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Introduction

Down The Rabbit Hole Festival Guide 2016 From 24 to 26 June, head out to Groene Heuvels for the third edition of Down The Rabbit Hole. Treat yourself to a getaway weekend in the middle of nature, complete with a fantastic lineup, a fire kitchen and of course a campsite for your tent, your friends’ tents, and your friends’ friends’ tents.

Use this Subbacultcha guide to make the most of your festival experience! Featuring the talented Courtney Barnett, brash trio DMA’S, newcomers Whitney, local sweethearts MY BABY and The Love Triangle, it will give you a taste of the extraordinary acts on this year’s bill. There are plenty more gems to be discovered as well as star performances to be witnessed from the likes of The National, PJ Harvey, Anohni, Kelela, Ty Segall, Savages and many more.

In between shows, discover the beautiful surroundings!

Build yourself a raft and explore the lake, or bury yourself in the sand and watch the world go by. Throw your own themed mini party, make friends with Periscopista, the interactive installation peeking its head from the bottom of the lake, or dig your hands into clay and build a sculpture with Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell. The world is your oyster.

Have a blast!

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October Recommendations Artist: Elysia Crampton

Brooklyn band brings an old fruit crate to their live sets, which when opened reveals a tiny jungle filled with fauna, flora and lights that is magnified and projected onto the walls, enveloping the crowd in an otherworldly glow. Their debut album Islet is out on Home Assembly Records.

— soundcloud.com/peptalk_music

With a challenging near-manifesto spanning geology and complex racial dynamics underpinning her latest works, let’s just say Elysia Crampton isn’t short of artistic ambition. But to place focus entirely on the surrounding concept doesn’t do her justice: newly released debut full-length American Drift stands on its own, a mind-blowing, near transcendent masterpiece blending Latin cumbia, Bolivian saya, tribalistic crunk and a healthy dose of DatPiff-worthy mixtape narration. After years of crafting sample-dependent (though no less incredible) sonic mosaics under the E+E moniker, she’s finally come into her own, and we’re reaping the benefits.

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Featuring in-depth interviews with the likes of M.E.S.H., Lena Willikens, Vessel, Powell and Torn Hawk, it was as though we’d found our soulmate.

Someone somewhere else in the world knew exactly what we were thinking and what we’d want to read.

For the Summer 2015 issue, they’ve turned their attention to another bevy of recent favourites: Beatrice Dillon, TCF, Danse Noir and Oneohtrix Point

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Artist: Elysia Crampton

rate worlds by creating small musical islands of dreamy, exotica-inspired melodies with bird calls, synthesizers and orchestral instruments. The Brooklyn band brings an old fruit crate to their live sets, which when opened reveals a tiny jungle filled with fauna, flora and lights that is magnified and projected onto the walls, enveloping the crowd in an otherworldly glow. Their debut album Islet is out on Home Assembly Records.

— soundcloud.com/peptalk_music

With a challenging near-manifesto spanning geology and complex racial dynamics underpinning her latest works, let’s just say Elysia Crampton isn’t short of artistic ambition. But to place focus entirely on the surrounding concept doesn’t do her justice: newly released debut full-length American Drift stands on its own, a mind-blowing, near transcendent masterpiece blending Latin cumbia, Bolivian saya, tribalistic crunk and a healthy dose of DatPiff-worthy mixtape narration. After years of crafting sample-dependent (though no less incredible) sonic mosaics under the E+E moniker, she’s finally come into her own, and we’re reaping the benefits.

— soundcloud.com/eande

Magazine: Zweikommaseiben When we first stumbled across Issue #10 of Swiss magazine Zweikommaseiben, we were dumbfounded.

Featuring in-depth interviews with the likes of M.E.S.H., Lena Willikens, Vessel, Powell and Torn Hawk, it was as though we’d found our soulmate.

Someone somewhere else in the world knew exactly what we were thinking and what we’d want to read.

For the Summer 2015 issue, they’ve turned their attention to another bevy of recent favourites: Beatrice Dillon, TCF, Danse Noir and Oneohtrix Point

Artist: Peptalk Having grown up in Tokyo, Los Angeles and San Juan, Shayna, Mike and Angelica of Peptalk merge their dispa-

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Contents

Courtney Barnett 14 DMA’S 22 Whitney 28 The Love Triangle 34 My Baby 36 — Festival makers 09 Music programme 39 Festival map 40 Side programme 57 Practical info 61 07

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Festival makers

Before you can ever go down the rabbit hole, a rabbit has to be found, a hole has to be dug, arrangements have to be made. We tracked down the mysterious people who make magic happen at Down The Rabbit Hole, bringing about that unique festival experience. Read on to learn more about the fun makers Merijn Hos

Festivals are, to a certain extent, like a promised land: they happen far away from our day-to-day lives in a place of wonder where everyone is their happiest, most liberated self. Illustrator and visual artist Merijn Hos is the one who paints this pretty picture for Down The Rabbit Hole every year. The inspiration?

A series of personal drawings he made in 2011, tracing espresso capsules on paper with coloured pencils. They looked like microorganisms or fruit slices, stylised yet organic, real but from a realm we can’t always see or access. And while other clients might have said, ‘Less psychedelic stuff,’ the team at Down The Rabbit Hole simply wanted ‘more, more please!’

And so, every year, Merijn adds playful elements and bursts of colour to the expanding alphabet of circular shapes that unlocks a weird yet wonderful experience. Together with his brother Juriaan, the Hos bros also make a teaser video for the festival, where the artwork gets the breath of life, a life where colourful patterns replicate and morph together, bouncing from one plane to another.

Once you’ve fallen down the rabbit hole, the rules of physics no longer apply.

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Festival makers André Amaro

ATM Model Art

Chef extraordinaire André Amaro gives new meaning to the phrase ‘food for thought’, combining gastronomy, art, music and design. He’ll bring his fire kitchen – a sexy Pegaso truck from the ’70s called El Rocho – to the Idyllische Veldje and cook some beautiful dishes.

His crew will not only feed you but also all the artists backstage, spreading the good life all around. The organic goat’s cheese and olive oil are made from scratch at El Rocho, so be sure to sample them. Opt for frikandel if you’re looking for the ultimate hangover cure.

While you’re waiting for your food to fry, you can also sign up for one of André’s workshops, in which you can make ceramics, throw something in the fire for the blacksmith to mould or print your own shirt. In addition to surrounding yourself with good food and good vibes, André’s tip for a good time is to build your own raft and get out on the lake with your friends.

In case there was still any debate, the festival grounds of Down The Rabbit Hole are indeed a modern ‘garden of earthly delights’. ATM Model Art, the designers of the festival grounds, were inspired by a Hiernoymous Bosch triptych. They extracted a few key elements from the painting, which they then replicated in the festival gate, on the fences, the tent decorations and throughout the grounds.

A recurring theme in their natural decor is nature and culture coming together, so you’ll find trees and plants intertwined with machines, appealing to your senses but also aiding your sense of orientation through De Groene Heuvels. The gate has a liminal role, marking the passage

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Festival makers from reality to surrealism, inviting visitors to go down the rabbit hole, into a world that is upside down. But don’t be fooled: that imposing machinery doesn’t break down nature but rather supports it, builds it up. During the annual construction, the designers at ATM Model Art experiment with their sculptural installations, making new compositions from the available flora. They plant an average of 5,000 (!) young plants a year to complete the design, and they even take care of some of them in between editions, bringing them back the following year.

Now that’s what we call an organic design, growing from year to year.

them to reach a higher state of being – so don’t discount the possibility of a transcendental experience. Enlightenment aside, what better way to be at one with nature and make the most of your surroundings than by digging your hands into clay? We can’t think of one either.

‘Everyone is welcome to participate,’ says Nacho, who is intrigued to see how diverse – or similar – the landscape will be, what heights and shapes the mounds will take as they are moulded by different people. And if clay doesn’t bring you closer to Mother Nature, perhaps a shaman will. Every evening, the sculptural mounds built during the day will be part of a shamanic performance where dancing and fire will prepare the grounds for the following day.

Nacho Carbonell Have you ever wanted to make a sculpture? Now’s your chance! Spanish designer and artist Nacho Carbonell is bringing a truck full of clay from Brabant to Down The Rabbit Hole, where you can join him in an artistic adventure to build a landscape of termite hills. The desire to make things is a primitive instinct in all of us, and this is a unique opportunity to make something with your hands and explore your creative side. Nacho aims to recreate the feeling our ancient ancestors had when building massive towers in the Mesopotamian valley, aspiring to make something durable that would allow

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Festival makers Periscopista

also sustainable; re-using old ship parts and recycled plastic, it was designed as a scalable platform so other artists can keep on building and adding to it year after year.

Hidde Pluymert

Winner of the Rabbit Hole Grand Prix 2016 (powered by Topicus), Periscopista was deemed to be the best idea for an interactive and sustainable public project at Down The Rabbit Hole. The collaboration between Thijs Biersteker and Amp. Amsterdam will have you convinced you have in fact tumbled down a rabbit hole and stumbled upon another dimension.

But what is Periscopista? An interactive installation made out of interconnected periscopes with a giant one soaring on top of them. It looks as if it’s just surfaced from the bottom of the lake, and if you feel like it’s staring straight at you, it probably is. Periscopista is said to be as curious about you as you are about her, so there’s no point in shying away, you might as well go play. Rumour also has it that she comes alive at night in a mystical, psychedelic way. Periscopista is not only innovative (and slightly creepy) but

As one of the festival bookers, Hidde knows that the best lineup for Down The Rabbit Hole is a mix of hot new acts and legendary names. Throw in some PJ Harvey and The National, spice it up with a lesser-known, upcoming act like Whitney and you’re guaranteed to obtain that high-quality combo that makes the crowds go wild. But he knows that music is only one of the moving parts in the festival machinery, so attention must be paid to the overall vibe and ensuring that there’s something for everyone. Because that’s what makes a great festival, in his opinion: being able to choose your own pace. Whether you’re the kind to rush from band to band to theatre performance, or the type to chill out by the lake and watch the sun go down, you’re covered. It’s a romantic vision of a festival in nature – even though Hidde says the job itself is not the most romantic, involving hundreds of emails and phone calls. But it all pays off when you have people from around the world flying in for your event.

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Interview

Courtney Barnett You can find out a great deal about Courtney Barnett by just listening to her songs. Actually, you only need to look at the title of her 2015 album to know that sometimes she sits someplace and contemplates things. That’s all well and good, but surely there are things not revealed in her music? Like, what does she grow in her garden? Does she believe in alien life forms? What disgusting things has she eaten recently? That’s what this interview is for: finding out some potentially obscure and probably trivial things about the Australian singer Skype interview by Koen van Bommel Photos shot by Grady Mitchell in Vancouver, Canada

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Courtney Barnett Hi Courtney! How do you feel?

Where you are right now?

tree – and an olive tree. We just pulled out a bunch of stuff, but normally we have lettuce and tomatoes and zucchini as well. Zucchini is my favourite. It goes with everything.

I feel pretty good today! I just had a swim. I’m in Vancouver, I’m sitting at the desk in my hotel room and I was just looking out the window. There are mountains in the distance with snow on them and it looks really beautiful.

If you were forced to limit all your lyrics to a single word, what word would that be?

You’re on the Wikipedia list of lefthanded musicians. How has being a lefty affected your life?

I’d like it to be a big word, so I could use all the syllables. I’ll go with ‘dissection’.

Not in many massive ways. When I started playing guitar, I had to learn it upside down. And I smudge my writing. That’s about it!

What question do people always ask you in interviews?

What piece of trivia would you add to your Wikipedia entry?

Do you have a standard answer?

I really like mint tea. At home I’ve got mint growing in the garden, so I just go outside and get a hand full and stick it in a teapot.

‘Are you surprised by your success?’

No, I don’t think so. It’s a stupid question, and there really is no answer to it.

Who’s the funniest person you know?

What else is in the garden?

I’ve got a couple of fruit trees – an apple tree, a plum tree, a lemon

I’ve been reading a lot of Tina Fey, and watching some Amy Schumer.

Bill Hicks is funny as well.

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‘I started writing poems when I was ten’ Are you funny?

Have you ever changed a song after you’ve recorded it, like Kanye West does?

No, not really. I wish I was.

What was your favourite class in school?

English. We did poetry and literature. When I was younger, I was really good at it. Then I got worse and worse at doing essays and all that stuff. But I’ve always liked reading and writing stories.

I started writing poems when I was ten, and when I got my guitar I turned poems into lyrics. The first song I ever wrote was about sleeping and being in my bed and looking at the sky or something.

No, not really. Sometimes I might do it just for fun. But normally I spend so much time on writing my lyrics that I like them, and I don’t want to change them.

What’s the one thing you would ban if you were the president?

Well, that’s hard, isn’t it? I would want to ban racism and homophobia, but can you ban those things?

Or, like, violence and guns. Yeah, I’d ban all those things.

I said you could ban one thing.

If there was a fire in your house what three things would you save?

My cat, my box of Polaroid photos and my koala tea cozy. It belonged to my great grandma, I’d like to keep it.

Damn it! But I’m the president!

What is the grossest thing you’ve ever eaten?

Last night we went for Japanese

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Courtney Barnett food, and we had edamame beans.

I accidentally picked up someone’s discarded pod, thinking it was a fresh one. That was pretty gross.

What was your favourite song when you were 17 or 18?

Probably the Pixies or the Talking Heads. I’ll go with ‘Where is My Mind?’

What do you miss most about home when you’re on tour?

What’s your favourite vowel?

My cat, Bubbles.

‘O’, because it’s adaptable and I like circles. It’s got a lot of symbolism. It’s a good letter. It goes with everything.

Do you believe in aliens?

Kind of, yeah, I guess so. Why not?

I’ve been watching a lot of X Files recently. I started with the new season, but then I went back to the start. I never watched it as a kid, because it was too scary.

If you had to make a Top 100 of your favourite songs, which song would be #100?

Could be anything, couldn’t it?

Maybe Dolly Parton – ‘Why’d You Come in Here Lookin’ Like That?’

I really like it, but there’s other good songs.

If you find a small animal in your house, do you kill it or catch it and release it outside?

Catch it and release it, definitely! When I was in the pool the other day, there were two bees swimming – or, like, drowning – and I saved them. Poor little bees. I’m sure they were thankful, but they didn’t know how to express it properly.

Courtney Barnett plays Teddy Widder on Friday, 24 June.

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DMA’S Phone interview by Sander van Dalsum Photos shot by Suzanna Zak in Los Angeles, USA

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Interview The Australian lads of DMA’S have much to thank the Nineties for – particularly the undeniable Britpop sound to which their music alludes. Growing up in that decade, the band wasn’t really aware of the influence it would eventually have on their latest album, Hills End; instead they focused on playing street hockey and embraced the fads and gimmicks of the time. We called guitarist Johnny Took while the band was on tour in England, and talked about dealing bootleg Pokémon cards, spending time in detention and making your dearest mum proud Hey, man! You guys have done a lot of interviews since you became known as a band, and I was curious: can you recall the first DMA’S interview ever?

view. In it, we look like we’re cool about it but we were actually shitting ourselves.

How do you look back at that, if you compare it to where the band is right now?

Yeah, I do actually. There was one when we’d just released our first song. We hadn’t really done press before, Mason and I went in and it turned out to be a video inter-

Well, we didn’t have any experience, there wasn’t much to talk about and there was noth-

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‘Pokémon cards were a really big thing for me’ ing about us on the internet. The only thing that people had to say was that they thought the music sounded like Oasis. To be honest, that was kind of boring. We purposely had nothing on the internet, you know? But that was kind of good and bad at the same time.

People tend to make up a lot of things about your band that way.

You’re all Nineties kids, though.

What’s your favourite fad from that decade? Mine has to be my Discman…

Pokémon cards were a really big thing for me. Mate, I have the best collection. And I used to make fake ones as well. I made them on the computer when Photoshop first came out, and I printed them as high quality as I could. Then I gave them more power than the regular ones, and I sold them at school.

That Nineties Britpop connection seems like a hard one to shake off.

Do you ever get tired of that?

No, no, no, no. We definitely draw inspiration from that era. But the thing is, we were only five or six, or even three years old when this music came out. I wasn’t even born yet.

The thing was that Tommy has an older brother, who is, like, ten years older. As he was growing up, he was playing Oasis and Stone Roses records and all that kind of stuff.

That’s how Tommy got into it, plus the fact that his dad is British.

You’re saying you were dealing bootleg Pokémon cards?

Yeah! Everyone wanted them and I sold them for, like, ten bucks each and shit. I made quite some money with that. Also, I used to put on this special layer so that they were all shiny. Some kids at school would fall for it, but most of them knew they were fake but they wanted them anyway because they looked sick.

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DMA’S Did you find any career ambitions in that business? Or did you already dream of touring the world with a band back then?

Aw, did your mum at least get a chance to see you play another time?

No, man. After that I didn’t play for a really long time. It wasn’t until high school that we got forced to play an instrument. I had to pick between the clarinet and the bass guitar, and I chose the latter. That’s how I started to get into it.

I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I was growing up, man. I was just kicking around with my mates, you know? I got into music a bit later. When I was five years old there was a book called Kids On Keyboards, which taught you simple songs. My mum came to my first concert, which I wasn’t at because I was in detention.

Now that you’re in a proper band, your mum must be proud, though?

Has she seen the DMA’S play?

What did you do to get in detention, then?

I wrote some pretty rude words and drew some bad pictures on a kid’s homework. His grandma used to pick him up from school, and as she was looking at his homework, she saw some pretty wild things on there. I’m not going to say what they were, but it was pretty inappropriate. Still, the guy who put me away was an asshole, I bet there was some dark shit going on in his life.

Yeah, a couple of times! And it’s cool because before the DMA’S when I used to be making music around the house on the piano, she used to be, like, ‘Get out and get a fucking job!’ And now when she sees me play piano, she’ll say, ‘Oh, goody! He’s writing songs! He’s working!’ Ha-ha!

DMA’S play Fuzzy Lop on Sunday, 26 June.

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Interview

Whitney Whitney’s debut record Light Upon the Lake is full of infectious and endearing earworms.

A prime example of this is the lead single, ‘No Woman,’ which elevated the seven-man band almost overnight to a height most take years to reach. It could be described as a viral success, which is odd given the band’s old-world musings. Their sound is unabashedly nostalgic and laidback, a reaction to a time in their lives when things were all too stressful and chaotic. We met up with Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek to talk about the great outdoors, snuggling in a tenman tent and a figment of their imagination — Whitney the man, brought to life in a series of masterful illustrations by Kazuma Eekman

Interview by Jack Dolan Illustrations by Kazuma Eekman

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Whitney Aware of their past musical endeavours, we were curious to learn how Whitney came to be. ‘We were both involved in other projects post Smith Westerns and Unknown Mortal Orchestra,’ explains Julien, who was living with Max at the time. ‘Both albums seemed a little too serious. One morning me and Max made a song and it seemed like the perfect thing to be doing, so we saw it through, made the album and now we’re here.’ If it all sounds too simple, well, that’s precisely the point.

The band are based in Chicago but are prone to escaping to the countryside given half the chance. ‘We’ve spent a lot of time at my grandma’s farm in northern Illinois,’ explains Max. ‘Even though we don’t live in those areas they’re quite a big part of us.’ Removing themselves from the fastpaced modern world is crucial to their process. ‘When we were at SXSW we bought a ten-man tent that’s the biggest tent I’ve ever seen. Our plan for the summer is to stay in it whenever we can.’

When the band can’t physically escape the city, they daydream of a quieter setting and a purer existence. The new album was written in what Julien describes as ‘a cold and sad winter in Chicago’. Writing warming country numbers might not seem fitting, but in Julien’s mind it made perfect sense; ‘When we were writing I think we were both dreaming of more beautiful places.’ Before long a protagonist began to inhabit their rural idyl, a man who would take on the name Whitney. ‘We originally liked it because it’s just a good band name,’ Julien explains. But it wasn’t long before the name had a face, a character Julien describes as ‘a peculiar one’ and ‘an old soul’.

Acting as a guiding spirit, Julien goes on to describe Whitney as ‘a reflection of our own selves’ but an idealised version from a simpler world far from the noisy, dirty streets of Chicago. ‘I don’t think Whitney would like any of us,’ Max is quick to point out. ‘He wouldn’t want to party with us.’

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‘I don’t think Whitney would like any of us’ ble than you think. We’ve got two songs that never made it [on to the album], which in our brains were from when Whitney went to LA and did a bunch of coke and wrote these crazy overproduced disco songs.’

Whitney is a character who is not easy to pin down. Julien describes him as ‘mostly an amalgamation of me and Max’s brains’, but as time goes on he takes on characteristics all of his own, to the point where even Max and Julien aren’t quite sure what to expect from him. When asked what Whitney would think of someone like Fetty Wap, Julien takes a long time to answer before concluding, ‘I don’t think that he would pay any mind to it until one day he found himself humming the melody and then he’d be like, “What the fuck!?” and then he’d be into it.’

The unpredictable nature of Whitney keeps the band on their toes and excited. ‘I think on the next record he might get a little happier,’ Julien theorises, although he doesn’t seem all that sure. Presumably this is related to the incredibly positive feedback Whitney (the band) are already garnering. Whitney the man continues to guide the band creatively, often in unexpected directions, and he remains a reflection of the collective subconscious of Max and Julien and the rest of the guys. In this way the two are inextricably linked, and for both band and man, the future is looking bright.

Whitney play Fuzzy Lop on Saturday, 25 June

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Winding up with The Love Triangle

Winding up Questions by Callum McLean. Photo by Wessel Baarda

We talked party strategy with the loveliest DJ trio in town How do you get pumped up for a night of fun?

Sipping vin naturel. There’s a really funky one from the Bijlmer, with a dope children’s drawing on the label.

Do you ever get pre-party nerves?

When the great Motor City Drum Ensemble played Aphex Twin as a last track just before we had to go on — yes. But then the stage manager gave us an ultra-short transcendental meditation workshop and we were all good to go.

Technotronic’s ‘Pump Up The Jam’ or The Prodigy’s ‘Wind It Up’?

I’d say ‘Pump Up The Jam’ mixed with machine gun shots

by Cinnaman.

What’s your party weapon of choice? Liquor? Alka-Seltzer?

Dance therapy?

AA Drink. The high energy orange, of course. With vodka, gin… goes with everything, really. It’s the DJ tool between the energy drinks.

Do you have a mirror routine to psych yourself up?

‘Beneluxaflex, biceps, triceps, hoe is het?’

If you had to adopt a movie personality to switch to party mode, who would it be?

The vampire from A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night. There’s this scene in the film where she dances to Farah’s ‘Dancing Girls’ – all very seductive, but without the femme fatale cliches.

Have you ever wound up so hard you fell asleep before leaving the house?

Yes, recently. Didn’t have anything to do with drinking, though – just dancing the night before. I was listening to NTS Radio at home and fell asleep on the night I wanted to go out and see Robert Bergman, who is not to be missed, really.

Fomo got very real that night.

The Love Triangle play Teddy Widder on Friday, 24 June.

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Winding down with My Baby

Winding down Questions by Callum McLean. Photo by Wessel Baarda

We talked maximum chill strategy with the Dutch shamanic folk group Babies can be notoriously difficult to calm down. Does a gentle burping and some white noise do the trick for you guys?

There’s a myriad of ways to do it. Hugging and snuggling with each other on the couch. Fat spliff. Tequila shots and then Jäger bombs, dance for five hours, crawl home, fat spliff, pass out. That’s winding down the long way, though.

Do you find that rockin’ out to the blues leaves you energised, or does it drain you ready for a good night’s sleep?

Usually you get high on an energetic audience only to be completely shattered by the time you’re home, cuz you’ve given it your all and now you’re drained and tired. You sleep well, you’re satisfied.

Sly Stone’s ‘Just Like a Baby’ seems an appropriate lullaby – what other records do you traditionally chill out to?

To name but a few, JJ Cale’s

‘Crazy Mama’ and Debashish Bhattacharya’s ‘Rajasthani Folk Song’.

Some folks find loud noises and repetitive rhythms more sedative than silence – what’s your style?

I love silence. We usually hit people hard in a concert until they’re tranced out, sedated, mind-fucked, numb; it’s the motorik meditation. Then we enjoy a bit of silence with a select few who aren’t in Neverland. It’s a unique moment in the set and we cherish it.

We intensely chill the fuck out for five minutes, and then bash the living shit out of the speakers for another hour.

What’s the best spot for an urban nap?

Tree houses, they’re all over.

You need to climb, though.

Are you naked sleepers or strict pyjama wearers?

Strict naked sleepers.

My Baby play Hotot on Saturday, 25 June.

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Music programme

Includes festival map and side programme

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RABBIT RESORT 1. Infopunt 2. Supermarkt 3. Tramontana 4. Nacho Carbonell 5. Het Gat 6. Periscopista (powered by Topicus) 7. Mobile Disco (powered by KPN) 8. Porto-Parties (powered by Soundboks) 9. La Salรณn 10. nijntje 11. Hoefnagel

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Friday, 24 June Courtney Barnett The struggle to get on the property ladder and the merits (or otherwise) of buying organic vegetables don’t sound like likely topics for bona fide indie hits, but in Courtney Barnett’s hands, the mundanity of life is just the jumping-off point for wry, beautifully written vignettes and observations – and some stormingly good tunes, too.

from glitch pop and contemporary R&B to ’80s electronic.

Factory Floor Watch Gabriel Gurnsey pound out the rhythms while Nik Colk conjures all sorts of sounds from her guitar’n’manipulation boards, and it’s no surprise that their early live performances were spoken of with such hushed, religious reverence.

It’s truly one of the most volatile, versatile and downright brilliant live bands in the world.

Douglas Firs

Fresku A rapper, actor and producer, Roy Michael Reymound has many strings to his bow. The Eindhoven local has produced three acclaimed albums, starred in several films, been named the Netherlands’ Best Hip Hop artist in 2012 and added his skills to numerous other releases over the last five years.

Following in the footsteps of dEUS and Balthazar, Douglas Firs are yet another stellar band to come out of Belgium. Less raucous than their fellow countrymen, their sleepy West Coast indie reminds of a young Wilco mixed with Ryan Adams; which is to say, it’s utterly captivating and gorgeously warm.

Mac DeMarco The self-styled Clown Prince of Indie, DeMarco entertains like few others; expect beer, banter and quite possibly bodily fluids. But don’t be fooled; strip away the antics and DeMarco is revealed as a whip-smart songwriter with a fine ear for melody, backed by a super-tight band. Go see why they’re considered one of the best live acts around.

Everything Everything The slow-burn approach suits this Mancunian quartet perfectly, allowing them to bloom alongside their burgeoning fan base. Diverse and eclectic, their unique take on indie borrows from everything

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Music programme. Friday Matisyahu If there’s one thing you’d never expect to read, it’s that an artist is ‘known for lending Orthodox Jewish themes with reggae, rock and hip hop beatboxing sounds’. But give Matisyahu a chance and his wordplay and vocal skills will win you over, you’ll also find his beats are almost impossible not to dance to.

ments and a neat turn of phrase, along with a voice that sounds like melted butter, have him way out in front of his peers.

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Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats A bedroom miserablist of the highest order, 25-year-old Londoner Oscar Scheller channels more than a little Morrissey in his morose yet jaunty pop. It’s hard to believe such polished, confident fare is the work of one person, whiling away the hours on his MacBook, but then much of what he does confounds standard expectations.

From an unsigned folker to Stax recording artist, Nathaniel Rateliff’s rise has been as meteoric as his background is unconventional. But discovering his inner soul man has paid dividends; romping horns, soulful ballads and a voice that’s part Van Morrison, part Sam Cooke, it’s no surprised he’s blazed a trail around the world in nine short months.

Parquet Courts To call this whip-smart NYC quartet ‘slacker indie’ is to miss the point entirely, for behind all the goofiness and antics is some wonderfully sharp observational writing and a neat blending of influences as diverse as Television, Silkworm and Wire. When there’s method behind the madness, youthful transgressions are far easier to overlook.

Michael Kiwanuka Confessional singer-songwriters walking the line between folk and old soul have been plentiful over the last few years, but seldom have any boasted the chops of Michael Kiwanuka. His lush arrange-

PAUW Three friends crafting away in a garage studio for a year is exactly the type of story rock’n’roll dreams

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Music programme. Friday Spidergawd If a band were described as being a ‘fuzzed-out, post-boogie assault’ on your ears, you’d be intrigued, right?

Fortunately, Norway’s Spidergawd – a supergroup made up of some of the country’s heaviest metallers and rockers – more than live up to their billing as sonic hell-raisers and hardrock connoisseurs.

are made of. Amid all the bombast and sage nods to the blues and ’60s and ’70s psychedelia, there’s a homespun charm and honesty to their take on mind-expanding grooves that shows just how much effort they put in.

PJ Harvey

Sun Kil Moon Mark Kozelek may be a somewhat controversial figure, but few can argue that he doesn’t bring #AllTheFeels. First as Red House Painters, then as Sun Kil Moon, his music has edged towards the melancholic and heartfelt, his bittersweet tales detailing, warts and all, the highs and lows that we all experience in life.

Having tackled Britain’s colonial past on 2011’s Let England Shake, Polly Jean has gone back to the blues and the sunbaked nostalgia of rock Americana for new album The Hope Six Demolition Project. As keen as ever to constantly reinvent herself, she remains one of music’s most vital voices and rightly deserves her legendary status.

The Love Triangle

Sivert Høyem It’s never easy when a fruitful musical partnership comes to tragic end, but Norwegian Sivert Høyem survived the end of acclaimed alternative rock band Madrugada by forging a successful solo career and finding his own voice. Three albums in, he remains one of Norway’s most enduring artists, and a distinctive storyteller who’s part Cohen, part Cave.

Here’s a DJ dream team ready to sweep you off your feet. Local party starters Job Jobse, Elias Mazian and Luc Mast are known for their eclectic sets ranging house, disco, afrobeat, hip hop, and worldtronica, making any classic sound fresh again. Expect a sexy time.

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Saturday, 25 June Baloji Born in Congo but raised in Belgium, Baloji isn’t simply another notch of French rap. With his effortless mix of dancehall, soukous and funk, the result is a showcase of Congolese musical traditions that oozes with colour and energy.

his songs than meets the eye. Postfunk, hints of hip hophop – and yes, a Black Sabbath cover; Bradley is unique in his own special way.

De Staat One thing’s for sure: this Dutch quintet know how to rock; so much so that comparisons to Muse and Faith No More are inevitable. But there’s more humour behind what Torre Florim & co. get up to; a sly nod and wink suggest they’re having a better time than everyone else.

Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve Erol Alkan is many things; mash-up pioneer, DJ & producer extraordinaire, award-winning website creator. But you might not know that he’s also one half of Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve, the psycho-balearic whizzbang wonder he helms alongside fellow musical magpie Richard Norris.

Eefje de Visser Eefje de Visser is a singer-songwriter not afraid to mix things up. Winner of the prestigious Grote Prijs van Nederland in 2009, she’s since released an acclaimed album – 2011’s De Koek – and toured all over Europe with her clever, wistful songs that borrow just as much from the future as they do the past.

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Flume For Australian beatmaker Harley Streton, it’s all about tones and textures. Blending modern, intimate R&B with spaced-out beats and J Dilla’s warped sense of production values, he’s carved out a neat little niche in the crowded genre of upcoming electronic producers; expectations for his forthcoming album, Skin, are rightly high.

A passing resemblance to James Brown and a set of pipes just as strong led to Charles Bradley being tagged as ‘The Screaming Eagle of Soul’, but don’t be fooled – there’s far more subtlety and craft behind

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Music programme. Saturday music has a gravitas and poise that belies her age. Light yet poignant, her voice is the thread that sews her soulful work together.

Glen Hansard From his soft, warm Irish lilt to the inviting, bustling arrangements of his semi-acoustic songs, there’s an innate sense of optimism baked into everything Hansard – an Academy Award winner, no less – does. And, if you’re lucky, you might just get to enjoy all this in the majesty of the bright, hazy late-afternoon sun.

MHD MHD is the moniker of Mohamed Sylla, a 21-year-old Parisian rap prodigy. Toted as the precursor to Afro Trap, MHD spits rhymes with aggressive lyrical bite and frenetic energy. Filtered through a kaleidoscope of African-inspired beats, however, the result is something that’s smooth and surprisingly colourful, yet no less urgent in delivery.

Kelela It takes a special kind of talent to break through before even releasing an album, but just one mixtape (Cut 4 Me) and EP (Hallucinogen) have seen Kelela anointed as one of the most unique urban artists in the world.

Grime, house, electro, R&B and dubstep all inform her dark, swirling, inventive creations.

Mura Masa

Lianne La Havas Named after a 16th-century Japanese swordsmith who, legend has it, imbued his blades with bloodlust, there are hints of such dark sorcery in the music of 20-year-old Londoner Alex Crossan. Spectral beats and twisted samples form the core of his atmospheric grooves, and mark him out as a prodigious talent.

MY BABY It’s apt that this Dutch three-piece have titled their tour ‘Voodoo Électrique’; gospel guitars, glam beats and hints of calypso deca-

Winning a support slot with Paloma Faith and being discovered on MySpace while barely out of school catapulted La Havas into the industry spotlight; perhaps that’s why her

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Music programme. Saturday dence turn what could be standard indie singalongs into something guaranteed to fill dance floors and to darken hearts.

their live sets. The songs often build slowly, creeping closer and closer towards a climax that’s guaranteed to bring a shiver down your spine.

RHODES Having something of the studied pop cool of Sam Smith and the rousing, stadium-sized choruses of Coldplay, the music of David Rhodes is 100% gorgeous. By turns it’s moody and mysterious, yet dotted with moments of soaring melancholy, all narrated by his husky choirboy voice.

The National Over 17 years and six albums, cult indie darlings The National have honed their own special brand of bittersweet, heart-wrenching anthems to perfection. Few groups sound as powerful, imbue their music with such soaring majesty or possess such presence live.

Savages Savage by name, savage by nature; few have attacked writing, releasing and performing music with such spirit and vitality as this UK postpunk four-piece. And while their debut, Silence Yourself, was a raw howl bristling with energy, the follow-up, Adore Life, saw the band add polish and poise to their sonic maelstroms.

Ty Segall and the Muggers Weirdness pretty much comes as standard with Ty Segall. His prolific output could be mainly described as garage rock, but he borrows so much from elsewhere – glam, punk, lo-fi and psychedelica – that he’s concocted an exhilarating blend that is pretty much all his own.

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Sonido Gallo Negro We’re suckers for a good revival, and Sonido Gallo Negro provide just that. Mixing the psychedelic sounds of ’70s Peruvian cumbia with organs, fuzz and a garage-rock attitude, the results are seductive, sultry and just a little bit raunchy.

‘America’s most exciting new band’ is a tag that might weigh heavily on some, but not these guys. Formed from the ashes of Smith Westerns, Whitney have rightly caught tastemakers’ ears with their wistful tunes that sound like lost lo-fi classics.

The Cinematic Orchestra The lusciously produced tracks of The Cinematic Orchestra soar to new heights thanks to the employment of a 24-piece orchestra for

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Sunday, 26 June Alex Vargas It’s a brave soul who leaves the comfort of a successful band to strike out on their own, but then Alex Vargas has never lacked confidence.

Swapping manufactured pop for a more soulful sound on recent EP Giving Up The Ghost suits his newfound maturity.

give Car Seat Headrest a pass for that dubious moniker and focus instead on their super-sweet, lush indie-pop and tender take on life. Ah, that’s better.

Daniel Docherty Discovered while busking the streets of his native Scotland, Docherty puts an inventive twist on the acoustic singer-songwriter trope; watch any of his videos online and his passion and craft shine through. This should make for a triumphant debut on a much deserved bigger stage.

ANOHNI: HOPELESSNESS

Daughter Love and human relationships rarely run smoothly; the pallor of loss and sadness informs much of what this UK indie-folk trio chronicle in their music. But shafts of light penetrate the melancholy, while the songs remain as atmospheric and as touching as always.

Sparse, hauntingly beautiful songs, topped off with a heavenly voice, have won Antony Hegarty a legion of acclaim and devoted followers. Now, as ANOHNI, things have changed; her voice remains as beautiful as ever, but Hopelessness is an experimental electronic record with a dark thematic undertow. Expect a spectacular performance.

DMA’S Close your eyes while listening to Australia’s DMA’S and you’re transported back to Burnage, Manchester circa 1992, and a certain Gallagher household. But fortunately for the trio, they cherry pick all the best bits: soaring choruses, a sneering, confident delivery and the kind of songs that sound best sung in a field full of your drunk mates.

Car Seat Headrest It can’t be easy coming up with a name for your new band; so let’s

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Music programme. Sunday John Talabot The Catalan producer has cultivated a persona as enigmatic and captivating as his gloriously off-kilter techno.

Combining deep house, disco and indie pop, his epic sets fit perfectly with a field full of late-night handsin-the-air ravers.

Dubioza Kolektiv People may say that the protest song is dead, but then such folks haven’t come across Bosnian seven-piece Dubioza Kolektiv. Fiercely proud of their heritage and homeland, they combine rock, dub and ska with political and dissenting lyrics, not afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves.

Kovacs Sharon Kovacs is blessed with a voice as big as her personality. Raw, powerful yet sultry, it fills her oldschool soul and jazz music with an intimidating presence and hints of menace; not for nothing is her latest album called Shades of Black.

Frightened Rabbit Famed for their ramshackle indie anthems, Scottish miserabilists Frightened Rabbit have always played with the dark and light of human emotion.

But lately there’s been a little less heartache and angst in their work; new album Painting Of A Panic Attack is their most rounded to date, and sees the band settling into a confident stance.

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Fun Lovin’ Criminals Once anointed as ‘the coolest band in the world’, Huey Morgan and Brian ‘Fast’ Leiser’s breezy confidence and slick tunes belied a rare talent and appreciation for old-school blues, rock, jazz, soul and funk that continues to this day.

Howard It might have taken nearly half a decade for Howard Feibusch and Myles Heff to find their sound, but the best things do come to those who wait.

The folktronic trio – they now have a drummer – create swirling, slowbuild electro jams that groove and flow and suck you into their world.

Scandinavia is rightly lauded for its seemingly endless supply of talented pop stars, and Danish singer Karen Marie Ørsted is just the latest. Her bright, breezy music is rainbow-coloured and fizzes with youthful energy, yet packs a hefty emotional punch.

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Music programme. Sunday the shortest. And yet here they are, in all their brash, fey glory, striding confidently into their fourth decade as vital and as creative as ever.

Nothing But Thieves Support slots with Muse and comparisons to Foals show just how ambitious these newcomers are. Huge riffs, falsetto vocals and marching rhythms are propelling this UK fivepiece into the mainstream and on to stages all summer long.

The London Souls Having met and started a band as teenagers, you can tell there’s a deep connection between New Yorkers Tash Neal and Chris St. Hilaire; it’s baked into almost every note of their southern soul and rock music. It’s retro-sounding, yeah, but they borrow only from the best.

Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band The so-called ‘Golden Voice of Africa’, Pat Thomas was a legendary figure of the ’70s and ’80s Ghanaian highlife. His new album reunites him with some old friends and proves that after 50 years of recording, they’ve yet to lose their spark.

The Sore Losers

Reza Athar Unlike his peers, Dutch DJ Reza Athar is a proper student of the game, and someone who believes in moods and atmospheres instead of genres. As such, his sets are strangely surprising and likely to take you on a sonic adventure to places you haven’t been.

The Sore Losers have carved a distinct niche in the past few years, effortlessly mixing rock and blues to near perfection. Their songs are often swift and snappy, with a live presence that’s bound to bring you back to the halcyon days of the vintage American summer.

Rico & Sticks #OpgezwolleTotNu A hip-hop duo formed from the ashes of the Opgezwolle collective, MC’s Sticky Steez and Phreako Rico have been prowling stages for over 15 years, delivering their trademark verses with wit and style.

White Denim Try to imagine a modern jam band influenced just as much by soul and jazz as by the Grateful Dead, and you’re halfway to understanding White Denim, a four-piece from Austin, Texas who aren’t afraid to inject a little dub and punk into their music to keep things fresh.

Suede Of all the bands that helped usher in Britpop, it seemed that Suede were destined to burn the brightest and

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Side Programme

Side programme

Make the most of your time at Down The Rabbit Hole with a spectacular side programme full of spontaneous reverie La Salón Let down that lazy bun and slip into your finest festival garment – it’s time for some luxury! La Salón is the festival’s brand new cocktail & Latin dance club. Take to the mirrored dance floor to learn the cha cha cha and salsa at the hand of sensual dance professionals by day, and by night Mrs Mokum cordially invites everyone to debut their moves at the exotic nighttime extravaganza! And for the extraordinary, don’t miss an hour of ball dancing to unexpected music – everything from metal to the best Dutch sing-a-longs. ¡Ay, caramba!

Watership Down

Those whose hands are itching to get creative are in luck. Down The Rabbit Hole’s tradition of building your very own raft lives on! Trust your survival skills can keep you dry? There’s only one way to find out! Make your way down to the water next to the Tramontana. And there’s more – team up with the artists De Oplichters and build giant floating light sculptures, which will be released on to the water after sundown.

Het Gat op de Heuvel Get your daily scoop and swing by the festival’s fast-rolling newspaper, Het Gat, next to the Teddy Widder. Dropping the latest news three times a day, there’s also the chance to contribute. Be sure to let the editors in on the latest trends, the show that blew your mind or your funniest festival anecdotes.

The festival’s own little creative hub has the essentials, too: KPN WiFi hotspot, festival information and, of course, your daily fix of fantastic coffee by Roses & Tortillas.

Kuilie Kuilie Need to give your feet a rest? Kuilie Kuilie at Down The Rabbit Hole’s beach has got the tools, so get creative and shovel yourself the most magnificent hole in the sand you can fathom and watch the mad hatters go by, right between the Teddy Widder and the entrance.

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Side programme Wilde Haren x Desperados Word has it that the festival’s most exuberant and bizarre party is waiting for you to hunt it out. Each year, the brave and adventurous unearth the best unannounced parties and showcases boasting Holland’s finest hip-hop acts. Shifting locations and ever secretive, last year Jiggy Djé reeled in the likes of The Opposites, Kraantje Pappie and DJ Kees de Koning. This year’s Wilde Haren line-up remains a closely guarded secret, to be revealed only to those who take the plunge to uncover the secret beach. Spot the lighthouse and if you hear the sound of the bell it means something big is coming your way.

Tramontana

The festival’s self-sufficient Tramontana is back this year, but now serenely located just by the water.

Their beautiful roof of rotating umbrellas and solar panels produces all the energy they need, and they even have plugs to charge your phone with environmentally friendly electricity. Stretch it out at the morning yoga lessons (11.00-15.00) by Samana Yoga Center, get involved and tell the world your story at the Speakers’ Corner (15.30-18.30) and be inspired and entertained by Weird & Wonderful Movie Night’s unconventional selection of shorts and feature films – a cinema run entirely on wind power (22.30-03.30). Don’t miss the Labyrinth or Monty Python and the Holy Grail singalong, among other gems.

Vurige Veld

The festival’s eternal fire pit burns on. Still along the waterfront, De Vuurplaats was such a hit last year that it’s gotten its own firey field by de Hotot this year. Fear not, the intimate stage and setting persists.

Huddle together for early morning breakfast shows (10.00-12.00), afternoon concerts and delightful-

Nacho Carbonell World-famous artist Nacho Carbonell is building a massive clay installation inspired by the natural world’s impressive termite hills on the Idyllisch Veld and he needs your help. Get your hands dirty and contribute.

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ly delirious performance art in the dark (19.00-02.30). Expect blazing bluegrass sets, women dancing in stuffed-animal suits and the sweet sound of all instruments befitting a fireside gathering.

Idyllische Veldje

Strandbarbecue The classic campsite festival kick off on Thursday just got taken up a notch. Forget warm beers and muesli bars in your wobbly tent set-up, start out the weekend with a sizzle and a pop at the BBQ down by the beach.

Escape the bustle and find some peace and creativity in the appropriately named ‘Idyllic Fields’. Wind down amid the cherry trees, cook up something delish at outdoor kitchens, give being a blacksmith a whirl and get involved in the Los Conejos Bravos sewing and ceramic studios. Wake up to classical music by fresh-faced music graduates and get your day rolling with summery exotic tunes in the afternoon sun. To take things up a notch, DJs will climb up into the tree house DJ booth when the sun goes down – including Radio Noet Noet, Disco Horizontes and Groefmeester K & Thud Hola.

Periscopista Get ready to have your perspectives shifted and warped by the winner of last year’s Down The Rabbit Hole Grand Prix competition, powered

by Topicus. Thijs Biersteker will gaze, gape, spy and feast his eyes on the festival at day, and reveal his observations at night.

Porto Parties Got ideas that are bigger, better, grander, weirder, more outrageously flamboyant than any of the other activities in the side programme?

We called your bluff, inventive festival-goers! Don’t miss out on the intimate and wild mini parties – music, programme, dress code, decoration, EVERYTHING – put together by the errday party experts that took on the festival’s dare. Max. 50 people allowed!

Vuige Veld Then came rock’n’roll - all night and party every day. Get riled up and sleazy at the festival’s Vuige Veld, which is all about good food, great beer and wild tunes to bang

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#dour2016 www.dourfestival.be A$ap Ferg, Acid Arab live, Allah-Las, Band Of Skulls, Ben Klock, Bicep, Birdy Nam Nam, Boris Brejcha, Boys Noize, Dan Deacon, Danakil, Daniel Avery, Dave Clarke, David August, Deluxe, DJ EZ, DJ Premier &The Badder, Django Django, Etienne de Crécy presents Superdiscount 3 Live, Factory Floor, Fakear, Fat White Family, Fatima Al Qadiri, Fatima Yamaha, Floating Points live, Four Tet, Gold Panda, Gramatik, Henrik Schwarz, Ho99o9, Islam Chipsy & EEK, Jeanne Added, Kerri Chandler, King Khan & The Shrines, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Konono N°1, La Colonie de Vacances, La Femme, Lefto, Len Faki, Mac DeMarco, Maceo Plex, Maya Jane Coles, MCDE, Mobb Deep, Mr. Oizo, N’to Live Perc, Netsky LIVE, Nick Waterhouse, Nosaj Thing, Odesza, Odezenne, Oxmo Puccino, Pantha Du Prince presents The Triad, Peaches, Pixies, Poliça, PRhyme, Protomartyr, Rhye, Richie Hawtin, Rudimental, Salut c’est cool, Sigur Rós, Skepta, Spor, Stand High Patrol, STUFF., Suuns, The Prodigy, The Vaccines, Tiga live,Underworld, Wiz Khalifa, Yung Lean, and many more ...

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A few tips and tricks to help you tumble down the rabbit hole DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE 24-26 July 2016 De Groene Heuvels – Beuningen downtherabbithole.nl

If you intend to come with a camper, caravan or tent trailer, you will need to purchase a supplementary Camper Camping ticket. Those travelling by car will need to purchase a regular parking ticket.

OPENING TIMES Parking lot: Thursday 12.00 – Monday 14.00 During this interval, you are welcome to arrive at the festival any time.

For extensive ticket information, check downtherabbithole.nl/tickets SHUTTLE SERVICE Your festival ticket includes a round trip on a shuttle service from railway station Wijchen to the festival. Take a look at downtherabbithole.nl for more information and departure times.

Camping grounds: Thursday 16.00 – Monday 12.00 Festival grounds: Every day 10.00 – 04.00

RABBIT RESORT If camping doesn’t suit you, build your weekend nest in the luxurious Rabbit Resort. Visit rabbitresort.nl for more info

Info stand at the camping site: Thursday: 16.00 – 00.00 Monday: 09.00 – 12.00 Info stand at the festival site: Friday: 10.00 – 00.00 Saturday: 10.00 – 00.00 Sunday: 10.00 – 00.00

PROGRAMME CHANGES The programme listed in this guide may be subject to change. Please check our website or app for any updates. You will receive a timetable upon arrival at the festival.

TICKETS Tickets are available at ticketmaster.nl

PRACTICAL INFORMATION Be sure to check downtherabbithole.nl before you depart for all practical information, directions, house rules and possible programme updates.

A festival ticket comprising three festival days, camping spot and shuttle service costs €125 (excl. service fee).

There will be no day tickets for sale.

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