A festival which marries the yin and the yang of the activist message of peace, environmental awareness and inclusivity with a wonderful party atmosphere, dancing, workshops and and opportunity get drunk on the beauty of the world.
brilliant
bands, djs, veggie food, drum jams, acoustic people, poetry, plays, gymnasts, jugglers, taichi, more... Loads of stalls, info about campaigns past and present, community groups from all over Nottingham...

ALL FREE

Main Stage:
cueball8 (skarry stuff)
tripping over drums (djs and drummers)
the melody brand (dub poetry)
a silent film project (summery indypop)
drangonflies draw flame (shoegaze)
cumquat jam (jazz)
university symphony orchestra

Tent:
double reeds
clarinet ensemble
trilly
auelie
sanj
jack crisp
ben of the green
gameboy man/boy
jonty-classical piano

oh...and there'll be a MASSIVE afterparty at Templars 11pm-5am. Two rooms spanning everything techy. wonky, bassy and dubby powered by DSF soundsystem for extra BOOOOOM!!!

Lineup:
Spam Chop (wigflex)
The Hizatron (wigflex)
Kuiper belt (wigflex)
Fresh Out Of Death Soundsystem (fresh out of death)
Jack Smedley (Product/Infectious)
Muzza (detonate)
Bracky Fudge (Futureproof)
Thomloo J (Futureproof)
Tom Gillespie (Demo)
DJ Case (Demo)
Chimp D.A.B (Demo)
Ross Riddim (Demo)

Last years Sounds on the Downs:
Piccys 1
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/08/348061.html

Sounds on the Downs,Nottingham University: Piccys 2
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2006/08/348082.html