Over 1,000 festival goers seeing over 80 acts around 10 venues in Shoreditch!  With a lot of rain-dodging, bit of sun-capturing and with any luck some homemade cake-eating thrown in.

Check out some photos of the event here and there’ll also be some fantastic videos coming shortly so keep an eye out for those…

A huge thank you to all the artists and entertainment for donating their time and talent, and to all our sponsors, partners and volunteers for making the event happen!   And of course a big thank you to all of you who came to The Big Mix for partying with us for a great cause. 

We have raised an incredible £31,000 for Macmillan so the celebrations have begun over here in charity towers, Vauxhall, now that we have just about recovered from the big day!

Check out some photos from the festival here!

Collect your wristband from Spitalfields market and make sure to collect your flyer with details on all the discounts available.

Fashion brands involved:

11 Boundary      Apple Tree Boutique      Shop 172          Dolly Dare

18 and East        Traffic People       Agnes B          Chica          Foxbat

House of Vintage         Junky Styling         Paper Dress Vintage

Spitalfields Market

12:00  Treetop Flyers

12:45  I Am Harlequin

13:30  The Last Dinosaur

14:05  Holly Taymar

14:30  Sam Brookes

15:00  6 Day Riot

15:30  Swing Patrol (swing dancing)

16:15  New Town Kings

17:00  The Meow Meows

17:45  Swing Patrol (swing dancing)

18:30  Ben Marwood

19:15  Emily and The Woods

19:45  CLOSE

Plus fashion market, The Big Picture Exhibition and Benefit makeovers.

Queen of Hoxton – Unplugged rooftop stage with SilentArena

12:30  Zak Zilesnick

13:00  City Shanty Band

13:30  Daniel Stevens

14:00  Oliver John Ward

14:30  Giles from Cynics

15:00  Matt Rider

16:00 Silent Disco hosted by SilentArena

19:00  CLOSE

Rich Mix

12:25  Kat Vipers

13:15  Friends Electric

14:05  Treetop Flyers

14:55  Kid British

15:45  Bleeding Heart Narrative

16:35  Yunioshi

17:25  The Pipettes

18:15  CocknBullKid

19:15  Clare Maguire

20:20  Newton Faulkner

21:35  James Yuill

22:30  Guilty Pleasures (DJ)

01:00  CLOSE

 Plus Lucky Voice Big Sing and Don’t Call Me Urban! The Time Of Grime photo exhibition

The Light Bar

19:00  Zero 7 (DJ)

20:30  Edith Bowman (DJ)

22:00  Duff Disco (DJ)

23:30  PPQ’s Amy & Percy (DJ)

00:30  Tim Burgess (DJ)

02:00  CLOSE

Vibe Bar Live Room - DJs and producers curated by burntprogress

13:00  Kay Suzuki

14:00  Simbad

15:00  Mr Beatnick

16:00  Mr Wonderful

17:00  Soundspecies

18:00  Tony Nwachukwu

19:00  Morgan Zarate

20:00  Kutmah

21:00  Nightwave

22:00  Martelo

23:00  Kelpe

00:00  Paul White

01:00  Om Unit

02:00  Bullion

03:00  CLOSE

Plus Old Boots New Laces art exhibition

93 Feet East – Bangers and Mash Night

Live Music

21:30  Mothers Ruin

22:00  Box of Ghosts

22:30  On Screen Heroes

23:00  Lee Willz and Trademark

Pink Bar DJs

19:00  Wasim

21:00  Jimmy Napes

23:00  James Theaker

01:30  CLOSE

Cargo – Hip Hop curated by Le Scratch

16:30  Hip Hop Karaoke

18:30  Konvex (DJ)

19:30  Tor Cesay

19:50  Motive (DJ)

20:30  Camouflage Children

20:50  Rugrat (DJ)

21:30  Chima Anya

21:50  Rugrat (DJ)

22:00  XO Man and Mikill Pane

22:30  CLOSE

Plus Live art from St Martin’s emerging art talent!

The Macbeth – Rock curated by Raw Power Management

20:15  My Preserver

21:00  Mallory Knox

21:45  Town

22:30  The Social Club

23:15  Spycatcher

00:00  Dangerous!

00:30  Laurent ‘Lags’ Barnard (DJ)

02:00  CLOSE

Concrete – Comedy

18:00  Chris Mayo (MC)

18:05  Matt Richardson

18:15  Diane Spencer

18:30  Kevin Eldon

19:10  Hannah Warman

19:20  Del Strain

19:30  Rachel Parris

20:05  Romesh Ranganathan

20:25  Rufus Hound

20:45  CLOSE

The Brickhouse – Cabaret

15:30 – 18:00  League of The Extraordinary featuring Lady Beau Peep, Marcos The Marvellous, Betty Delight and The Flame Haired Fire Cracker

21:00 – 22:30  League of The Extraordinary featuring Vicious Delicious, Kiki Lovechild, Marcos The Marvellous and Lady Beau Peep.

 N.B. All timings may be to subject to change

Posted Friday 17th June 2011

Xfm studios were taken over last night (Thursday 9th June) by some of the exciting new talent that will be playing at The Big Mix in London on June 18th. Big Mix patron John Kennedy invited artists to come in and perform live in the London studios of Xfm and provide a taster of what’s to come on June 18th at venues across Shoreditch.

First up we were treated to the sounds of roving troubadour Mr Ben Marwood who started the night with a rendition of ‘Singalong’ that has got crowds singing in his recent gigs supporting Frank Turner on tour. Ben also performed ‘Tell Avril Lavigne I Never Wanted To Be Her Stupid Boyfriend Anyway’.

Then came two keen brothers, that’s producers/musicians Henry and Olly Keen from Soundspecies who brought in some brand new tracks and talked to John about some of the influences on the unique music they produce.

Next up Kat Vipers, the winner of The Big Mix unsigned competition voted by Soundcloud listeners and chosen by John, talked about her ever-evolving sound and brought her wild mixture of keyboard sounds to the Xfm airwaves with tracks ‘Put Out’ and ‘Blue Ice Lolly’.

From the synth-pop sounds of Kat Vipers to the spellbinding, beautiful folk music of Emily and The Woods who hypnotised the studio with just her voice and guitar. Emily performed the tracks ‘More Like Me’ and ‘I Can’t’.

Bringing some hip-hop to the mix and fresh from a gig earlier in the night Mikill Pane talked about recently hitting number one in the iTunes singer-songwriter charts for the track Little Lady with Ed Sheeran. Mikill overcame technical difficulties to play ‘You Don’t Know Me’.

Literally towering over the mic next, the man giant of XO Man got the studio bouncing with the heavy bassline beats of ‘What’s He Like’.

Finally the patient Yunioshi overcame a missing drummer and the perils of clumsy cameramen to end the show on a high with a blistering live performance of their latest single ‘Invisible’.

You can listen again to the show here and of course buy advance tickets for just £20 here instead of £25 on the day.

Posted Friday 10th June