New Leeds based metropolitan festival brought to you by the folks behind Hee Haw Sessions, celebrating 10 years of Hee Haw! Four club shows and two late night sessions because well, we all love a good lock in. Check out our line up below…..
o Thurs 1st Feb > Johnny Dowd & Melle De Boer | Leeds
With support from Joana Serrat
This won’t be a sleepy singer-songwriter night. It will be electric, chaotic, hard and ugly, soft and beautiful.
o Fri 2nd Feb > Colter Wall + Ian Noe | Leeds
“Colter Wall is bar none the best young singer/songwriter I’ve seen in 20 years” – Steve Earle
o Fri 2nd Feb > The Lock Inn ft. Steven Adams | Leeds
Exclusive solo show from Broken Family Band frontman.
o Sat 3rd Feb > The Americans & Withered Hand | Leeds
Loose Music artists & stars of American Epic, The Americans are one of our new favourite bands. Echoes of Springsteen, Guthrie, Chuck Berry, Tom Petty & Creedence.
o Sat 3rd Feb > The Lock Inn ft. MAIA | Leeds
A genre busting mix of sweet stunning vocal harmonies over funky blissed out grooves. For best results, see a live show!
Held in the Dutch city of Groningen for the 32nd edition of Eurosonic Noorderslag. Rightly heralded as Europe’s most prestigious event for breaking new acts, this year’s festival will once again provide maximum exposure to around 400 artists from across the continent over the course of its four days. As with previous years, the festival will also host the European Border Breakers (EBBA) alongside the European Festival Awards. With so many acts to choose from, you are unsurprisingly spoiled for choice here’s the best acts you should be particularly excited about seeing.
HMLTD ( Thursday 18h January @ 23:45)
The six-piece HMLTD, whose origins lie somewhere between the UK, Greece and France, have arrived as one of the most confounding acts to appear on the London scene in recent memory. With equally galvanizing music and visuals, stories of chaotic and incendiary live shows to packs of mosh-pitting followers and compatriots, as well as art installations where the lines between performers and audience are ever-blurred, this is not ‘just another’ band.
Blackberries (Wednesday 17th, All Round Poolcentrum @ 20:45)
Hailing from the city of Solingen in Germany, Blackberries make elegant psychedelic rock that fluctuates between melodic pop and freeform jams, often in the same pieces of music. Second album Greenwich Mean Time came out in 2016 and despite forming in 2009, they’re still relatively unknown outside of their native city. We suspect that will change very soon.
Pale Waves (Friday 19th January ESNS PLAY 21:20)
Pale Waves from Manchester are Heather (vocals, guitar), Ciara (drums), Hugo (guitar) and Charlie (bass). After spending the last couple of years touring and writing, the band released their debut single ‘There’s a Honey’ in early 2017. The foursome followed up with two more singles, reflecting their ability to write well polished indie pop songs that have left fans begging for a debut LP. Pale Waves could be the biggest band of the year
Canshaker Pi (Thursday 18th, Heerenhuis @ 23:20)
This time last year Canshaker Pi proved to be one of the highlights of Eurosonic Noorderslag. Having already enraptured none other than Stephen Malkmus who produced their debut album, they’ve gradually established themselves as one of the most exciting bands to emerge from the Dutch underground in years.
Her self-released singles have notched up millions of streams and views, and she went on the road in the fall for her first headline tour as well as supporting Tash Sultana and Lewis Capaldi. 23-year-old Londoner Freya Ridings showcased her enchanting voice and unique talent on the piano with debut single ‘Blackout’. Follow-up ‘Maps,’ a spine-tingling cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs classic, earned her major support from Spotify through New Music Friday and other major playlist additions.
Hater (Thursday 18th, Huis De Beurs @ 20:00)
Malmö is becoming something of an indie rock hotbed having first unearthed Fews a couple of years ago. Following hot on their heels are Hater, a four-piece led by the inimitable Caroline Landahl whose vocal stylings fall somewhere in between Molly Rankin of Alvvays and Annelotte De Graaf, better known as the brains behind Amber Arcades. Their Red Blinders EP brightened up a somewhat cold December and we’re expecting the band’s live show here to make a similar impact.
Housewives (Thursday 18th, Vera @ 22:15)
Arguably one of the most left field bands to grace the Eurosonic Noorderslag bill in a long while, this SouthLondon outfit create music that’s beyond genre categorisation and as a result, stand out as one of this year’s unmissable acts. Last year’s FF061116 long player heralded them as uncompromising experimentalists in a similar vein to Steve Reich, Einsturzende Neubaten, or more recently, Factory Floor. Prepare to be mesmerized.
This London-based outfit have already appeared on the Jools Holland show, been compared to Gorillaz, and have acquired Frank Ocean and Vampire Weekend as fans. Which is pretty good going after just a couple of singles. Their self-titled debut album is out in March and while still early days in their fledgling career, it’s probably fair to say you’ll be hearing a lot more about this eight-piece as the year goes on.
Iceage (Wednesday 17th, Vera @ 23:45)
This Copenhagen four-piece should need no introduction having released two of the decade’s finest long players in 2011’s debut New Brigade and 2014’s third offering Plowing Into The Field Of Love. With a new album said to be imminent, this opportunity to hear some of those songs alongside the older more familiar material of yore is not to be missed.
Žen (Thursday 18th, Huis De Beurs @ 21:25)
Žen are an all female band from Zagreb who make ethereal effects-laden sounds that recall the halcyon era of 4AD and Creation Records from back in the day. Their third and latest LP Suncani Ljudi came out last month and is well worth checking out. As is their live show which bears all the hallmarks of being one of Eurosonic’s main highlights this year.
Isaac Gracie (Friday 19th January LUTHERSE KERK 00:00)
Isaac Gracie rose to prominence when a demo of ‘Last Words’ was uploaded to Soundcloud. Dusty, careworn and distant, it was a quite beautiful introduction to this now fast-rising British talent. With two lo-fi, self-produced EP’s and a live recording out there and plenty more to come, the live shows are equally as stripped back and intimate. One electric guitar, and one untouchable vocal. It’s the antidote to a busy stable of peers, and the very essence of the modern man in one striking and poetic musical talent.
KEIR (Friday 19th January Stadsschouwburg 22:50)
Here is a refreshing new artist from Bristol who sounds like a seasoned performer. Keir is blessed with a powerhouse of a voice, a great sense for writing hooks and infectious pop rock songs, influenced by artists from Patti Smith, Gertrude Stein, Howlin’ Wolf and Edith Piaf to Aretha Franklin. Keir tries to keep it somewhat secretive but material like singles Squeeze Me and Probably and some rave live reviews will make it terribly hard to keep this huge talent from the spotlights.
Doors fans will have a belated opportunity to revisit one of the later chapters in the band’s history with singer JimMorrison in early 2018, with the release of an audio and video package capturing the group’s performance at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.
Scheduled for a February. 23rd release , the sensibly titled The Doors: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 will be available on CD/DVD, CD/Blu-ray or digital format, and offers “completely recut and remixed” footage from what turned out to be the band’s final filmed show with Morrison. Held on August. 30th, 1970, in the midst of Morrison’s obscenity trial, it found the Doors falling back on the music that brought them together at a time when outside factors were on the verge of tearing them apart.
“Our set was subdued but very intense,” recalled organist Ray Manzarek. “We played with a controlled fury and Jim was in fine vocal form. He sang for all he was worth, but moved nary a muscle. Dionysus had been shackled.”
In addition to a new 5.1 Dolby mix supervised by longtime Doors associate Bruce Botnick, The Doors: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970 boasts a new 17-minute documentary, titled This Is the End,
This is the last known unseen performance of The Doors in existence. The show has been completely remixed and recut and restored using the latest technology, from grain-reduction to color-correction techniques from the original footage. The DVD includes a bonus featurette “This Is The End” 17 minutes of interviews conducted by the film’s original director, Academy Award-winning Murray Lerner with Krieger, Densmore, and original Doors manager Bill Siddons. Additional archival interview footage with Manzarek from 2002 is also included in the featurette.
HowTheLightGetsIn returns to Hay-on-Wye in May 2018 with more ideas, music, magic and wonder than ever before. For one weekend, the world’s leading thinkers flock to our festival site on the edge of the Black Mountains. Elsewhere in our fields, an inspiring programme of music, comedy and performance art unfolds across our intimate and atmospheric venues.
We’ve just announced our full speaker and debate line-up and a limited number of Tier 2 tickets are now available! Don’t miss your chance to hear from Noam Chomsky, Sophie Fiennes, David Nutt, Matthew d’Ancona, Gideon Rachman, Lawrence Krauss, Jack Halberstam, Diane Abbott, and many, many more.
Organised by the people behind the infamous Coachella Festival, All Points East is a series of major outdoor events taking place this summer at Victoria Park in East London which boasts a huge headliner each night.
Miami Pop Festival was held December 28th–30th, 1968. It is considered the first major rock festival on America’s east coast. It was produced by a team led by Tom Rounds and Mel Lawrence, who had previously produced the seminal KFRC Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival on Mount Tamalpais in Marin County, California. The crowd size for the three days was estimated to be around 100,000 and featured
performers covering a wide range of music genres. The artists were: The Amboy Dukes Chuck Berry Blues Image Box Tops The Paul Butterfield Blues Band Canned Heat Wayne Cochran Cosmic Drum James Cotton Blues Band Country Joe and the Fish Jose Feliciano Fish Ray Flatts and Scruggs Fleetwood Mac Marvin Gaye The Grass Roots Grateful Dead Richie Havens Ian & Sylvia Iron Butterfly Junior Junkanoos Jr. Walker & The Allstars The Charles Lloyd Quartet Hugh Masekela Joni Mitchell Pacific Gas & Electric Procol Harum Terry Reid Buffy Sainte-Marie Steppenwolf The Sweet Inspirations Sweetwater Joe Tex Three Dog Night The Turtles
Many of these musicians were cast as superheroes in a commemorative comic book distributed at the event. Interesting moments during the festival included: Joni Mitchell inviting former Hollies member and new love interest Graham Nash, as well as Richie Havens to join her onstage to sing Dino Valenti’s “Get Together”; and Jefferson Airplane’s Jack Casady playing bass guitar with Country Joe and the Fish.
This festival was unique in that it was the first rock festival to have two entirely separate ‘main’ stages several hundred yards apart (the Flower Stage and the Flying Stage), both operating simultaneously and offering performers of equal calibre.
admission, $7.00 100,000 people showed up for a 3 day, leave at night festival that really had no problems to speak of. It was organized by Tom Rounds, who had previously promoted the Mount Tam Fest ,in Oakland, Ca. He worked with the local Hallendale government officials to solve difficulties over sleeping arrangements and traffic jams. With a varied line up and, two stages a few hundred yards from each other, you could see one band, then go to the other stage and catch the next act. This set up insured there would be no lag in the music, one stage always had a band playing. In between the stages were huge pieces of art work that you could climb on and explore, a giant milk carton, and a giant slide, the kind you see at fairs and carnivals these days. this was also the first time I saw the work of artist Duane Hanson. He had an exhibit of very life like human figures made of fiberglass, all in very attention getting poses. The hit of the concert was Pacific Gas & Electric, they played four times at the festival, and rocked the sox off everyone. with an amazing drum solo. A huge favorite at MP II was Marvin Gaye, what a sweet soulful set ,” I Heard it Through The Grapevine “ and all. Rolling Stone Magazine, issue 26, had a picture of Jimi Hendrix on the cover, ( which probably confused everyone, As he played at MP II, he played at the first Miami Pop festival in the May of ’68 ) and declared it ” The Most Festive Festival of 1968 “.
The 2nd ‘Miami Pop Festival’ of 1968, 49 years ago today.
The Fat Angel Sings 