Late night DJ sets from Don Letts, Joe Goddard, Plastician and Adrian Sherwood!
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With only ten days to go until this year's Big Chill Festival, the line up keeps on growing! This year we've enrolled the talents of several different DJs, who'll each put their own special stamp on the festival’s hedonistic nature and to send you back to your tent with a smile on your face.
Don Letts is famed as the DJ that led the cross over charge for many punks' introduction to Reggae music on the dance floor of the legendary Roxy club in 1977. Not just a master on the decks Letts is a film maker who has exhibited in some of the world's premier arts institutes. Letts eagerly returns to The Big Chill with his priceless collection of reggae, dub and ska classics, new and old, to be blasted out loud on the Lazyland stage into the early hours of Saturday morning after The Seahawks set.
Closing after Friday’s Deer Park Stage headliners Massive Attack is Joe Goddard, one of electro-pop outfit Hot Chip’s founding members. When Goddard is not manning the synthesizers in his band you can find him whipping up a storm on the ones and twos. His DJ sets include a heady mix of Chicago house, German techno, hip-hop and even some vintage soul numbers.
Rinse FM’s dub step and grime DJ Plastician will be the final act on the stage after international superstar M.IA. on Saturday. Plastician, who used to be known under the moniker of Plasticman, has graced the airwaves of both pirate radio and more recently BBC Radio 1. He is given a great deal of credit in the rise of grime and dub step music as a key producer / DJ featuring on many of the most popular mix tapes and compilations. Plastician has produced tracks for some of the UK’s finest underground grime talent including Skepta, JME and Wiley.
Best known for his work with dub music DJ, producer and remixer Adrian Sherwood has worked with some of the music world’s finest names including Depeche Mode, Coldcut, Sinead O’Conner and Lee “Scratch” Perry. His extremely diverse dealings with the music world have seen him bring together Jamaican musicians and pen reggae scores for the film world as well as contribute to the industrial genre. Sherwood will be the final act on the Deer Park Stage at this year’s festival, a great honour that will surely see one of his finest sets yet – a dub-tastic delight to enjoy after Lily has left the stage!
