Festival Line Up Additions: Sonar & Wild in the Country, plus the Cocoon ticket winner!

Holy Schmokes! which festival to do? too many options? Do i go abroad? do i stay here? Well i'm not going to help you with this post. Nope i'm just here to tell you what else has been added to make it even harder to decide.

Firstly, our friends at Sonar have decided to add more. If the Richie Hawtin/M-Nus 10th Birthday showcase wasn't enough, they've only gone and added everyone's favourite Chilean Ricardo Villalobos, deep disher Dubfire and Efdemin! Also Soulwax have been added as part of their "Weekend Never Dies"/"Most of the Remixes" tour. Probably my favourite addition is version 3 of the DJ Yoda audio visual extravaganza, yep the man will be presenting his Magic Cinema Show this year. Can't wait, every time i've seen him do his video thing it has been nothing short of spectacular.

NEW CONFIRMED ARTISTS FOR SÓNAR 2008
Soulwax (live/BE)
Dubfire (DJ set/US)
Ricardo Villalobos (DJ set/CL)
DJ Yoda's Magic Cinema Show (DJ set/UK)
The Black Dog (live/uk)
Quiet Village (live/UK)
Oscar Mulero (DJ set/ES)
Two PIAS DJs (DJ set/ES)

SHOWCASES
Dial Records presents:
Pantha Du Prince (live/DE)
Efdemin (DJ set/DE)

More info and tickets from www.sonar.es

A bit closer to home Renaissance are pulling out all the stops on their third attempt on UK festival Wild in the Country. They've got a M-Nus arena with Hawtin, they've got Sasha, they've got Tenaglia and 2ManyDjs. All the big guns are there, plus some big names in small letters such as Carl Craig, MANDY, Ame and Dixon. And to top it there are a load of bands which have 'The' at the start of their names which are probably massive on the nu-rave skins house party circuit. This year's live headliner comes in a tiny little Icelandic package called Bjork whos been getting rave reviews currently, take a look for yourself. So if you're gonna go to a UK festival Wild in the Country is my recommendation. Apart from the rain last year the festival was spot on. The 3 arenas were decked out immaculately and gave that element of intimacy if you could ever imagine large festival tents doing so. The lineup so far is:

Live

Bjork (UK Festival Exclusive), Soulwax, Foals, Battles, Pendulum, Booka Shade, Hercules & Love Affair, The Presets, Kissy Sell Out, Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip, The Count & Sinden, The Cuban Brothers, Metronomy, Killa Kela, Audion, Heartthrob, The Field, XX Teens, Slagsmalsklubben

DJ's

Sasha, 2manydjs, Danny Tengalia, Richie Hawtin, Mylo (DJ Set), Faithless DJ Set (Sister Bliss + Maxi Jazz), Carl Craig, M.A.N.D.Y., James Zabiela, Dave Seaman, Magda, Marco Carola, Annie Mac, Switch, Ame, Plump DJs, Norman Jay, Yousef, Dixon, Duke Dumont, Serge Santiago, Nightmoves, Audiofly, Inxec, Matt Tolfrey, Marcus James

get your tickets from here, all early birds have gone though, better move quick before the normal tickets go.

Now time for the Cocoon @ The Warehouse Project ticket winner. The winner correctly answered the question "which country does Ricardo Villalobos come from?". The answer was of course Chile. Our winner is:

Liv Tickle from Manchester

Her tie breaker answer was: "I've made a portrait of Ricardo Villalobos using some card, glue and my own toe nail clippings"..... errrr nice girl? Congratulations, however i am now worried about the safety of Mr Villalobos allowing this young woman into the event...