Jabberwocky Festival at The Excel Centre London

ATP, Pitchfork, and Primavera Sound are proud to announce Jabberwocky, a new music, art, and film festival that will take place at the ExCeL Centre in London August 15-16.

Jabberwocky 2014 will feature Neutral Milk Hotel, Caribou, Electric Wizard, Deafheaven, Kode9, Earth, Pissed Jeans, Connan Mockasin, The Ex, Speedy Ortiz, Iceage, Vatican Shadow, Joanna Gruesome, Metz, Jesu, I Break Horses, Chelsea Wolfe, Hookworms, Eaux, and the Growlers, with many more acts to be announced soon. The cinema program will also be announced soon, and stay tuned for updates on other activities.

Tickets are on sale now.

Pitchfork is happy to team up with ATP and Primavera once again, who we have worked with many times in the past. “Jabberwocky”, the poem in the wonderful 1871 Lewis Carroll book Through the Looking-Glass, is firstly a brilliant word and also the origin of the word portmanteau. In it, Humpty Dumpty eloquently explains that in a portmanteau, there are two meanings packed up into one word. Jabberwocky thus gives us words such as chortled, a combination of chuckle and snort, and frabjous, a blend of fair, fabulous, and joyous. Jabberwocky, the festival, is thus an elegant way to package up this collaboration between Pitchfork, ATP, and Primavera.