The VJamm Allstars will once again be at Drop Beats not Bombs. This time we are playing on the Friday night. Other attractions over the weekend include DJ Rubbish, Cut la Roc, Boogie Dave, Utah Saints, Killa Kela, Shitmat, and about a million others too!

Oh there is going to be some of that new fangled VJing too from the likes of Peace Not War VJs / Chromatouch /Syzygy / Beatmap /Catweasel / Robotfunk / Silent Eclipse / theLAB / Chromatouch /Hamageddon / Pantoffeldiertjes / Beatroot / theLAB / Syzygy / Meno / Belle De Nuit / VJKitten /Piratio / Hana / Worrier /Eskatonia / theLAB / Cycloptic / Syzygy /APT / Fata Morgana / Mr Isotope / AZart /Devon Miles / Chromatouch / Triggerset / saad

Oh and innerfield are doing the sound for one of the stages which will be nice :)

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Once again the VJamm Allstars made it into the top 20 - this year retreating to a modest 19th - not bad seeing as we've all been busy with other projects for a lot of the year!

Vidiocy were joined by sleepytom to perform an AV set not dissimilar to the VJamm Allstars show. Bestival is on the Isle of Wight, which accounts for something i suppose...

quote of the day "I want to BE you!" (!!??!!)

C.Sides was strange, strange becase it was in israel, strange because it was an electronic music festival (of the bleepy german techno kind) and strange because it was held in an international convention center.

Under the circumstances we had to think hard about the wisdom and ethics of travelling to Israel to do a gig: we went because of the nature of the event: it was a festival of political media art, put together by and for people who think that an active dialogue between different nationalities, and an open forum for discussion of the current problems can achieve more than a boycott that tends to silence by isolation voices of dissent within Israel.

Let there be no doubt we are opposed to the current Israeli military actions, the ongoing occupation of the West Bank, and the support and collusion of the UK and US governments. If you've seen the show you'll have a clear idea of our take on the inexorable expansionism of the western military insustrial complex.

Bloom was a nice little festival on a superb site with peacocks and follies. We had a great time playing in the dance tent on the phatabulos innerfield soundsystem.

International production rescue was in full effect with mark stage managing the main stage and marcus running sound on both outdoor areas. The allstars surgeon even got called into action after a thumb squishing speaker / hand confluence...

roundsound, sunshine, ice cream, peacocks, blood, mudma, pie and mashup. A great weekend - looking forward to the next one.
www.bloomfestival.com

Well now, all back from Spain - the Rocket Festival was a blast (sorry...)
and playing last on the main stage again was great for us - what a way to finish..
check the rocket gallery for pictures.

And a huge thank you to iConscious + friends for providing the house visuals crew for the whole festival, and to all the other international VJs who came and played. more details of who they are here.

the full2005 top 20 listing is:

1. Hexstatic
2. Addictive TV
3. Eclectic Method
4. The Light Surgeons
5. VJ Anyone
6. VJ Culture
7. Coldcut
8. VJamm Allstars
9. Yeastculture
10. V Squared Labs
11. Shinji Murakoshi
12. D-Fuse
13. 4Youreye
14. Micha Klein
15. Holly Daggers
16. Punkvert
17. AlexEtJeremy
18. Fritz Fitzke
19. Lovemushroom
20. Inside-Us-All

Download an MP3 of an audio mix done specialy for FM4

Live recording from the VJamm Allstars show at Channel Zero, Cargo, London 8th July 2005