Rootsville Festival

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Birmingham, 30th June 2007, Four stages set against the Victorian buildings of a unique venue with non-stop music of all sounds, sizes and shapes. From homespun heroes to global giants, from expansive to eclectic, from noon to 6am. Tickets £20

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If it’s summer, it must be festival season. You’ve been there, you’ve done that. You want something new, something different, something inspirational.

That’ll be Rootsville, then.

Picture this.
• Four stages set against the Victorian buildings of a unique venue with non-stop music of all sounds, sizes and shapes.
• From homespun heroes to global giants, from expansive to eclectic, from noon to 6am.
• Totally free from midday to 6pm. Just £20 for the next 12 hours.

“The spirit of Rootsville is hiptripstic and happy with random acts of spontaneous entertainment and explosive cathartic performances in a carnival like atmosphere,” says festival maestro Kent Davis. “And don’t think we’re saving the best till last either – one of the biggest acts will be before 6pm.”


A groundbreaking not-for-profit festival, Rootsville takes place Saturday 30th June amid the cool, colourful contemporary surroundings of the Custard Factory in downtown Birmingham.

From indie to Indian, from gypsy to jazz, from punk to funk.

Under The Arches
Headlining the Festival and marking the debut of the venue’s new Under the Arches stage, will be 90s Madchester indie legends and masters of three minute pop perfections INSPIRAL CARPETS.

They’ll be joined under the massive railway arch by a line-up that includes Aussie electronic beats sensations THE PRESETS; Canadian glo-sticks electro groove nu rave outfit DANDI WIND; Newcastle’s feedback swamped incendiary indie guitar finest KUBICHEK!; and Birmingham’s eclectic eccentric exponents of the weird and wonderful MISTY’S BIG ADVENTURE.

Lakeside Stage
Making the Lakeside Stage their own with irresistible percussion driven rhythms as warm as solar flares, the headliners are the hugely influential Afro-Caribbean godfathers of World Music, OSIBISA.

Sharing the bill will be Birmingham’s 15 piece multi-ethnic firebrands of Eastern European folk, THE DESTROYERS; the dynamite DHOLBLASTERS with their Banghra batteria; Coventry’s explosive flag-wavers of ska-punk pop THE RIPPS; skunkrockers CRACKED ACTORS; and homegrown fuzzed out Americana fourpiece ONEYESBLUE.

Rooty Pool
Fresh from glowing reviews for his A Life In The Day Of B19 - Tales Of The Tower Block album, Birmingham based MOBO award winning alto-saxophonist and rapper SOWETO KINCH leads a strong line up of free music.
Keeping the jazz and blues flame burning, he’ll be sharing the stage with, among others, jazz dub octet SUGARBEATS; acclaimed riti (that’s an African 1 string fiddle, but you knew that) virtuoso JULDEH; bluesy singer-songwriter CHRISSY VAN DYKE; local living legend STEVE GIBBONS; rising stars BENJAMIN AND THE SIRENS; and the full vocal glory of the BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY GOSPEL CHOIR.

Medicine Bar
Hailing from Birmingham, MDK CARTEL are a troupe of rappers, mc's and DJ's who fuse modern day grime with Bhangra inspired beats. Helping to keep the mood chilled and the air hot will be Boom Room, the Soul Thump DJs, Makoto and Bryan Gee

As well as the live acts already announced and special surprise guests, there’ll also be DJ sounds from the likes of Scott Bleeps, Bobby & Sam, and Mama Feel Good plus Theatre, Films, StreetArt, Poetry Slam, Dance Battles, Beatboxing, fashion show, Thrill-out and Chill-out Zones and loads of daytime children’s entertainment and fabulous Festival Food.

Rootsville Midsummer Festival
Saturday June 30th
Custard Factory, Digbeth, Birmingham.

Midday-6pm Free.
6pm-6am £20 (first 500 tickets £15)

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Press/Review or Competition Tickets: Mike Davies 0121 443 3600 E-mail rootsville@mikedav.co.uk

Festival Organiser: Kent Davis 07747 037821 E-mail rootsville@hotmail.co.uk

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ROOTSVILLE MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL SAT 30 JUNE 2007

A brief history of Rootsville Festival.
Rootsville is in it’s first year as a mid summer festival, and is fully focussed on becoming an annual ‘must-go’ on the festival calendar. Obviously our expectations for the first event are modest, though are ambitions are anything but. Our priority is to ensure that those who are prepared to brave it this first year and enter unchartered territory, are so amazed by their experience that they (perhaps unwittingly) become ambassadors for future events. The journey of a 1000 miles starts with the first step, Saturday 30th June is the Rootsville first step.

Kent Davis - Festival Organiser
Kent was once wealthy and is now skint, hmmm. He feels that his investment in Rootsville is a surefire winner. A fool and his money are soon parted but we'll see. Mr Davis was one of the organisers of last years Roots de Ville and this year became one of the organisers of seminal Drop Beats not Bombs. Other than that, as most who have met him will attest he is an enthusiastic supporter or good new music.

Mark Badger
Mark runs a local independent record label called Iron Man Records, set up the Birmingham Music Network, and has organised gigs in Birmingham for over ten years. In addition he plays in a band of his own, does a bit of tour management, some lecturing at UCE as part of their music business degree course, and enjoys a good game of mental chess with local funding organisations. Mark asked to work with Rootsville Festival as the team behind the event are all music mad and he likes to be amongst others of his own kind.

Mike Davies
Veteran hack, film critic, sometime PR, ex Beacon Radio rock jock, and long time commentator on and supporter of local music scene. His scribblings have variously appeared in the likes of Brum Beat, Melody Maker, What's On In Birmingham and several long forgotten but much loved publications. He currently reviews films for What's On and the Birmingham Post, edits a Primary schools magazine, does a gig guide on Birmingham101.com and waxes lyrical about various local bands and CDs on netrhythms.com and the on line incarnation of Brum Beat. He's not ashamed to say he thinks Ocean Colour Scene are ok, actually and will work for food. But not takeaways. He's involved with Rootsville because the organisers foolishly asked if he'd consider doing the press, and he rather likes the idea of the festival and the music. And they gave him a free coffee.

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Setlist

Rooty Pool
Birmingham Community Gospel Choir 12.45 - 1.30pm
Juldeh ( African Violinist ) 1.45 - 2.30pm
Steve Gibbons 2.45 - 3.30pm
Chrissy Van Dyke 3.45 - 4.30pm
TOP SECRET GUESTS 4.45 - 5.30pm
Soweto Kinch 5.45 - 6.30pm

Lakeside Stage
Lonesome Dog Blues Band 1.30 - 2.15pm
Thee Single Spy 2.30 - 3.15pm
Benjamin and The Sirens 3.30 - 4.15pm
Summary 4.30 - 5.15pm
One Eye 5.30 - 6.15pm
Sugarbeats 6.30 - 7.15pm
Shimm 1 7.30 - 8.15pm
Cracked Actors 8.30 - 9.15pm
The Dholblasters 9.30 - 10.15pm
The Destroyers 10.30 - 11.15pm
Osibisa 1 11.30 - 12.15am

Under The Arches
The Lovechild Electric 5.15 - 6.00pm
Hot Monocles 6.15 - 7.00pm
Oneyesblue 7.15 - 8.00pm
Misty's Big Adventure 8.15 - 9.00pm
Kubichek! 9.15 - 10.00pm
Inspiral Carpets 10.15 - 11.30pm
The Ripps 11.45 - 12.30am
Dandi Wind 12.45 - 01.30am
The Presets 01.45 - 02.30am

see http://www.rootsvillefestival.com for more information

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