There’s only one place that’s big enough to hold such an event in Minehead and that’s the famous Butlins Holiday Camp. In darker days I used to bunk into this camp for cheap holiday but things are much better now it’s been refurbished. That said, there won’t be much sleeping going on with the line-up the Bloc folks have sorted for the weekend.

BLOC 2009 lineup so far (November 2008)
Centre:BLOC
The Future Sound of London - LIVE
Jamie Lidell - LIVE
Carl Craig (lastest album Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald - ReComposed (Music by Maurice Ravel & Modest Mussorgsky)
Afrikaa Bambaata - feat. MCS
Busy P
Egyptian Lover - LIVE
Arabian Prince - LIVE (check the album of earlier this year Arabian Prince - Innovative Life: The Anthology, 1984-1989)
Metro Area
Daniel Bell
Heartbreak - LIVE
I-F
DMX Krew
Alexander Robotnick
with more TBA

Red:BLOC
Dublime
Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry - LIVE BAND
Scientist - DUB SHOW
Digital Mystikz - Coki
Tipper
Kode 9
Rusko - Debut Live show
Ed Rush and Optical
Mad Professor - DUB SHOW
Zion Train - LIVE BAND
Plastician
Pole - LIVE

Overkill
Modeselektor and Pfadfinderei - LIVE
Beardyman - LIVE (as featured on A-Skillz - Happiness / Got The Rhythm)
Clark - LIVE
Richard Devine - LIVE
Tim Exile - LIVE
With more TBA

4Hero - Reinforced records classics
Altern 8
Dylan
2 Badmice
Bizzy B

Jak:BLOC
Split and Tilted Disco
Rob Hood - FULL LIVE SHOW
Frequency 7 feat Ben Sims and Surgeon
Redshape - LIVE
James Ruskin
Colin Dale
Steve Strawberry
Alex Downey

Numbers
Martyn - LIVE
Rustie - LIVE
Hudson Mohawke - LIVE
Jackmaster (see latest single Malawi Dub)

Caravan Recordings  
October (Caravan’s head honcho and he of the Houston EP)
Emptyset - LIVE  

Dynamix II - DEBUT UK LIVE SHOW
Dj Godfather and MC Omega
Ulrich Schnauss - LIVE
Ed Chamberlain - LIVE
Global Goon - LIVE
Rob Hall
Transparent Sound - LIVE
Ceephax Acid Crew - LIVE
Cosmic Force - LIVE
BassClef - LIVE (not forgetting his now classic album A Smile Is A Curve That Straightens Most Things)
Ital Tek
Lief Ryan
Pre:BLOC and Un:BLOC 

Greco-Roman 
Rob Da Bank 
Drums of Death - LIVE 
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs - First LIVE show in 65 million years   
Greco-Roman Soundsystem: Raf Daddy, The Great Mentsh & Full Nelson      
    
Cocadisco 
DJ Benetti   
Louis Enchante and friends
Andy Blake
Rodaidh and Piers
 
Wifey
D’explicit - LIVE PA China and Black the Ripper  
DJ Undecided     
Wifey DJs

Cliché 
French Kriss
Michel Dupont
French Connection Trio - LIVE
+ Special Guests

Pathic - LIVE
ADJ
Junq - LIVE
P45 - LIVE
Ebola - LIVE
Lusinda
AGT Rave Cru
Amental - LIVE
McMash Clan - LIVE

Residents DJs from
WANG - Electro Elvis and Lula  
Braindrop    
Dub Pressure   
Drums of the South  
Square Roots  
Sequence   
Plex  
Dissident   
 
BLOC Residents
Billy Nasty
Radioactive Man
Ed DMX
Jerome Hill 
Luke’s Anger
James Tec
Rebel Intelligence
Joe Hart
Oliver Way
George ‘The Skull’ Hull

Links
www.blocweekend.com