BLOC 2009 - (((13 - 15 MARCH)))

rob_booth · Post by **rob_booth** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:46 pm

BLOC 2009
13 - 15 MARCH
BUTLINS
MINEHEAD (nr. Bristol)

BLOC 2009: new location & Future Sound of London to play live for first time in over ten years

BLOC is back for 2009! The solar system’s leading indoor underground music event has been re-configured for the future and will feature a more powerful lineup than ever considered possible at a brand new and wildly exciting venue… To find out more, read on;
There are no words for how excited we are to announce the first act on BLOC’s lineup:

THE FUTURE SOUND OF LONDON – LIVE

Despite massive chart success (most notably with the massive ‘Papua New Guinea’) and constantly being name checked as one of the most influential electronic music acts of all time, Brian Dougans and Gaz Cobain have not played a show as The Future Sound of London for over ten years.

Their show is a mind-blowing high-concept audio-visual trip to the Future. FSOL play live in their studio, connected via ISDN to a monolithic video bank on stage. They get a live feed straight back from the audience allowing them to monitor and adapt to the crowd’s reaction for a true live performance. If you can’t quite get your head around how it’s going to work, check this amazing footage from their most recent show at Essential festival in 1997: http://tinyurl.com/blocfsol

In other news, BLOC has a brand new venue for 2009!

BLOC in 2009 will be held at the Butlin’s mega-resort in Minehead, near Bristol.

The thing about Butlin’s is this – it is actually really good. In previous years the pleasure taken in the holiday-resort side of BLOC may have been a little tongue in cheek. Butlin’s Minehead features the kind of holiday entertainment fun stuff you can really get your teeth into;

It houses the largest water park in the South West, which has a wave pool and a flume that fires you screaming from its jaws at a speed of 40 miles per hour. It has a fun fair with rides that are massive enough to freak you out if you’re the kind to get freaked out by massive rides. And it never, ever rains at BLOC – everyone attending is housed in luxury holiday apartments which surround the main, indoor arenas.

It is the utter and the outright elite of holiday parks and we are exploding with joy to be hosting BLOC there. More line-up news coming soon…!

MORE INFORMATION AND TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM: www.blocweekend.com

T_macabre · Post by **T_macabre** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:56 am

NOT MISSING IT THIS TIME

yes boss · Post by **yes boss** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:26 am

loved it last year!! getting tickets for this asap!!

yooamatwa · Post by **yooamatwa** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:29 am

Awesome no more shitty Hemsby!!! That drive was a killer

powerpill · Post by **powerpill** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 8:33 am

wascal · Post by **wascal** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 11:15 am

yooamatwa wrote:That drive was a killer

lol - nearly died a few times on the way home last year

Can't wait for this, last one was so good.

djstandfast · Post by **djstandfast** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:19 pm

when will full line up be released?

rob_booth · Post by **rob_booth** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:22 pm

djstandfast wrote:when will full line up be released?

I was given this from an agency press release.. no line-up details as of yet !

chris addict · Post by **chris addict** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 1:40 pm

oh yes! bloc is the one

petrozzium · Post by **petrozzium** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 2:43 pm

Cannae wait to see the lineup. Steptastic! Where can I get some pill tokens?

kernelcoremode · Post by **kernelcoremode** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:06 pm

this year i aint missin it !!!!!! fsol will be good, not so much a fan nowadays but still one of the bands that inlfuenced me and ive never heard live...
sure the rest of the line up will be killer...

corpsey · Post by **corpsey** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 3:16 pm

Was planning on going again.

I'm not sure if I'm glad to hear that it won't be taking place in East Germany/Great Yarmouth, though... partly I'm thinking ''thank fuck it won't be in that brutalist hellhole'' and partly I'm thinking ''it was funny when it was in that brutalist hellhole''.

hello_a1 · Post by **hello_a1** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 4:56 pm

Ooooooo, interactivity

http://www.butlinsonline.co.uk/index.cfm?page=3884

jakes · Post by **jakes** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:05 pm

Right on my doorstep! GET IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN!

[b]racket · Post by **[b]racket** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 5:06 pm

surgeon wrote:
djstandfast wrote:when will full line up be released?

I was given this from an agency press release.. no line-up details as of yet !

I know a few of headline acts but i'm sworn to keeping my lips zipped...

It's gonna be mad one though

fc · Post by fc » Thu Oct 16, 2008 6:44 pm

wooo HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE
Bloc has been the highlight of my year 2 years running - can't wait!
You should all be excited about the new venue too, I've been to ATP at this Butlins and there's loads more fun stuff to do..water park when you're battered is hilarious (and maybe abit dangerous)n not to mention the full body Dyson walk-in dryers in the changing rooms..!

frebentos · Post by **frebentos** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:11 pm

YES!

BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOC!

wascal · Post by **wascal** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 8:18 am

Corpsey wrote:Was planning on going again.

I'm not sure if I'm glad to hear that it won't be taking place in East Germany/Great Yarmouth, though... partly I'm thinking ''thank fuck it won't be in that brutalist hellhole'' and partly I'm thinking ''it was funny when it was in that brutalist hellhole''.

We were calling it raveschwitz last year

cogent · Post by **cogent** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 10:25 am

wicked news.. not missed a Bloc / deadbeat yet, always a cracking weekend...

bummer we'll have to drive to the other side of the country tho, like Corpsey got mixed feelings about it not being in hemsby...

On a serious note tho, i do hope they ain't gonna pull no fucking stunts with militant searches like this year!

subjekt · Post by **subjekt** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 11:24 am

haha..i went to that butlins a couple of months ago with my kids!! think i have to go to this to rid the memory of havin to watch that chico chico chicotime fuckwit!!...arrrghhh wheres me medication gone!!!

BLOC 2009 - (((13 - 15 MARCH)))

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