As the boundaries between indie and dance, live and electronic music become ever more blurred and intertwined, the timing of this summer’s Get Loaded festivals in London and Cardiff couldn’t have been anymore apt or significant if it tried. The first dose of live music & DJs takes place in Cardiff on the glorious grounds of Coopers Field on Bank Holiday Saturday 25th August, as Cardiff Calling (10,000 people) returns to Wales for the second time after last year’s spectacular launch. The Get Loaded gang will then pack up the tour bus for more of the same on Sunday 26th August on Clapham Common (20,000 people), as the Award-Winning Get Loaded in the Park swaggers back into London for a 4th rock n’ roll year.

Last year’s debut Cardiff Calling event mixed up heavyweight headliners like Snow Patrol, De La Soul and Badly Drawn Boy, with raw new talent such as Lily Allen and Jamie T, alongside dance legends including Josh Wink and James Lavelle… whilst Get Loaded in the Park rejuvenated the career of Pete Doherty’s band Babyshambles and helped break the likes of Lily Allen and Guillemots to a wider audience, whilst Tiga, Erol Alkan, Green Velvet and Digitalism kept the electro freaks happy in the Dance Arena! Our Get Loaded festivals picked up 5 nominations at the UK Festival Awards 2006 for Best One Day Festival, Best New Festival and Innovation Award (all London) and Best One Day Festival and Best New Festival (both Cardiff).

Cardiff Calling 2007 will this year be more of a straight up ‘live bands’ affair, with a heavier emphasis on new and emerging Welsh bands across the 3 stages – featuring for the first ever the ‘Cardiff Calling Unsigned’ Arena. Our commitment to work alongside the local community will continue even more so this year as we look to build upon the success of 2006’s awe-inspiring Metro Weekender and cement Cardiff Calling into the history books as a festival the good people of Cardiff can be proud to call their own. Get Loaded in the Park 2007 meanwhile, will continue with the same winning format that has helped establish the festival as one of the UK’s most groundbreaking inner-city events, whilst pushing the musical envelope further still and offering our greatest line-up EVER and plenty of exclusive festival performances to get you all rather excited about.

** 1ST MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT **
THE STREETS
UK FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE

As a major festival exclusive this summer, the voice of real middle England, The Streets (aka Mike Skinner) will be headlining both Get Loaded festivals – Cardiff Calling and Get Loaded in the Park at the Metro Weekender and have the honour of closing the main stage in both cities. Having first broke onto the scene in 2002 from the ashes of UK garage with the pioneering album ‘Original Pirate Material’, The Streets followed up their Mercury Prize nominated debut with a No.1 selling second album, ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’ in 2004. This highly praised concept album took the South London outfit to a whole new level (3 million copies sold, plus multiple Brit and Ivor Novello awards), before album No.3; last year’s ‘The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living’ album saw The Streets replace fiction with fact on their honest and frank tale of celebrity darkness… confirming their status as one of the world’s most innovative and original artists.

ET LOADED IN THE PARK & CARDIFF CALLING
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