On April 17 - 18, at the Club de Kreun in Kortrijk, Belgium, Deerhoof will help kick off the third-annual Sonic City festival as both performer and curator. They jumped at their first chance to curate a festival and created a lineup described as “an honest, idiosyncratic mix of friends and admiration, with a strong focus on European artists.” The band is also hoping that attendees will be exposed to a couple new bands because they have applied this simple mantra for their band/performer picks: “Discovery is the central theme!”
The band goes on: “OK, so I know Kortrijk isn’t exactly the most well-known of European travel destinations. All the same, trust me, we are honored to be curating our very first festival, and we hope some of you can come. And what a lineup!!! My brain explodes trying to imagine all these artists in the same room. You will not see an assortment like this every day, no indeed!”
Indeed!
• Friday April 16:
Deerhoof (special rooftop performance)
• Saturday April 17:
The Go! Team
SO COW
Chad Popple & Gorge Trio feat. Deerhoof members John and Ed
Father Murphy
Paolo Pandolfo
Baaba
Divorce
Anabel’s Poppy Day
• Sunday April 18:
Deerhoof
The Kids
Talk Normal
Ben Butler & Mousepad
Daan Vandewalle
Leonid Soybelman
Hoquets
L’ocelle Mare
Also don’t forget Deerhoof’s worldwide tour, their performance of Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures with Xiu Xiu, and the Record Store Day reissues.
• Sonic City: http://dekreun.be/live/festival/sonicicty10
• Deerhoof: http://deerhoof.killrockstars.com
