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SINGLE REVIEW: Oliver Pinder – ‘Lockdown’

30 Mar 2018

Beautiful, that’s the only way to describe ‘Lockdown’. This is the saddest song, although it has the a sort of joyful sadness in the music that makes it compulsive listening. Before we go any further I think it needs a word of explanation. Listen to the lyrics – and the words in this song are so so important – and you may not be able to work out quite what it’s actually about. I couldn’t anyway. But once you know that Oliver says, “’Lockdown’ is about falling out of love with something you thought you’d love forever and how slowly your love will just fade away”, it all makes sense.

The arrangement is simple, there are swells of guitar, drums, keys and cello but Oliver lets the words and his voice do the work and it’s all the better for than. But there’s more to the arrangement than that, it follows the story, the music fits the story.

There are moments on this track where the sheer intensity of it almost is too much, it reaches a point where listening to it is almost painful but there’s a pull back, the sounds swells and that chorus, a chorus that gets into your head, comes in.

You’ll find yourself waiting for that moment when, close to the end, Oliver sings over a shimmering cymbal and the chorus over a stripped down arrangement. And then it just ends, there’s no fade, one moment it’s there and the next gone.

If you like your songs to be thoughtful and thought provoking this is for you. If you like your songs incredibly beautiful and full of emotion, this is for you.

The single is available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/7pIiaxX7ozHbmaAaBLN6Ri

The info

On the single Oliver is accompanied by his four-piece band (consisting of himself on guitar, keys and vocals, a cellist, a guitarist and a drummer).

They will be back playing shows across the UK in 2018.Oliver and his band will play Hyde Park Book Club in Leeds on June 13th, with other shows to be confirmed.

Spotify: http://smarturl.it/OliverSpotify
YouTube: http://smarturl.it/OliverYouTube
Twitter: twitter.com/oliverpinder/
Instagram: instagram.com/oliverpinder/
Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/oliverpinder/
Music Glue: https://www.musicglue.com/oliver-pinder/

VIDEO & TOUR NEWS: FOREVER CULT video for ‘Usurper’, upcoming dates

LSF Staff Writers

29 Mar 2018

Forever Cult have unveiled a video for latest single ‘Usurper’. Abrasive, fuzzy and oscillating, the track is a sonic depiction of a night out escalating. ‘Usurper’ is also the first track featuring the band’s newly recruited second guitarist Wilko.

“We’ve gathered here today to share the video for our new single ‘Usurper’ with you. Now the video itself was something of a fluke. In fact, go watch it first, then come back read this as there’s too many spoilers here for you to enjoy it. Go on, off you pop. Right, all done? Watched it all? That bit with the dragon & that at the end too yeah? Sound. Then allow me to continue… The video, as I say, was a total fluke. Scott who runs our label (Clue Records) had a fully made video for another band’s song but it didn’t match. So he cleverly chopped it all up & made it work for Usurper. Somehow the planets aligned & we have this wondrous package to show to you today. You wouldn’t even know it was made for a different tune would you? So maybe forget this bit & just enjoy yeah? Ta. This is the start of a busy year. 3 new singles are coming then we might start talking about a longer piece of music that begins with an a but til then, enjoy & come see us live over the summer. Love you loads, whoever, however & wherever you are. FC xoxoxox”
Forever Cult – ‘Usurper’

Produced By Matt Peel (Eagulls, Bad Breeding) at Leeds studio The Nave, Usurper follows 2017’s EP Homewrecker on Clue Records which streamed with DIY Magazine pre-release. The band recently returned to The Nave to record the follow up to this EP, due later this year – check out an in the studio gallery at Upset magazine.

“We’ve been quiet for a little while but it’s taken time to develop our sound again. New songs are coming thick and fast in a totally different way to usual. We’re writing all together in a practise room jamming out ideas more than before. It’s really exciting all over again and has really given us a new lease of life”
– Alex (Bass)

Forever Cult won’t be hiding away in the studio, announcing their support to Queen Zee on select shows, alongside Falsetival, Live At Leeds, Hit The North, The Great Escape and Neverworld festivals. Further live dates will be announced soon.

Comprising of up of Kieran Clarke (vocals, guitar), Alex Greaves (bass, vocals), James Douglas Wilkinson (guitar, vocals)and Aaron Snowdon (drums), Forever Cult are a formidable force on the live circuit, with highlights including support to Pulled Apart By Horses, Francobollo and Fizzy Blood, alongside Leeds Festival.

BUY/STREAM ‘USURPER’

Catch FOREVER CULT live

7th Apr – Falsetival, Manchester
8th Apr – Oporto, Leeds (w/ Queen Zee)
14th Apr – Lantern, Halifax (w/ Queen Zee)
5th May – Live At Leeds
6th May – Hit The North Festival
17th-19th May – The Great Escape
2nd-5th Aug – Neverworld Fest, Kent

ALBUM & TOUR NEWS: Josh Rouse “Love In The Modern Age” Out April 13 via Yep Roc Records, tour April 2018

LSF Staff Writers

28 Mar 2018

Inspired By The Blue Nile, The Style Council, Prefab Sprout and Roxy Music Singer-songwriter Josh Rouse will release his new album ‘Love in the Modern Age’ on April 13, 2018 via Yep Roc Records.

Similar to his work on his album 1972 where he captured the aesthetics of a specific moment in time, Josh’s new album takes inspiration from the sound and production of early 1980’s releases by The Blue Nile, The Style Council and Prefab Sprout. Also serving as inspiration were Roxy Music’s Avalon, Leonard Cohen’s Various Positions and I’m Your Man. Non-ironic touches like sax, handclaps, reverbed guitar, backing vocals and keyboards give the moody but infectious songs a New Romantic flair.

Josh Rouse has solidified his status as one of his generation’s most acclaimed songwriters in both the US and Europe, where he’s lived on and off since 2004. Spending the better part of a year touring behind his critically acclaimed eleventh album, The Embers of Time, Rouse was ready for a change. “Coming off such a heavy record, I wanted to try something different,” he explains. “I wanted to explore new sounds and write with a fresh backdrop.”

Trading in his trusty acoustic guitar for a synthesizer, Love in the Modern Age still bears Rouse’s distinct fingerprints even as it pushes his limits, and forges a bold new chapter more than twenty years into his celebrated career.

UK TOUR DATES

APR 24 The Lantern, Bristol, United Kingdom
APR 25 The Garage, London, United Kingdom
APR 26 Deaf Institute, Manchester, United Kingdom
APR 27 Whelan’s, Dublin, Ireland
APR 28 Leaf, Liverpool, United Kingdom
APR 29 The Mash House, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
APR 30 The Plug, Sheffield, United Kingdom

ALBUM & TOUR NEWS: Gretchen Peters announces new album, dates May-August 2018

LSF Staff Writers

28 Mar 2018

She releases ‘Dancing With The Beast’ on 18th May via Proper Records

The new album puts female characters at the fore, from teenage girls to old women. And intentionally so. With the 2017 Women’s March and the #MeToo Movement as bookends to her writing time, Peters knew that a feminist perspective would be the critical core of the record.

She admits, “You can trace the feminist DNA in my songwriting back to ‘Independence Day’ and probably before. The thing that 2017 did is just put it front and center.” Though Peters doesn’t consider herself a political writer, she is politically minded and, therefore, knew she had to address the 2016 election and all that has happened since… but in her own way.

Tracks: Arguing With Ghosts / Wichita / The Boy From Rye / Disappearing Act / Lowlands / The Show / Dancing With The Beast / Truckstop Angel / Say Grace / Lay Low / Love That Makes A Cup Of Tea

Pre-order the album HERE

UK TOUR DATES

Saturday, 19th May 2018 / Stamford, Corn Exchange
Sunday, 20th May 2018 / Milton Keynes, The Stables
Tuesday, 22nd May 2018 / Edinburgh, Queens Hall
Wednesday, 23rd May 2018 / Gateshead, The Sage Gateshead
Friday, 25th May 2018 / Birmingham, Birmingham Town Hall
Saturday, 26th May 2018 / Southport, The Atkinson
Sunday, 27th May 2018 / Manchester, Royal Northern College of Music
Wednesday, 30th May 2018 / Leeds, City Varieties
Thursday, 31st May 2018 / Bury St Edmunds, The Apex
Saturday, 2nd June 2018 / Bristol, St Georges
Sunday, 3rd June 2018 / Worthing, The Pavilion Theatre
Thursday, 7th June 2018 / Shetland, Mareel
Saturday, 9th June 2018 / Nottingham, Gate to Southwell Festival
Tuesday, 12th June 2018 / Cardiff, Level 3 – St David’s Hall
Wednesday, 13th June 2018 / London, Cadogan Hall
Friday, 15th June 2018 / Beverley, Beverley Folk Festival Main Stage
Friday, 24th August 2018 / Wadebridge, Cornwall Folk Festival
Sunday, 26th August 2018 / Shrewsbury, Shrewsbury Folk Festival

THERE’S A WORLD OUT THERE – EP REVIEW: INK – ‘Part 1’

Frank

28 Mar 2018

OK so INK are one of those bands where if you described quite what they sound like you’d get ‘quite what the hell are you talking about, there’s no way that would work’. So let me say right from the start that this is simply great, it’s something that’ll have you dancing, something that’ll have you thinking ‘well this is huge fun’. But there’s a depth to this as you’ll see.

So simply put INK fuse Ska, Funk, Reggae and Jazz influences and seemingly anything else they like into something all of their own. Something that is fantastic. And a big part of that something of their own is the vocals. INK’s vocalist Molly just has this voice that grabs you, she’s toasting one moment, she’s all sultry jazz the next. But obviously you can’t just rely on a voice however good it may be, you need people who know how to play, and in INK’s case play a variety of styles, well. INK has that.

This EP has two tracks (surely, I hear people of a certain age say, that makes it a single, didn’t singles always have two tracks? To which my response is, not any more, a single is one single track, anything more is just NOT A SINGLE, can you just stop hassling me about it please) ‘Mud’ and ‘Astrix’. They are both different but somehow still obviously the same band playing, they are on the same, how shall we put it, spectrum.

‘Mud’ opens with just a bass, then the drums come in, and then the band are into a ska-y/reggae thing, the saxophone just rasps in (sorry I forgot to mention that the band features a saxophone player) and Molly just comes in with this toasting, but strangely lilting vocal. She has this rather thrilling tendency to punctuate her vocals with these yelps. And her voice is low, way low. So yeah you could just sit and listen to it, you’d enjoy it (I’m doing that right now), but this is music you can dance to. ‘Mud’ has at points what I can only describe as rather sexy rhythm, it’s not fast but you could gently shank to it, preferably with your chosen partner or potential partner. And then it speeds up, it gets all a bit klezmer, a bit wilder.

For me ‘Astrix’ is the standout track of the two. It’s slower, it’s more sultry (at least at first). It opens with saxophone and then this halting ‘riff’ but then the guitar goes all light and then Molly comes in, she’s toasting jazz style, there’s these rather lovely light jazzy/reggae sounds going on. It seems to be finishing but no, there’s almost classical sounding guitar, it all sounds a bit almost gospel, and what the bloody fuck is going on, there is this guitar, guitar that rocks out, it’s a thrill, a fucking thrill. There is a short vocal section and then the guitar kicks off, it screams, you can see the guitarist grimacing as he shreds out those notes. And then it fades. It sounds like a mess, it isn’t. It’s strangely and weirdly moving, Quite what this song is about I have no idea but it drips emotion. I almost couldn’t bear for this to end, when it ended I felt like something had been ripped out, there is only one solution, hit repeat, hit repeat again, and yet again. Annoy the neighbours by playing on repeat for ever, I don’t frankly care, I need this.

Look people this is fantastic but you need to approach this with open ears and an open mind. It’s not your average music, it’s hard to put into a niche. What it isn’t is one of ‘Frank’s weird bands’ – come on you all know I like stuff that isn’t easy to listen to – it is music with depth, played and sang exceptionally well.

Me I’m guessing INK are incredible live, and I’m making a big and important note to catch them playing.

The EP is now available on Spotify, ITunes and Soundcloud.

OK so while you checking out the EP do take a listen to INK’s other stuff on their Soundcloud page: https://soundcloud.com/ink-official-1

The info

INK are from Manchester but play frequently in the LSF area. INK are:

Vocals – Molly Hall
Saxophone – Seph Fountain
Guitar – Fynn Birch
Bass – Gabe Burke
Drums- Aron Mather

The tracks on Part 1 come with their own music video, to be released via Youtube throughout the month of April. Their Part 2 EP will be released in late Autumn 2018.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ink.officiall/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2T0nDvjmexrxfD6m2feGPl?si=FhvXrqL3QPmySRhW5J5NLg
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRp6oC_3KvDfHs7XHHMALBA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/INKOfficialBand
SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/ink-official-1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ink.officiall/

INK pay at the Ska Special at The MUlberry Sheffield on 1st April – for other gigs checkout their Facebook Page.

This review is one of our ‘There’s A World Out There’ features in which we will choose things to review – albums, singles, gigs – that we like and feel are worth a listen – but are not made or played in Yorkshire. It’s as simple as that.

TOUR NEWS: Miles Kane announces 16 Date UK Tour May-July 2018

LSF Staff Writers

27 Mar 2018

Known for his exhilarating live shows, Miles Kane is back where he belongs, on the road playing 16 unmissable headline shows this summer.

‘It’s been too long since I’ve been on stage” Miles says. ‘I cannot wait to get up and perform a high energy set with a couple of new bangers thrown in! Bring it on!’

Miles is currently in the studio working on a new record, his first solo material since 2013’s acclaimed ‘Don’t Forget Who You Are’.

Miles Kane plays the following UK dates with tickets on sale 9am Thursday 29th March:

May
Weds 23rd Carlisle, The Brickyard
Thurs 24th Stoke, The Sugarmill
Fri 25th Coventry, Kasbah
Mon 28th London, The Moth Club
Tues 29th London, The Moth Club
Weds 30th Sheffield, The Leadmill
June
Fri 1st Northampton, Roadmender
Sat 2nd Oxford, O2 Academy 1
Fri 22nd Cambridge, Cambridge Junction
Sat 23rd Newcastle, Riverside
Mon 25th Brighton, Concorde 2
Tues 26th Exeter, Lemon Grove, Exeter University
Thurs 28th Portsmouth, Pyramids
Fri 29th Cardiff, The Tramshed
July
Tues 3rd Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
Wed 4th Liverpool, Hangar 34

Miles also plays the following Festivals:

May
Sat 26th Warrington, Neighbourhood Fest
June
Sat 30th Finsbury Park, With Queens of the Stone Age
July
Sun 1st Glasgow, TRNSMT
Fri 6th Athens, Rockwave Festival
Sat 21st Moscow, Ahmad Tea Music Festival

www.mileskane.com

ALBUM & TOUR NEWS: Bryde releases ‘Like An Island’ 13th April, tour April/May 2018

LSF Staff Writers

27 Mar 2018

After setting up her label Seahorse Music to publish records by like-minded women and help make them more visible in a male-dominated industry, BRYDE finished up her debut LP ‘Like An Island’ flitting between London and LA.

Exploring themes of independence, liberation, and relationships, her inimitable brand of candid indie rock is realised with mixing help from Catherine Marks (Wolf Alice, PJ Harvey and St Vincent), and mastering by Mandy Parnell. Lyrically, London based Bryde finds intense internal poetry in everyday adversity. While concentrating thematically on life and human interaction, her songwriting persona wears her bruised yet resolute heart on her sleeve.

‘Like An Island’ comes out on Bryde’s own label Seahorse Music on the 13 of April and will be available to preorder. Support in the form of Women Make Music fund from PRS has been awarded to assist its release.

Bryde Live

tickets here: www.brydemusic.com

April 2018

10 – DUBLIN Solo Set @ Ruby Sessions
11 – GALWAY , Monroe’s
12 – LIMERICK, Kasbah Social Club
13 – DUBLIN Whelans
15 – NEWCASTLE – Cluny 2
16 – EDINBURGH – Sneaky Petes
17 – LEEDS – Oporto
19 – SHEFFIELD – Cafe Totem
20 – MANCHESTER – Gullivers
21 – NOTTINGHAM – Bodega
22 – BIRMINGHAM – The Cuban Embassy
23 – BRISTOL – Exchange
25 – CARDIFF – Clwb Ifor Bach
26 – SOUTHAMPTON
27 – BEDFORD – Esquires
30 – BRIGHTON – Komedia

May 2018

01 – LONDON – Omeara

VIDEO NEWS: Avalanche Party drop video for latest single ‘Porcelain’

LSF Staff Writers

27 Mar 2018

Avalanche Party have revealed a video for latest single ‘Porcelain’. The track captures the quintet at their finest – oozing bucketloads of energy and charisma, contagious soundscapes and meticulous attention to detail.

“This is pure method acting. In an attempt to capture the hard psychosis created from desperately wanting something out of your control, the subject locked himself in a bare room and stayed awake for eight days straight on a diet of Quickfire Long-Lasting Firelighters and Cif Cream Cleaner. Here are the results”
Avalanche Party – ‘Porcelain’

Porcelain is available digitally, and also on 12” limited edition blood red vinyl alongside three other tracks – including previous single ‘I’m So Wet’.
Purchase at: http://www.cluerecords.com

Avalanche Party were formed by brothers Jordan and Joe, who spent summers in their youth in the Yorkshire dales, camping by firelight, and their winters snowed into their isolated hill top home with nothing but the sounds of Bo Diddley, Link Wray, Wilko Johnson and Jimi Hendrix to keep them company. The boys played their first gig at the age of twelve, and music is ingrained in their being.

Live is where Avalanche Party reign. Their brand of feral garage-punk is intense and immediate, brimming with an urgency that explodes on the stage, every note played through white knuckles, every word spat through gritted teeth. Vocalist Jordan Bell fearlessly parades amongst the crowd, supported by the captivating sonic backbone that is guitarist Jared Thorpe, bassist Joe Bell, Kane Waterfield on drums and Glen Adkins on keys. This undeniable musical chemistry has placed the band at the forefront of the British DIY scene, with live highlights including support to LIFE, Datsuns, Happy Mondays, alongside Reading & Leeds, Camden Rocks and Tramlines festivals.

The band wear their North Yorkshire roots with pride, having gigged the area relentlessly since their inception and gathering a fiercely loyal fanbase in the process. To pay homage, Avalanche Party will curate their own one-day festival at The Georgian Theatre in Stockton on 23rd June. Line-up and further details will be announced soon.

The band are now gearing up for the This Feeling tour throughout the UK this April, and will also play Live At Leeds, Hit The North and Electric Fields Festival. Further live dates will be announced soon.

Catch AVALANCHE PARTY live:

(**This Feeling tour)

5th Apr – Cardiff The Moon**
6th Apr – Bristol Mother’s Ruin**
7th Apr – London, Water Rats**
14th Apr – Leeds Lending Room**
20th Apr – Manchester Jimmy’s**
21st Apr – Sheffield Cafe Totem**
27th Apr – Glasgow Broadcast**
28th Apr – Edinburgh Sneaky Pete’s**
5th May – Leeds, Live At Leeds
6th May – Newcastle, Hit The North
23rd Jun – Stockton Georgian Theatre
30th Aug – Electric Fields Festival, Scotland

LIVE REVIEW: Todmorden Orchestra Todmorden 17th March & Antony and friends 24th March, Central Methodist Church, Todmorden

Diana Forrest

26 Mar 2018

Spring Romance Todmorden Orchestra 17 March 2018

The concert began with a robust and lively overture from Berlioz, “Les Franc-Juges”. The next piece was Spohr’s clarinet concerto number 1. Rachael Gibbon’s expressive and skilled performance was a treat for lovers of this instrument.

The concert concluded with Dvorak’s eighth symphony, featuring a leading role for the flutes, and including a gorgeous ¾ time movement. The orchestra did it full justice.

The next TO concert is on 23 June and features film music.

Antony and friends 24 March 2018

This concert featured Andrew Rostron on violin as well as Antony Brannick on piano. It began with both players in Beethoven’s melodious Romance no 1 (op 40), and continued with the same composer’s Piano Sonata no 31 (op 110). This was a piece of rapidly changing moods, ably interpreted by Antony Brannick.

After the interval were two pieces by Brahms. First came the regretful-feeling Intermezzo (op 117 no 2), for piano. Both players were at their best in the last piece of the evening, the Violin Sonata no 3. Moods varied from solemn to forceful to stormy, and Brahms’ score used each instrument to its best advantage, contrasting the turbulent piano and the flowing violin.

The next concert is on 14 April, featuring percussion. To get on the mailing list contact Antony on abrannick@garrattslaw.co.uk or 0161 665 3502.

FESTIVAL NEWS: Cotton Clouds, Saddleworth Cricket Club, 18th August 2018

LSF Staff Writers

26 Mar 2018

Landing amidst the bucolic hills of the Peak District National Park for one radiant weekend this Summer, Cotton Clouds Festival 2018 will be nestling itself into one of the cosiest festival settings around once more on 18th August 2018.

A day of top flight talent, out of this world tastes and universal entertainments, Cotton Clouds promises something for everyone.

Following an overwhelming response in its first year that saw the festival take off to a sell-out success and even score a nomination for the ‘Best New Festival’ at the UK Festival Awards, the sky’s the limit as Cotton Clouds Festival returns with a thrilling new line-up.

THE LINE UP…

Across a major outdoor Main Stage, and two indoor satellite stages Cotton Clouds promises an eclectic mix of glorious and varied sounds ripe for 2018 summer fun from artists both of legendary status and with immense promise…

THE MAIN STAGE

Topping the bill this year, Cotton Clouds are overjoyed to be welcoming the singular talents of the mighty SISTER SLEDGE as its show stopping festival headline act. With more hits than there are tiles on a disco ball, the phenomenal Philly funksters are true pop royalty. Embrace your loved ones for ‘We Are Family’, get ‘Lost in Music’ as they command your feet to their groovy masterpiece, dig out those flares and flaunt your thing for ‘He’s The Greatest Dancer’. With a trove of internationally conquering, era defining, billboard toppling hits at their disposal – expect a pop masterclass of the highest order as Debbie & Kim Sledge unleash their incurable and irresistible disco fever upon Cotton Clouds.

Then, heading up the 2018 bash’s burgeoning undercarriage are none-other than northern heroes STARSAILOR. The Wigan four piece who made a most welcome and long overdue return last year with ‘All This Life’ (their first album in some 8 years) will be launching into the late evening with a set of their epic interstellar rock. With ten Top 40 hits to dip into including “Alcoholic”, “Lullaby”, “Silence Is Easy” and more, expect big anthems and even bigger singalongs.

Top tunes in the afternoon will be courtesy of none other than TOPLOADER. Eastbourne’s finest groove-meisters will be arriving on site in the afternoon with aims to have you dancing in the… well, sunlight (weather permitting!). With over 2 million album sales to their name and with plenty of feel good favourites to pick from their brimming back catalogue, Joseph Washbourne and Co. have all that it takes to create that festival fizz. From the pop panache of their smash debut album ‘Onka’s Big Moka’ to the reinvigorating rewards to be found on their latest long-player ‘Seeing Stars’, the post-Brit Pop outfit are sure to cast you under their spell.

After a lengthy hiatus, Kingston Upon Hull indie pop queens SCARLET will return to reacquaint the festival with the highs of their A Song For Europe stunning ‘Independent Love Song’ and other mystic delights from their shimmering songbook. One-time Catfish & The Bottlemen guitarist and his latest band: BILLY BIBBY & THE WRY SMILES will be promising a songwriting masterclass as he takes to the Main stage mid-afternoon. Former XFM go-getter GARETH BROOKS will be spinning a wonderful web of good time vibes as he takes to the decks. Scruff of the Neck records’ latest signees FREEDA will be stepping up to the main stage plate with some beefy Blues Rock riffage that’s ready to rumble any arena.

PLUS, he may only be thirteen but he’s already shared stages with some of the biggest names in the business and stuck two fingers up to Simon Cowell – what’s not to love? Showing up the likes of Catfish and the Bottlemen, Shed Seven, James Bay, The Charlatans and Madness with his sublime pop craftsmanship and smile-summoning home recordings, TOM MOUSE SMITH became something of an internet sensation last year. Opening up the Cotton Clouds main stage he’s here to show you exactly why.

SATELLITE STAGES

Already making a name for itself as a festival that’s all about bright new horizons, the festival’s two indoor satellite stages provide a platform for you discover the best upcoming talent and the headliners of tomorrow.

The welcome return of the TIM PEAKS DINER STAGE (as endorsed by The Charlatans’ genial frontman Tim Burgess) will be hosting an expertly curated bill of cutting edge artists:

Halifax’s Heavenly-signed heartthrobs THE ORIELLES, will be topping the tent with set of their delightfully oddball indie-pop and cuts from their rapturously received new album ‘Silver Dollar Moment’. Signed to Tim’s own O Genesis recordings, London quintet AVERAGE SEX will be looking to satisfy your every desire with their lusty power-pop charms and may even give you a lick or two from their most gratifying ‘Ice Cream’ EP. The seemingly unstoppable RICHARD YOUNGS will tugging his hefty back catalogue down from Glasgow to display some of the myriad gems that have bejewelled his prolific and diverse career. Elsewhere, FUZZY SUN will bring their dappled psychedelic wonderment, Welsh indie rock trio TRAMPOLENE will be providing plenty of bounce for your ounce, and BBC 6 Music tipped DEJA VEGA will be providing an intense injection of their riveting rock’n’roll. Plenty more reasons to get down to the site early on, as THE MYSTERINES and THE RECREATION raise the roof from the off.

With its name nodding to the festival location’s rich textile heritage, there’s even more variety and fun to be found at the THE SPINNING ROOM STAGE, in association with Help Musicians UK. Hip-hop headliners THE ALLERGIES will unleash the frenzied delights of their Craig Charles approved funk-fuelled madness. Plus with more fresh pickings than a punnet of summer strawberries, gorge your ears on splendid sets from HYDE PARK BRASS, THE K’S, THE 99 DEGREE, THE SALFORD JETS, AFGHAN SAND GANG, SOUTH ISLAND SON and AMBIERE throughout the course of the day. Help Musicians UK is the leading UK charity for professional musicians of all genres, from starting out through to retirement.

FOOD & DRINK

Sumptuous street food stalls, pop up bars and a real ale tent will all be on site to serve up the festival delicacies you need to keep you grooving long into the evening.

Cotton Clouds is also delighted to announce the debut of its first ever commissioned festival beer. Teaming up with the exceptional and local DONKEYSTONE BREWERY, this meeting of minds has led to the conjuring of the unique COTTON CLOUDS ALE – a champion beer specifically designed to conquer even the mightiest of festival thirsts. The ale will be sold alongside some of the Donkeystone’s other delicious offerings at the tent.

TICKETS

Tickets are priced at £45.00 + BF and are available via –

The Cotton Clouds Website:
http://www.cottoncloudsfestival.com/

Be quick though! Tickets are expected to sell fast, with VIP packages already SOLD OUT.

LOCATION

Situated in the old, industrial textile powerhouse of Saddleworth and set against the breathtaking vista of the stunning Peak District National Park, Cotton Clouds Festival is just a short 30 minute trip by car or train east of Manchester.

Cotton Clouds Festival takes place at:

Saddleworth Cricket Club
Well-I-Hole Rd
Greenfield
Oldham OL3 7HY

By Car / Foot: – Address: Saddleworth Cricket Club, Well-I-Hole Rd, Greenfield, Oldham OL3 7HY

By Rail: – Nearest train station: Greenfield Station, OL3 7JZ