HISTORY
Seven years old, Lovebox has become a must do event on the bristling summer social calender. Held annually on London's oldest public park bordering Bethnal Green, Hackney, and Bow, London's most creative and socially dynamic quarters, Lovebox as a festival, urban event or "happening" is without comparison.
Music has always been at the heart of Lovebox; with all the rock & roll chaos and glamour of supercharged sets, epic performances with dramatic backdrops, and chuggy jams under the trees from bands and DJs spanning the genres.
The first show saw Groove Armada, The Blackbyrds, Norman Jay and Richie Havens play the same live stage while Mr Scruff, Joey Negro, Gilles Peterson and Movement amongst others fired up 3 different dance music arenas.
Since then the attendance has more than trippled and in the size of the site, this year (2010) 50,000 people are expected to attend. The result is that anyone coming to Lovebox can traverse their way across an incredible musical landscape hand picked by a bunch of real fanatics turning each other on to new and old bands, DJs and musical styles, be it folk, hip hop, indie, disco-punk, rock, world or electronic music. It's very much a case of the whole being "greater than the sum of the parts.
Lovebox Weekend - Line Up 2011
Beardyman, Ed Banger featuring: Busy P, Carte Blanche (DJ Mehdi & Riton), Cassius, Sebastian, Uffie, Example, Flying Lotus Live, FWD >> Rinse featuring: Skream, Roll Deep, Ms Dynamite, Zinc & Tippa, Roska, Jamie George, Kode 9, Plastician, P Money, Hudson Mohawke Live, Metronomy, The Wombats, Spank Rock, Bag Raiders, Daz Dillinger, Dry The River, Fenech Soler, Groove Armada Present Red Light, High Contrast, Hospitality featuring: High Contrast, David Rodigan, London Elektricity (ft Elas Esmerelda), Danny Byrd. Shy fx, Netsky, Camo + Krooked, Starkey, Logistics (ft Natalie Williams), Nu:tone, Sigma, Wah Wah 45's Soundsystem PLUS MC's - Dynamite, Wrec, AD, SP:MC, Stamina, Jess Mills, Joe Cool, Katy B, Kurupt, Lady Rage, Lykke Li, Maverick Sabre, Mulletover featuring: Groove Armada present Red Light, Seth Troxler, Art Department, Geddes, RBX, Ross Allen, Snoop Dogg playing "Doggystyle Live", The Drums, The Phoenix Foundation, Warm & Electric Minds featuring: Ame, Sebo K, Motor City Drum Ensemble, Appleblim, Floating Points, Mark E, Warren G, 2 Many DJ's, Azari & III, Black Devil Disco Club, Blondie, Dr Noki NHS, Feral AKA MC Kinky, Hard Ton, Horse Meat Disco featuring: Tensnake, The Shit Robot Show Live, Severino, Luke Howard, James Hillard, Jim Stanton, Jodie Harsh's Circus, Jonny Woo, Kelis, Marc Almond, MEN, Planningtorock, Robyn , Scissor Sisters
Lovebox Weekend - Line Up 2010
Dizzee Rascal, Chase & Status, Roxy Music, Grace Jones, Empire Of The Sun, Booka Shade, Wild Beasts, Rox, Jay, Electronica, Codeine Velvet Club, Jesse Rose, Henrik Schwarz, Dixon, Work It Vs Yo Yo, Blaise Bellville, Grandmaster Flash, Midnight Beast, The Bang Bang Club, What's Next Collective, Groove Control DJs, Bigga Bloco, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, UD Vocal Collective, Griminal, Fugitive, Miss Bratz, Fundamental MC, Dizraeli and the Small Gods, New Brand Flex, Aggro all, Balkan Beat Box, Swarathma, Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer, Hula Hoop Heaven, The Jessie Rose Trip, The Destroyers, The Heavy, Primary 1, The Bombshellettes, MemoryHouse, Laurel Collective, Katzenjammer, Balkan Beat Box, Kirsty Almeida, Hot Blood Soundsystem, Bad Passion, Deepfrequency, To The Bone, DJ Alex, Steve Terry, Futureboogie, Felix Dickinson, Soul Mekanik, NightBus, Crystal Fighters, We Have Band, O. Children, The Correspondents, Brassroots, Drum-Along-Disco, Vid Warren, Cut a Shine, Hackney Colliery Band, The Grand Majestic, The Swingle Singers plus many many more.....