1 August @ Big Chill Festival

Kartel presents Pick Your Own at the Big Chill Festival, Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire. Ticket price: Adult £129 / Student £110 / Teen £60.

Pick Your Own presents the following line up from 12 till 6pm in the Big Chill club tent:
Alabama 3
The Alabama 3 make Sweet Muthafuckin Country Acid House Music. All night long. They're not from Alabama, and there's not three of them. They're from Brixton, London. They're the fellas that did that Soprano's theme tune.
Martina Topley-Bird
Martina Topley Bird is one of British pop’s great mavericks. When she first cast strange and exhilarating shadows over contemporary music on Tricky’s ‘Maxinquaye’ in 1995 no one was expecting the arrival of such a precocious young talent. The times were demanding conservative, retro-minded Britpop. Instead, the pair conjured up an intimate yet other-worldly form of down tempo, with Martina’s vocals acting as celestial foil to the blunted genius of the music, causing critics to fall over themselves and cash-till’s to work overtime.
Son of Dave
Cult bluesman who has inspired KT Tunstall, Supergrass, Grace Jones and recently Damian Albarn. SoD returns in 2008 with a critically acclaimed 3rd album called “O3”. The sound has expanded, adding guitar, piano, organ, a plucked cello and backing vocals to the staple looping harmonica, beat-box and foot stomp. The songs are themed around women, drinking, fighting and the dangers of crass consumerism for the working man, ‘03’ also features a cover of War’s classic ‘Low Rider’. "one of the most entertaining performers in the world" Dazed & Confused
Johnny Flynn & the Sussex Wit
Johnny Flynn is a proper, feature-worthy curio, more so than a modern day indie star has any right to be. One minute he’s revealing that his old man was in 'The Avengers', the next that, as a youngster, he used to work on a fishing boat and then that last night he performed with his band at the Royal Albert Hall. A few moments in his company, then, is enough to know that Master Flynn, 24 years old, will be keeping our attention for quite some time. And that's before even hearing his music.
Tom Mansi & the Icebreakers
Centre their unique take on rock n’ roll, country and blues around the steadfast double-bass and, in the words of Time Out recently, “put on quite a show” to boot. Q magazine describes their debut album as a mix of “twisted smoky nightclub balladry and dark funky rockabilly... ideally suited to a David Lynch movie”
The Mules
Co-founders, curators and resident house band of the original “Pick Your Own” night at Big Chill House The Mules play a strikingly unique fusion of stylings old and new, taking in post-punk, skiffle, country, blues and vaudeville. Their debut album, Save Your Face, was release on Kartel in March 2007 and they are currently preparing to record a much anticipated follow up record.
Richard Walters
A name to watch, Richard’s dulcet tones regularly see him compared with vocal greats Thom Yorke and Damien Rice. Inspired by his home towns’, Oxford, burgeoning music scene his songs have been describe as; “simple and stunning” Nightshift magazine, the “most haunting balladry you’ll hear outside of Jeff Buckley or Anthony and the Johnsons” Roomthirteen. In the studio he has worked with Bernard Butler, Guy Sigsworth and David Kosten, most recently completing a single “Brittle Bones” with David Kosten, to be released on Kartel in August. He has supported Imogen Heap and the Dave Matthews band.