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Lost Vagueness' (Non) Raving Madness (June 23-25)

Lost Vagueness production chief Leila Jones chatted to Skrufff this week about the
alternative festival's upcoming event and revealed that this year's musical line-up
is deliberately skewed towards live bands rather than DJs."

"The whole dance music scene is something that we like to stay away from because
that's catered for by other festivals. What we prefer to do is mainly programme
bands," she said, "We do have DJs but they'll be playing rock & roll or northern
soul rather than dance music."

Lost Vagueness sprung to prominence in 2000 as an alternative space within
Glastonbury Festival offering burlesque entertainment, casino style gambling and
fancy dress fun and this year takes places as a stand alone 10,000 capacity party in
the grounds of Powderham Castle (over the same weekend, June 23-25-that Glastonbury
usually happens). While previous star attractions have included Fatboy Slim and the
Scissor Sisters, this year's headliners are the New York Dolls and Julian Cope, in
keeping with their non-dance ethos.

"Dance music is more about popping a pill and dancing all night and not really
interacting with anyone, that's what the whole rave scene was about, whereas Lost
Vagueness is more about communicating with the person next to you and hearing tunes
you're more likely to recognise," Leila continued.

"We prefer to have different kinds of music and to move away from that whole dance
tent feel of an event," she added, "Though having said that dance music usually ends
up being catered for at 4am somewhere because that's ultimately what people like-
but we do like to present them with other options as well."

http://www.lostweekend.org (Weekend tickets cost £90/ Sunday tickets £45: plus car
parking at £20/ £10)