I'll Be Your Mirror add five more

A Storm Of Light, The music of Can, Umberto, El-P, and Blanck Mass

By Scott Williams | Published: Fri 4th May 2012

I'll Be Your Mirror 2012 - around the festival site
Photo credit: Chris Mathews

I'll Be Your Mirror 2012

Friday 25th to Sunday 27th May 2012
Alexandra Palace, London, N22 7AY, England MAP
£130 for the weekend
Daily capacity: 10,400

Five more additions have been confirmed for I'll Be Your Mirror.

around the festival site
Added to Friday's line-up are apocalyptic metallers A Storm Of Light.

On Saturday Irmin Schmidt & Jono Podmore present The music of Can. Whilst dismantling the Can studio, master tapes were found, and Can founder Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore have gone through over 30 hours of music and years of archived material, such as soundtracks to films that were never released and tracks that didn't make it onto the final versions of albums due to space. The final cut of tracks, dating from 1968-1977, features a line-up of Holger Czukay on bass, Michael Karoli on guitars, Jaki Liebezeit on drums and Irmin Schmidt on keyboards, and on most tracks, vocals from Malcolm Mooney or Damo Suzuki. In June, Mute will release a 3CD Box set of the tapes, and as a preview, Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore will present some of these tracks (accompanied by visuals and discussion) at the festival. Joining them on the Saturday bill are horror instrumentalists Umberto.

Whilst Sunday's latest additions see El-P replace Ultramagnetic MCs who have cancelled all European performances, and an appearance of Ben Power's Blanck Mass.

Friday Slayer will present their undisputed classic 'Reign In Blood' live in it's entirety during their headline set to celebrate it's 25th anniversary! Saturday curators Mogwai headline. Sunday is headlined by The Afghan Whigs (as Guided By Voices have split up). They will be joined by a full line-up of acts including Dirty Three, Codeine, Mudhoney, Chavez, Floor, The Make-Up, Death Grips, Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells, Harvey Milk, The Soft Moon, Antoni Maiovvi, Sleepy Sun, Tennis, Tall Firs, Forest Swords, Balam Acab, Sleep, Mevlins, Wolves in the Throne Room, Yob, Archers of Loaf, Thee Oh Sees, Yuck, Demdike Stare, and Siskiyou.

For the line-up details as available please click here.

Across the weekend ATP are bringing to the venue a cinema, food vendors, adding extra bars (including some cash bars) and toilets and also putting on shuttle buses from Wood Green (the closest tube station) to the venue and back. Friday runs from 4pm-11pm. On Saturday and Sunday doors will open at midday, with the event finishing at 1am. Headliners will finish by 11pm both nights.

Weekend tickets are priced at £130 for the weekend, and £39 for Friday or £59 for Saturday or Sunday day tickets. Wheelchair and assistant tickets also available.

To buy tickets from Seetickets, click here.

To buy tickets from Gigantic, click here.


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