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MELT FESTIVAL

FERROPOLIS, GERMANY

17th – 19th July 2009

http://www.meltfestival.com

Melt! is slowly waking from its hibernation, hungry for summer, sun,

beats and bass. Now, five months before the 12th edition of Melt! we

can reaveal a spectacular, exclusive and exhilarating line-up

including; Oasis, Bloc Party, Aphex Twin + Hecker.

For those of you who may not know, Melt! is a unique music festival

on the Ferropolis peninsula set against a breathtaking backdrop of

five huge hulking coal mining diggers that tower into the sky. And

with such a great location and massive line up, Melt! is one of the

‘must do’ festivals of the summer.

Oasis will be playing their only German show after the end of their

tour. We’re especially thrilled because the Brits have been on our

favourite festival’s wish list for a very long time. Our friends from

Bloc Party will be returning to Ferropolis after four years. Fronted by

charismatic Kele Okereke, they are an absolute live extravaganza

and will be picking up right where they left off. And then there’s

Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin. After 2006 this exceptional artist

will be honouring us with his presence for the second time. And again

it will be an exclusive show in Germany. What’s new is his

collaboration with sound artist Florian Hecker from the Mego label.

What else? A quick overview of further highlights: With Digitalism

(live) and Simian Mobile Disco (live) we are happy to welcome two

spearheads of electronic music presenting new material exclusively

at Melt! +++ In 2005, they were the surprise act of the festival: With

their delicate mix they made ravers, technoheads and indie nerds

dance alike: The Faint back at Melt! +++ At last, the Klaxons at Melt!

And with their only festival performance of 2009. +++ Happy

Bpitchday! Ellen Allien and her posse celebrate their 10th anniversary

at Melt! Paying their respects: Ellen Allien, Paul Kalkbrenner, Kiki,

Sascha Funke, Zander VT. Their ten-hour set will start on the Big

Wheel Floor and draw to its close on the Sleepless Floor. +++ Mad

Decent-Mastermind Diplo will host his own stage at Melt! Line-ups will

be announced very soon.

OASIS:

“It’s not us who make the show. It’s the fans.” Hard to believe that

these are the words of Liam Gallagher – not a man generally known

for his modesty. On the contrary – when asked in the tour

documentary “Lord Don’t Slow Me Down” how it feels to play in front

of 20,000 people, he replied: “It feels right!” So what’s it going to be?

The truth is somewhere in between. Others may confuse the stage

with a gym – the brothers Gallagher prefer to stand there like pillars

of britpop itself, impervious to all hype. With the unshakeable

conviction that they are exactly the “Rock’n’Roll Stars” they were

already singing about on their debut album, they hurl their enormous

tunes off the stage with wonderfully British arrogance. And the fans

make the best of it: their show. They sing along, they fall into the

arms of sweat-soaked Brits they’ve never met before, and they

dream of standing under the microphone just once with glasses as

cool and sideburns as massive as Liam. “Rock’n’Roll Star”, “Live

Forever”, “Champagne Supernova”, “Falling Down” – what could

possibly withstand these songs? And if you want to feel it yourself,

the only place to do it this summer is at Melt!

BLOC PARTY:

Bloc Party are not taking the easy way out. With their not-so-quiet

debut “Silent Alarm” they flew the guitar community with a

“Helicopter” directly onto the dancefloors and – thanks to the hype

hysteria – they ended up with the kind of pressure to succeed on

their shoulders that would have made many a band break down and

cry. But how did Bloc Party deal with it? They took the “difficult

second album” literal and took their fans to “A Weekend In The City”

– which the clubs only partied partially to. Okereke shows himself at

lyrical heights, is political, angry, broken and the dancy single “The

Prayer” made you shake your legs, but what it really was in the end

was an acid swan song on hedonism and arrogance. On “Intimacy“, it

was all about moving on once again: almost Prodigy-like noise on

„Ares“, electronic hyperactive with „Mercury“, and wonderful

heartbreaking songs such as “Biko”. Why did it work again? Because

Bloc Party are the life of the party live.

APHEX TWIN + HECKER:

At least once in your life you have to have experienced a nightmare

starring Richard D. James aka Aphex Twin. Ideally, you’ll simply be

dreaming the 5.52 minutes of his “Come To Daddy” video – in which

case you’re certain to wake up screaming and drenched in sweat.

Both musically and visually Mr Aphex Twin is a genius and an

explorer of boundaries – remember his minimalist appearance at

Melt!, when wheelchair-using basketball players danced to his

abstract beats while the audience wondered how on Earth you were

supposed to move to this music. In a German exclusive, this year’s

Melt! will see Aphex Twin double billed with sound artist Florian

Hecker of the Mego label, whose “PV Trecks” album messed up your

head so wonderfully in 2004. Throughout his career, Hecker has

always sought to collaborate with other musicians or with exciting

protagonists of modern art such as the great Peter Saville, who gave

us the artwork for Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” and other

Factory releases. Heaven knows what he and Aphex Twin will be

getting up to at Melt!. We certainly don’t.

ALL CONFIRMED ACTS SO FAR:

Aphex Twin + Hecker* | A Critical Mass (feat. Henrik Schwarz, Âme,

Dixon Live) | Matias Aguayo | Baddies | Kasper Bjørke | Bloc Party |

Bodi Bill | Bonaparte | Boy8Bit | Caribou* | Digitalism (live)* | Diplo*

| Jochen Distelmeyer* | DJ Phono | The Dodos | Ellen Allien | The

Faint | Filthy Dukes | Foals | Sascha Funke |Jazzanova Live! | Paul

Kalkbrenner | Markus Kavka | Kiki | Klaxons* | Mediengruppe

Telekommander | Mikroboy | Hudson Mohawke | MSTRKRFT | Mujava

| The New Wine | Oasis* | Pilooski | Simian Mobile Disco (live)* |

Luke Slater (live) | Super 700 | Tobias Thomas | Trentemøller (DJ-

Set)* | The Whitest Boy Alive | WhoMadeWho | James Yuill | Zander

VT

*only festival appearance in Germany

TICKETS:

2-day-ticket (Fri 17th + Sat 18th July 2009): 70 EUR plus fees // box

office: 85 EUR

3-day-ticket (Fri 17th, Sat 18th + Sun 19th July 2009): 90 EUR plus

fees // box office: 110 EUR

Daytickets will be availaible for 45 EUR plus fees from May onwards

// box office: 55 EUR.
Sleepless Floor, camping and parking are free of charge at anytime.

DOORS OPEN:

3pm every day

FIRST ACTS ON STAGE:

5pm every day

OTHER INFO:

Melt! Festival will be taking place for the 12th time in 2009. Melt!, that

means more than 80 live acts and DJs, 6 floors, 20,000 visitors and a

breathtaking ambience among the hulking metal frames of open-pit

mining machines.

More information on the festival, promotional images and artwork are

also available from our redesigned website at

http://www.meltfestival.de/press. We will be announcing further big-name

acts shortly. Thank you for your support! We look forward to working

with you, and hope you are as excited about Melt! 2009 as we are.

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