NME Festival Guide
Offset Festival 2009
Offset Festival drew 8000 music lovers to Hainault Forest Country Park, Essex, over the weekend 5-6 September. The festival, now in its second year, aims to "join the dots between exciting new bands and the artists who influenced them". This year's headliners were The Slits and The Horrors.
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