Oh yes people, it’s that time of year again – Clapham festival time! Love Clapham is going totally gaga thinking about the massive partying ahead of us this summer. With Orbital, Super Furry Animals, Eric Prydz and The Human League all paying a trip to Clapham Common to headline, you lovely Clappers are totally spoilt for choice this year. But why choose when you can go to them all?! Read on for Love Clapham’s definitive guide to Clapham’s 2009 festivals.

Clapham is getting quite a name for itself as party central. Scrap that, with a 20,000 person venue (hello Clapham Common) it already is party central. Londoners will pour into our cosy little suburb for music and drinking gallore with no less than eight festivals on Clapham Common in 2009. And what the hell, we’re gonna join them!

Festival essentials

We’re in touch with all of the festival organisers and this page will be updated regularly with loads of useful tips and info related to Clapham’s 2009 festivals, so be sure to save it and visit back often.

• Clapham Common Guide: for info about travel to and from festivals.
• Clapham events: for other events to the big festivals.

Festival schedule

South Africa, New Zealand and Australia all have a healthy serving of residents living in Clapham, so it will come as no surprise that Toast Festival 2009 is a three day festivalathon to cater for all three nations. With Polo, music, mayhem and more it’s a brilliant event. Throw in BBQ’s and wine tasting, and we’re there!

Gay + Clapham = hand-in-hand and as a celebration the local gay Clapper community put on a song and a dance every year on the road next to Kazbar. Drag queens and tonnes of celebs usually turn up to entertain between music and drinking. Plus it’s free, just pay for the booze and enjoy. [More info coming when we're sent it!]

Super Furry Animals are the headline act for the first day of Ben & Jerry’s Sundae on the Common festival. As usual there will be music, frollics, drinking and ice cream, possibly in reverse order (and then repeated).

You love icecream, we love icecream, most of London loves icecream – let’s go back for second helpings at the second day of Ben & Jerry’s Sundae on the Common festival. Tickets have sold out already, but if you nabbed yourself a ticket, you’ll be lucky enough to see the Human League performing.

Probably Clapham’s best known gig, South West Four has a steller line-up this year with Eric Prydz and David Guetta headlining. Yummy.

With a line-up as long as your arm, Get Loaded in the Park is the last Clapham festival of the 2009 season – so you better get your skates on, buy tickets and get us a pint ready when you’re there.

Get Loaded in the Park brings even more festival goodness your way on Bankholiday Sunday 30 August. With no work on Monday there really is no excuse to miss headliners Orbital, Röyksopp and the rest of the acts.

You can still buy tickets from TicketMaster for a mere £35, or opt for a weekend pass to get you into South West Four (SW4) the day before too.

Get Loaded in the Park Line-up

Stonking line-up this year with headliners, other acts and DJ sets below:

• Orbital
• Röyksopp
• Carl Craig Presents Innerzone Orchestra
• Roni Size Reprazent
• Laurent Garnier // Peaches
• Sneaky Sound System // Freeland
• Booka Shade // Miss Kitten & The Hacker
• Magnetic Man feat Skream & Benga
• Esser // Trip // Marina & The Diamonds // Devils Gun

DJ Sets:

• Felix Da Housecat // Pendulum // Crookers
• Chase & Status // Rob Da Bank // Krafty Kuts
• The Count & Sinden // Steve Aoki // The Bloody Beetroots
• Eddy Temple Morris // Junior Sanchez

Visit the Get Loaded in the Park website for further information.

Eric Prydz and David Guetta are the big DJs to be added to an already outstanding line-up at the South West Four festival. The day long festival has been running for a number of years now and always proves to be a massive event on Clapham Common. This year it’s on Saturday 29th August and costs £40 for the day or combine with Get Loaded in the Park on Sunday for a £70 weekend pass. The full line-up’s in the rest of this post. It’s all a bit “bang bang bang” for our tastes, but we’ll probably see you there anyway. Love Clapham loves a bit of Pjanoo and Call on Me. 

Tickets are still on sale although they are selling out fast and they can be bought here.

Kiss Main Stage

Hosted by Ministry of Sound

• Sasha
• John Digweed
• David Guetta
• Eric Prydz
• Sander Kleinberg
• Mark Knight
• Scarlette Etienne

Shake It

Hosted by The End

• Richie Hawtin
• Dubfire
• Timo Maas
• Steve Lawler
• Layo & Bushwacka!

The Gallery

Hosted by… er, no one. Poor Gallery

• Global Underground
• Danny Howells
• Nic Fanciulli
• Nick Warren
• James Lavelle
• Jim Rivers
• Anil Chawla

Further reading and useful links

• Clapham Common Guide – to find out how to get to the South West Four festival
• South West Four website