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SUPERSONIC 2009 24TH - 26TH July Birmingham UK Crafting extraordinary events for adventurous audiences combining music, art, film and cake.

Of this welter of well organised, wisely curated festivals (ATP, Faster Than Sound, Sonar, Greenman) perhaps the best organised and most wisely curated was Supersonic. Plotted by Birmingham promoters Capsule, 2007's Supersonic inhabited the nexus where metal, folk and noise met. Plan B Magazine

Supersonic, in our opinion the best festival in the world right now Rock-A-Rolla Magazine

As British music festivals go, Birmingham's annual Supersonic event is the best kind of mixed musical bag, a dizzying assortment of avant rock textures and Heavy Metal thunder on a bill which swings from the sublime to the ridiculous without once seeming ostentatiously eclectic. The Wire

Since 1999 Capsule has been instrumental in the transformation of Birmingham, Britain's Second City, from a cultural backwater to one of the most important ports-of-call on the international experimental music circuit. Champions of all things across the avant-garde spectrum, Capsule are curators, promoters and fans of the finest music, revealing the otherwise indescribable connections between contemporary music and art, crafting extraordinary events for adventurous audiences.

Now in it's seventh year, the event will once again take place at the Custard Factory utilising the many rooms for music, art and film.

Additional confirmations will follow in the upcoming weeks, but the line-up is shaping up to be another extravaganza - and already includes three bands from the Southern family...the wild avant futuristic jazz of ZU (Ipecac), one of the finest folk vocalists NANCY WALLACE (Midwich) and American/Norwegian doom titans THORR'S HAMMER. As usual highlighting the highly eclectic booking policy of the festival.

Confirmed line up : Head Of David (first show in 23 years) / 65 Days of Static / The Accused / Arbouretum / Atomized/ Berg Sans Nipple / Caribou / Corrupted / Chris Herbert / Diagonal / Earthless /Flower & Corsano Duo / Goblin/ Growing / Iron Lung / Jarboe / Khyam Allami / Kim Hiorthøy Kylie Minoise / Master Musicians Of Bukkake/ Nancy Wallace / Pontiak / Pram / PRE / Scorn / Skullflower/ Taint / Theo / Thorr's Hammer / Venetian Snares / Zu / ZzZ

Many more to be announced over the coming months

Tickets are on sale now and available from: www.theticketsellers.co.uk

Further info on artists/hotel deals: www.supersonicfest.com

More information regarding Nancy Wallace, Zu and Thorr's Hammer can be found on the Southern Website. For purchasing information please visit the Southern webshop.

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