Playgroup Festival '12

The third Playgroup Festival, runs from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th August at Eridge Park, Eridge Green, near Tunbridge Wells, in Kent. It's being organised by Playgroup, a small Brighton collective, who have been running events in the region for five years.

Line-up

The line-up involves over 350 musicians, walkabout performers, DJs, installation artists, cabaret performers and others. These include AK DK, Atomic Drop, Anchorsong, Amity, Allison and The Earthquakes, Atlantiks, Barulho, Beautiful Word, Belleruche, Beta Hector, Blah Blah Blah, Black Fields, Blind Yackety, Boycom, Buffos Wake, Carnival Collective, Cate Ferris, Coda, Derriere, The Dirty Divine, Dizraeli And The Small Gods, DJ Format, Gypsy Hill, Herbaliser, Hidden Orchestra, High Rankin, Hyperpotamus, Joe Driscoll, John Crampton, Kalakuta Millionaires, King Lagoons Flying Swordfish Band, King Porter Stomp, Lazy Habits, Los Albertos, Moulettes, Man Ray Sky, Nedry, Nimmo And The Gauntlets, Ojo de Gringa, Peppermint Beat Band, Perhaps Contraption, Phoria, Prince Fatty, The Qemists, Reeps One, RESO, Running Numbers, Resonators, Samsara, Sam And The Womp, Sheelanagig, Smerins Anti Social Club, Submotion Orchestra, Sweet Sweet Lies, Transformer, Us Baby Bear Bones, Yes Sir Boss, The Wild Knights, and Zen Death Squad.

Live music covers funk, gypsy swing, rock and roll, reggae, ska, dub, dubstep, drum and bass, skweee, jazz, jive, hip-hop, soul, disco, pop, beatboxing, scratching, video mixing, rockabilly, carnival bands, acoustic acts, electro swing, ambient, blues, country, folk and various mixtures.

Tickets

Tickets are priced at £95, including three nights of camping. There's also a non refundable deposit scheme priced at £20 with a balance of £75 to pay later. A teen weekend ticket (aged 12–17 years)is priced at £77. Children aged under 12 can attend for free, as long as they are accompanied by an adult.

A car parking permit is priced at £20, and a campervan parking permit is priced at £35. To buy tickets, here.

More info

There's a strong ecologically aware element to the festival, with the buses running on used cooking oil, solar powered generators along with a 24-hour cinema, and various extras.

With an expected attendance of only 2,000 guests, a handful of stages for live music, magical mystery tour buses, a cinema tent, installation art, fresh local produce, a family area, cabaret and walkabout performance, workshops and games, a healing area, 100% audience participation and a heavy dash of the absurd.

Charities

The Playgroup Festival is not-for-profit and is collaborating with local representatives from War on Want, Burlesque Against Breast Cancer and Climate Camp - to aid those charities.

More information will be here when available.