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Supersonic 2008

Please mark your calendars for the 11th-13th July 2008, for this year's installment of what Plan B magazine called "the best organised and most wisely curated festival". Taking place at the Custard Factory in Digbeth, with additional activity around the area.

Just added to the bill are GRAVETEMPLE featuring the living legend that is JULIAN COPE with STEPHEN O"MALLEY of SUNN 0))) fame, OREN AMBARCHI and ATTILA CSIHAR from MAYHEM! Also confirmed are ASVA, featuring Stuart Dahlquist (SUNN/ GOATSNAKE/ BURNING WITCH), TREY SPURANCE (Mr BUNGLE) and EDGY 59 (legendary vocalist from BURNING WITCH) who return to our shores for their first shows in two years, and an OSAKA INVASION in the form of DJ SCOTCH EGG, OVE NAXX and a load of other Japanese reprobates.

They join: BATTLES, HARVEY MILK, EFTERKLANG, HARMONIA, NOXAGT, EARTH, WOODEN SHJIPS, THRONES, OXBOW, JUSTICE YELDMAN, DALEK, ORTHODOX, BLACK SUN, THE OWL SERVICE, MAX TUNDRA, MAGNETAPHONE, PCM, EINSTELLUNG and GUAPO.

'FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR 2007' Plan B Magazine

"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."
Louis Pattison Plan B Magazine

"The Custard Factory is a typical Birmingham name, typical in its self deprecating frankness. The city of Birmingham, although the second largest in the UK, has always had more of an inferiority complex than a chip on its shoulder. Hard to love architecturally despite a recent makeover of its city centre, it feels like a city shambling ruefully on - the West Midlands accent of its citizens considered inherently risible - its hopes of civic prestige some way south of the horizon. And yet, as Supersonic once again demonstrates, Birmingham has shown itself in recent years to be far from the "cultural wilderness" this writer once offhandedly described the city as."
David Stubbs The Wire

"The finest thing in all Birmingham, avant-garde noise fest Supersonic fits more great music into. a day and a bit than ye Avalon fields of Glastonbury manage in the average decade."
Duncan Bell Bizarre Magazine