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3EYE DJs

DJs, Performers

3EYE: A SIRIUS PARTY

It’s Friday night at Festival 23 and we are about to enter those Dog Days as we slip into July 23rd, following signals, frolicking through the cosmos to reach the Dogstar itself, Sirius. 3EYE DJS Anie Ujiik and Dolly Dollycore will join forces with Puwaban master Horton Jupiter in a flash dimensional blast of sparking sky spook spectaculars and mind-splitting SPAAAAAAACE music. Plus interventions, obstacles and surprises hosted by our own Verity Spott.

SUNS :: ENTITIES :: REAL HEAT :: REAL MAGIC :: PRIMAL LIGHT :: SIRIUSLY WILD ALIEN TRIBAL DRESS UP :: INTERVENTIONS :: VISITATIONS :: DANCE DANCE DANCE :: SPACETRAIN DANCEOFF (GIVE YOUR ALL :: EVERYONE’S A WINNER) :: MIX-TACTILE PLAY :: ECSTATIC RITUAL :: MULTI-DIMENSIONAL PASSAGEWAYS :: DIY ANCIENT REALITY PLAYTIME :: LOVE IS THE MESSAGE :: HAIL ERIS

3EYE emerged from the Brighton underground a year ago, with light-hearted focus on the best, queer, strange and cosmic end of party music through time and space. We like a good rough and tumble too and take joy in creating parties which are inclusive, playful and energised. Everyone’s Welcome, No Dicks.

http://3eye.space/

Daniel WJ Mackenzie

Artists and Installations, Live music, Performers

Daniel W J Mackenzie is a musician and sonic artist who works with varied sound sources and intentions, combining treatments of physical instruments and objects with field recordings and numerous abstraction processes. His work draws on the emotional and psychological crossings where music and non-musical sound meet, resulting in material that can swing quite violently between sombre and intense. His output has taken the form of physical releases on international record labels, plus installations and performances in the UK and wider world.

http://www.danielwjmackenzie.com/#about

Cuckoo Clocks

Live music, Performers

Hidden away in potent smoke filled rooms, where valves from the past, hum in the present, the authentic yet deviant sound of the six piece Sheffield band The Cuckoo Clocks conjure up the spirit of the country sound born from psychedelia with harmonies and ancient rhymes mixed with it’s home town’s eccentric tradition.

Originally the eccentric brainchild of Paul Infanti (from much missed John Peel favourites, Treebound Story) and DJ/producer Sophie Toes (Sheffield’s foremost queen of the Mixer), Cuckoo Clocks have since become a fully-fledged 6 piece symphonic beast, blending beautifully naive clockwork rhythms with definitive super glue melodies to create a pastoral Garden Wall Of Sound.

There’s no place for the illusions of the daily grind as the madness of time retreats their second album, “Frontiers of a Seductive Mind”, Awakes!

http://thecuckooclocks.bandcamp.com/

Milk the Cow Podcast

Miscellany and Nonsense, Performers

Milk the Cow will be broadcasting via an FM transmitter to the festival as COW23 FM to keep you updated about all the happenings on site and playing some nice tunes to get our day started (and hangovers conquered) before we’re ready to go again!

Milk the Cow is a multi genre promotions and events organisation, a podcast with a global reach but most of all a community of like minded people – many of whom have never met – who come together to make a positive contribution to turning the tide against those who seek to paint the world grey and suck the soul out of life.

MTC is about the us, you and I, the people, we are Cow.

Milk the Cow has been organising events, raves and warehouse parties since the late 90’s and more latterly has seen their reputation grow exponentially beyond the North East of England via a podcast which is regularly number 1 on ITunes with a global reach. Previous guests include: Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry, Mr C (The Shaman), Dr Rick Strassman (author of DMT: The Spirit Molecule), Sage Francis, Chester P, Bez (Happy Mondays), Amelia Womack (deputy leader of the Green Party), Johan Hari (author/journalist), Dr Alfie Bown (author of Candy Crush and Capitalism), Perc (world class techno artist), and many many more.

Milk the Cow will be bringing a variety of things to Festival 23 including the podcast (which has recently embarked on a sold out theatre run in Newcastle upon Tyne) as well as an array of performers in the ‘Milk the Cow’ tent. MTC will be speaking with some of the well known names attending the festival and are particularly keen to involve you so please do come and see them if you have a story to tell – they’d love to meet you. All of the audio recorded at Festival 23 will be released on MTC’s ITunes channel which you can subscribe to here

For Android users please download the ‘Podcast Addict’ app and search ‘Milk the Cow’.

Come and join the Cowmunity!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MILKTHECOWPODCAST/
Twitter: @mtcpodcast
IG: MTCPODCAST

Jamie Kelsey Fry

Performers, Talks and Playshops

Jamie Kelsey Fry is a contributing editor for New Internationalist, part of the Icelandic group the International Modern Media Institute, author of radical school textbook the Rax Toolkit and a renowned artivist. He has been called a “mob leader” by the Daily Mail, an “anarchist ring leader” by the Telegraph and a “professional trouble maker” by the Sun. He helped fight to save the Stonehenge festival in the 80s, ran around with Reclaim The Streets in the 90s, was very loud in Occupy London, helped Reclaim The Power win in Balcombe against fracking and is currently working with ten two meter square inflatable barricades to support youth voice coming into the #democracyspring.

He’s a regular radical voice on mainstream and independent media, provides guest vocals for several bands and has been in the background of the growing Psychedelic Society of the UK. He has worked with a diverse range of influential characters from Russel Brand and Jarvis Cocker to Vivienne Westwood and Bruce Reynolds, the Great Train Robber. His feet will forever be in the pond of the great Cardiacs gigs, his soul soars at the breaking of paradigms and the revolution of the mind and his heart belongs to a dog called Scrappy.

Tales From The Resistance:

Stories from the front lines of the growing global movement against disaster capitalism, the tyranny of the 1% and the fact that capitalism as we know it is fucking boring. From Barbie Liberation Organisation to the Yes Men, the mysterious Green Arrow of Kingsnorth to the glorious rampage of Josephine Witt and the genius upsurge of brandalism and direct democracy, Jamie will provide updates on what is happening and where, how you can take part and why revolution will not come from where it is expected to come from. “If I can’t dance then it ain’t my revolution” Emma Goldman.

Dido Fisher and Jonathan Goldsmith

Performers, Talks and Playshops

With a firm friendship forged over 20 years ago over a mutual love of music, dancing, random acts of silliness and play, Jonathan and Dido met through their involvement with the Brighton Free Party scene. Dido was part of Slack, seminal Brighton sound-system & purveyors of serious-nonsense, while Jonathan ran Café Expose.

As is the way of the world, friendships were made and collaborations ensued and the rest is a convoluted pathway of interconnected neural networks, or to put in another way.. the rest is history….

For Festival 23, Jonathan and Dido have created a unique experiential playshop called: ‘Embodying your Inner Eris; The Erisian Principle in Play.’ Eris Discordia (HAIL ERIS!) exists in all things, that is the very nature of the sacred Chao. So that means she exists in you and you and you…

Dido and Jonathan are inviting you to join in and take a bite out of a new reality tunnel and build a greater connection to the Eris within, exploring what form she takes for each of you. You will experience for yourself how you too can walk in Eris’ shoes, seeing the world trough Eris’ eyes and find out for yourself what becomes possible when you let your own personal Goddess out to play.

They promise that by the end of this experience you will have an answer to the question that has been asked by sages/cabbages through the ages:

What would Eris do?

“Reality is the original Rorschach”

Oh, and for those of you that will be coming on the Thursday night and need to shake loose your Fnords… Just follow the white rabbit.

See you in your dreams!

Vibe Machine

Live music, Performers

A London based vocal led quartet with backing vocals and horns – Vibe Machine are constructed with the finest hand engineered rhythm & rhyme. Unflinching social commentary with a tight ‘n’ funky sound, Vibe Machine have been described as ‘Ian Dury bumping into Gil Scott Heron in 21st century London and then moving to LA to be produced by Steely Dan ”
vibemachine.info

AOS3

Live music, Performers

AOS3 started in 1990, as the free festival scene was staging it’s last stand. They began really as a way of playing the free festivals, and were unexpectedly swept up into a wave of political protest and rebooted psychedelia- which was nice!

The band have been influenced over the years by sounds from the 60’s and 70’s, Reggae and anarcho-punk and they blended these together to create an up-tempo high energy sound, with an ear for melody.

Perceived as a punk band, in truth the thread of discordianism runs through the very surface of their music and lyrics, with a lot of songs based on Wilsonian ideas, such as obvious pieces like ‘Emperor Norton’ and ‘Dark Matter’. Their die-hard supporters have christened themselves ‘the Dead Fanatics’ – go figure.

AOS3 now mostly live in London, playing shows and making different kinds of art, absolutely refusing to take any of it seriously. This is a deliberate, foolhardy labour of Love.

You can find them at facebook.com/AOS3official