New additions confirmed
Radiohead's Philip Selway is amongst the latest additions for this year's Truck Festival.
Founded by the Bennett family, Truck Festival has deep DIY roots. Using a lorry as the main stage for those initial instalments, the event took its name from the inventive impromptu use of haulage.
Returning for its fourteenth instalment, Truck Festival is now an established fixture on the festival calendar. Deeply eccentric, organisers have kept the original spirit alive despite massively expanding.
This year's line up looks to be amongst the finest to date. Radiohead drummer Philip Selway is due to step back into the limelight, with the solo star set to play a headline set at the Oxfordshire festival.
Releasing his inaugural solo long player last year, Philip Selway performed only a handful of shows last year. Arranging a series of festival shows, the Radiohead drummer is amongst the latest additions to Truck.
Returning with their third album earlier this year, The Go! Team seemed to be more focussed than before. Live shows have lost none of their energy, with the Brighton group set to storm Truck this summer.
Elsewhere, new additions include Graham Coxon, Roddy Woomble, Mechanical Bride, Edwyn Collins and many, many more.
Clash Magazine will be there, hosting a stage specially curated by three of the finest independent labels in Britain. Transgressive Records, Heavenly Recordings and Bella Union will showcase their wares, with the final line up featuring the very best of their illustrious rosters.
Festival organiser Robin Bennett was quick to praise their spirit of independence. "At Truck we've always been inspired by the best independent labels, whether Creation Records taking on the mainstream, the wackiness of Apple Records, or the DIY spirit of Chemikal Underground. We have the utmost respect for those which survive and thrive while putting out great and interesting music; this year we decided to introduce a major new stage at the festival and thought, why not get some of the best current independent labels to programme a day of acts each?"
"So we're welcoming Transgressive, Heavenly and Bella Union to do just that. They are all great labels because they have great people behind them, tight gangs who are passionate about keeping the flame of original music alive in our present X-Glee-Pop-Factor world (just as we at Truck try to keep the corporate-blandification of festivals at bay and present a real alternative for music-lovers hungry for the genuine article)."
Tickets are on sale now.
Truck runs between July 22nd - 24th.
Founded by the Bennett family, Truck Festival has deep DIY roots. Using a lorry as the main stage for those initial instalments, the event took its name from the inventive impromptu use of haulage.
Returning for its fourteenth instalment, Truck Festival is now an established fixture on the festival calendar. Deeply eccentric, organisers have kept the original spirit alive despite massively expanding.
This year's line up looks to be amongst the finest to date. Radiohead drummer Philip Selway is due to step back into the limelight, with the solo star set to play a headline set at the Oxfordshire festival.
Releasing his inaugural solo long player last year, Philip Selway performed only a handful of shows last year. Arranging a series of festival shows, the Radiohead drummer is amongst the latest additions to Truck.
Returning with their third album earlier this year, The Go! Team seemed to be more focussed than before. Live shows have lost none of their energy, with the Brighton group set to storm Truck this summer.
Elsewhere, new additions include Graham Coxon, Roddy Woomble, Mechanical Bride, Edwyn Collins and many, many more.
Clash Magazine will be there, hosting a stage specially curated by three of the finest independent labels in Britain. Transgressive Records, Heavenly Recordings and Bella Union will showcase their wares, with the final line up featuring the very best of their illustrious rosters.
Festival organiser Robin Bennett was quick to praise their spirit of independence. "At Truck we've always been inspired by the best independent labels, whether Creation Records taking on the mainstream, the wackiness of Apple Records, or the DIY spirit of Chemikal Underground. We have the utmost respect for those which survive and thrive while putting out great and interesting music; this year we decided to introduce a major new stage at the festival and thought, why not get some of the best current independent labels to programme a day of acts each?"
"So we're welcoming Transgressive, Heavenly and Bella Union to do just that. They are all great labels because they have great people behind them, tight gangs who are passionate about keeping the flame of original music alive in our present X-Glee-Pop-Factor world (just as we at Truck try to keep the corporate-blandification of festivals at bay and present a real alternative for music-lovers hungry for the genuine article)."
Tickets are on sale now.
Truck runs between July 22nd - 24th.
