Youth 13 - 18 ... only 50 left
Child 6 - 12 ... only 70 left
Child 3 - 5 ... only 62 left
Infant 0 - 2 ... only 42 left

Even though 0-2's and 2-5's are free we still have to stay within our site capacity limits, so they are not unlimited.
End of the Road is a very family orientated festival with lots on for adults to do with their kids, including over 100 workshops and kids films.
Child tickets are always the first to sell out, so if you want to bring your family to End of the Road this year - don't delay in getting your tickets.

Bella Union have confirmed the following:

The Acorn
Concrete Knives
Lawrence Arabia
Leif Vollebekk
Marques Toliver
My Sad Captains
Peggy Sue
Still Corners
Van Dyke Parks
Zun Zun Egui

And for Saturday and/or Sunday, we have confirmed:

2.54
Deer Tick
Mark Lanegan Band
The Pictish Trail
The Shivers
Yeti Lane

Once they ran with The Pictures. Then there were Les Triplettes. Finally came The Pirates, but these days it's simply Peggy Sue. Formed in Brighton but now based in London, at its core this particular Peggy Sue is three people Katy Young, Rosa Slade and Olly Joyce.

After a number of singles and EPs for the likes of Broken Sounds, Theasaurus and Too Pure, the band signed to Wichita Recordings to release their debut album,Fossils and Other Phantoms in 2010. They then toured the UK, Europe and the US multiple times before heading back into the studio with John Parrish (PJ Harvey, Sparklehorse, Giant Sand etc) to make the follow-up album, Acrobats. Released in late 2011, the album finds the band moving away from the acoustic sounds of their debut to something heavier but just as subtle and beautiful.

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Yeti Lane formed out of the ashes of one-time M83 labelmates Cyann & Ben. Initially a three-piece, they burst onto the scene in 2009 with their debut single 'Lonesome George'. By the time their self-titled debut album had been released shortly afterwards, however, founder member LoAc Carron had left the band.

The remaining duo of Ben Pleng (guitars, synths, vocals) and Charlie B (drums, synths) headed straight back to the studio and recorded 2010's wonderful 'Twice' EP; it was more experimental than their previous work, with nods to krautrock and electronica, but always with those incredible psychedelic pop songs on top. It perfectly signposted the way to their second album 'The Echo Show'.

Released in March 2012 to overwhelmingly positive reviews, 'The Echo Show' is an incredible record which takes in all of Yeti Lane's influences - Grandaddy, Spacemen 3, Deerhunter, LCD Soundsystem, My Bloody Valentine, Kraftwerk - and turns them into something completely new. "We have evolved into something that we wanted to be, but the fact that there are just two of us now allowed us to do it faster,” explains Charlie. “We might be a duet now, but we still want to sound like a four-piece."

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Bella Union are proud to announce the long-awaited reissue of three of the most highly prized and visionary albums from one of the most influential figures of twentieth century music, Van Dyke Parks.

If you don’t know Van Dyke Parks, now is the chance to immerse yourself in a uniquely eclectic and daring landscape. Parks may be best known for penning the lyrics to The Beach Boys’ legendary sixties masterpiece Smile and more recently his arrangements helped shape Joanna Newsom’s epic album Ys. But the true riches of Parks’ talent lies in his first three solo albums, Song Cycle (1968), Discover America (1972) and Clang Of The Yankee Reaper (1975). This trio of acclaimed records defined Americana decades before the term was invented. An expansive Americana that didn’t merely tap the post-war roots in folk and country music that we expect from the genre, but an all-embracing vision that included ragtime, vaudeville, jazz, bluegrass, psychedelia, classical and calypso, unified by a singer-songwriter spirit as much in line with Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson as Park’s collaborator Brian Wilson.

Born in Mississippi in 1943, Parks was extraordinary even as a child, a musical prodigy and actor who later became a session musician, composer, producer, arranger, lyricist, and singer. His own music is as cinematic, fantastical and even phantasmagorical as it is from the heart. Song Cycle was less conventionally pop, in verse-chorus fashion, than Smile; the mood was something like a baroque psychedelic dream filtered through Disney and music hall. Discover America was a major departure, with most songs written by pre-war Calypso musicians from Trinidad & Tobago but given Parks’ highly individual spin. Clang Of The Yankee Reaper further wove New Orleans, classical and pop strains alongside Calypso and Caribbean rhythms.

There have been more albums since, plus film scores, children’s books and arrangements for a dizzying array of talent (including Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt and Rufus Wainwright), but the jewels in Parks’ legacy remain those first three albums, slices of musical history both of their time and truly timeless.

Bella Union will release Song Cycle, Discover America and Clang Of The Yankee Reaper in June 2012.

THE SHIVERS are a folk-rock group, from Queens, New York, comprising the exceptional talents of Keith Zarriello (lead vocals, guitar) and Jo Schornikow(vocals, keys/organ).Keith is your typical East Coast American tortured neurotic / love-lorn romantic, and part time estate-agent; Jo, your typical Australian travelling dreamer, virtuoso keyboard player, and part time church-organist.

A prolific and enigmatic songwriter, Keith started performing in 2001 and, as The Shivers, has written, recorded and released 5 albums of bittersweet (although often just bitter or sweet) Telecaster-anthems; Charades (2004), Phone Calls(2006), Beaks To The Moon (2008), In The Morning (2009) and More(2011).

Melbourne resident Jo relocated to New York after falling in love with Keith’s music, joining the group in 2006 and contributing her own songs. The pair have toured extensively ever since, steadily building up a loyal following, and becoming a cult favourite within the American DIY gigging circuit.

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THE PICTISH TRAIL is the nom de plume of singer-songwriter Johnny Lynch, who – alongside Kenny Anderson (aka King Creosote) – runs micro-indie DIY-folk collective Fence Records, from a remote fishing village in Fife, Scotland. His music is a sonorous mixture of acoustic-driven balladry and lo-fi synthesised pop, that has been described as “a post-summer trove of sun-warped electro, anamorphic folk” (Plan B Magazine).,

Pictish "Triddy P" Trail has recorded various albums, mini-albums, EP’s and singles of his own material for the Fence label – working with a number of artists such as King Creosote, James Yorkston, KT Tunstall, The Red Well and The Earlies along the way. His debut full-length album, SECRET SOUNDZ VOL.1, was released to glowing reviews: “Glorious, ****” MOJO // “Compulsory listening, **** ” The Observer // “Limitless imagination” NME. - and saw young Pictish embark on an extensive tour, playing shows across the UK, main-land Europe, America and India. He has since released an album of brand new material – an electronic-pop collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Adem – under the name SILVER COLUMNS. Last year also saw the release of a mini-album entitled IN ROOMS, which contained 50 songs each 30 seconds in length – a collection of süper-concentrated pop, ranging from the plaintive to the playful.

The Pictish Trail is currently spending most of his time on the remote Hebridean island of Eigg, writing and recording songs for SECRET SOUNDZ VOL. 2. And feeding goats. The album was recorded with his friend Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo) is due to come out later in 2012.

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My Sad Captains released their second album 'Fight Less, Win More' in November 2011 on Stolen Recordings (Pete and the Pirates, Bo Ningen).

Written in San Francisco and recorded by the band in a barn in Cornwall, Loud and Quiet called the album 'a joyous ride through the blessed strain of indie ploughed by US contemporaries like Grandaddy and Atlas Sound while still sounding like a product of home' and Artrocker praised its 'subtly motorik grooves and acoustic guitars- think of a more costal Sparklehorse or a less sinister Mercury Rev'.

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Consistently bombarded with claims of greatness, a singular genius is sometimes hard to hear through the noise. Marques Toliver is one such genius, a protagonist whose backstory seems inconsequential, as any personal encounter will give the impression that he fell fully formed from some distant and magical land.

Yet the backstory remains compelling. Born in Florida, the young Toliver was clearly a prodigious talent that escaped his family business of grave-digging by entering into Stetson University’s Music School to train as a Classical Violinist. Frustrated in the institution, and keen to throw himself into the real world of music making, Marques travelled to New York City to seek his fortune.

Through busking and working in a vintage store in Brooklyn, he found his first introduction to that fantastical city and was soon a part of the Williamsburg set, playing live and on record with the likes of TV on The Radio and Grizzly Bear, before travelling to the UK as part of Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson’s band, where he met a warm response from musicians such as Adele - who blogged enthusiastically - leading to deals with Universal Publishing and Transgressive Management.

Marques is not a conventional “career-path” type of person; in fact, he’s one of those auteurs that doesn’t think of music as a job at all, and to that end found himself performing as one of the first ever unsigned artists on 'Later With Jools Holland' in the winter of 2010, opening the door to the next chapter of his story.

Musically, he cut his teeth supporting himself through busking with his violin and his unique Classical meets R+B songwriting, which have formed the basis of his live set today. Thematically intrigued with the concepts of escape, persecution and the realm of the unknown, in a reflection of mankind’s past and present.

His new set, demonstrated on his game-changing debut 'Butterflies Are Not Free' EP, sees his ambition bring forth a suite of songs influenced by Bach and Beyonce, Gospel and the visual movements of Maya Deren.

The capabilities of Marques are immense, as the production and arrangement give us a glimpse into Marques’ fascinating and compelling world. Truly, a star is born.

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