No Direction Home 2012

New for 2012 is No Direction Home, a sister event to End Of The Road, to be held from Friday 8th until Sunday 10th June 2012 at Welbeck near Worksop in North Nottinghamshire, on the northern edge of Sherwood Forest.

Line-up

The latest additions are Joe Gideon & the Shark, Peter Wolf Crier, The Pyramids, Serafina Steer, Tiny Ruins, Trembling Bells, Alex Highton, Dad Rocks, Laura J Martin, Eyes and No Eyes, Orlando Seal & the Swell, Rachael Dadd and Ichi, Urusen, Dog Ears, Hyperpotamus, Best Friends, Boat To Row, Laish, and Nat Johnson And The Figureheads.

The Low Anthem will co-headline Friday with Dirty Three, Andrew Bird will headline Saturday and Richard Hawley will close the festival. Other acts announced Austra, Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves Of Destiny, Cold Specks, David Thomas Broughton, Diagrams, Django Django, Gruff Rhys, Lanterns On The Lake, Liz Green, Martin Carthy, Martin Simpson, Moon Duo, Other Lives, Slow Club, Spectrals, The Unthanks With The Brighouse & Rastrick Brass Band, Veronica Falls, The Cornshed Sisters, The Crookes, Euros Childs, Father John Misty, Mikal Cronin, Peaking Lights, The Wave Pictures, Woodpigeon, Zulu Winter, and Wet Nuns.

The line-up of Comedians has also been confirmed with The Behemoth (John-Luke Roberts and Nadia Kamil), Isy Suttie, James Acaster, Jo Neary, John Robins, Josie Long, Robin Ince, Sarah Bennetto, The Storytellers Club, Simon Munnery, Thom Tuck, Tom Bell, and Tony Law.

Tickets

Early bird tickets are no longer available. Tickets including camping are priced as follows: An adult weekend ticket £105, a youth (13-17 years) ticket is priced £55, children aged 12 years or under can attend free. A campervan/caravan pass is priced at £40.

To buy tickets, click here.

get there by coach

Big Green Coach is running coaches to No Direction Home from London Victoria.
To book, click here.

As well as music expect all the sorts of things that you expect from the team behind End of the Road including ales, Somerset Cider Bus, food, cutting edge film, comedy, children's entertainments, a chance to make, do and discover.

Camping will be beside a lake with views of the historic Welbeck Abbey.

Venues

The first venues have been announced including The Lost Picture Show which will screen everything from the Victorian experiments of Georges Méliès to the slick Hollywood product of today, via 20s musicals, 60s psychedelia and 70s schlock horror; Buster Keaton, Marilyn Monroe, David Lynch, Werner Herzog and many many more.

A literary yurt will play host to several authors a day reading from and discussing their writing - including Jon Ronson, Nat Segnit, Richard Milward, James Atlee, Katharine Hibbert, Richard King, and Ben Masters.

A Secret Post Office will allow visitors to send postcards to each other for free via a No Direction Home 'internal mail system' (example address: "Rob with the curly hair in the blue and yellow tent by the large oak tree") and a No Direction Home Games Track offers old-school sports day fun of the egg and spoon / tug of war variety.

Overlooking the lake will be a Flying Boathouse, curated by The Local's Howard Monk. Here you'll be able to grab an ale and take in all that the Flying Boathouse Society has to offer such as instrument-making, songwriting, live bands, quiz olympics, DJs and much more.

Welbeck's own School of Artisan Food will run a worskhop venue at the festival. It'll offer classes throughout the day, including opportunities to learn everything from how to make butter from scratch to how to make Indian flatbreads.

Other workshops include Chango Drumming, create magical creatures of clay, kite making, hat, origami, murals & comics, and a chance to run away with the Circus!

More information will be here when available.

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