After 3 days of frolicking fun, fabulous music and interaction of the friendliest folk around, wOnK picks up the beat with it’s undeniably Acid House vibe and takes those in the KnOw to another level for the culmination of Trip!

In keeping with wOnK’s philosophy only good vibe people need attend this spectacular sharing of the best sound and crowd all in one vibrational space.

Leave your ego at the door, but feel free to introduce your alter ego to as many wOnKers as you like . . . .

DreSS FanCy and wOnK until the early hours with SouL MeKaNiK Brothers Kelvin Andrews and Danny Mekanik as they work their magic and dish out an eclectic mix of Balearic beats and Acid House upheaval.

In the spirit of wOnK we invite you to theme your dress & attitude to fit in with a FloWer PoWer HipPy TriPpy theme, EneRgy & aTmoSphEre.

We want you there, so come join the wOnK rEvOLuTioN!

If it moves…. wOnK it! If it doesn’t, wOnK it till it does!

If you don’t come . . . . you can’t get in! If you do . . . . you may just have the best time you’ve ever had!

We hope to see you there . . . from 7pm on Sunday 29th May at The Trip Festival, The Vaynol Estate, Bangor, Wales.

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2010… Liam Johnson, who is half English and half Canadian, moved to Wales when he was five and grew up in the countryside on a smallholding. He has four older siblings, one if whom used to read him poems instead of bedtime stories. Liam started writing his own poems and lyrics at fifteen, progressing to blocks of prose-poetry in the summer of 2007 after reading Jack Kerouac for the first time. He states the Beat Generation as his most significant influence. Liam is now studying at UWIC in Cardiff for a degree in English and Creative Writing. He is also currently attending open mic nights and writing a book. Liam won the Runner-up Prize and the Audience Prize at the 2009 John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry.

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When Jackie Hagan was 6, she danced out of an oversized Mother’s day card to the tune of war of the worlds as a gift to her Mum, she hasn’t changed much. She facilitates creativity sessions for adults with mental health needs, has edited and appeared in numerous anthologies, had her first play ‘Help!’, a surreal take on psychiatrity, staged at Contact Theatre Manchester and owns a blue peter badge for a bring-and-buy sale she never actually got round to doing. Her second collection of poetry ‘The Wisdom of the Jumble Sale’ has just been published by flapjack press.

Jack Pascoe is a rising star of spoken word who says what he means and means what he says. A rock ‘n’ roll poet from Orpington, Kent, he now resides in Cardiff. He holds the title of ‘Lyrical Design Slam Champion’ and is currently flogging his chapbook ‘In Your Face’. http://jackpascoe.co.uk/

Huw Ellis is: Thirty six with all his own hair, creatively flirty and debonair. The grandson of Dylan Thomas, rhythmic flow an inherited promise. He understands irony and once tried to grow an iron tree. AKA Doctor Huw

Mab Jones is a “fantastic!” (BBC Radio Wales) performer whose “delightful comic verse, articulate and imaginative” (Three Weeks) will have you enthralled. She is resident poet at this year’s festival. @mabjones http://www.mabjones.com/

In 2010…

Mab Jones is a performance poet from Cardiff. Winner of the John Tripp Spoken Poetry Audience Award, and finalist in the recent Farrago UK Slam Championships, she is sometimes referred to as a ‘burlesque poet’, sometimes as a ‘comic-political poet’. Her works veers from the darkly funny to the shockingly rude, from the delightfully naughty to the daringly satirical. She has performed all over the UK, supporting poets and comics like John Hegley and Lucy Porter, represented Wales at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington DC last summer with national poet Gillian Clarke, and recently had her first play performed at the Wales Millenium Centre. “Delightful comic verse, articulate and imaginative” – Three Weeks “Absolutely brilliant” – The Guardian “She is fantastic” – BBC Radio Wales

www.mabjones.com

One of the most enigmatic singers of the 1960s, Beverley was discovered by Moody Blues producer Denny Cordell and taught to play guitar by Bert Jansch, a leading figure in the British folk music revival of the 1960s.

When Paul Simon heard the young Beverley sing he was so impressed he took her to New York.  The resulting partnership with Paul, both personal and professional, saw Beverley tour the US with Simon and Garfunkel playing major venues and festivals, and she lent her clear English tones to the recording of Simon and Garfunkel song “Faking It”.

Beverley’s own previous recordings include two Witchseason LPs – ‘Stormbringer!’ and ‘Road to Ruin’ with late ex-husband John Martyn – and the couple’s blend of English folk and Americana coupled with Bev’s smoky voice made the pair the king and queen of the UK’s new folk rock scene.  Beverley also collaborated with Led Zeppelin legend Jimmy Page, who played guitar on her two pop singles with Decca’s sister record label Deram.

Beverley’s long-awaited new album is currently being recorded at the Les Cousins Music studio in Llandudno, where she’s been recording with ex-Oasis and Paul Weller guitarist Matt Deighton and producer Mark Pavey, the studio’s owner.

Beverley is thrilled to be playing a retrospective set of songs from her long career at the Trip Festival, in the beautiful surrounds of the Vaynol Estate and the shadow of Mount Snowdon.

The Trip Festival will be held at Vaynol near Gwynedd on 27-29 May.  Vaynol, a site with over 1000 years of history and 1000 acres of walled parkland, gardens and agricultural estate on the banks of the Menai straights in Gwynedd, North Wales, will provide the perfect location for The Trip’s laid back, family friendly three-day event.

The Trip boasts a mix of live music and DJs, with a dance tent with the musical emphasis on the Balearic and cosmic boogie vibes, along with a sprinkling of the latest house, techno and electronic music.  This year, the master of ambient chill MixMaster Morris will have his own area which will also feature a selection of poetry, circus performances, workshops, therapies and other family-friendly activities.

Disco Mums are the uniquely beautiful Jane Slack, Jane Kettleton. Emma Joyce, Géraldine Garrabet, and Julie Wills (babysitter).

They’ve so far graced Electric Elephant, That Amazing Thing! Electrik bar, Circle Bar, Nook Bar (where they currently have a residency) as Disco Mums but have individually played all over the planet. They’re now bringing it home.