Name: Summercamp 2013
Start: 2013-08-24
End: 2013-08-25
Location: Camp and Furnace

Summercamp 2013

Saturday 24th to Sunday 25th August 2013
Camp and Furnace, 67 Greenland Street, Liverpool, Merseyside, L1 0BY, England MAP
£50 weekend

Last updated: Mon 12th Aug 2013

The inaugural family friendly Summercamp, part of Liverpool International Music Festival, will take place over August bank holiday on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th August 2013 within Liverpool's Baltic Triangle. Billed as a village fete meets a bloc party, the event will feature both outdoor and indoor stages woven throughout and around the host warehouse venue, the Camp and Furnace.

Line-up

The latest addition is Royal Blood.

They join The Joy Formidable, Delphic, Mount Kimbie, Steve Mason, Martha Wainwright, Dutch Uncles, Ghostpoet, Ed Harcourt, Merchandise, Wave Machines, The Staves, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, Eagulls, Jack Savoretti, We Were Evergreen, Fair Ohs, Marika Hackman, Josef Salvat, Poltergeist, Spectrals, Lunar Modular, Le Carousel, Roscius, and more to be announced.

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Tickets

The early bird offer has ended. A weekend ticket is priced at £50 adult, or £30 for an adult day ticket. A child (6-17 year olds) weekend ticket is priced at £40, or £20 for a day ticket, children aged under 5 years can attend free (max 2 per adult).

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Summercamp wristbands gain access to all gigs, workshops and performances (capacity permitting) however the food offer will be ticketed separately to wristband holders only.

Free to all areas

There will be free access for all to The Summercamp Street Food market as well as the outdoor Johnny Sands and The Kazimier Krunk stage. The stages include Harlequin Dynamite Marching Band, Silent Cities and Hey Carrianne amongst many more.

Food

Summercamp's food offerings will be curated by Sunday Brunch co-host Simon Rimmer alongside host venue Camp and Furnace's own head chef Steven Burgess. The pair have enlisted Glynn Purnell, who will create two gourmet menus that will be served during Summercamp as part of a programme of bespoke banquets. Tickets to sittings of these menus will be very limited and are due to go on sale to Summercamp wristband holders in the next month. Can Cook, in partnership with Guerilla Eats, are assembling the best of the North West's street food. 15 traders will be cooking up an array of international cuisine in the street food style.

Art

Liverpool Biennial bring their art expertise to Summercamp via The Experimental Music School, a family programme for all ages taking the form of workshops, games, experiments and performances. Artists will include Yuri Landman. His workshop will involve the building of bespoke instruments, Landman's previous creations have been used by Sonic Youth amongst many others meaning the audience are in truly expert hands. Following the workshop there will be a performance of a new work using these newly created instruments with critically acclaimed Liverpool trio Ex-Easter Island Head. Summercamp will soon be announcing the details of its film programme in collaboration with media arts centre FACT.

Family programme

Urban fox hunts, teddy bear's picnics, cardboard tree houses, and more with the family programme delivered jointly by Summercamp, Liverpool Biennial and Just So Festival will include food, film, music, making and dressing up running from 11am to 7pm.

After dark

The festival will move indoors and under cover of darkness and present a lock-in with immersive audio visual artworks, gothic feasts, cinematic erotica, experimental electronica and a big warehouse party with cult DJs.

Age Restriction: all ages until 11pm, then 18+

Accommodation

The festival offers no accommodation at the event. There are plenty of accommodation options available in the city.

More information will be here when available.