The Antic Manifesto

Elope! Elope!

It's September but we want more summer. So. Tie your laces and ping your braces. We’ve got our dancing shoes on and we love bouncy music. We like the ludicrously odd. We like the mystical and the wonderful, and we like to keep them real. We like costume, words & rhythm. We like to be lyrically connected We are new tribes and we like good vibes, we like hellos and don’t like good-byes. We are the Antic Establishment, and we like to play.

ManMakeMusic, Wormfood, Rootatroupe, the Sssh Sountsystem and a small core of their creative bretheren are in the kitchen and we're cooking up a festival. The Antic Banquet will run and skip from the 12th to the 14th of September. As well as hosting some of our favorite live and dance music and performance acts the Banquet will be an opportunity for you to get a little bit more playful than usual. This is not about a weekend of loo queues, strip searches and main stage stampedes. This is about workshops, games, good food and an open air living room. The site itself will have a flexible layout that you can open and close and twist up like a giant origami love letter. We want the Antic Banquet to be your festival and we want to end the summer with all the joy it deserves.