Sheffield Placard Headphone Festival

Saturday July 16, 2011 @ 12 noon - 12 midnight

Free

@Access Space

We're holding the first Sheffield Placard Headphone Festival at Access

Flyer: http://lurk.org/placard/

Background http://lurk.org/placard/background.html

Facebook event:http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=162867633772525

Performers in no particular order: Daniel Massey, John Moseley, Martyn Eggleton, Jen Rich, Susanne Palzer, Deliberate, Sunshine Gray, Swan-Hunter, Nice, Ian Baxter, Jagernot, Hard Shoulder, Jake Harries, Graham Coleman, Mark Fell, Neil Webb & Ron Wright, Stan Skinny, Foster, yaxu, sndsukinspook, The Curious Machine, helopg, Parcel Shelf, Charles Matthews, + more tbc

The whole event will have an on-line video stream; the link will appear here on the day: http://lurk.org/placard/

BRING YOUR OWN HEADPHONES

SATURDAY 16TH JULY 2011

36 acts from midday - midnight

0114 249 5522 www.access-space.org

Contact: placard2011@lurk.org

A collaboration of many including Nice, access space and yaxu.

History

Le Placard started in 1998 in Paris, France. At that time finding venues for alternative music was difficult, and police raids on unlicensed events were frequent. So instead Erik Minkkinen organised a headphone party in his small apartment, called 'placard' after the French word for 'cupboard'. Since then this concept has grown to an international streaming festival, with tens of cities providing listening rooms for local and remote performances. Placard has formed part of the Mutek, Transmediale, Garage and Pixelache festivals. The event in Paris has itself grown into an institution, running for 72 hours straight where the audience sleep with their headphones on, still listening.

BRING YOUR OWN HEADPHONES : )