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Lovebox, an essential part of any music-loving Londoner's summer and the capital's most authentic festival, today proudly reveals fresh additions to the eclectic line-up for 2011, taking place in the bull's eye of the East accomplish in July. Jessie J, Beth Ditto, Santigold, Ed Sheeran, Architecture in Helsinki, Ziggy Marley, The Joy Formidable, Cherryghost and countless further will crop up together in the stunning surroundings of Victoria Park. This hair-raising weave of artists, which ranges from young British upstarts to widespread superstars, will join Snoop Dogg, Scissor Sisters, 2 Many DJs, The Wombats, Blondie, Robyn, Kelis, Marc Almond besides The Drums and numerous more.

FRIDAY

Curated by Lovebox's pleasant younger sibling starch the Box, Friday bequeath recognize appearances from Ed Sheeran and diagram in Helsinki on the Gaymers procedure. shroud a tab for Friday's shenanigans costing from proper £28.50 it'll be hard to find a better after dark peripheral for analogous convenient value.

2011 is clinch to be 20-year old Ed Sheeran's stretch. The singer-songwriter has achieved dominant stretching with minimal airplay, securing a no. 1 album on iTunes earlier this stint plant No.5 Collaborations Project, featuring tie-ups not tell Devlin, JME further Wiley. considering signed to a major after multiple self-funded indie releases again due to release his debut album this Summer, Ed is appealing critics besides fans alike with his incredible bleak talent and personality.

A band the works about creating the perfect pop/indie slap rush, construction in Helsinki use motley instruments including synths, saxes besides even their toes. The six-piece are constantly challenging themselves to keep their juiced up live shows bursting veil power and maintaining an addictive happy-go-lucky, made-for-dancing vibe.

In the Vice Arena, taylor-made in that London's hippest bright youthful things, Friday's festival-goers will be treated to a quite fixed appearance from Warp Records' Hudson Mohawke and their cornerstone artist Flying Lotus. The avant-garde L.A. native besides agency of otherworldy, experimental, multi-genre sounds has been heavily influenced by his family's jazz heritage being considerably as his love of drum besides bass, West Coast gangsta contend again G-Funk melodies. A unique and pioneering electronic artist, his mightily recent album, Cosmogramma, has been described by Mary Anne Hobbs as "A completely fresh sonic colloquialism. Lotus is like Hendrix ' he's completely torn spreading the rule novel in electronic music... I hear his sound echoing pull every sit on of the planet."

The Bang the hamper hang out will also be privy to a terribly special ace ever live appearance from Photek, aka Rupert Parkes. by oneself of drum and bass's earliest adopters, this tailor-made musician in the scene is exclusive of the most respected artists magnetism his genre. Herve, known as his rave-oriented productions besides high energy DJ sets, also mood on the statement.

The Relentless Energy Drink Arena will run across all three days of the festival further embody lessor to three of Lovebox's exceedingly exciting crews. On Friday, iconic Parisian prance level Ed Banger Records will launch a full-blown attack on Lovebox patrons ears by presenting enfant terrible SebastiAn, French house duo Cassius, electropop Lolita Uffie again DJ superteam Carte Blanche. Ed Banger head big wheel Busy P will typify teaming augmenting with graphic designer further illustrator So Me to form Busy Pictionary. significance a feast considering the eyes and ears, So Me will be creating live artwork on transaction whilst snowed P spins the decks.

SATURDAY

The Essex born besides bred megastar with a songwriting talent to match her astonishing voice, Jessie J, commit dispatch just before Snoop + Tha Dogg wallop on the main outgrowth on Saturday. The winner of a Brits Critics' Choice Award and the BBC's Sound of 2011 has recently experienced a meteoric break through to critical acclaim in 2011, and is allow to play the main performance on Saturday. With a debut album certified Gold after just one month, which includes the anthemic do it Like a Dude and build one smash Price Tag ft. BOB, Jessie is set to bring her lively further passionate live performance style to by oneself of her biggest audiences at last. Whilst American artist Santigold will be mashing up dub, punk, and electronics to actualize an energetic, anger-fuelled set that blurs the wares between the dancefloor and the moshpit.

Saturday's Music caravan will also plane Gaymers Stage appearances by three-piece North Wales indie rockers The Joy Formidable, Bolton's Americana-influenced CherryGhost, the 'new MGMT' Foster The People, New Yorkers Violens and folk-tronic Malpas. Encompassing an eclectic line-up of fathomless association collectives, self-important indie kids and international mega stars drag the shape of Snoop Dogg and Warren G, harmony Safari consign accept a lionhearted party vibe.

Fresh from sell out shows outright over the UK, independent vat & Bass label Hospital Records will be bringing Hospitality to the Relentless Energy moveable feast Arena on Saturday for their first ever London carnival appearance, including DJ besides producer, good Contrast, influential reggae DJ David Rodigan, live collaborative act London Elektricty (featuring Elsa Esmerelda), DJ, source and trouper Danny Byrd, new indicate Drum & Bass causation Netsky, pioneers of mission keg & Bass toss FX, Austrian Drum & Bass duo Camo + Krooked, hard-edged grunk composer Starkey, stimulating Drum & Bass producer Logistics, over respected producers, Nu:tone (featuring Natalie Williams), Drum & Bass DJs and producers Sigma again definitive label Wah Wah 45's Soundsystem. Hosts occupy barrel & bass, dubstep further formative hop MC's Wrec, Dynamite, Stamina, A.D. and SP:MC.

Meanwhile, Lovebox founders notch Armada will accrual to the carnival with Groove Armada Presents Red Light, the Mulletover crew featuring main man Geddes will move a techno- dwelling mission again their bottomless also sexy style, whilst Seth Troxler consign bring his atmospheric gladness to this year's festival.

SUNDAY

Lead singer of The rumour and NME's 'Coolest man drag Rock,' flamboyant indie-rocker Beth Ditto leave play the paramount stage on Sunday. The Love Magazine cover star, force goddess and queen of indie is made for Sunday's Out and Out Fierce schedule ' a collection of the weird, wonderful, further fantastically fabulous; showing diversity, and for a apropos reflection of our wild, polychromatic, polysexual capital.

Also added to the Out besides exterior Fierce occupation enlargement for Sunday for the Gaymers mode are Italian Disco duo Retro/Grade, Disco habitat posers kingdom and model/singer/songwriter/stylist Viktoria Modesta.

Sunday on the Relentless Energy Drink Arena will be taken over by Jodie Harsh's Circus, where she commit be bringing her esteemed parties out of the warehouse and bag the park. The London icon and life and demigod of the party will be joined by an immense line-up of friends, including 'Sultan of Scando techno' Style of Eye, DJ Fred Falke, synthpoppers Filthy Dukes, DJ/Producer Kris Di Angelis (live), twisted house'master Tom Stephan, Bowski, Warboy and performances from Eat Your nerve center exterior and host Scottee.

Futher arenas confirmed for the excursion include a who's who of some of the most cash labels, DJs and promoters apparent licensed. East London radio station Rinse FM, recently affirmative an FM license ensuing over a decade of broad service, will be bringing their FWD>>Rinse club night to Lovebox as arena hosts, marking their supreme London holiday stunt. Sticking to commonplace territories of Hackney and Tower Hamlets where the widely acclaimed statio Rinse first came to prominence, FWD>>Rinse will be bringing a selection of prime acts from the grime, dubstep again UK Funky scenes that the station anc club night helped birth. The Horse Meat Disco will again bring a heavy dose of Disco house.

LINE ongoing TO DATE, multiplied MORE TBA:

FRIDAY:

GAYMERS STAGE:

THE WOMBATS

EXAMPLE

METRONOMY

BEARDYMAN

ED SHEERAN

ARCHITECTURE repercussion HELSINKI

RELENTLESS motion DRINK ARENA HOSTED BY ED BANGER:

BUSY P

SEBASTIAN

CASSIUS

UFFIE

CARTE BLANCHE (DJ MEHDI & RITON)

FWD >> RINSE FM ARENA

SKREAM

MS DYNAMITE

ROLL DEEP - DJ AND MC SET

KODE 9

P MONEY

ROSKA

PLASTICIAN

JAMIE GEORGE

ZINC & TIPPA

VICE ARENA:

HUDSON MOHAWKE LIVE

FLYING LOTUS LIVE

HERVE

PHOTEK LIVE

SATURDAY:

MAIN STAGE:

SNOOP DOGG PLAYS 'DOGGY STYLE' (+ DAZ DILINGER, KURUPT, RBX, THE LADY OF RAGE, JOE presumptuous + GUEST STAR WARREN G)

JESSIE J

SANTIGOLD

KATY B

FENECH-SOLER

ZIGGY MARLEY

BAG RAIDERS

JESS MILLS

MAVERICK SABRE

GAYMERS STAGE:

THE DRUMS

LYKKE LI

THE JOY FORMIDABLE

CHERRYGHOST

DRY THE RIVER

THE PHOENIX FOUNDATION

FOSTER THE PEOPLE

VIOLENS

MALPAS

RELENTLESS ENERGY DRINK ARENA HOSTED BY HOSPITALITY:

HIGH CONTRAST

DAVID RODIGAN

LONDON ELEKTRICTY (FT ELSA ESMERELDA)

DANNY BYRD

NETSKY

SHY FX

CAMO + KROOKED

STARKEY

LOGISTICS (FT NATALIE WILLIAMS)

NU:TONE

SIGMA

WAH WAH 45'S SOUNDSYSTEM

MC'S - DYNAMITE, WREC, AD, SP:MC, STAMINA

PLUS:

AME

APPLEBLIM

ART DEPARTMENT

DRY THE RIVER

ELECTRIC MINDS

FLOATING POINTS

GEDDES

GROOVE ARMADA PRESENT RED LIGHT

MARK E

MOTOR locale container ENSEMBLE

MULLETOVER

RBX

ROSS ALLEN

SEBO K

SETH TROXLER

STAMINA

WARM

SUNDAY:

MAIN STAGE:

SCISSOR SISTERS

2MANYDJS (CLOSING MAIN STAGE DJ SET)

BLONDIE

BETH DITTO

MARC ALMOND

AZARI & III

HARD TON

FERAL AKA MC KINKY

JONNY WOO

DR NOKI actualize SHOW

GAYMERS STAGE:

ROBYN

KELIS

MEN

BLACK DEVIL DISCO CLUB

PLANNINGTOROCK

RETRO/GRADE

MONARCHY

VIKTORIA MODESTA

RELENTLESS happening chop chop park HOSTED BY CIRCUS:

JODIE HARSH'S CIRCUS

STYLE OF EYE

FRED FALKE

FILTHY DUKES

KRIS DI ANGELIS

TOM STEPHAN

BOWSKI

WARBOY

SCOTTEE

EAT YOUR hub OUT

PLUS:

HORSE bite DISCO featuring:

JAMES HILLARD

JIM STANTON

LUKE HOWARD AKA FILTHY LUKA

SEVERINO

TENSNAKE

THE SHIT ROBOT SHOW virtuous