Friday 18 Saturday 19 Sunday 20 September 2015 Ramsbottom Cricket Club Greater Manchester
Friday 18 Saturday 19 Sunday 20 September 2015 Ramsbottom Cricket Club Greater Manchester
Friday 18 Saturday 19 Sunday 20 September 2015 Ramsbottom Cricket Club Greater Manchester
Strikingly individual, twin brothers Craig and Charlie Reid have over the years enjoyed huge success across the globe as the emotional honesty, political fire, wit and sing-along raucousness of their songs and their extensive touring has enlightened and entertained fans new and old. The Proclaimers have carved out a niche for themselves in the netherworld where pop, folk, new wave and punk collide. In the process they have enjoyed Gold and Platinum singles and albums in UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
After completing a two-year World tour late in 2013, Craig and Charlie took 2014 off to focus entirely on writing a new album. They headed to Rockfield Studios in December with their band and producer Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Wilko Johnson and Roger Daltrey, Idlewild, The Who) and recorded their tenth studio album for release on Cooking Vinyl in April this year. This year they return to the road to continue doing what they do best - delighting fans with their music.
"I find it hard to put into words quite how the music of The Proclaimers makes me feel. It makes me laugh. It makes me cry. It just makes me generally euphoric" Matt Lucas
Moulettes are steadily being singled out as one of the best alt-folk artists that have arisen in the past decade. With strings, guitars, drums, bassoon and synths, Moulettes' music weaves between indie folk, chamber pop and prog rock to create an incomparable universe.
Renowned for their breathtaking live shows it is clear that few bands have the creative range and work ethic of Moulettes. They are constantly evolving with a brave approach to production and arrangement that seeks peculiar ways of blending acoustic and electric instruments.
Band member Hannah notes: "People listen to Moulettes and apparently hear Shostakovich, Pentangle, Pink Floyd, Bjork, Portishead and even Skrillex. That is where we've all come from...everyone shares in over 80 years of an eclectic recorded music history".
"A clever and Original Band. Sophisticated and Unpredictable" ★★★★ The Guardian
With their "glorious folk-tinged stadium anthems" (Record of the Day) Flight Brigade have been championed by BBC 6 Music's Steve Lamac and Tom Robinson and BBC Radio 2's Bob Harris and Janice Long.
With music that evokes the sound of 70s folk they have opened live shows for Stornoway, King Charles and Seth Lakeman amongst others. 2015 sees them working towards the release of their debut LP with acclaimed producer Gavin Monoghan (Kings of Leon, The Editors).
Baked A La Ska are the "heavy heavy sound" of Manchester, a super charged eleven-headed ska monster on a rampage through the dance floors of the UK leaving a trail of skanked out bodies in their wake.
"Utterly bonkers but irresistible" Manchester Evening News
Since bursting on to the Scottish folk scene just a few short years ago, RURA have quickly become one of the most sought-after bands of their generation and a hit at festivals throughout Europe, renowned for their rugged, energetic arrangements. They were voted Best Up and Coming Act at the MG Alba Scots Trad Music Awards 2011 and received nominations for both Folk Band of the Year (Scots Trad Music Awards 2012) and the Horizon Award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2013.
The band released their outstanding debut album, Break it Up, alongside Greentrax Records in March 2012 to wide critical acclaim across the UK and Europe. They are soon to release their second album Despite The Dark.
"Grainne Duffy has exploded and its obvious why - classic hooks, high cheekbones and a bad-girl voice box" Classic Rock Magazine
Gráinne Duffy is a unique talent, raw and powerful, edgy and elegant. Her set lists include a wonderful mix of blues rock and soul charged with true emotion and feeling. Gráinne has already graced the stages at Glastonbury three times, toured Europe and opened for Jools Holland on his Irish tour. She was voted Blues Vocalist of the Year 2014 by Blues in Britain. This year sees the release of her live album recorded in Germany as well as lots more live shows.
With a selection of rum-soaked shanties, traditional tunes and seafaring classics from bands such as The Dubliners, Thin Lizzy and The Fisherman's Friends, you can be sure that these deck hands will get feet tapping from the poop to the crow's nest.
Galleon Blast feature banjos, whistles, accordions and fiddles from members of The Family Mahone, Full House and Mark Radcliffe and Foes, including the pirate DJ himself Mr Radcliffe - the Jack Sparrow of the Radio 2 Folk Show.
With a sound that encompasses everything from schizophrenic fairground avant-pop with queasy skanking swamp-ska to crunching left-brain hard rock and mad scientist anti-funk, this twelve-legged monster of a band are a mind boggling creative force.
The Slytones are on a path to discover new, weird and wonderful ways to be musically expressive injecting some theatricality, colour and mischievous menace into the British rock scene.
"You have never heard or seen anything quite like them. That's a promise." Dom Lawson, The Guardian
Benji Kirkpatrick performs the songs of Jimi Hendrix as you've never heard them before. Benji takes Hendrix's songs and re-interprets them; stripping back the layers of guitar, the psychedelia, the era and bringing the songs out in their pure form. Leaving the guitar behind altogether Benji tackles this material on bouzouki, banjo and mandolin, creating a unique approach and sound for these songs.
"...a memorably aggressive bouzouki style...Powerful..." MOJO
David Gibb is an award winning songwriter and storyteller on a mission to create great music for children and families. His show, Letters Through Your Door, aimed at families it is packed full of catchy toe tapping numbers. The themes range from the everyday to the surreal, but whether it's finding a dragon in your bedroom, dreaming about swimming in the sea, or simply waiting for the postman to arrive, there's something there for everyone!
"Contemporary children's songs from a knowingly youthful viewpoint...fun, catchy, and pleasingly unpatronising; folk flavoured with jazz and reggae, and musicality to match" fROOTS
Plus many more still to be announced.
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