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Anti Social Camp, which has antecedently been described arsenic “SXSW for songwriters,” has unveiled the line-up for its maiden U.K. festival.
Taking spot astatine northbound London originative hub Tileyard adjacent period (Nov. 3-7), the free, four-day lawsuit volition link artists, songwriters and producers from crossed the globe, with the volition of giving them abstraction to constitute and collaborate connected caller material.
Over the past 5 years, the Anti Social Camp has taken spot successful New York City, welcoming the likes of Nile Rodgers, Jacob Collier, Ava Max, Cigarettes After Sex, Cash Cobian and much on the way. Its much caller variation saw implicit 200 artists participating successful signaling sessions astatine 40 studios, arsenic good arsenic 10 public-facing events crossed the city.
Having established itself arsenic a songwriting campy that doubles arsenic a festival, Anti Social Camp’s inaugural enlargement into the U.K. marketplace volition play big to immoderate of the nation’s astir prolific songwriters.
PinkPantheress, Glass Animals frontman Dave Bayley, Jamie Cullum, and Billy Bragg person each signed up to instrumentality portion successful sessions astatine Tileyard. They volition beryllium joined by The Wanted’s Nathan Sykes, Parson James and Nicholas Petricca of WALK THE MOON, arsenic good arsenic a further 200 artists, who volition beryllium announced up of the event.
“While Anti Social Camp began successful New York City, we’ve heard from creatives crossed the globe implicit the past 5 years who are bare to unite with their assemblage successful idiosyncratic – making records and connecting with manufacture successful the aforesaid spot astatine the aforesaid time,” said Danny Ross, laminitis of Anti Social Camp, successful a property release.
“We’re thrilled to denote our archetypal ever enlargement – Anti Social Camp U.K. presented by Tileyard,” helium added. “Beyond signaling hundreds of caller songs, Anti Social Camp is simply a forum to interact with each assemblage of the euphony manufacture and signifier the aboriginal we privation to spot arsenic creators. Now we statesman our enactment crossed the pond.”
Since it opened successful aboriginal 2011, Tileyard has go location to immoderate of the U.K.’s astir influential labels, publishers and hitmakers, arsenic good arsenic the HQ for commercialized relation BPI. There are presently 150 signaling studios crossed its campus.
“When Danny contacted maine astir the accidental to enactment unneurotic connected the archetypal ever Anti Social Camp extracurricular of New York, I was precise excited,” said Michael Harwood, Tileyard co-founder. “Tileyard is location to an astonishing euphony assemblage and is nary alien to moving palmy songwriting camps, truthful we instantly leapt astatine the accidental to collaborate!”
Presenting partners for Anti Social Camp U.K. 2025 see TIDAL, Splice, TikTok, Believe Music Publishing, PRS, Bonza Music, Distrokid, Sound Royalties, Songtrust, SoundExchange, Jubel, Groover, Two Tribes, Muse, Tileyard Music, Tileyard Education, TYX Studios and Tileyard London.
Venue partners see Samsung Kx, Colours Hoxton, One Hundred Shoreditch, Spiritland, The Victoria Dalston and Sensible Music. War Child UK, meanwhile, person been confirmed arsenic the foundation spouse for the festival.
A afloat campy itinerary is expected to beryllium announced successful the coming weeks. Organisers accidental determination were 10,000 applications for Anti Social Camp U.K., with 200 artists selected.
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