Explore our entangled relationship with the natural world at Charleston this summer. Festival of the Garden brings together today’s most pioneering gardeners and designers, artists and activists, writers and musicians to reimagine our relationship with the land. Join us for our main stage events on our colourful outdoor stage in The Yard, or spend the…
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Be one of the first to secure yours 🥳 Reasons to join the Bearded Theory party early: 🥶 2024 Price Freeze tickets are waiting for the keenest among you. 🐦 The earliest birds can also catch the Early & Super Early Bird tickets. 📅 A whole year of payment plans means splitting the cost into…
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What a line-up! This is definitdely one for music fans who survived the 80s and 90s and came out the better for it! And with just a few tickets left you could be there with us! If only all festivals were programmed this way… TICKETS
Brighton Psych Fest takes place on Friday 30th August featuring performances from The Horrors / Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs / NewDad / Juniore / bdrmm / La Luz / The Bug Club / SCALER (FKA SCALPING) / Divorce and more From the minds behind Brighton’s leading independent promoter JOY. Concerts as well as…
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They are one of the most exciting yound bands on the rise right now… go see for yourself just why… Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
Living on the border-crossing between the lands of metal and punk, Saint Agnes’ songs prowl the fringes of society… Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
His Lordship is a fizzing, frothing bath-bomb of sexy rock’n’roll abd you should go see them play live… Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
Bob Vylan epitomises the raw energy generated by musical passion… we love them! Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
As the soundtrack to our youth, Dexy’s are a very welcomed return to the live circuit… Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
Perennial Irish rockers with one foot in grunge and another in the present day… Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
Our favourite synth-pop band who feel more like a rock act live… immense, slick, and very, very good. Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
Beans on Toast is quite simple the quintessential festival act…period. Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
Hi-octane cider-infused Westcounty celtic folk that echos through the fields every year… Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
Addicted to Jane’s Addiction? We’re not even starting to get on the road to recovery… Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
Punk-ska songwriter Jeshua Marshall is an Americana-style musician with a reggae sensibility. Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com [flicckr_set id = ‘72177720317443044’]
It had to happen at some point… Jim Bob and Les Carter back on the same stage together! Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
Young upstarts with attitude and more talent than is generally permitted to be gathered together on a festival stage… Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
Churning out classic post-punk anthems to millions of eagre fans across the socioshpere… Photos by http://www.sarabowreyphotos.com
He’s a one-man walking/talking/singing/rapping mental-wellness drop-in centre…
Slamboree is what happens when musicians run off to join the circus…
All the best bits of your favourite genres wrapped up into a tight little musical ball – and thrown hard at the wall.
An electifying explosion of dirty beats and punk attitude…
Proper unreconstructed blast from the noir-past of the early-80s… it’s a goth-tastic explosion of noise.
This is the musical equivalent of elegant dining, and Cassandra Jenkins serves up a proper taster menu of complimentary flavours. Jazzy aromas arise from a plate of pop-sensibilities, whilst new-age guitar rock pours across the dish like an unctuous sauce with a gloss of poetic insight. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Eaves Wilder has a target audience – her 14-year-old self. She writes catchy but gentle takes on riot-G motifs and tries to be at her own shoulder as an often sad young teenager to promise her that life will soon open out into a world of opportunity. You don’t have to be a 14-year-old girl…
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Life’s a riot for these five Leeds girrrls, and their music is firmly rooted in that impassioned proto-punk phenomenon, but it also screams with pop-protocols that bring it bang up-to-date for discerning Gen-Z be-boppers to get all sweaty and heady to. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
You can’t avoid listening the Barking Poets and imagining how they must have spent many a long sweaty night pogoing to The Clash down at the local school disco. The alt-punk London band wears this retro badge firmly and proudly on its sleeve like a boy scout with a merit for woodcraft. It’s unreconstructed classic…
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Ireland isn’t all about new snarly, rappy, or massively electro bands these days… the country continues to produce delightful voices too… it’s in the population’s green genes. But Chubby Cat does fuse her vocal talent with some interesting nu-rock hooks, and synth-heavy backing tracks – and her lyrics don’t mince words either. Joined on stage…
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Eighty Eight Miles are a relatively new Midlands outfit who’s influences hark back to the classic rock/pop scene of the heady 70s that came out of the west coast of the USA. You can pick out the elements for yourself to work out what’s in their collective old vinyl collection … but with interest from…
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Hailing from East Berlin but via Southern Spain, Morocco, and Ireland’s BIMM Institute in Dublin, Emileo delivers celtic-inspired songs that blend with electronic beats and Eastern influences. She was applauded by Sinéad O’Connor for a very ‘special’ something, and she wants to change the world. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Los Angeles has spawned a monster… Holy Wars. Kat Leon and co-creator Nicolas Perez slice and dice epic rock with a punk scalpel sharp enough to split the atom. Since 2017 the duo have achieved accolade upon accolade and have developed a powerful stage show that perfectly counterpoints the acrobatic production of their full-speed songs.…
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A modern take on psych-kraut-rock from this Toronto-based four-piece, in whose raw garage production ethic you can almost hear the spanners rattling on their hooks on the wall. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Soulful jazz-funk pours effortlessly out of the talented Immy, a young woman with a big voice. With deep Bristol roots and a deeply insightful knack for a vocal hook, she will be haunting the Jazz Cafe and many other cool nightspots before you know it. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Two voices wrapped so tightly around each other that you can hardly spot the join. This is a proper she/they duo out of Berlin who can make even the biggest stage an intimate experience for their audoence. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap, and DJ Próvaí create uncompromising Irish hip-hop that rises from the gutters of Belfast and wraps itself around your throat in a stanglehold grip. Be afraid. Be happy. Be yourself. Listen to Kneecap. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
Armed with just a drumkit, a powerful vocal, and a host of dexterously produced backing tracks featuring all your favourite guitar and key parts, Lost Romantic are two charismatic musicians on a mission to blow cobwebs out of the rafters of venues around the world. Proper diva-geezers. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
We’ve come all over with fond memories of DEVO at their quintessential best listening the The Meat Sweaters. Those sharp spiky synth lines and impassioned machine gun lyrics are a proper blast back to less complicated days. But this is modern music too. It stands tall alongside the Squids of the world, and, quite correctly,…
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Unreconstructed heavy rockers, Mister Strange, hark from Manchester and offer up simple, no-holds-barred old-time heavy guitars and a sip of simple seventies pleasure for aging headbangers or nu-rock moshers alike. PHOTOS : SARA-LOUISE BOWREY
