We’re holding a party this Friday to celebrate this years event, in association with Experimental Circle Club who are hosting a stage at the festival. The night takes place at a secret location in east London and will feature post-punk and electronic sounds supplied by a mixture of DJs and live acts including The Horrors (Techno set), Dean Chalkley (NME), MICRON63, Offset DJs, Experimental Circle Club DJs and more.

Fancy joining us? It’s free, but to ensure you get in, click here and add your details - the location of the party will be revealed on Thursday, but due to the location of the party we cannot allow people in without names on the guestlist.

We would like to apologise to anyone finding the website slow. Since the initial lineup was reported on the front page of NME announcing Wire, Young Knives and Ipso Facto, the website has been mobbed with hits.

We strongly urge you to order your earlybird tickets now to ensure you don’t miss out - earlybird tickets are strictly limited and cost just £35!

We will be announcing the rest of this years lineup in the forthcoming weeks, be sure not to miss out - join the mailing list here and add yourself to the Facebook event page here.

The New Bands tent is where festival goers will catch the most raw and absorbing performances of the weekend. We’re looking for bands who can really bring something new to the event, and if you feel that’s your band, we want to hear from you.

Head over to the New Bands page now, and submit your details. We’ll be in touch with each and every band.

We’re proud to announce that Offset Festival will be joined by the following artists this summer. WIRE - one of the UKs most influential punk/post-punk bands will be performing, as will The Young Knives, Chrome Hoof, Make Model and over one hundred others. This is the first of many band announcements, with more headliners to be revealed soon, including rock stage headliners and more. Earlybird tickets are now on sale, priced at just £35 in advance for weekend tickets, £45 in advance for weekend-camping tickets.

We hope you’re as excited about Offset as we are - it’s going to be an incredible weekend!

Earlybird tickets for Offset go on sale today - Thursday 1st May, with a partial lineup announced on the same day. A full weekend at Offset will cost you just £35 if you get an earlybird ticket, so make sure you get yours early to ensure you don’t miss out. A limited number will be available at this stupidly low price!

Earlybird tickets for Offset go on sale this Thursday - 1st May, with a partial lineup announced on the same day. A full weekend at Offset will cost you just £35 if you get an earlybird ticket, so make sure you’re on the site this Thursday to ensure you don’t miss out.

We’ve had a number of emails asking about camping and yes, we will have a camp site. Weekend-camping tickets will also be available this Thursday, priced at just £45. Again, these are limited so get in early!

We’re incredibly excited about this years lineup - it really is going to be an incredible event this year (if we say so ourselves!). We hope you can join us.

Innovative social networking website Last.fm are putting together a stage at this years Offset Festival.

Last.fm connects you with your favorite artists, and uses your unique taste to find new music, people, and gigs. The Last.fm team have been using their clever algorithms and inimitable taste to help the nation expand their musical choices for years now, so there are probably few people more qualified to put together a lineup of the best new bands in the world.

We’ll have more information and line-ups soon. To find out about some of the other stages at this years event, take a look here.

150 artists. 7 stages. 2 days of amazing music. Offset is launching on August 30-31st this year, and it’s going to be special. The aim of the festival is to showcase the most exciting new bands the UK has to offer and join the dots by putting them on stage with the artists who influenced them.

It all takes place in a beautiful forest just 30 minutes from London. Ticket prices will be kept low and quality will be kept high, with stages curated by the hugely influential Artrocker magazine, pioneering social network Last.fm and forward-thinking club night Experimental Circle Club.

Tickets for the event go on sale on Thursday May 1st, with a limited number of earlybird weekend tickets available for just £35 (yes, £35). In the meantime, join the mailing list and stay up-to-date with all developments.