ANTIC BANQUET – BRING IT ON!!! Bringing you the best in live music, dance music, acoustic music, décor, games, food, poetry and all round late-summer niceness, this is the party to end the summer with all the joy it deserves!!!
Only £62 including a free Sunday banquet – you can’t say fairer than that! Get your ticket now from this site!

NEWS

4.9.08 - 8 days to go - things are hotting up, toilets are being built, pits dug and bizarre animals carved out of plywood. we here at antic towers are ridiculously excited! the lineup is confirmed and amazing, and getting ready for an amazing weekend! we've spoken to god and he says it will be sunny. sorry if this non-capitalised gender-specific depiction offends anyone.

BIG WEEKEND of events coming up:
Friday 5th September - the worm play bestival - look out for them at 2pm in Club Dada (continental drifts area).
Friday 5th September: Zej (who play the closing slot at antic banquet on sunday night) will be smashing up the Catch Bar & Nightclub
22 Kingsland Road
Shoreditch E2 London
tickets are free!

Sunday 7th September - our good friends YES BOSS are holiding an all day Antic Banquet warm-up party - 93 Feet East, Brick Lane, 2pm -10.30. Expect wicked acts including Brothers Bab frontman, acoustic reggae singer Theo Bard.

10.8.08 Blackberry Wood confirmed for banquet! over from Vancouver, Canada for only 2 weeks, Blackberry Wood will be blessing the banquet with their growly bluesy gypsy sound!

9.8.08 Passing Clouds will definitely be running the barbeque, bringing their partymaking expertise to the exciting field of BEEF. Using organic beef raised on the farm (the sacred cow is soon to be chosen), they will be making top quality organic beef burgers while cranking out the african, reggae and latino niceness. Cocktails are rumoured

8.8.08 Joe Driscoll and Jamie Woon confirmed for Antic Banquet! 2 of the most exciting performers in the UK right now, combining beautiful voices, innovative material and party-rockin style! www.myspace.com/joedriscoll www.myspace.com/jamiewoon

2.8.08 We can confirm that there will be classic 19th century Bell Tents available for hire courtesy of BlueBellTents@gmail.com The tents sleep up to 6 people and cost £125 for the whole weekend. Please email the above address directly if you would like to hire one….

1.8.08 the great BEARDYMAN confirmed for Friday night at the banquet – 12th September. UK no.1 beatboxer for the past 2 years, creator of the amazing youtube ‘kitchen beatbox’, this man is one of the top performers in the UK right now and we are honoured to have him at our festival!!!!

28.7.08 Secret Garden Party – Valley of the Antics – we killed it!!!! The Antic Establishment ran the amazing Valley of the Antics at Secret Garden Party which went off all weekend! The combination of amazing umbrellaful decoration, white picket fence, paddling pool, sunshine and a non-stop lineup of amazing music on the most powerful soundsystem on site meant that Valley of the Antics was definitely the place to party! Thank you everyone who helped put it together, everyone who played, and above all everyone who came down and danced their bobbles off all weekend! See you at Antic Banquet!!!

14.7.08 MILLIONS of acts confirmed - check out the music page!

Antic Valley @ The Secret Garden Party - 03/7/08

Antic Valley @ The Secret Garden Party, 24th - 28th July 2008

The Antic family are running the wonderfully playful and damn right creatively  eclectic space of The Antic Valley at this years Secret Garden Party.

Come on down to the Valley of the Antics for a fatty fantastic lineup including Natty, Bad Science, Beardyman, Gentlemen's Dub Club, The Worm, Chef, Brothers Bab, Death Ray Trebuchey, Lazy Habits and so much more . By late night Antic Valley will be hosting a yam packed program of delightfully surreal games bought to you by Rootatroupes Midnight Playpen. Intermittent Shamanic Dancing, an Antic Study, an intimate and odd living room space and a front garden to woo the most eccentric revolutionary, Antic Valley will be the place to let your jigs and japes run free at this years Secret Garden Party.

The Antic Fam is waiting for you in the Valley of Antic riddled revelry!

Website launch - 17/5/08

Many thanks to Mattimus Farton for working all hours of the past few weeks and creating the glorious space that is the Antic Establishment website. This is the place to come and check out Antic news, exciting events, parties, exhibitions and collaborative happenings. Most importantly the site is our ticket shop and the point of contact for anyone wishing to contribute ideas, skills or meet similarly creative fiends. The Antic Posse hope that you can revel in the strange land that starts here!

Antic Banquet at Why Not Festival - 26/4/08

The Antic Banquet team arranged itself in disparate sub groups but all crew delivered permutations of varying degrees of Anticry. Ssssshhhhh Soundsystem were grooving around in silence interrupted by passionate cries from sing alongers, Rootatroupe initiated games including a viral kiss chase on the dance floor, introducing party goers to the dance floor kissathon while The Worm put on a raging performance getting the late night crowd stomping and sweating to wriggly beats. Both party and Anticeers went to bed satiated and weary with ludic fulfillment.

Antic Banquet stallholders at MMM Warehouse Party – 29/3/08

The capering women of the Antic tribe spent a day baking 200 filth and love buns simultaneously crafting large letters and archiving tinsel birds. The strange land was dispelled on the MMM grimy dance floor where the Antic menu was a sustaining combo of neon cakes and laughter air. Gluttony was not and nurture was all. Rude gyal temperament kept the food fresh and there was no need for a refrigerator. The stall was in high demand all night. Excellent work chefs.

Antic Appetizer @ Anda tha bridge – 7/3/08

The Antic appetizer was the first point of contact for budding and inspired antic generators. A meeting for us to communicate our plans, dreams and desires. Strange links were made and a tree grew from thematically coloured post it notes. We received a ripe harvest of suggestions. Our favorite ones were:

Free sex
Human Punch and Judy
Bretton dancing
GCSE science
Crockery smashing like a Greek wedding
Punting