UnderAge Festival

Underage Festival
Location: Victoria Park, Hackney, and E9
Ticket price is: £22.50

After last year's massive sell out success, Underage is returning to the playground of Victoria Park for its second year of a modern music master class. The world's first incarnation of the Underage festival in 2007 was an unprecedented summer sensation with festival favorites such as Jack Penate, The Pigeon Detectives, Foals, Mystery Jets, Patrick Wolf, The Metros, Scouting for Girls amongst a detention hall full of the brightest bands gracing the stages and charts in the year Underage brought itself to the forefront of innovative and mainstream festivals. The Underage demand for the pioneering festival massively outweighed supply and now with the regular club nights going from strength to strength and Underage gigs popping up all over the country, 2008 will see the original purveyors return for round two of the groundbreaking summer festival.

Last year's festival received a wealth of A+ reviews and Gold Star plaudits from the media. From Sunday Times Style and The Observer to Teen Vogue and Time Magazine to Artrocker and NME to the 6 o'clock news, London Tonight and Radio 1, this was an event that captured the imagination of a nation and tapped into a vibrant and buoyant scene set by Britain's youth.

Curator Sam Killcoyne, now a veteran at 16 will return with his unbridled passion to curate the summer's hottest ticket event. With not one complaint and an impeccably behaved crowd in 07 the organizers will this year be increasing the capacity from 5,000 to 7,000 to meet the insatiable demand of the underage music scene and putting together a line up strong enough to wish you were 16 all over again.

All media partners will be returning including BBC Radio 1 and BBC Switch who will be supporting the festival this year, recording live music from the event for later broadcast.