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Two weeks left to get your early bird tickets!

December 18th, 2009 by sparky

Chris Coco's Melodica mix 01/11/10

Hello!

Christmas is just around the corner (which means you don’t have long left to get your early bird tickets!) and here at BCHQ we’re brimming over with festive joy. As it’s the season of goodwill and all that, we’ve got some great festival freebies to share with you, including some DJ action from Big Chill Radio, more exclusive Campfire Sessions videos, a new download single from Lamb’s Lou Rhodes and some great videos from Rizla’s Invisible Players.

Meanwhile, we’re getting well and truly stuck into our plans for 2010 and seem to be spending more and more time in a strangely quiet (and wet) field in the Malvern Hills, working out just what’s going to be going where… but more news on this in the New Year!

We’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate the latest additions to the BC fold, at our new bar in Bristol, for beating off some fierce competition and winning Venue magazine’s Top Banana award for ‘Best Bar in Bristol’. Not bad considering they only opened the doors in October!

We’ll be back in the New Year. We hope you have a great festive season!

Lots of love,

The team at BCHQ.

Two weeks left to get your early bird tickets!

Don’t forget you’ve only got two weeks left to buy your Big Chill 2010 tickets at 2009 prices, before the prices go up on January 1st, 2010. We’re also closing both the Deposit Scheme and Payment Plan on December 31st, so if you’d like to spread the cost of your tickets, don’t delay! Click here to buy your tickets. For more info about ticket prices and payment options please scroll down or click here.

Katrina wins the Lifetime Achievement Award

Our co-founder and creative director, Katrina Larkin, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the UK Festival Awards 2009, by longtime Big Chill friend, Coldcut’s Matt Black. The award was given to mark Katrina’s outstanding contribution to both the UK and international festival market, and in recognition of her position as a woman on the top tier of an industry largely dominated by men. Find out more here.

Here at BCHQ, we’d like to extend our personal congratulations to Katrina and raise a glass to the next fifteen years!

Photograph by Sara Bowrey

See in the New Year with The Big Chill

New Year’s Eve is very nearly upon us and if you haven’t formulated a plan yet don’t panic, because we might just be able to help! We’ll be throwing parties in all three Big Chill venues, with new friends such as hip-hop fanatics, the Livin’ Proof crew and Brazilian Beatz’ DJs Vivo and Metisse, as well as festival favourites, the Disco Shed – who’ll be joined by disco-house producer/DJ extraordinaire, Mark E.

And remember, if you can’t make it along you can tune in to the action live at www.awdio.com.

The Big Chill House: NYE with Livin’ Proof / Pause
8pm-5am | Tickets: £20 from Ticketweb

The Big Chill Bar (Brick Lane): Disco Shed NYE Spectacular
7pm-5am | Free all night

Featuring: Mark E | Wrongtom | Del Gazeebo | DJ Barrydark

The Big Chill Bar (Bristol): Festivity
8pm – 3am | Free all night

Featuring: DJ Vivo | Metisse

Festival nostalgia

We’ve been busy uploading lots of lovely content from this year’s festival to our website to help us think warm thoughts through the cold winter months. We’ve added more photos, some footage of Rizla’s Invisible Players hard at work, as well as some new Campfire Sessions from acoustic Ninja, Fink and those horn-playing blood brothers, the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Enjoy!

Coming soon on the Big Chill Label…

Chris Coco ‘Feel Free Live Good’

We’re delighted to announce that Chris Coco, the co-host of Radio 1′s Blue Room from 2002-06, and the editor of DJ Magazine during the 1990s, has signed to The Big Chill Label and will make his label debut in 2010, with the album ‘Feel Free Live Good’. To find out more and to download a mix by Mr Coco, please click here.

15 x 15 Volume 2 (Festival Frolics All Year Round)

Following on from the rip -roaring success of ’15 x 15 (A Celebration of 15 Years Of The Big Chill)’, we’re proud to announce the digital release of ’15 x 15 Vol. 2 (Festival Frolics All Year Round)’. Like its predecessor, 15 x 15 Vol. 2 is in aid of The Big Issue, with all profits going to The Big Issue Foundation. Also like the original 15 x 15, the theme of 15 bo-selectors choosing 15 top tunes is continued. On Vol. 2 however, the emphasis is on The Big Chill venues and emerging new music, DJs and promoters. Find out more here.

Busking For SolarAid

Inspired by the SolarAid Buskers’ Stage at this year’s festival, the ‘Busking for SolarAid’ album features Fran and Josh , Aleister Kelman, Nimmo & the Gauntletts, Dr Butler’s Hatstand Medicine Band, Catrina Davies, James Tarling / Big Toe, Charlie and the Martyrs, Emily White, Archipelago, Marcina Arnold and more. 50% of the profits from the album will go directly to SolarAid. Get an exclusive sneak preview of some of the tracks here.

Competitions and free stuff…

Win the new Jaga Jazzist album

The nine piece Norwegian jazz-rock-experimental behemoth that is Jaga Jazzist return to the fray with their stunning new album, ‘One Armed Bandit’, in January. All galloping rhythms, and grandiloquent reach, main man Lars Horntveth describes the new sound, tongue-a-little-in-cheek, as “Wagner meets Fela Kuti!” Thanks to the lovely people over at Ninja Tune, we’ve got five copies of the album to giveaway. To find out more click here.

Free Lou Rhodes download

Lamb wowed the crowds at this year’s Big Chill Festival and now Lou Rhodes is set to do it all over again with her third solo album, ‘One Good Thing’, due for release on The Cinematic Orchestra’s new label, Motion Audio, in March 2010.

If you’d like to download Lou’s new single ‘There For The Taking’ for free please click here.

Futureboogie on Big Chill Radio

Where were you at 2am on Sunday the 9th August? Safely tucked up in bed? Maybe you were one of the crowd gathered around our festival radio station, getting down to the sounds of future soul, disco and house that Futureboogie’s Joe90 was broadcasting across the festival site…

Whether you were there or not, we’re delighted to be able to give you another chance to enjoy to Joe90′s radio show – click here to download a copy, or click here to listen to the show on our media player – enjoy!

Remember you can catch the Futureboogie boys at all three of our Big Chill venues throughout the year and you can keep up with all the latest news from the FB crew on their lovely brand spanking new website!

Ticket Information

To help you spread the cost of your Big Chill 2010 tickets, we are pleased to announce that the Deposit Scheme returns this year and we have also introduced a Payment Plan, allowing you to pay for your tickets in four convenient instalments…

Deposit Scheme
Pay an initial deposit of £50 for your ticket, then pay the outstanding balance by 31/05/10. This offer is available for Adult and Student tickets only, until 31/12/09.

Payment Plan
Spread the cost of your Big Chill tickets across four monthly payments. Make an initial payment of 25% of the face value of your tickets, then pay the outstanding balance over three consecutive months. This offer is available for all ticket kinds, until 31/12/09.

Early bird adult: £145

Student: £110
For full-time students only. Valid NUS or ISIC ID required at the wristband exchange – no other student ID accepted.

Teen* (13 to 17 years old): £60

Kid* (12 and under – this includes babies and toddlers): £4

* Please note that all under 18 year olds must be accompanied to the festival by an adult. An adult cannot be responsible for more than 4 under 18 year olds each.

Sunday: £70

All of the above include camping and are subject to a booking fee.

Car Park/Live-in Vehicle tickets: Available in the New Year.
In response to feedback from 2009′s festival (specifically the location of the Family Camping area) we are changing the layout of the car parks and campsites. Once we’ve finished making our plans, Car Park tickets will be put on sale. If you’ve already ordered your tickets, you will be emailed to ask whether you would like to add a Car Park ticket to your order (you will not be charged any additional admin/handling fees for this service).

Information about our boutique Easy Camping options will available in the New Year.