One Love Festival 2012

The One Love reggae festival, now in its fifth year, has moved to a new site this year – Hop Farm in Kent, also the home of Vince Power’s acclaimed new fest.

Amongst the top reggae acts – including Aba Shanti?I, Cornell Campbell, Dawn Penn, the Disciples, Dub Syndicate, Iration Steppas, King Tubby, Monkey Mafia, Macka B, Smith & Mighty, Michigan and Smiley – there are a whole raft of top quality electronic music acts playing the Lively Up Yourself marquee at the event.

Tailoring to an extent their sets to reflect One Love’s vibe, some great dubstep and dance acts will be rolling up to throw down some big anthems.

Barry Ashworth from the Dub Pistols has curated the dance tent on the Saturday night, bringing some of his peers along to join his Dub Pistols Soundsystem. Breakbeat legend Krafty Kuts, acclaimed duo The Freestylers, Mooqee & Pimpsoul, aka the Bombstrikes Soundsystem, and the Drum Monkeys will be spinning dubwise breaks, electro?house and other sounds in keeping with the event.

Meanwhile, on the Friday night, dubstep comes to the dub festival, which was set up in memory of reggae legend Bob Marley. Curated by top dubstep?inclined audio?visual crew the Urban Knights, the line?up is headed by dubstep pioneer Hatcha, one of the sound’s pioneers since his days in
Croydon with Skream & Benga and the like. The Kiss FM DJ will be joined by Eddie K, Fonti & Bushkin (formerly the Heartless Crew), Killsonic, and the Urban Knights themselves.

The second phase of the advanced sales for One Love Festival 2012 has just started. One weekend ticket for the whole festival costs just £100. With the Early Bird tickets selling out in record time this year, the second phase of advance tickets looks to be as popular. With the announcement ticketing partner HMV selling tickets through their chain of shops NationWide and over the phone One Love Festival is looking like going to be a sell out event.

Full line up so far…

ABA SHANTI SOUNDSYSTEM, BABY BOOM, BLOCO FOGO, BUSTER SHUFFLE , BOMB STRIKES SOUNDSYSTEM
feat MOQUEE & PIMPSOUL, BY THE RIVERS, CONNIE & DI MAM DEM, CHANNEL ONE SOUNDSYSTEM, CHRIS
COCO, CONSCIOUS SOUNDS FEATURING KING GENERAL, CORNELL CAMPBELL, COXSONE SOUND SYSTEM
MEETS SAXON SOUND SYSTEN, DAWN PENN, DENNIS ALCAPONE, DISCIPLES, DON CAMPBELL, DON LETTS,
DUB PISTOLS SOUNDSYSTEM, DJ G AND FUTUREMAN, DUB SYNDICATE, EARL GATESHEAD, ECCLETON
JARRET, EDDIE K , FENOMENOSHOW, FONTI AND BUSH (Formally Heartless Crew), FREESTYLERS , GAUDI,
HATCHA , HOLLIE COOK, INSTRUMENT OF JAH SOUND SYSTEM, INTENSIFIED, IRATION STEPPAS, JACK CURTIS
AND RED EYE BAND , JAH TUBBY SOUND SYSTEM ft ERROLL BELLOT, DIXIE PEACH, GREGORY FABULOUS et le.
JAH WARRIORS, KEVIN ISSACS. KILLSONIC aka chasing Shadows, KING TUBBY’S HI FI, KRAFTY KUTS, MACKA B,
MICHIGAN AND SMILEY, MINIMAN & EARL 16, NICK MANASSEH, MIXMASTER MORRIS, MONKEY MAFIA,
OVER PROOF SOUND SYSTEM, RAGGA TWINS, RAS KWAME, RHYMITIES, ROBBO RANX, SAXON SOUND
SYSTEM marquee full sound system full crew, MC SIR REAL , MUNGOS HI FI , PHOENIX CITY All?STARS,
REBELATION , SKORCHA AND PABLO, SIP A CUP ft MATTIC HORNS, SMITH & MIGHTY, SOOTHSAYERS, STYLO
G, TAPPER ZUKIE, THE DUALERS, THE SKINTS, TROY ELLIS, TWILIGHT CIRCUS DUB SOUND SYSTEM,
UNIVERSITY OF DUB, URBAN KNIGHTS, UNITY HI?FI, YOUTHMAN PROMOTION SOUND, ZED BIAS ?

What: One Love Festival
When: 10-12 August 2012
Where: Hop Farm – Paddock Woods – TN12 6PY
More Info: www.onelovefestival.co.uk