SATURDAY 20th September 2008
Times :
1pm-11pm
Entry: £2 donation
NOTE: Bring your own headphones!!
Think of a festival in reverse … the London Headphone Festival is back with two sessions of
headphones-only listening.
Placard flips the concept of a traditional festival: instead of a PA we provide massed banks of headphone splitters. The audience plugs in and tunes in. For once, it’s the chance for some focused listening.
The lineups are under wraps for the moment and will inclue over 20 performers with fixed 20 minutes
sets.
Past artists have included Hot Chip, David Toop, Janek Schaefer, Leafcutter John, Adem, Max Eastley, Sanso-Xtro, Jem Finer, Icarus, Main and Colin Potter. There will be food, merchandise and other bits and pieces available. Reminder, you must bring your own headphones!
Praise and bafflement for previous festivals:
“A far cry from Glastonbury or Reading” — New Statesman
“Ludicrously straightfaced” — The Guardian
“Freebie of the week” — Time Out
“One of the highlights of a long hot summer” — The Wire
“The only way to understand the most communal musical gathering is to come along and plug in ” — Kultureflash
Brought to you by area10 media lab / highpointlowlife / it is whatever / [no.signal] / slow sound system / openlab / yaxu.
About the Placard Headphone Festival
Le Placard started in 1998 in Paris, France. At that time finding venues for alternative music was difficult, and police raids on unlicensed events were frequent. So instead Erik Minkkinen organised a headphone party in his small apartment, called ‘placard’ after the French word for ‘cupboard’. Since then this concept has grown to an international streaming festival, with tens of cities providing listening rooms for local and remote performances. Placard has formed part of the Mutek, Transmediale, Garage and Pixelache festivals. The event in Paris has itself grown into an institution, running for 72 hours straight where the audience sleep with their headphones on, still
listening.
http://london.leplacard.org/
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