watch as Lucont delves into his own writings, throwing out sexual anecdotes in typically smug and arrogant fashion. However, deep down, you know there’s something about him that’s frustratingly endearing. (AP) Marissa Nadler Tipi Tent. Sat. 21:00–21:45 Washington-born, Boston-based singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler possesses a unique vision, a wonderfully haunting voice, and an unparalleled knack for storytelling. Her recent album July is a beautiful panoramic affair that floats freely in the pop cosmos somewhere between gauzy shoegaze gauzy shoegaze and unvarnished folk. (LJD) folk. (LJD)

ARTIST A–Z Mark Watson Comedy Stage. Sun. 16:00–17:00 Watson will be both familiar to previous End of the Road comedy attendees, but also to those that would have seen his TV work – which has included a starring role on 2012’s The Mad Bad Ad show on Channel 4, and BBC Four panel show We Need Answers. Elsewhere, Watson is known for his active standup shows, and unique approach to performance which has included 24 hour shows, and an attempt to write a novel through audience suggestions. (AP) Mazes Big Top. Fri. 12:00–12:30 Through unexpectedly hypnotic staccato ditties, haiku-like lyrical phrasing and touchstones ranging from krautrock to The Velvet Underground, lo-fi trio Mazes are definite attention keepers. The band have made leaps and bounds in developing an idiosyncratic sound between releases thus far and, with the imminent release their second full-length, an airing of the new material here will make for a brilliant listen. (JM)

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The Melodic Big Top. Sun. 11:45–12:15 South London quintet The Melodic changed their name from Melodica Melody and Me a few years back “due to a coming of age, change in line-up and the need for an easier name to remember”. As with the previous name, the melodica is integral to the band, imbuing much of the band’s music with a European romanticism not often heard in British folk music. Boy/girl harmonies compete and meet over a rich tapestry of acoustica that is in some parts twee, but in most parts completely enchanting. (CK) Nick Waterhouse The Woods. Sat. 12:15–13:00 LA native Nick Waterhouse plays a confident and cool spin on revivalist rhythm & blues. The 28-year old dropped his debut on quality indie Innovative Leisure and moonlights as a producer, notably for garage rockers Allah-Las. His second album Holly was released back in March of this year. (PB)

Oliver Wilde Tipi Tent. Sun. 16:00–16:45 Inspired by his troubled heroes such as Nick Drake, Elliott Smith, R. Stevie Moore, and Mark Linkous; Oliver Wilde creates woozy, sweet pieces of audible introspection. Think reclusive melodies, experimental chords, intimate poetry, organic electronic textures, surreal imagery, sanguine strings and slurring lap-steel. (LJD) Otti Albietz & The Voices Tipi Tent. Sat. 13:45–14:15 An inspired contemporary songwriter and performer, Albietz creates fragile, image-laden songs with an intuitive sensitivity oscillating between intense realism and fantastical dreams. (RT) Peggy Sue Garden Stage. Fri. 15:15–16:00 Peggy Sue have existed in many incarnations over the years but Rosa Slade and Katy Young’s latest effort, Choir of Echoes, is a cohesive album driven by echo-laden guitars, sultry doo-wop sensibilities and tenebrous atmospherics that come alive with a brutal honesty and soulful depth on stage. (LJD)

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Perfume Genius Garden Stage. Sat. 18:30–19:30 Mike Hadreas is a true artist – his vivid rendering of the darkest things a human might do are about as far from commercially viable as you can ever hope to be, and all the better for it. His songwriting blends an incredible purity and directness with an unflinching honesty. (SB) Phox Garden Stage. Fri. 11:55–12:35 Six-piece Wisconsin band Phox comfortably straddle the line between writing timeless and innovative pop songs often laced with country, which certainly makes them sound more southern than their Midwest origins. Fronted by Monica Martin who sings with a clean-cut, Feist-like confidence, the sextet move from tickling banjos to crafting infectious quirk-pop nuggets, regularly packing them with beefy harmonies. Their debut self-titled album is out on 1 September. (CK) Pink Mountaintops Big Top. Sun. 18:45–19:45 Stephen McBean’s Canadian psychedelic oddballs Pink Mountaintops may share members with Black Mountain, Godspeed… The Delta 72 and more, but their sound is drawn from a far wider range of influences. The fuzzy romance of 2009’s Outside Love has given way to a raw teenage lust on this year’s Get Back, which Stephen says was inspired by “alleys, curbs, walls, and cigarette-stained gig flyers”. (JC)

Radiophonic Workshop Big Top. Sun. 17:00–18:00 No-one could have predicted the legacy of the legendary sound unit formed at the BBC in the 1960s. The women and men hired to make theme tunes, jingles and sound effects ended up becoming pioneers in the story of electronic music and four of the original team reunite for a glimpse into their pioneering world. (PB)

Richard Thompson Garden Stage. Sun. 18:30–19:30 A masterful musician who changed the entire landscape of British folk music with his eclectic and inventive approach to guitar and composition, Richard Thompson can justifiably lay claim to legendary status. The West London-born former Fairport Convention man brings intelligence and modesty to every part of his art and performance. (PB)

The Rails Tipi Tent. Sun. 17:15–18:00 English singer-songwriter duo Kami Thompson and James Walbourne reach deep into their rich musical histories to concoct the kind of sharp, true folk rock blend rarely heard since the seventies. Husband and wife, the pair weave dangerous and charming tales inspired by famous folk traditions – from murder ballads to fears about the endangered nature of planet, they tell the best up a spot and listen stories: pull up a spot and listen a while. (RT)

Robert Ellis Tipi Tent. Fri. 17:15–18:00 Country guitarist Robert Ellis, from Houston by way of Nashville (two proper country strongholds), is known for blending bluegrass and folk into his dusty Americana compositions. His new record, The Light From The Chemical Plant, sees Ellis merge maudlin six-stringer melodies with heartbreaking Texan drawls; it’s a fresh breed of country, far from the banjos and cud-chewin’ caricatures. Be enthralled. (LD) caricatures. Be enthralled. (LD)

ARTIST A–Z Rosie Lowe Big Top. Fri. 14:15–15:00 Female-fronted electro pop is undoubtedly one of the strongest genres of the moment thanks to the influx of wonderful women – Lorde, Banks et al leading the way; Rosie Lowe is a name to add to the list. The young Londoner released her attention-grabbing Right Thing EP at the end of 2013 and with cuts like its title track, there was an instant allure: her seductive vocal, romantic topics and sparse, late-night production grabs hold and clings on with a chilling intensity; don’t miss this star in the making. (GOB) Ryan Coffey Comedy Stage. Sat. 14:15–14:45 If the question was how funny can loop pedal be, one man and a loop pedal be, the answer is surely, Ryan Coffey. The answer is surely, Ryan Coffey. The Australian comedian and musician Australian comedian and musician will hit the festival with his acoustic will hit the festival with his acoustic guitar following a heady summer guitar following a heady summer performing his new solo show performing his new solo show Howlin’. Coffey was nominated Howlin’. Coffey was nominated for the Golden Gibbo Award at the for the Golden Gibbo Award at the Melbourne Comedy Festival and this Melbourne Comedy Festival and this will be his first UK music festival. will be his first UK music festival. (AP)

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Sam Lee Tipi Tent. Sat. 17:15–18:00 Sam is both a musician/singer and a curator of some of the forgotten songs and sounds of the British Isles. His Mercury-nominated 2012 album Ground Of Its Own was a compelling collection of directlysourced gypsy and traveller songs, previously unheard in the wider world. Learned, fascinating, but never dryly academic, Sam’s music brings modernity and new life to these still-vital traditional works. (JC) Samantha Crain Tipi Tent. Sat. 18:30–19:15 Channelling the blues through country infused songs that belie her youth, Samantha Crain was raised in Oklahoma and taught herself guitar guitar while still at school. She began writing music not long after, began writing music not long after, spinning songs out of short stories spinning songs out of short stories written written as a teenager. She’s since as a teenager. She’s since released three albums, the most released three albums, the most recent of which, Kid Face has earned recent of which, Kid Face has earned her comparisons to Joanna Newsom her comparisons to Joanna Newsom and Neil Young. (MH) and Neil Young. (MH)

Sarah Bennetto Comedy Stage. Sat. 13:45–14:15 End of the Road comedy curator and Storytellers’ Club creator Sarah Bennetto returns to the festival following an extensive touring schedule that took in Melbourne, Adelaide and the UK – which includes a run at the Edinburgh Fringe in which she performed the show Sarah Bennetto’s Funeral. Bennetto’s comedy is both charming, and excitable, playing in the same arena as Storytellers’ – twelve months on, expect plenty more tales fresh for 2014. (AP) Simon Munnery Comedy Stage. Sun. 15:30–16:00 Simon Munnery arrives at the festival fresh off the back of his Edinburgh Munnery Sings show Simon Munnery Sings Soren Kierkegaard. An incredibly well Kierkegaard. An incredibly well respected stand-up, Munnery has respected stand-up, Munnery has flirted with the mainstream but flirted with the mainstream but always with roots firmly in the always with roots firmly in the alternative alternative comedy movement. His comedy movement. His sets sets will conform to satire or political will conform to satire or political notions notions but frequently relayed with but frequently relayed with a a hefty dose of surreality, or using hefty dose of surreality, or using absurdist absurdist props. (AP) props. (AP)

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Speak Galactic Tipi Tent. Thu. 18:15–19:00 Brighton trio Speak Galactic bring their cosmic sounds to the Tipi Tent on Thursday night. Offering their own woozy and highly infectious brand of psychedelia, they’re a perfect way to ease yourself into the weekend ahead. (RT) St Paul and the Broken Bones The Woods. Sat. 15:30–16:30 With a debut album recorded at the legendary Muscle Shoals studios and produced by Ben (Alabama Shakes) Tanner, seven-piece Birmingham, Alabama outfit St Paul and the Broken Bones come with some pretty impressive credentials. Espousing the soul revival with bravado, they’re fronted by an impressive set of lungs courtesy of vocalist Paul Janeway and went down a storm at this year’s SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. (PB)

St. Vincent The Woods. Fri. 21:30–23:00 Annie Clark – Tulsa’s most revered resident – fresh from unleashing one of 2014’s finest records, is hitting the festival circuit hard this summer. Her Glastonbury set is already headed into the legendary gala’s history books, and it’s easy to see why; when you combine mesmerising charisma, cryptic art-pop and an enigmatic voice, the result is sheer perfection. (LD) Stealing Sheep Garden Stage. Sun. 15:15–16:00 The Liverpool three-piece create hazy psychedelic folk music perfect for those dreamy summer days. Channeling the best of Broadcast, Can, and MoonDog into experimental pop concepts, other-worldly melodies, breezy harmonies and playful arrangements; Stealing Sheep are as beguiling as they are charming. (LJD)

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks The Woods. Fri. 19:30–20:45 The eponymous front man, and former singer with indie rock heroes Pavement should need no introduction. His band The Jicks, though, comprising Joanna Bolme, Mike Clark and Jake Morris have been in existence now since 2000, longer than his first band’s (first) incarnation. Expect skewed lyricism and guitar virtuosity, all delivered with one eyebrow subtly raised. (JC) Storytellers’ Club Comedy Stage. Fri. 00:00–01:30 Sarah Bennetto’s long-running Storytellers’ Club will grace the forest as tradition dictates, on Friday night where multiple performers from across the weekend will take to the stage to regale a late-night crowd with tales of abandon, excitement, and more than likely, a hefty dose of embarrassment. The later it gets, the more cider flows, and the looser the comedians lips may become comedians lips may become – so join us in the woods for some us in the woods for some fun and filth on the hay bales. (AP) filth on the hay bales. (AP)

ARTIST A–Z Stuart Goldsmith Comedy Stage. Sat. 13:15–13:45 Starting out as an actor, Goldsmith was “waylaid by the excitement of stand-up comedy”. His drift towards the joke telling arts saw him win numerous new act awards before focusing on full Edinburgh shows, which have included the endearingly titled ‘Prick’ – bringing both positive reviews and censorship to the fold. Goldsmith is also known for his Comedian’s Comedian podcast. (AP) Sweet Baboo Garden Stage. Sat. 15:00–16:00 Singer-songwriter Stephen Black, aka Sweet Baboo, spins idiosyncratic tales of quirky fragility that can switch from darkly funny to heartcrushingly tender in a beat. A sharp ear for a tune meets a poetic and restless soul, with results at times both moving and illuminating, surreal and hilarious. Influenced by The Beach Boys, Daniel Johnston and Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Sweet Baboo simply sounds like his own unique self. (JC)

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Temples Big Top. Fri. 20:45–21:45 No British band has better staked their claim as fervent pysch-rock revivalists recently than Northamptonshire’s Temples. Debut album Sun Structures is nigh-on an hour of colourful and immersive 60s psychedelia with splashes of Madchester baggy, delivered with aloof aplomb by curly-haired frontman James Bagshaw. Listen to the record and then see these chaps play live – there’s barely a tighter new band around. (CK) Theo Verney Tipi Tent. Fri. 16:00–16:45 Brighton based noise wizard, riff Theo Verney is bringing the riff Gran back. Not just any old riffs. Gran Sabbath slaying, thunder calling, Sabbath two loving riffs that will move you two steps steps back in shock and two steps forward in wonder. And if that doesn’t grab you by the scruff and and pull you in, his howling flailing stage flailing stage antics surely will. For those who love who love to rock, Verney is unmissable. (LG) (LG) Three Trapped Tigers Big Top. Fri. 18:45–19:45 Watching London trio Three Trapped Trapped Tigers live is unlike anything else; else; the onslaught of their ferocious ferocious guitars and relentless percussion percussion presents an overwhelming barrage barrage of visceral noise that demands you demands you thrash your limbs around like you you actually know what time signature signature they’re playing in. (LJD)

Tides Of Man Tipi Tent. Sun. 14:45–15:30 Instrumental post rock from Florida. Tides Of Man excel in creating a dense, frantic sound. Heavy passages and expansive motifs weave endlessly in and out of moody soundscapes and uplifting crescendos. If latest album Young and Courageous sounds even half as intense and beautiful live as it does on record we’re in for a thrilling ride. (RT)

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Tinariwen Garden Stage. Sun. 20:15–21:15 The acclaimed group of Tuareg musicians, from Mali’s Sahara Desert region, bring their glorious, guitar-driven assouf music to Dorset. Interspersing traditional Tuareg melodies and rhythms with other influences from Egypt, Algeria and beyond, echoes of The Blues can also be found in music of this group, playing group, who have been playing with a shifting line-up since their with a shifting line-up since their inception by founder Ibrahim Ag inception by founder Ibrahim Ag Alhabib in the late 1970s. (JC) Alhabib in the late 1970s. (JC)

Tiny Ruins Tipi Tent. Sun. 19:45–20:30 Formed originally as a solo project in 2009 by New Zealander Hollie Fullbrook, Bella Union-signed Tiny Ruins draw on folk and blues traditions with lush and fully-realised arrangements. They fleshed out to a trio ahead of second album Brightly Painted One – a record filled with songs inspired by Fullbrook’s life of touring, touring, relationships and everyday observations. observations. (PB) Tom Adams Comedy Stage. Fri. 14:45–15:15 Inward Inward looking musical comedian Tom Tom Adams delivers compositions comprising comprising of personal moments; embarrassments, embarrassments, underachievement, and and miscellaneous confessions. Interspersed Interspersed with musings and general general observations, Adams’ set set will sit perfectly amongst the the trees during the afternoon comedy comedy shows. (AP) TRAAMS Big Top. Sat. 12:00–12:30 Chichester Chichester post-punk revivalists TRAAMS TRAAMS play a self-described “wonky “wonky pop” steeped in a DIY sensibility sensibility much in the same vein as as Parquet Courts or FIDLAR. With With MJ of Hookworms and fuzz loving loving tastemaker Rory Atwell on production production duties, the band’s 2013 debut debut Grin injected simplistic, repetitive repetitive kraut-leanings with the fidgety fidgety restlessness of smalltown escapism. escapism. (JM)

tUnE-yArDs The Woods. Sun. 17:45–18:45 With a trio of albums released over five years, New England-born Merrill Garbus has made some of the most original and entertaining music this century. That might sound hyperbolic to some but Garbus’ experimental indie – which takes influences from across the board – succeeds with an approach that marries ballsy invention with sensory fun; ingredients for one of the festival’s live highlights, for sure. (PB) Unknown Mortal Orchestra Big Top. Sat. 20:30–21:30 New Zealand may have been put on the music map thanks to a certain teenage pop sensation, but UMO deserve your attention for very different reasons. The Kiwi threepiece produce an intelligent brand of indie lead by the hugely impressive guitar work of frontman Ruban Nielson and a knack for funky, infectious melody. “So Good At Being In Trouble” remains a standout cut from their brilliantly consistent catalogue; Lorde knows they’re worth catching this weekend. (GOB)

ARTIST A–Z The Wave Pictures The Woods. Fri. 14:15–15:15 David Tattersall, Franic Rozycki and Jonny Helm are purveyors of the kind of charming yet gawky indie pop reminiscent of the likes of Jonathan Richman, but with a distinctly provincial and domestic slant. Don’t let their entertaining, clever and off-beat lyrics distract you though: Tattersall is also an incendiary guitarist, as well as an impressively prolific songwriter. (JC) White Denim Garden Stage. Sun. 22:00–23:00 Texan four piece White Denim are a grab-bag of influences and assimilations. Their intricate, intense and complex music takes in psych rock, blues, punk, with elements of jazz and even prog also audible. Their live show will hypnotise and entrance, as they weave these complex elements into an impressive, coherent and crowd-pleasing performance. (JC) Wild Beasts The Woods. Sun. 21:30–23:00 Anyone lucky enough to see Wild Beasts live this year knows that they are smack bang in the middle of their prime – exuding wit, showmanship and exquisite songcraft, with a hefty dose of synthesised bottom end to complement Hayden Thorpe’s acrobatic falsetto. Don’t miss them prove themselves as worthy festival headliners for both this year, and for many more to come. (SB)

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Woods Garden Stage. Sun. 17:00–17:45 For almost a decade, Brooklyn’s Woods have been winning ears with their rattling and expansive lo-fi indie rock sound. At the band’s core is a trio (principal songwriters Jeremy Earl and Jarvis Taveniere alongside drummer Aaron Neveu) but they flesh out for live shows to full effect, roping in an assortment of musicians to create a fully realised vision of what music can be. (PB) The Wytches Big Top. Fri. 15:30–16:15 Peddling raucous goth-tinged surf-indie, Brighton’s The Wytches stand out as one of the more raw and adrenalised highlights of the festival this weekend. The Heavenly-signed three-piece dropped their debut album Annabel Dream Reader last week, co-produced by the band’s Kristian Bell and ex-Coral man Bill Ryder-Jones. (PB) Wendy Wason Comedy Stage. Sat. 13:00–13:15 London based Scottish comic Wendy Wason has a strong background in acting, but on taking up the stand up profession just 8 weeks after the birth of her son, any dramatic element of the profession fell by the wayside to allow Wason’s congenial, conversational, and genuine delivery to shine through. (AP)

Yo La Tengo The Woods. Sun. 19:30–20:45 Theatre Stage. Sun. 16:00–17:00 This year sees Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the band they formed out of the vibrant music scene around legendary Hoboken, New Jersey club Maxwell’s. Their final third – James McNew – joined on bass in 1992 and the trio have taken their place as a defining force in envelope-pushing indie guitar music, tearing up the rule book with a musicality and emotion that few can come close to. (PB) Zachary Cale Tipi Tent. Sat. 16:00–16:45 Sharon Van Etten-endorsed, Louisiana-born but Brooklyn-bred neo-folkster, whose winsomely plucky Blue Rider full-length from last year won over many a newfound aficionado, and rightly so. Listen out for the finger-picked fragility of Hold Fast, perhaps his very best, and the sound of a contemporary troubadour to cherish for the foreseeable. (JH)

THANK YOUS We rely on the help of many individuals without whom the festival simply wouldn’t be possible. We thank you all. This year we have picked three of those people for a little recognition. Jason Lehner Suppose you get lost in the woods at night and stumble through the fairy light trail, perhaps coming across a disco ship, discovering a Victorian Piano Stage, and maybe stopping to read a book in a library. You might wonder where such surreal joys came from. The answer is Jason Lehner and a creative band of artists and tradesmen. From the very first year they helped make End of the Road different and original. Jason – we salute you! Kai Wong Kai has been, from the very beginning in 2006, the visual artist for End of the Road. His art can be seen on our website, line-up posters, programme and T-shirts. His is the peacock with a stylus beak and the horn-speaker tail familiar to all End of the Roaders. Thanks Kai, for your talent and hard work.

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Seb Emina Reading this programme almost certainly means you know and like End of the Road. But getting the message out doesn’t happen by itself. Seb has been our press man for many years, encouraging music journalists to review the festival and report our news. The stream of good reviews testifies to his success. Unfortunately for us, his writing career must now take precedence. Thank you, Seb! Directors Simon Taffe, Sofia Hagberg, Philip Wicks, James Strathallan General Manager Chris Tarren Event Management Rosanna Dean

Programme Team ---------------------------------------------------Editor Rich Thane Graphic Design Kevin Summers / BML Creative Illustration Kai Wong Writers Alex Cull Andy Price Charlotte Krol Francine Gorman George O’Brien Jon McCullough Josh Holliday Jude Clarke Larry Day Lauren Down Lucie Grace Luke Morgan Britton Maya Hambro Paul Bridgewater Sam Briggs Photography Burak Cingi (5/19/80 top R / bottom R) Eva Vermandel (80 bottom L) Joseph Brett (80 top L) Steve Gullick (41) Publisher Gareth Main www.fleeingfrompigeons.com

Comedy Times ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday 29 August Saturday 30 August Sunday 31 August ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Comedy Stage Comedy Stage Comedy Stage 00:00–01:30 Storytellers’ Club 00:00–01:30 Knightmare Live 16:00–17:00 Mark Watson 20:30–21:00 *Surprise Slot 20:30–21:00 *Surprise Slot 15:30–16:00 Simon Munnery 17:45–18:30 *Surprise Slot 16:00–17:00 Come Heckle Christ 14:45–15:15 Marcel Lucont 16:00–17:00 Andrew Oniell’s 15:30–16:00 Jessica Delfino 14:15–14:45 Katerina Vrana History of Heavy 14:45–15:15 Eric Lampaert 13:45–14:15 Edward Aczel Metal 14:15–14:45 Ryan Coffey 13:15–13:45 Jessica Fostekew 15:30–16:00 Special Guest 13:45–14:15 Sarah Bennetto 13:00–13:15 David Morgan 14:45–15:15 Tom Adams 13:15–13:45 Stuart Goldsmith (Compere) 14:15–14:45 Benny Boot 13:00–13:15 Wendy Wason 13:45–14:15 Celia Pacquola (Compere) 13:15–13:45 Ed Gamble 13:00–13:15 Katie Mulgrew (Compere)

Cinema Times ------------------------------------------------Thursday 28 August ------------------------------------------------00:00 Pulp: a Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets 22:00 Calvary 20:00 The Double 18:00 Inside Llewyn Davis

Friday 29 August ------------------------------------------------00:35 The Burglars 23:00 Flesh for Frankenstein 21:00 Star 80 19:30 Fabulous World of Jules Verne 18:30 Q&A with Peter Strickland and Will Hodgkinson 17:30 Selection of short films: Workshop Times Outer Space / Allures / ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Movement of People Friday 29 August Saturday 30 August Sunday 31 August Working / The Love Life ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------of the Octopus / Street Venue 1 – Juggle! Venue 1 – Juggle! Venue 1 – Juggle! of Crocodiles 16:00–17:00 Hula Hoop 17:00–18:00 Circus Workshop 16:00–17:00 Hula Hoop 16:00 Sun Ra – Space is the Place 14:00–16:00 Circus Workshop 16:00–17:00 Hula Hoop 14:00–16:00 Circus Workshop 14:20 Overnight 13:00–14:00 Hula Hoop 14:00–16:00 Circus Workshop 13:00–14:00 Hula Hoop 13:35 Selection of Shorts: 11:00–13:00 Circus Workshop 13:00–14:00 Hula Hoop 11:00–13:00 Circus Workshop Where Evil Dwells / 10:00–11:00 Qi Gong 11:00–13:00 Circus Workshop 10:00–11:00 Qi Gong O is for Orgasm / 10:00–11:00 Qi Gong Thumbelina Venue 2 – Create! Venue 2 – Create! 11:30 Innerspace 13:00–17:00 Hunga Munga’s Venue 2 – Create! 14:00–17:00 Hunga Munga’s 9:50 The Lego Movie Space Craft 14:00–17:00 Hunga Munga’s Space Craft Space Craft 11:00–14:00 End of the Road Saturday 30 August Venue 3 – Animate! 11:00–14:00 End of the Road Songbook ------------------------------------------------12:00–17:00 Stop Motion Songbook 00:00 A Clockwork Orange Animation Venue 3 – Animate! 22:00 Final Programme Humanimation Venue 3 – Animate! 12:00–17:00 Stop Motion 20:00 Altered States 12:00–17:00 Stop Motion Animation 17:30 Intro with Gruff Rhys – Venue 4 – Sculpt! Animation Humanimation American Interior 14:00–16:00 Clay Making Humanimation 16:00 Koynasquatsi 11:00–13:00 Clay Making Venue 4 – Sculpt! 14:00 Doctor Who, Daleks – Venue 4 – Sculpt! 14:00–16:00 Clay Making Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D Venue 5 – Interact! 14:00–16:00 Clay Making 13:00–14:00 Ukelele Workshop 12:00 Speed Racer 16:00–17:00 Ukelele Workshop 13:00–14:00 Miniature Music 11:00–13:00 Clay Making 11:00 Adventure Time 15:00–16:00 Hands In Song – 11:00–13:00 Clay Making 10:00 Ren and Stimpy One Line Theatre Venue 5 – Interact! Company Venue 5 – Interact! 16:00–17:00 Poco Drum Sunday 31 August 14:00–15:00 Comedy Workshop 17:00–18:00 Yoga inspired 15:00–16:00 Miniature Music ------------------------------------------------13:00–14:00 Hands In Song – games for families 14:00–15:00 Hands In Song – 00:00 Beyond the Valley of Dolls The Big Loud Crash and children The Big Loud Crash 22:15 Vanishing Point Bang Music Project 16:00–17:00 Poco Drum Bang Music Project 20:30 Harold and Maude 12:00–13:00 Poco Drum 15:00–16:00 Ukelele Workshop 13:00–14:00 Comedy Workshop 18:30 Escape from Planet 11:00–12:00 Yoga inspired 14:00–15:00 Comedy Workshop 12:00–13:00 Hands In Song – of the Apes games for families 13:00–14:00 Hands In Song – One Line Theatre 16:45 Fearless Freaks and children Chalk Board Theatre Company 15:15 Village of the Dammed 12:00–13:00 Poco Drum 11:00–12:00 Poco Drum Venue 6 – Make! 11:00–12:00 Comedy Workshop 10:00–11:00 Yoga inspired games 14:15 Q&A with Ben Wheatley, Peter Strickland and 14:00–17:00 Craft and Making 10:00–11:00 Yoga inspired for families and Andy Rook – hosted by Activities games for families children Will Hodgkinson 11:00–14:00 Craft and Making and children 12:15 The Red Shoes Activities Venue 6 – Make! 11:30 Star Trek: The Original Venue 6 – Make! 14:00–17:00 Craft and Making Series – The Way to Eden Around the Gardens 14:00–17:00 Craft and Making Activities (Space Hippies) 12:00–17:00 Listen Hear Activities 11:00–14:00 Craft and Making 10:00 Dougal and the Blue Cat The Rig 11:00–14:00 Craft and Making Activities Folk Tales Activities Around the Gardens Around the Gardens 12:00–17:00 Listen Hear 12:00–17:00 Listen Hear The Rig The Rig Folk Tales Folk Tales

Music Times ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Thursday 28 August ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tipi Tent 22:00–23:00 Ezra Furman 20:45–21:30 Cheatahs 19:30–20:15 AK DK 18:15–19:00 Speak Galactic Friday 29 August ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Woods Garden Stage Big Top Tipi Tent 21:30–23:00 St. Vincent 22:00–23:00 Gene Clark – 23:15–00:15 Connan Mockasin 02:00–02:45 *Surprise Slot 19:30–20:45 Stephen Malkmus No Other Band 20:45–21:45 Temples 00:45–01:30 *Surprise Slot & The Jicks 20:15–21:15 British Sea Power 18:45–19:45 Three Trapped Tigers 23:30–00:15 *Surprise Slot 17:45–18:45 Jenny Lewis 18:30–19:30 Ezra Furman 17:00–18:00 Drenge 22:15–23:00 Alice Boman 16:00–17:00 Black Lips 16:45–17:45 Benjamin Clementine 15:30–16:15 The Wytches 21:00–21:45 Israel Nash 14:15–15:15 The Wave Pictures 15:15–16:00 Peggy Sue 14:15–15:00 Rosie Lowe 19:45–20:30 9Bach 13:00–13:45 Bird Courage 14:05–14:50 All We Are 13:00–13:45 The Districts 18:30–19:15 Duke Garwood 12:55–13:40 Arc Iris 12:00–12:30 Mazes 17:15–18:00 Robert Ellis 11:55–12:35 Phox 16:00–16:45 Theo Verney 14:45–15:30 Alexis Taylor 13:30–14:15 Laish Saturday 30 August ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Woods Garden Stage Big Top Tipi Tent 21:15–23:00 The Flaming Lips 22:00–23:00 John Grant 23:15–00:15 Archie Bronson Outfit 02:00–02:45 *Surprise Slot 19:00–20:00 The Horrors 20:15–21:15 Gruff Rhys 20:30–21:30 Unknown Mortal 00:45–01:30 *Surprise Slot 17:15–18:15 Johnny Flynn 18:30–19:30 Perfume Genius Orchestra 23:30–00:15 David Thomas & The Sussex Wit 16:45–17:45 Cate Le Bon 18:45–19:45 Hookworms Broughton 15:30–16:30 St Paul and 15:00–16:00 Sweet Baboo 17:00–17:45 Eagulls 19:45–20:30 Marissa Nadler The Broken Bones 13:45–14:30 Lau 15:30–16:15 The Ghost of a 18:30–19:15 Samantha Crain 13:45–14:45 The Barr Brothers 12:30–13:15 Lily and Madeleine Saber Tooth Tiger 17:15–18:00 Sam Lee 12:15–13:00 Nick Waterhouse 14:15–15:00 Arrows of Love 16:00–16:45 Zachary Cale 13:00–13:45 Adult Jazz 14:45–15:30 Celebration 12:00–12:30 TRAAMS 13:45–14:15 Otti Albietz and The Voices 12:45–13:15 Four Mile House Sunday 31 August ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The Woods Garden Stage Big Top Tipi Tent 21:30–23:00 Wild Beasts 22:00–23:00 White Denim 20:30–21:30 The Felice Brothers 00:45–01:30 *Surprise Slot 19:30–20:45 Yo La Tengo 20:15–21:15 Tinariwen 18:45–19:45 Pink Mountaintops 23:30–00:15 *Surprise Slot 17:45–18:45 tUnE-yArDs 18:30–19:30 Richard Thompson 17:00–18:00 Radiophonic 22:15–23:00 Chad VanGaalen 16:00–17:00 Deer Tick 17:00–17:45 Woods Workshop 21:00–21:45 Horse Thief 14:15–15:15 Lucius 15:10–16:00 Daniel Rossen 15:15–16:15 John Cooper Clarke 19:45–20:30 Tiny Ruins 13:00–13:45 Cold Specks 14:05–14:45 Stealing Sheep 14:00–14:45 Benjamin Booker 18:30–19:15 Andrew Combs 12:55–13:35 Lyla Foy 12:45–13:30 Kiran Leonard 17:15–18:00 The Rails 11:50–12:30 Futur Primitif 11:45–12:15 The Melodic 16:00–16:45 Oliver Wilde 14:45–15:30 Tides of Man The Singing Theatre Stage 13:30–14:15 Lonnie Holley 16:00–17:00 Yo La Tengo – Freewheeling DJ Times ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Friday 29 August Saturday 30 August Sunday 31 August ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Silent Disco Silent Disco Silent Disco 00:00–03:00 Tam Coyle 00:00–03:00 End of the Road DJs 00:00–03:00 Rich Thane 00:00–03:00 Danni Vida 00:00–03:00 Double Decker 00:00–03:00 Heavenly Jukebox 22:00–00:00 Danny Green 22:00–00:00 Ronan Leonard 22:00–00:00 Gareth Main Forest Disco 00:00–03:00 Simon Taffe 22:00–00:00 Black Lips DJ set 19:00–21:00 Lucie Grace

Forest Disco 23:30–03:00 Richard Hawley 22:00–23:30 The Horrors DJ set 19:00–21:00 Danny Green 15:00–17:00 How Does it Feel to be Loved?

Forest Disco 01:00–03:00 Gareth Main 23:00–01:00 Double Decker 21:00–23:00 Rich Thane 19:30–21:00 Ronan Leonard

Early Bird Tickets ---------------------------------------------------End of the Road: 10th Anniversary 4–6 September 2015 ---------------------------------------------------Adult £150 Youth 13–17 £115 Child 6–12 £50 Child 3–5 £30 Infant 0–2 £0 Campervan £50 Advance Car Parking £6 ---------------------------------------------------Tickets go on sale Tuesday 2 September 2014