HodgePodge festival returns for a fourth fantastic and spandangulous edition...once again showcasing the finest eclectic mix of of the genres over 3 days in the glorious setting of the world's most excellent cider pub The Crawley Inn!!! Lots of juicy lineup down below...

As usual tickets are extremely limited with overall capacity at 250 for this year so please book early to avoid disappointment

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https://www.facebook.com/events/520997541278226/

Expect bands of all kinds, hardest of the hard amen grindouts, and general booms for all types in our indoor weather proof main stage and workshops, acoustic jiggery, open mics and cabaret performances in our beatiful outdoor marquee.

This year we are proud to welcome PYRATRIX with their underground clowning and spectacular fire display.

Again we will also have a selection of market stalls for your festival fares.

And of course as usual we will be broadcasting the main stage live all weekend on FREEPARTYRADIO.COM so you can come down and shout out your poor mates who are missing all the fun :)

As always there will be camping, parking and you know we add a toilet every year!!!

And of course we will be raising money for our favourite causes, in loving memory, The Art Room Oxford ( www.theartroom.org.uk ) and Oxfordshire Mind( www.oxfordshire-mind.org.uk )

tell yer mates and tell yer mates mates....ooooh im all a quiver

more excellent acts still to be announced but heres the lineup so far...

------MAIN ARENA-----

****DJS/DANCE ACTS****

******************CEEPHAX ACID CREW*****************
old school synth king of acid!! one of the top UK acid dance heavyweights comes to boom with you podgers...prepare yourself for analogue mayhem on the dancefloor, with releases on labels such as Planet MU, Lo REcordings and Breakin Records we are proper chuffed to get one of the top dons of eclectic dance to come join the motherpodgin party!!!!!
http://www.ceephax.co.uk/MUZIK.htm

STIVS AND ED COX PRESENT THE DSC (LIFE4LAND) - what can we say the originator of clowncore alongside one the most interesting and original acts you will see in the UK, expect bouncy amen driven madness to junglist mayhem from 2 of the best in the business!!
http://soundcloud.com/ed-cox-life4land
http://soundcloud.com/stivs

DR BASTARDO B2B OOZAT (PEACEOFF/OUR F*CKING JUNGLE/HODGEPODGE) - the ultimate tag team of doom are back to take hardcore to its logical extremes...filthy hard dnb and techno breakcore with a few surprises in the mix too...oooh you guys so lucky
http://soundcloud.com/dr-bastardo
http://soundcloud.com/oozat

GHOST (LIFE4LAND) - the very best in glitchy beautiful amen trickery, guaranteed to get you groovin...
https://soundcloud.com/ghost-life4land

DR...UM (AMEN-TAL) - amens all the way from the supreme junglemandem...
http://soundcloud.com/dr-um/tracks

SENOR SCRAM (LIFE4LAND) -awesome ska influenced breakcore
http://soundcloud.com/senorscram

BROKOLI (MOZYK) - awesome idm and savage breakcore, brutal and beautiful
www.mixcloud.com/brokoli/

GHOST OF 3.13 (MOZYK) - the best way to describe this guy is 'listen to his tunes'.......genius...we quite literally cannot wait to hear him live
https://soundcloud.com/the-ghost-of-3-13

WOMBCORPS (AMEN-TAL) - hardcoreyouknowthescore...brutal kick drums, amen apocalypse..just the way we like it
http://soundcloud.com/wombcorps

DJ VOCODA (SATTA SOUNDS) - a half and half blend of the best oldskool and nuskool flavours, scatty amens and rudebwoy basslines. yet another of the seemingly endless products of the norfolk jungle macheeen!!
http://soundcloud.com/dj-vocoda

RAPIDAX (EARBLENDER) -Distorted guitar, screeching vocals and abstract midi effect performed over the most brutally hardcore dance music!
http://soundcloud.com/rapidax

THE FEZ! (LOVE LOVE RECORDS) - we call it
aceeeeeeeeeeeed!!!!
http://soundcloud.com/thefez

EVADE (HODGEPODGE) - Our Favourite jungalist badman, back once again with his tear-out amen mashery to rub dem down.
http://soundcloud.com/evade-dnb/tracks

FIGCAKE (BDU) - Part of Bristol's mighty Babylon Destruction Unit FigCake provides a fucked up mix of grottyness, beats and bass, with balkan enfusions, world inclusions and gypsy dillusions!!
http://soundcloud.com/figcake

FUCKNOSE (ERISIAN/INTHEFACE) - best balkan beat mashups this side of the pacos..plus an armoury full of booms blips and basslines that never fails

TEST TUBE RABIES (ERISIAN) - dirty jungle and breakcore rinseout from the brightonian noisemaker!
http://soundcloud.com/test_tube_rabies

FREEPARTYRADIO DJS - rinseout by the residents of the uks best radio station for the free party crewdem

DONJOHNSTON (CABARET VOLTAIRE)- Vintage bass and swing---- There's a ghetto groove to that swing!. Top-hat's at the ready!!!! Boooom!
http://soundcloud.com/donjohnston

SRS (HODGEPODGE) - electro swing and jungle booms...this man has ably expanded our empire to the magical lands of Bristol this year....guaranteed to get you all doing the lindyhop...
http://soundcloud.com/chemical-b

DR ONKET (HODGEPODGE / EXTREME RINSE ONLY)- the smallest man to ever turn a record, we even had to make miniature 1210's so he wouldnt feel to emasculated..despite his diminutive size his sounds are BIGGGGG..expect amen savagery like a midget never made!!
http://soundcloud.com/dr-onket

BAGUL (HODGEPODGE) - wonkhop maestro, blends broken jazz and broken beats with a dollop of grime to keep it filthy...he is also very very short
http://soundcloud.com/bagul

BIG EDDIE MCCOOL (HODGEPODGE) - hes large and irish and cuddly!! acid dripping chillout for your early morning moments

DJ LAPAZ - gypsy swing to start the whole festival 5PM friday

DAJU (HODGEPODGE)- master of the genres, expert at sewing up the seams, everything from triphop to dub to hiphop to klezmer and more (perhaps even some jewcore for good measure this year).
http://soundcloud.com/daju-1

****LIVE ACTS/BANDS****

****UPRIZING CREW FEAT.....DEADLY HUNTA*****
some of the baddest ragga tip lyricism youll ever hear ably pumped out by the dub and roots culture dons themselves the uprizing crew!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jnfPo6ErXc

SMACKJOINT - 7 piece ska-core band infusing punk ska, dub reggae, metal and hip-hop... Get ready for some horn infested, skanking mayhem!!! (Free track's on their Facebook!)
http://www.facebook.com/Smackjoint/app_178091127385

THE POPES OF CHILITOWN - if you saw em last year you'll be salivating at the prospect of seeing them again, raw guitar driven skapunk..they tear the room to pieces every time
http://soundcloud.com/popes-of-chillitown

THE KNIGHTS OF MENTIS - one of the best bands to ever emerge from the oxford scene!! hillbilly and bluegrass for the 21st century!! some cracking originals and some covers to make you fall down laughing....yeee haww
http://www.myspace.com/theknightsofmentis

THE AFTER HOUR'S QUINTET - Live Electro Swing band from Leed's bringing live Sax, Clarinet, fret-less Bass, trumpet, a turntablist and some smooth jazz guitar to the table... Sure to get you bustin a grooove ana move.
Playing the classic's aswell as original's.
http://soundcloud.com/the-after-hours-quintet

MARVELLOUS MEDICINE - excellent 6-piece playing reggae with a temptation to mix up the influences...expect some rock and gypsy in there too...theyre bending knees whereever they go and we're well glad to have 'em down
http://soundcloud.com/marvellousmedicine

THE TEMPLE FUNK COLLECTIVE - 8 piece Funk Step Brass Section from Oxford, UK. Mixing modern tracks with New Orleans influences to liven you up every time
http://soundcloud.com/templefunkcollective

ITAL HORNS - irie irie irie..get ready fe to skank down hard to these guys...stalwarts if the scene been rocking stages since i was knee high...serious dub pressure!!!!!!
http://www.myspace.com/italhorns

KOMRAD - prog metal and avant hardcore..say..grrrrrrrrr
http://soundcloud.com/komraduk

R.I.P. (REVOLUTION IN PROGRESS - RHYMESKEEMZ, BENOFFICAL & ASTROSNARE) - ill communication at its very best from oxford best and one of the UK's most up and coming artists...not to be missed
http://soundcloud.com/rhymeskeemz-1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zgXEA3vibQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFzkW1_SeIo

CAPTAIN FLATCAP - When performing live, the Captain and his crew accompany synths and beats with guitar, trumpet, flute, mandolin, and percussion!
http://soundcloud.com/captainflatcap

STEM - haunting yet beautiful triphop...akin to the likes of portishead...something to sway to on the sunday
http://soundcloud.com/thestem

DIGITAL FREAK N'CIE CREW (FRANCE) - all the way from strasbourg we have some of the best triphop and abstract hiphop france has offer..back for a second year cos we thought they were great!!
https://soundcloud.com/mental-dust
https://soundcloud.com/k-arma
https://soundcloud.com/digital-chemist-1
https://soundcloud.com/abstractension

DUBCONSCIOUS ORCHESTRA - Live dub featuring Sax, Flute, Clarinet, Fiddle and Djeme.

THE FUNK JUGGLERS - umm..they juggle funk..
http://soundcloud.com/funk-jugglers

PIEMAN - finest beatboxer the shire's ever known

THE BOOK THIEVES - conscious uk hiphop at its very best
http://soundcloud.com/the-book-thieves

HELL DEATH FURY -Sax infused, Metal, Punk, ska!
http://www.facebook.com/helldeathfury


----OUTDOOR/ACOUSTIC ARENA----

THE ROOFTOPS - scintillating 7-part all girl a cappella blues and soul...they've weakened the knees of crowds in oxford and london..get yer groovebox working

THE INEXPLICABLES - Acoustic, ska infused dub-hip-hop with live sax, beatbox, beautiful vocals and bars!!! Straight outa the south-west.
http://soundcloud.com/the-inexplicables

LITTLE RIZLA - busting some real life rhythmic spoken word to make you ears tingle and your insides jingle
http://soundcloud.com/uprizing/little-rizla-take-control-back

SPASTICCOLON - spoken word, a man and a drum kit, Imagine John Cooper Clarke vs Animal from the muppets

CHILLOUT OPEN MINI-JACK - its kinda like an open mic but its for people who play chillin tunes to come jack in and play away

OPEN MIC - its kinda like the open mini-jack thing but with instruments and microphones so bring your geetarrrrs and such and get amongst it podgers

POETRY SLAM AND BATTLE - bring your best words whether you be an MC or beat poet or if you just bought yourself a rhyming dictionary....prizes to be won

big love podgers

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