The Apple Cart is back for its second year after a hugely successful launch last summer with a fun and colourful mix that goes beyond the music. Adopting a melting pot ethos, no other event in the capital has Turner prize winners and world class magicians and alt. cabaret stars sitting happily alongside arena-filling comedians and established music legends all on the same bill, on the same day.

The warm comments and feedback we received after last year’s event have been noted and this year we hope to deliver an even bigger and better Cart.

The music stages boast both current darlings of the folk/rock scene Noah and the Whale and Stornoway, hotly tipped newcomers Marques Toliver and Beth Jeans Houghton and maverick legends of pop Adam Ant and Kid Creole.

The comedy stage – bigger this year after proving so popular in 2011 – has Sean Lock, Rich Hall and Shappi Khorsandi at the helm; the cabaret is programmed by the artful theatrics of Rude Grrl; the magic tent is back to dazzle young and old featuring members of The Magic Circle and Venn St Market are putting together an even more mouth watering array of food (some people were seen going back for thirds…). To get you dancing, after a trip to the real ale tent, Kevin Rowland, Sean Rowley and Gilles Peterson return to man the decks as well as the popular solar powered Dig It Sound-system. Art Car Boot Fair also return with their fun and affordable approach to art (they plan to freeze a car!) all sold from the boots of classic cars and for the children Penguin books and Candlelit Matinee – The House of Fairytales Film Theatre have been expanded to inspire young minds.

We hope you will return or join us for the first time on June 3rd. It’s the Diamond jubilee bank holiday weekend so we’ve all got two days off afterwards!