The ultimate mix of a crazy car crash and a mind-blowing jukebox.

Get down with the robots beneath a roof of scrap metal. At Reverend Sharky’s Church Of The Holyroller expect secret sets from some of the world’s biggest DJs! This year secret gigs by Fat boy slim and Carl Cox shook the field in this pinball inspired jumping Juke Box!

2011 line-up (in descending order)

Thursday:
Mini Da Minx
Wreckage

Friday:
Evil Nine
Jamie XX
Rennie Pilgrem
Fenech Soler DJ set
Sombrero Sound System
Stereo 8 (Blowpop)
Will Streetwise
9000 Ears Soundsystem

Saturday:
Freestylers
Secret Guest
Secret Guest
Plump DJ’s
Mini Da Minx
Vlad
Feel the Real Soundsystem
Sway 2
Mr. Sushi

Sunday:
Dub Pistols DJ Set
Atomic Hooligan
Tayo
Pyramid
Ben & Lex
Freerange Djs
Simon Stereo
Real Nice

Try your luck its a straight hard hammer drive through the target to hit the bell, swing the 6kg rubber hammer to win a prize! On it’s first outing over 5o strong men rang the bell all receiving art works, voodoo dolls, mugs and rubiks cubes all the work of the Dotmasters. “700 of you tried! And only 50 of you succeeded. Are you one of those really really strong men…Roll Up, Roll Up Test your strength on the Old Boney high striker!”

Some of the one off A4 artworks sprayed on aluminum sheets below

Year after year Bez and his boys mash it up with the smoke and the strobes taking us back to the days when the eyes rolled, the white gloves stacked shelves and the acid flowed like water. This year see’s an all star line up dropping the chunes from 12-6am

Welcome to The Unfair ground…That is, if a welcome is what you are expecting? We are a collection of side shows, dance venues and sculptures. A perverse examination of the hopes and fears found in the worlds of traveling amusements. Something wicked this way comes as the unfair ground rolls into town. Mutant dolls juggled by perverse clowns, a modern satirical take on amusement. Roll Up! Roll Up! For the strangest show on earth!

2010 sees a new field from the team that brought you Trash City. Who since debuting at the Glastonbury Festival in 2007, have became a critically acclaimed cult sensation, hailed as one of the most exciting and innovative events to hit the UK festival scene in recent years. Trash City was a genre-bending, definition-defying result of a collaboration between the very best of the UK creative underground. Just when you thought Glastonbury couldn’t get any stranger, wilder, or mind-bendingly entertaining, they go and turn it up to 11.

This is Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome-type entertainment, interspersed with the kind of visual, aural and interactive enjoyment that busy little minds looking for kicks and thrills can only dream of’ Clash Magazine.

Join Glastonbury legends the Mutoid Waste Co. at their party at the end of the world, featuring their latest sculptural lunacy:The Hellcopter. The nightclub of your wildest nightmares in the form of a Royal Navy helicopter crossed with a preying mantis – dare you attempt to blag your way into the secret members lounge hidden inside? Also presenting their mechanical menagerie of mythological beats: The Unnatural History museum, PLUS daily Wacky Races mutant vehicle parades!

The brave can take a stroll down Sam Haggerty’s & The dotmasters  Joker’s Sideshow Alley, where the lucky can win a limited edition Happy Doll, or indulge in the hedonistic delights of The Acid House hosted by Happy Mondays mainman / Celebrity Big Brother alumni Bez (maracas optional). And if you’re still looking for trouble, you can always pick your way through the aircraft graveyard and prop up the bar in the company of an undead aviator at the Apocalypse Hotel, or slip on your blue suede wellies and get down with the robots in Reverend Sharky’s Church Of The Holyroller, playing anything from Voodoo Swamp Blues to Jungle!

Culture vultures can visit the MuTate Britain tent, who will showcasing the very best of UK Street and Underground Art, plus beats and visuals from the hottest DJ and VJ names (including secret slots from some VERY special guests!) and if you’re seeking something more gentle you can always find a warm welcome with the lovely people at Strummerville, keeping it down-home with acoustic music and good company in the glow of the campfire.

Reverent Sharky’s Church of the Holy Roller.
The dance floor heaved as beat after beat made you move your feet in this wrecking ball inspired pinball stage. The line up eclectic with secret sets from Fat boy Silm and Carl Cox, Slim hasn’t played a secret gig in the mutoids field since 2009 and it was nice to have him back, whether it was the first or the last on the stage rocked as the dj’s tore the dance floor up .

Bez’s Acid House tent.
An old school all star line up battled it out with heavy fog machines and 2k strobes  to twist your mind till the early hours. 808 state headlined as Bez roused the crowd and managed not to fall of the stage as many times as he did last year. whether you were stacking boxes doing the robot or just generally freaking out, this tent, again delivered the tunes of yesteryear at break neck pace.

The jokers sideshows, continued to taunt us with their promise of prizes, actually things went array with the demented jokers giving out more prizes than ever before. Did the rig’s break down or were they drunk? Funny as hell watching folk wander around at 4 in the morning hammered clutching evil dolls prizes.

Covered in flashing lights and manned by demented barkers this sideshow with a twist was a big hit at Glastonbury with thousands of punters receiving their dead fish prize and many receiving our beautifully packaged doctored dolls. Check out our barkers below.

Photographs from the Mighty Booth

More shots from Glastonbury festival 2010 below:

Perfect for any festival, wedding, funeral or bar mitzvah the Gobbler and its brother sideshow the Crack Heads are available to hire, simply use the contact form on this site

Exhibiting artists include Obey, Dotmasters, Dr D, Chu, Best Ever and a selection of work from Mutate’s One Foot in the Grove exhibition. The Mutate Britain tent works in two shifts: by day it’s a mecca for festival heads in search of striking Street Art and atmospheric Dub and Reggae – but by night the tent smashes the roof off with DJs, VJs, beats and baselines that will rinse and roll until the early morn! Expect secret DJ sets from big names and top draw VJ graphics.

A fully licensed bar caters for crowds day and night with comfortable seating and even the chance to have your own clothes remixed and printed with Mutate Britain artwork. Resident DJ/VJ partners Rebel Sonix provide the musical swagger whilst their VJ graphics present a dsytopian daytime show of Street Art imagery and historic Mutoid Waste photographs that then flips the script at nightfall ready for a dazzling dance floor rumble until 6am.

What makes the booths so special is the attention to detail. From the outside they resemble the classic Retro photo booth but once the curtain is drawn the eccentric nature of the booth becomes outlandishly clear by purposely contradicting the exterior with period features that include oak panelled walls, a brass porthole, chesterfield seating and the odd antler.

We have recreated the nostalgia and fun of retro booths and whizzed it all up using modern digital technology to give you immediately a strip of four individually shot colour, black & white or sepia prints. Check out this beauty below taken at Glastonbury on the booths first outing.

Did you see us at a festival and cant believe what happened to you?

Do you want your money back?

Or perhaps one of our dolls came alive in the night and terrorized your little one?  Did you follow an address on a sticker?  The unfairground.org, its a little like a fun fair, where the fun is to enjoy the shifting sands of unfairness! The unfairground is coming to a corner of a festival near you this summer, so try your luck…(you’ll need it!)  Roll up! Roll up! For the unfairest show on earth!!!

What the press said

“The unfairground the fairest con in town” ( The FT)

“Like a cross between somali pirates and childrens bbc” (Russell Brand)