Fertilizer Festival
Photo: Claire Greenway
Each year Fertilizer brings to the UK the best new music from the country whose music scene has been keeping our ears and pins happy in recent months. At Fertilizer, you’ll find a genre-busting mix of music, artists and cultures and some of tomorrow’s big things today.
Fertilizer is a great example of how the hub works in partnership. We produce the festival with Sound, an event production and management company which produces some of the UK’s most innovative contemporary music tours and festivals. Working on Fertilizer keeps our tools sharp, and means that the advice we give to our clients and peers is up to the minute and based on our own practical experience.
This year’s action
This year (November 15 – 23 2007) Fertilizer moves west of its usual Shoreditch home for a special Good Shit from France happening, as part of the opening celebrations for the new St. Pancras Euro rail link. Artists appearing at Scala include leading nouvelle chanson francaişe lady, Barbara Carlotti, laid back hip hop outfit Klub des Loosers and Frederic Galliano’s Kuduro Sound System, which mixes French electro and Angolan beats. Meanwhile, composer and surrealist inventor Pierre Bastien, who was one of our summer highlights, will perform his delicate, minimal music on tiny robotic creatures created from meccano in the delightfully eccentric setting of the Horse Hospital. And finally, Fertilizer will be at the centre of the action too; we’re setting up stall right next to the new champagne bar to woo passengers with an afternoon of some of France’s best singer-songwriting talents in the station itself.
Check out all the latest Fertilizer news at www.fertilizerfestival.com
The Fertilizer backstory
This year’s Fertilizer offering builds on the success of previous festivals. In 2002, we gave UK audiences their first real taste of Norwegian sounds, with Fertilizer: Good Shit from Norway. In 2004, we kept it a bit more local, putting together a packed programme of Fertilizer: Good Shit from Britain (2004). 2005’s Fertilizer: Good Shit from Germany, showcased 100 musicians, and gave over 3000 music fans the chance to hear the likes of Chicks on Speed, 17 Hippies, Sonar Kollectiv, FSK and the mighty Seeed.