SecondFest

I just got sent an invite to this: SecondFest, presented by the Guardian and Intel, is a festival in Second Life, going on all this weekend. Unfortunately I'm going to be on a plane to Brussels, got a speech to do, but here's in case you don't have to schlep a million miles in a compressed cigar tube at the weekend:

I'm going to post the line-up, because it's really long and really quite amazing. I can't work out whether there's some real-life fest going on this weekend and this is relaying content from there, or whether this is put on just in Second Life. It seems to be just the latter, which is frankly boggling (and completely brilliant), check it out:

Friday June 29:Opening party
DJs: 6pm - 12am
18:00 - 19:30 Toby Tobias
19:30 - 21:00 Glimmer Twins
21:00 - 22:30 Greg Wilson
22:30 - 00:00 Tom Findlay (Groove Armada DJ set)

Saturday June 30
12.00-14.00 DJs from Trojan Soundsystem
14:00 - 15:00 The Sea
15:00 - 16:00 Staypuff
16:00 - 17:00 Tawiah
17:00 - 18:00 Gilles Peterson, Music from Brownswood
18:00 - 19:00 Cinematic Orchestra
19:00 - 20:00 Simian Mobile Disco
20:00 - 21:00 Digitalism
21:00 - 22:00 The Egg
22:00 - 23:00 New Young Pony Club
23:00 - 00:00 Aliens

Sunday July 1
12.00 - 14.00 DJs from Turk Recordings
14:00 - 15:00 Slovo
15:00 - 16:00 Cuban Brothers
16:00 - 17:00 Mamashamone
17:00 - 18:00 Dub Pistols from Sunday Best
18:00 - 19:00 Florence & the Machine from Adventures in a Beetroot Field
19:00 - 20:00 Trail
20:00 - 20:30 Fields from Adventures in a Beetroot       Field
21:00 - 22:00 The Idle Lovers
22:00 - 22:30 Hadouken from Adventures in a Beetroot Field
23:00 - 00:00 Pet Shop Boys

 

Indie stage Saturday June 30 12.00 - 15.00 Trojan Soundsystem, Earl Gateshead and MCs 15.00 - 18.00 Guilty Pleasures, Sean Rowley Bugged out present: 18.00 - 19.00 Hot Chip DJ Kicks Set 19:00 - 20:00 Simian Mobile Disco 20:00 - 21:00 Digitalism 21:00 - 22:00 Tiga 22:00 - 23:00 New Young Pony Club Sunday July 1 Rob Da Bank's Sunday Best 12:00 - 13:00 Max Sedgely 13:00 - 14:00 Grand National 14:00 - 15:00 Rob Da Bank 15:00 - 16:00 Cuban Brothers 16:00 - 17:00 X-Press2 17:00 - 18:00 Dub Pistols Adventures in the Beetroot Field 18:00 - 18:20 Florence & the Machine 18:20 - 19:00 Crispin Dior 19:00 - 19:30 The Knife 19:30 - 20:00 Casper C 20:00 - 20:30 Fields 20:30 - 21:00 Skull Juice 21:00 - 21:30 XX Teens 21:30 - 22:00 Filthy Dukes 22:00 - 22:30 Hadouken 22:30 - 23:00 Surkin 23:00 - 23:30 Good Shoes
Dance tent Saturday June 30 Gilles Peterson presents: Brownswood Recordings 12:00 - 12:55 Toshio Matsuura 12.55 - 1.45 Simbad 1.45 - 2.45 Una Bombers 14:45 - 15:30 Ben Westbeech 15:30 - 16:15 Benji B 16:15 - 17:00 Tawiah 17:00 - 18:00 Gilles Peterson Ninja Tunes/ Big Dada 18:00 - 19:00 Cinematic Orchestra 19:00 - 20:00 The Heavy 20:00 - 21:00 Infinite Livez 21:00 - 22:00 Wiley 22:00 - 23:00 The Qemists Hexstatic 23:00 - 00:00 Coldcut Sunday July 1 secretsundaze 12:00 - 13:00 James Priestley (Simple) exc DJ Set 13:00 - 14:00 Mike Shannon (Cynosure) 14:00 - 15:00 Giles Smith (Dessous) excl DJ Set 15:00 - 16:00 Dan Berkson & James What Live (Poker Flat) 16:00 - 17:00 Gabriel Ananda (Karmarouge) 17:00 - 18:00 James Priestley (Simple) exc DJ Set Journey through the light with David Mancuse of The Loft 18:00 - 19:00 Cosmo (DJ) excl 2 hour DJ set 20:00 - 21:00 David Mancuso (The Loft NYC) / Exclusive 4 hour set
Chill Island All the acts on Chill Island are Second Life bands performing live. Performance times are GMT. Saturday June 30 12.00 - 14.00 DJ Jenns 15.00 - 16.00 Clayton 17.00 - 18.00 Virtual Live Band 18.00 - 19.00 Slimmie ( Slim Warrior) 19.00 - 20.00 Tony Moore Sunday July 1 7.00 - 8.00 Moshang Zhao 16.00 - 18.00 Doubledown Tandino 18.00 - 20.00 Strangefates 19.00 - 20.00 Wiredaisies
Guardian Lounge Saturday June 30 Tirk Recordings presents DJ sets from: Tirk DJs Drrtyhaze Todd Terje Sunday July 1 Tirk Recordings presents DJ sets from: Sorcerer Love Supreme Reverso 68

I am SERIOUSLY bloody IMPRESSED.

I'm as sick as the next person of hearing about Second Life these days, but finally someone's gone and sorted out something that sounds both fun and useful, and joyful too.  Sheer cultural goodness. It's not another bloody tax service's digi-office or corporate multinational trying to flog their realworld goods in digital form.

Well done, grauniad-and-intel, bloody well done.

Comments

[Trevor]

This actually made me re-install Second Life and go back to my neon-clothed avatar (who I found stranded underwater in a lake)... Unfortunately I couldn't find the Intel islands where the Secondfest is built. After playing WoW for such a long time, Second Life is such a chore to navigate!

[Aleks]

Cheers Taylor - it's the latter; it's all performance, just for SecondFest. Phew. You didn't mention the SL Ballet or the movies or the theatre performances or.. oh it hurts me ;)

Trevor - if you need to find the rirect route to the festival, you can hop on the back of this link:

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Intel%208/36/225/67

(Hope you don't mind me posting that up Alice)

Aleks
your humble festival guide

[Natasha Driver]

Mmm... such a good line up. This is the kind of thing that makes me curse my 56k modem.

[Adec Alexandria]

..sorry you're missing it, Rivers Run Red have done an amazing job with the organisation / build ...

heres some photos of some of the acts for you so you can see what you missed :p

www.flickr.com/photos/adec

will add Pet Shop Boys later tonight :)

[Trevor]

Thanks for the info Aleks! Unfortunately I only have my sluggish laptop over the weekend so I wasn't able to check it out. I've heard very positive reviews though and, I'll have to admit, the first time Second Life has caught my interest in a long while.

I seem to hear someone talking about them every day now that they're setting up an office down here in Brighton. Maybe that's another reason I feel obliged to check it out all over again!

[Clopin]

You were in Brussels? What did I miss??

[Alice]

Oh gosh, nothing - I did a speech to NATO. There was no games event on or anything, don't worry :)

[Clopin]

Oh ok. You got me worried there for a sec...

[Tom]

That little exchange proves games events > NATO.