PREVIEW: Field Day

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The London music festival curated by Eat Your Own Ears is due to return this year to Victoria Park as a 2-day event spanning over a weekend. The line-up of course expanded as did the number days. To headline Field Day Saturday, are Metronomy, whose highly-anticipated new album ‘Love Letters’ is due to be released this coming Monday 10 March. Sunday will be headlined by Pixies, and it will be the band’s only London date.

The Field Day line up is international as usual, as it’s joined by Sky Ferriera and her old time collaborator Blood Orange (a.k.a Dev Hynes) from across the pond. The all-female Warpaint also from the US are to play the festival again. There are Aussies Jagwar Ma and Jagwar Ma, with the infectiously catchy Jagwar Ma first playing London on 14 May prior to Field Day. Syrian electronic musician Omar Souleyman joins the line up with his sensational ‘Wenu Wenu’.

At the same time, plenty of UK acts are part of the line up, with The Horrors, Jamie XX, SBTRKT, Tim Burgess and Pond returning to the festival. Money from Manchester will play the festival following from their one-off London show in Heaven. Childhood are among one of the latest addition to the line up, who will bring their summery guitar music to the greens of Victoria Park. Names that have been frequently mentioned in the past year East India Youth and Fat White Family will also be playing Field Day.

With such a great line up full of plenty of acts, it will be interesting to see how Field Day would work out as a 2-day festival.

Full line up for the weekend can be found below. Tickets are now on sale via both online and various music venues and record shops in London.

Online outlets:
Ticketweb

Venues/ shops:

The Abbey Tavern – 124 Kentish Town Road, London, NW1 9QB
The Chequers – 145 High Street, London, E17 7BX
Defectors Weld – 170 Uxbridge Road, London, W12 8AA
John Salt – 131 Upper Street, London, NW1 1QP
The Lock Tavern – 35 Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8AJ
The Owl and Pussycat – 34 Redchurch Street, London, E2 7DP
The Pavilion Café – Victoria Park, Crown Gate West, London, E9 7DE
Phonica – 51 Poland Street, London, W1F 7LZ
Pub on the Park – 19 Martello Street, London, E8 3PE
Rough Trade East – Dray Walk, 91 Brick Lane, London, E1 6QL
Shacklewell Arms – 71 Shacklewell Lane, London, E8 2EB
The Three Crowns – 175 Stoke Newington High Street, London, N16 0LH
Tina We Salute You, 47 King Henry Walk, London, N1 4NH