Good people in good bands bring you the ‘GoodFest’ to banish all the negativity of 2009 (job loses/break ups/deaths/fall outs/war etc) and cement goodness for all in 2010! Hurrah!

No Christians or any other religion involved in this event! It's not that sort of bad Goodness!

With: smallgang, Crumbling Ghost, Muddy Suzuki, Platform, Simon and Alex, Former Utopia

Moon Mama, better known as Pikacyu, drummer/singer in Japanese Art-rock duo Afrirampo who also plays in Acid Mothers Temple, will be playing a Japanese Folk Set on an acoustic guitar with a special guest assisting.

With support from Monster Island, a three piece from Lancashire who spark up a satircal and caustic yet pretty catchy off kilter dirge and some of the best lyrics you’ll hear this year, and the raggedy baritoned lo-fi alt-folk of Radio 6/Resonance FM featured Former Utopia

Formed in Utrecht Netherlands in 2000, the 5 piece originally called themselves Dylman's Disco Method, but they quickly dropped this for We vs Death when they discovered their talent for an intense and majestic form of post rock. Now, as the band release their second album A Black House, A Coloured Home, they have even stuck on a bit of singing! What will the post-rock scene make of it! Glorious!

A united front of disperate London Promoters and DJ’s have decided to celebrate groundbreaking music and the man we owe our passion for music to with this substantial alldayer event. Over 20 acts and DJs on 2 floors providing a feast of entertainment we hope John Peel would have loved!

Over 20 acts! - 14 DJs! - 2 floors of entertainment! - Mini acoustic gigs in the Karoke rooms! - Bands from 4pm-Midnight! - 2 Clubs from Midnight-3am playing a John Peel-styled mix of genres! - John Peel favourites and the very best in new punk/tweecore/lofi/grindcore/surf/worldmusic/alt folk and quirky pop! - Bowling! 50’s style diner! - John Peel/Punk attitude/rare Charlie Parr films screenings! - All smack bang in the centre of London!

The Line Up confirmed for John Peel Day 2009!
Airport Girl, Bad Guys, Beatnik Filmstars, Ben Sommers, Darren Hayman (DJ SET), David Gedge (DJ SET), Former Utopia, Frivalous Laura, Golden Animals, Jasmina Maschina, KING SALAMI & THE CUMBERLAND 3, Kogumaza, Madam, Maggie8, MJ Hibbett, Monster Island, No Cars, Mordros, Russell and the wolf choir, Tender Trap, Theo, and more tba...

All brought to you by these Promoters!
Damnably, Dandelion Radio, Dirty Water, Fortuna Pop, Freedom of Expression, How Does It Feel To be Loved, Let’s go Baboon, Neo Magazine, Silver Rocket, Stranger Songs, The Local, Totally Acoustic, Resonance FM/Radio 6’s Ruth Barnes plus special guest and John Peel producer Louise Kattenhorn!

Julie Doiron started playing guitar and bass in seminal art grunge act Eric's Trip at age eighteen in 1990, then, shortly before the band's break-up in 1996, she released a solo album under the name Broken Girl. Now, nine solo albums later, Julie has proved herself to be one of Canada’s most impressive recording artists, blessed with an iconic voice, guitar and songwriting style all her own. She has also collaborated with The Tragically Hip, Wooden Stars, Herman Düne, Okkervil River, and Phil Elverum AKA Mount Eerie, but to be honest she is much much more interesting and better than all these put together.

Julie Dorion is also pure DIY and started her own label 'Sappy Records' back in 1990 and then her very own annual Sappy Festival in 2006.

Her new album I Can Wonder What You Did with Your Day (Jagjaguwar) has garnered radio play on both BBC R2 and 6music and is one of the albums of the year so far.

Julie will be playing as a 2 piece with Dick Morello on drums-possibly swopping around for a few of the songs they also play together as Calm Down It's Monday

"Doiron, once of Eric's Trip, has produced an album of boundless optimism for the post-Bush age" Uncut

"she enunciates with a child's relish, tonguing vowels as though they're glazed in jam. her voice apple blossom rich, the melody capacious" Plan B

"Yet it's a blissful record from a contented soul." Subba-Cultcha

With support from:

Construction & Destruction

Partners Colleen Collins and David Trenaman, live in, work out of an old house by the sea in the rural wilds of Port Greville, Nova Scotia, Canada, where they record most of their work in a studio they call, affectionately, The Quarantine. Here, spurred by the creative breeding ground they inhabit at the feet of the ancient Cobequid Mountains and the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean's highest tides, the ragged and open northern geography elicits musical explorations of inner geographies. Construction & Destruction are equally at home tearing it up as erecting it slowly. DIY purests, they write, record, produce, and disseminate their material themselves with their third album, video et taceo, due for release in September 2009.

Lazarus Clamp
Formed back in 1993, this UK alt. folk/post-punk institution have played with Giant Sand, Chris Brokaw, The New Year, Laura Cantrell, Richard Buckner, David Grubbs, Herman Dune, and at SXSW in 2001. Lazarus Clamp are magically inventive, and capable of producing muscular post-punk as heavy as Silkworm or Shellac, intricately textured post-rockers, and deceptively purty pop songs in the tradition of the Go-Betweens or Palace. The band will be touring their fifth album: 'Against Entitlement'.

Former Utopia
Radio 6/Resonance FM featured East London born, X-Lazarus Clamp bassist is a genre defying intelligent edgy song smith that producing the kind of mortally sad, black humoured alt. folk that reminiscent of Lambchop, Mountain Goats and on occasion Shellac. He has gigged with Chris Brokaw, The Thalia Zedek band, Swell, Mick Turner (Dirty Three) P.W Long, David Grubbs and backed Damo Suzuki.

Extra date added!

Damnably are excited to present Shonen Knife, super influential all-female Japanese pop-punk band formed in Osaka, in 1981, by sisters Naoko Yamano and Atsuko Yamano. The Ramones loving, food obsessed trio effortlessly create kooky songs with upbeat infectious melodies and exuberant lyrics often about sweets and animals. The bands twenty-seven-year career has seem them tour the world with Nirvana (on the Nevermind tour), Sonic Youth, the BMX Bandits, and as part of Lollapolooza. They also recorded sessions for John Peel, appeared on MTV’s Beavis and Butthead, 120 minutes, the Conan O’Brian show and even wrote "Buttercup (I'm a Supergirl)" for that for the hugely popular cartoon The Powerpuff Girls.

The band have a new Bassist Ritsuko, a new album called ‘Super Group’ and this is their first tour in the UK in 16 years!!!

With support from:

The Debutante Hour
Female accordion/percussion duo (Maria and Susan) that for this summer are joined by their lovely cellist, Mia Pixley. They released their self-titled EP in January 2008, performed live on WFMU radio with Julian Kytastky and the Experimental Bandura Trio and toured South Korea, Japan and Germany and shared a stage with Debbie Harry and Nellie McKay in a fundraiser for The Living Theatre. Susan and Maria also recorded back-up vocal tracks on The Hold Steady's newest album, "Stay Positive." Maria has been a board member and pianist for New York avante group, Anti-Social Music.

No Cars
Food obsessed London based Japanese female lofi scuzzy 50's garage-pop trio. The band share a zany sense of humour making their live shows wholesome and incredible fun. Haruna plays guitar, Sachi plays bass and new member Kyoko plays the drums and they all sing. The band have won (mostly male) fans with their simple, catchy songs and fetching hats and are destined for ultra fame and more expensive hats.