Get Loaded in the Park (UK)

Having taken a year’s sabbatical in 2010, Get Loaded returns to Clapham Common on Sunday 12th June 2011 to showcase the very best in indie and alternative live music. As sister festival to South West Four, Get Loaded took place on the August Bank Holiday Sunday from 2003 to 2009. This year Get Loaded reverts from the end of the London festival calendar to the beginning for its greatly anticipated return.

Headlining Get Loaded in the Park 2011 is one of the key bands to emanate from our shores over recent years. Over the past decade Razorlight have sold four million albums, played sold out arena tours and headlined festivals. Razorlight’s performance at Get Loaded in the Park will be the first show in England featuring the band’s new line-up. Joining Johnny Borrell is Gus Robertson on guitar and Freddie Stitz on bass and Skully on drums. Get Loaded in the Park is the first opportunity to hear their new tracks. Described by Q Magazine as ‘the biggest cult band in the UK’ we’re delighted to welcome The Cribs. Made up of brothers Gary, Ryan and Ross Jarman and ex-Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. Known for their raucous and unpredictable live shows, the band have built up a fanatical following which comes off the back of a hectic tour schedule and four superb albums. In 2011 they are set to play a handful of summer festivals before they head into the studio work to work on their 5th album. Joining us in South West London will be none other than Noisettes. Two years on from their debut album awash with punk spirit and scorching blues-rock, the London trio returned with ‘Wild Young Hearts’, a set of sleek pop songs steeped in soul and dizzy on disco. Described as “the best live band in Britain” by The Guardian and with a hugely anticipated new album on the horizon, we’re extremely excited to welcome Noisettes to Clapham Common this June. With a style ranging from sweeping, often epic guitar pop to the visceral and angular, six-piece band British Sea Power have also been added to Get Loaded’s mouth-watering lineup.

Their sound has been compared to the likes of The Cure, Joy Division and Arcade Fire and following their nomination for the Mercury Prize in 2008 are no strangers to the big festival experience. Having recently toured the UK, not to mention their current tour of the US, we’re delighted to welcome British Sea Power back to London as one of the key acts at Get Loaded in the Park 2011.

The Gigwise stage promises something for everyone this year; getting everyone in the summer mood will be Darwin Deez, About Group, Babeshadow, Yelle, O.Children, Spector and Alpines.

The Last.FM stage hosted by The Flower Pot will be headlined by Johnny Flynn, described by The Times as ‘the next poster boy for the nu-folk scene’. He will be joined by the sweet harmonious hooks and rockabilly beats of Slow Club and hotly tipped spoken word hip hop act Sound of Rum which features the lyrical genius of Kate Tempest. Completing the stage lineup will be The Agitator, aka Derek Meins, whose songs, according to the Guardian ‘sound like Billy Bragg barking over Public Enemy beats’, Beans on Toast, who blends a dark wit with serious social and political satire, four piece Six Nation State, newcomers Dark Moon (Joe Strummer’s daughter’s band) and The Joker and the Thief.