PRESS RELEASE: CAPSULE ANNOUNCE ADDITIONS TO SUPERSONIC FESTIVAL 2008 LINE-UP

Capsule are ecstatic to announce more additions to the already stellar line-up for this year's Supersonic Festival - to be held at The Custard Factory in Digbeth, Birmingham.

Just added to the bill are GRAVETEMPLE featuring the living legend that is JULIAN COPE with STEPHEN O"MALLEY of SUNN 0))) fame, OREM OMBARCHI and ATTILA CSIHAR from MAYHEM! Also confirmed are ASVA, featuring Stuart Dahlquist (SUNN/GOATSNAKE/BURNING WITCH), TREY SPURANCE (Mr BUNGLE) and EDGY 59 (legendary vocalist from BURNING WITCH) who return to our shores for their first shows in two years, and an OSAKA INVASION in the form of DJ SCOTCH EGG, OVE NAXX and a load of other Japanese reprobates.

They join: BATTLES, HARVEY MILK, EFTERKLANG, HARMONIA, NOXAGT, EARTH, WOODEN SHJIPS, THRONES, OXBOW, JUSTICE YELDMAN, DALEK, ORTHODOX, BLACK SUN, THE OWL SERVICE, MAX TUNDRA, MAGNETAPHONE, PCM, EINSTELLUNG and GUAPO.

Tickets go on sale at the beginning of April from Welcome to TicketWeb!.

Please stay tuned for more developments, confirmed line-ups and running orders.

Since 1999 Capsule has been instrumental in the transformation of Birmingham, Britain's Second City, from a cultural backwater to one of the most important ports-of-call on the international experimental music circuit . Champions of all things across the avant-garde spectrum, Capsule present a year-round programme of live music, events and exhibitions.

FESTIVAL OF THE YEAR 2007 - Plan B Magazine

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"Of this welter of well organised, wisely curated festivals (ATP, Faster Than Sound, Sonar, Greenman) perhaps the best organised and most wisely curated was Supersonic. Plotted by Birmingham promoters Capsule, 2007's Supersonic inhabited the nexus where metal, folk and noise met."


Louis Pattison Plan B Magazine


"The Custard Factory is a typical Birmingham name, typical in its self deprecating frankness. The city of Birmingham, although the second largest in the UK, has always had more of an inferiority complex than a chip on its shoulder. Hard to love architecturally despite a recent makeover of its city centre, it feels like a city shambling ruefully on - the West Midlands accent of its citizens considered inherently risible - its hopes of civic prestige some way south of the horizon. And yet, as Supersonic once again demonstrates, Birmingham has shown itself in recent years to be far from the "cultural wilderness" this writer once offhandedly described the city as."

David Stubbs The Wire


"The finest thing in all Birmingham, avant-garde noise fest Supersonic fits more great music into. a day and a bit than ye Avalon fields of Glastonbury manage in the average decade."

Duncan Bell Bizarre Magazine


"The shared enthusiasm of artists and audience at SuperSonic 07 demonstrated that Capsule have struck a (lung-vibrating and low frequency) chord with the community they have brought together. This hunger for the unknown and sonically forbidden, leads us to wonder: what surprises could the next SuperSonic bring?"

David Thair BBC Collective

"Supersonic offered a refreshingly independent blast of black-clad minimal metal, drone rock, and avant-electronica. And was far more fun than that sounds. As a festival, Supersonic sits somewhere between Sonar by Day and a reviews page of Wire magazine brought to life."

Rod Stanley Dazed Magazine

"As British music festivals go, Birmingham's annual Supersonic event is the best kind of mixed musical bag, a dizzying assortment of avant rock textures and Heavy Metal thunder on a bill which swings from the sublime to the ridiculous without once seeming ostentatiously eclectic. Not only is the music consistently better than that of most UK weekenders, the atmosphere is equally enticing, making this the perfect festival for people who 'wouldn't normally do this kind of thing'.The organisers of Supersonic deserve credit for joining the dots between the cerebral pleasures of the avant garde and the primal pull of planet rock, striking a delicate balance between chin-stroking and headbanging few other British events bother to attempt. There's a kind of straightforward karma at work here, the thought and care invested in making this event a worthwhile experience for all involved guarantees good word of mouth, and this in turn ensures its survival. One would like to think that Supersonic could provide a good example to the UK's ailing - in terms of quality, rather than lucrativeness - festival circuit."


The Wire 2006