I'd like to meet:
We are delighted to announce the confirmed line-up as
Friday 23rd May – starts 7pm
Phil “Swill†Odgers (of 'The Men They Couldn't Hang')
Leon Rosselson
Paul Simmonds (of 'The Men They Couldn't Hang')
Michael Rossiter
Saturday 24th May – starts 2pm
Neil McSweeney
David Thomas Broughton
Champion Kickboxer
James William Hindle
Richard Masters
Suzy Mangion
The Fates
Nat Johnson
Sunday 25th May – starts 2pm
James Yorkston
HMS Ginafore
The Big Eyes Family Players
Benjamin Wetherill
Winter North Atlantic
Silent Film Project
Greenville Canary
The Silver Darlings
Plus superb quality dj action from 2 Left Feet, Lionel Vinyl, Ralph Razor, Diggery Pokery, The Record Hop, Go-Go Gorilla, Jill Gondwana (Sheffield Live), Red Deer Recordings, Spacegoat, B-Music, and Ping Pong /Seal Club.
AND a wonder-beer garden with BBQ, Arts And Crafts Stalls (The Old Sweet Shop)..., Record Stalls, Tea And Cake Stalls, Spoken Word /Acoustic Stage with special one off performances from Antique Doll, Double No No and Sarah Jay. Plus a secret film garden!
tickets: £10 per day, £25 for the weekend..
tickets available now
from Jacks Records, Sheffield (0114 276 7093) and www.wegottickets.com
Music:
I made this music player at MyFlashFetish .com.
..NEIL MCSWEENEY
Hailing from Sheffield, songwriter Neil McSweeney writes, sings and performs all his own material, the very same that makes up his debut album, which was recorded with 'the Gents'; an amorphous group of local musicians who dropped in on the sessions for the record. Live, the Gents include members of Sheffield bands Rumpus and Baby Long Legs, Leeds stalwarts Scaramanga Six and ihop, the remix duo responsible for re-working the Long Blondes' single 'Separated by Motorways'.LEON ROSSELSON
In the early days of the folk revival, he was a member of the Galliards with whom he made numerous radio and TV broadcasts and concert appearances. He started writing songs seriously (and humorously) in the early 1960s and hasn't stopped yet. His early songs were topical-satirical (some of them were featured on TV's satire show That Was The Week That Was) but he broadened out from there, absorbing different influences, from Music Hall to French Realist Song, and experimenting with different song forms.
JAMES YORKSTON
‘James Yorkston showed just how entertaining an endearing singer/songwriter can be, Each of Yorkston’s tracks was greeted with hushed reverence by the crowd, who hung on to his every utterance as if it were his last. He’s an unassuming, funny and frankly huggable character, touting emotional and unashamedly pretty folk music that buckles at the knees occasionally but is held firm by the strength of the melody.’
The ScotsmanCHAMPION KICKBOXER
‘Champion Kickboxer have an unceasingly inventive take on the indie pop song. There are Brian Wilson-esque vocal melodies dripping out of every corner, impossibly high and beautiful crystalline guitar parts trickling out and an unnerving sense of the unusual and arresting rearing it's ugly head on a regular basis.’
Tasty Fanzine
WINTER NORTH ATLANTIC
‘Five gentle collisions of reverb, acoustics, blips and beats that like a fairy tale, warm your cockles, and then without warning, reveals a goulish heart and send a shiver up your spine. It's smokey and oakey in a way reminiscent of Four Tet and Andy Votel of Twisted Nerve.’
Sandman
DAVID THOMAS BROUGHTON
Part-improviser, part spectral folk-singer, David plays his own unique blend of off-kilter music. Using looped guitars and vocals and with the addition of a drum machine, he creates, as The Guardian put it, 'layer upon layer of musical quality'.
THE BIG EYES FAMILY PLAYERS
"Woozy Gypsy laments for sleepwalkers, the perfect theme to a remake of The Third Man, an almost lo-fi gauzy indie-folk pop squeezing sunshine out of eternity through acts of melodic compassion. Lots of old string-led European sorrow, nocturnal jazz grooves, a dash of discordant angst, and some surrealistic lullabies slowly passing like elevated Fahey extrapolations meandering down a glacial riverbed. Some haunted hallucinatory personal folk songs, and an expansive sense of mystery, of something only partially revealed, perhaps glimpsed only in passing" [George Parsons, Dream Magazine]
