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11th - 14th Jul 2012 Benicassim, Costa Axahar, Spain, United Kingdom |
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Bob Dylan heads the list of six new artists that join the FIB 2012, Benicàssim line up.
He’s accompanied by Jessie J, Robyn Hitchcock and The Venus 3, Agoria, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Arveene & Misk. All of them will join those already confirmed for the eighteenth edition of FIB, The Stone Roses, New Order, Florence + The Machine, At The Drive-In, David Guetta, Noel Gallagher´s High Flying Birds, De La Soul, Dizzee Rascal, The Horrors, The Maccabees, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Vaccines, etcetera.
We’re also proud to present another illustrious figure, the versatile Kim Fowley. Fowley will be the cornerstone act at the presentation of this year’s edition of FIB Cinema.
4 day tickets at the price of 165€ / £155, which include 8 days free camping -July 9 through 16- are still available. As well as 4 day VIP tickets, tickets for the VIP camping area; VillaCamp. Tickets avaliable from Eventim HERE
Robert Allen Zimmerman, also known as Bob Dylan, decided to emigrate from his birthplace, the land of the ten thousand lakes (Duluth, Minnesota), ready to mine the vast legacy of American folk culture. Folk songs that were, for him ‘a way of exploring the Universe, they were illustrations and, as such, they were so much more valuable than anything I could come up with’.
Protest and dissidence songs by Woody Guthrie, modernist poetry by Archibald MacLeish and Lonnie Johnson’s guitar technique were young Dylan’s influences which would remain more or less unchanged until the release of his fifth album ‘Bringing it All Back Home’ (1965).
Although ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ and ‘Blonde on Blonde’ received all the applause, ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ is the record that unleashed the storm, showing us a Dylan willing, for the first time, to change his sound. Impressed by the electric rendition of ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ that The Byrds had delivered in their debut album, Dylan, a lover of electric blues and rock ‘n’ roll, decided to give a new appearance to his songs by electrifying them. His radical change was seen on stage for the first time at the Newport Folk Festival –managed by Pete Seeger and produced by Joe Boyd-. Dylan, one of the main acts for the 1965 edition went on stage accompanied by Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper’s band playing, at the top of their amplifiers, ‘Maggie´s Farm’. The performance was highly controversial from the start. Seeger tried to cut the cables coming out of the sound table. After that episode nothing remained the same, neither for Dylan nor for music in general.
Confirming his famous ‘The Times They Are A-Changin´’, Bob Dylan glorifies his own motto with ‘Highway 61 Revisited’, carrying on with the electrification hinted at in ‘Bringing It All Back Home’, and getting rid once and for all of the orthodox folkies who had just booed his electric proposal at the Newport Festival that same year.
‘Blonde on Blonde’, ‘John Wesley Harding’ and ‘Nashville Skyline’ followed; albums that completed the circle, the decade and the most important part of the legacy of a unique musician.
In the 70s, Dylan attacked with another two classic albums of his career, ‘Blood on the Tracks’ (1975) and ‘Desire’ (1976), works that once more set the highest standards.
Jessica Ellen Cornish was born in London in 1988 and studied at the BRIT School, an academy that also saw the likes of Adele, Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis or Katy B. For years she composed songs for big names such as Justin Timberlake (who says she is 'the best singer in the world today') Chris Brown, Alicia Keys or Miley Cyrus. 'Do It Like a Dude' was her debut song as Jessie J though she originally wrote it for Rihanna. The single was a success in countries such as the UK or New Zealand and was a definitive impulse for her solo career, on which she focused from then on, releasing another 5 singles until February 2011 in which her first long play saw the light, 'Who You Are' (Lava, Island Records). R&B and soul are the basis for her music although we can also find pop moments and patent jazz influences. Her addictive choruses, her collaborations with artists such as David Guetta and her appearances at the Brit Awards or the MTV Europe Music Awards have given international fame to a Jessie B who isn't afraid of speaking her mind.
For over three decades Robyn Hitchcock has worked quiet and conscientiously building a distinctive opus that is well respected by the rock world. The prolific English singer, composer and guitarist is unique in introducing surreal elements in his music –be it through his psychedelic rock or through a great deal of his lyrics- and is one of the few artists that, in spite of having signed on with multinationals and having influenced hundreds of musicians, can still be considered a cult classic. The Soft Boys was the name of the first band he played in at the end of the 70s, a tumultuous period of the history of the UK in which punk and protest were kings and when Hitchcock and his band devoted themselves to recovering 60s sounds, following the style of The Byrds. The Soft Boys left a permanent mark on Robyn Hitchcock, but at the beginning of the 80s he soon decided to begin a solo career. Halfway through the decade he reunited with his friends from his debut band and The Egyptians were born, seeing him through a total of six records and almost ten years. From the end of the 90s to 2006 he pursued his solo career without a specific accompanying band and then got together another group of friends to create Venus 3, a super-band formed by Peter Buck (unmistakable R.E.M. guitarist), Scott McCaughey at the bass (also R.E.M., The Young Fresh Fellows and The Minus 5) and Bill Rieflin (drums at Ministry or, once again, at R.E.M. since Bill Berry's exit). Four aces in a deck untarnished by time.
Sébastien Devaud, aka Agoria, grew up in rural France listening to house and techno when those styles came of age. Radio programmes and his first experience at a session in Lyon under the direction of no other than Jeff Mills, made his head point in a single direction: electronic music. Devaud began as a DJ, organising his own parties with a group of friends who quickly became know as 'Agora' for their crowd-pulling abilities. The next step was producing and releasing his own works in 1999, but it wasn't until after he became well known thanks to a series of 12" with PIAS in 2002 that his first album 'Blossom' (Different/PIAS, 2003) received international recognition. From then on Agoria has published 'The Green Armchair' (Different/PIAS, 2006), the soundtrack 'Go Fast' (Different/PIAS, 2008) and the most recent 'Impermanence' (2011), released under his own label: Infiné Music. Agoria is one of the fundamental names in today's electronic music scene.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
The Brit Orlando Higgingbottom hides behind the grandiose name of Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs to deliver sturdy compositions painted with grime, 2-step, UK Funky, techno or deep house depending on the occasion, which leave a great aftertaste in the mouths of those who want to move their body to electronic beats. His extravagant looks are another wrapping for his music and Higgingbottom, who has also remixed Friendly Fires, Jonquil, Kate Perry or Lady Gaga, has stamped his signature on dance floor hits such as "Household Goods", "Stronger", "Move On", How Far", "Dream On", "Garden" and "Tapes & Money", these form the basis of his first three EP's and give us an idea of a first album, a force not to be reckoned with.
Arveene & Misk are a Dublin duo that in the past two years have done endless remixes for artists such as The Prodigy (‘Thunder’), Felix Da Housecat (‘Kickdrum’), Mr. Oizo, Kitsuné or Turbo. Producers and DJ’s they are specialists in filling the clubs they visit to the brim with a personal electronic spirit that dares all. After receiving unanimous applause for their work with remixes and production work, they decided to coop up in their studio and improve their own creations. The result is having Arveene & Misk concentrated and totally prepared to do a live set that will leave our soles thinner and our souls stronger.
