Merging a fevered imagination and solid songwriting with a mad scientist's brain for weird gadgets, American singer Thomas Truax is a true one-off.

He is known for an array of unique self-made instruments including a motorized drum machine made of bike wheels, spoons and other found items called 'Mother Superior' and a souped up Gramophone called 'The Hornicator.’

But don’t let the novelty fool you. He is also a talented guitar player, storyteller, and performer who crafts rich, poetically evocative songs about insects, trees, technology, love, and a lifelong fascination with the Moon. His music evades easy pigeonholing as his songs flit between art rock, post-punk, and a distinctive brand of surreal Americana.

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Thomas Truax

A Wonderful Kind Of Strange

Thomas Truax - Baby Please Don't Go

Gigs

Guildford

The Boileroom

Holiday Ghosts, quit your corporate job, put laptop in shredder, walk away, go outside, remember what the Clean, the Go Betweens and the Modern Lovers once promised you: a life cracked open with fresh new possibilities. Three songwriters revel in lyrics descended down from Ray Davies’ 3rd person tales of landlords, bathing suits, shopping malls, the northstreet air. Based in Brighton via Falmouth on the south coast of England, Holiday Ghosts conjur the airy fun of Richard Brautigan if he had a band and was from England and wasn’t a hippie or a beatnick and he didn’t wear those big hats or have that mustache and his name wasn’t Richard, or Brautigan, and he wasn’t a writer or an artist of any kind.

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Holiday Ghosts 

Off Grid

Holiday Ghosts - Slipstream

Holiday Ghosts

Formed during lockdown, Fat Dog are the rarest of jewels, a good rock n’ roll band. They’ve gigged around London for a solid year now, and have put in the blood, sweat and tears necessary to hone their sound. But despite being playbill regulars at the Windmill, spoken of in hushed, awed tones in watering holes around the city, they’ve retained an air of mystery. Hunting down info on Fat Dog feels like chasing a ghost.

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Fat Dog

Teenage years may be fleeting, but it seems ‘Teenage Dirtbag’ is for life, as Wheatus’ debut single popped up yet again in 2022, making itself known in a way never seen before in the form of a TikTok trend. The “Teenage Dirtbag photos” trend has now been embraced by nearly a million people, including celebrities such as Madonna, Lady Gaga, Mark Ruffalo, Lil Nas X, Jon Bon Jovi, Chevy Chase, and countless others, resulting in the hashtag #teenagedirtbag being viewed over 2 billion times worldwide.

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Wheatus

Teenage Dirtbag

The man who once told us he loved us from the bottom of his pencil case, Dave Hemingway is back and sounding better than ever.

Together with erstwhile South colleague, guitarist/songwriter Phil Barton, new discovery singer/violinist Laura Wilcockson and top UK session drummer Marc Parnell, Dave has created SUNBIRDS.

Although born and bred in England the band's sound predominantly features the instrumentation of traditional American roots music combined with the occasional outburst of guitar heavy melody more associated with Seattle in the late 80's/early 90's.

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Sunbirds (feat. Dave Hemingway)

Sunbirds

Brighton five-piece art-rock outfit Youth Sector deliver an agitated, robotic sound “packed with witty barbs and boopy bits” (DORK Magazine), FFO Talking Heads, DEVO and Tubeway Army. The band’s releases to date have received critical praise from the likes of DIY Magazine, DORK, So Young, Gigwise, Line Of Best Fit, Jack Saunders (BBC Radio 1), Jon Kennedy (Radio X), Tom Robinson (BBC 6 Music), Abbie McCarthy (BBC Radio 1) and Amazing Radio. Having supported the likes of Kaiser Chiefs, Darwin Deez, Goat Girl, Our Girl, King Nun, Gaffa Tape Sandy, Walt Disco and The Pale White, Youth Sector’s blistering energy is palpable in their live performance, “with swagger to match bands ten times their size” (DIY).

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Youth Sector

Youth Sector - Self Exile

Inspired by early Cure and the Brighton scene, Martin began his career as a busker aged 15. He then spent three years plying his trade as the guitar player in various bands in the North East of England . But Martin wanted more, he wanted to tell stories of his own and he was quickly developing ways of doing just that.

He developed his song-writing technique by Firstly learning a few licks from a Spanish guitar book and repeated the process with Jazz, Blues, Country, SkifFle, Reggae etc. Eventually, this glorious collision of styles would become the trademark which Martin has carried through his career of almost 40 years.

Martin formed his band The Daintees, who became a busking sensation and were signed by Kitchenware at around the same time as Prefab Sprout and Hurrah! The band and indeed Martin have always been known for their incredible range of styles, each album covering a multitude of genres, tempos and moods.

In the early days of The Daintees, the band toured with the likes of Aztec Camera and The Bluebells. In 1985 , they became Roy Buchannan’s backing band on a month long tour of Europe and the following year joined John Martyn on his ‘Piece by Piece ‘tour. As a solo artist , Martin also toured around this time with such artists as Hothouse Flowers and Janice Ian.

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Martin Stephenson & The Dainties

Martin Stephenson

The UK's first and only Tony Hawk's Pro Skater cover band!

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The 900

Godcaster is a lambent pumping heart. Hysterically keen like birds. The sextet of Judson Kolk (vox, guitar), Bruce Ebersole (guitar, bass, vox, keys), David McFaul (vox, organ, guitar), Von Kolk (vox, guitar, keys), Jan Fontana (bass) and Sam Pickard (drums, percussion) explode in song with emotional heights and devastating passions, as if the most melancholic Beach Boys ballad was played at immeasurable volume

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Godcaster

All the Feral Girls in the Universe

Landing somewhere between Dexys Midnight Runners and a jumper ready to be unravelled, Keg take pleasure in creating music which straddles chaos and knitwear. Preferring to delve into a diverse well of influences, the 7 instrumentalists that make up KEG have created, in new EP ‘Girders’, a world within a world. However, despite the feracious songs on offer, the band insist didn’t intend to “make consistently unrelenting and abrasives songs, they just ended up sounding that way.” The EP, as they say, really does go

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KEG - Presidential Walk

Formed by singer George Haverson, bassist Oli Shasha and guitarists Callum Parker and Harry Southerton via a music society they soon outgrew along with the city’s nightlife, FEET announced themselves in classic fashion – a supreme first single, ‘Petty Thieving’, and a reputation as a singular live band. The band’s gang mentality was slowly being forged, and the introduction of drummer Ben Firth two weeks before recording their debut album cemented the line-up.

“Can’t Get In” is the first new material from the quintet since the release of last August’s Walking Machine EP, which solidified the band as one the UK’s hottest alternative-rock prospects. FEET continue their journey, building on the support they have gathered from the likes of NME, The Independent, DIY Mag, The Line Of Best Fit, Dork Magazine, 6 Music’s Steve Lamacq & Radio 1’s Jack Saunders amongst others.

FEET is a group ready to fully emerge from the chrysalis of those developmental stages with an explosion of renewed energy, a new fire in the belly, ready to pursue their muse into the next chapter of what is sure to be a boisterous, visionary journey.

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Feet

FEET - Chalet 47

Now in 2023 the band find themselves like everyone trying to get back to normal with a UK and Euro tour later this year. The band released their last album BLACK DOG back in 2021, which the band wanted to reflect in some way the events and happenings without the boring cliches.

The band, which was formed in 1975, to which its original founding member and guitarist Neil Harris remained in this line up, until his untimely death this 4 years ago. Neil Harris who formed the band with Jimmy Pursey in 1975. Neil Harris was along with the other original members Albie Slider, Johnny Goodfornothing, Billy Bostik performing live with such hits as Borstal Breakout and Hey Little Rich Boy prior to the bands second line up change in late 1977.With hits such as BORSTAL BREAKOUT and HEY LITTLE RICH BOY being performed in 76-77, the band went on to have others such as HURRY UP HARRY, ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES and the anthem IF THE KIDS ARE UNITED.

The band had many line up changes but the most notable was Jimmy Pursey's departure following his sacking in 2006, in which he was immediately replaced by the now vocalist Tim V.

Tim V's reign saw him take the band from its lowest point to get it touring worldwide with 6 successful selling albums along with World Tours and major festivals...

This is SHAM 69 now and though many have scoffed at their existence they have come to regret it having been overwhelmed by the power of the performance.

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Sham 69

Hurry Up Harry

Sham 69 - If the Kids Are United

Sad songs for smelly losers

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Crywank

Memento Mori

Crywank - Memento Mori

JOY. presents  
Crywank  
\+ Theo Vandenhoff

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Theo Vandenhoff

When the Sex Pistols fell apart in the wake of their first American tour in early 1978, lead singer Johnny Rotten opted to turn his back on the group's legacy and approach, reclaiming his given name, John Lydon, and forming a more experimental and stylistically innovative group, Public Image Ltd. While Lydon's new project attracted plentiful attention from the press, the instrumental core of the Sex Pistols, guitarist Steve Jones and drummer Paul Cook, didn't get nearly as much press for their next project. But their group the Professionals eventually earned a loyal following for their passionate and powerful take on British punk, with fans still supporting them in the 21st century.

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The Professionals

Kosheen, one of the UK’s booming live electronic music showstoppers, broke into prominence with their hit ‘Hide U‘ off their debut album in 2001, the platinum selling ‘Resist’, followed by crossover hits ‘Catch‘, ‘Hungry‘ and ‘All In My Head‘. Kosheen successfully placed two UK Top Ten albums, topped the UK and European music charts and won lots of awards with their unique blend of breakbeat rhythms of drum’n’bass to a more traditional songcraft, a side of the band embodied by singer and songwriter Sian Evans.

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Kosheen (Live) – 25 Years of Kosheen 

Hide U - 2021 Remaster

Kosheen - Addict

Kosheen

Transparency is Twin Atlantic as you’ve never known them. Ten candid, funny, funky songs find frontman Sam McTrusty spilling his guts on everything from marriage, male friendship and the absurdity of social media to parenthood, medication and his mum.

Written in strained circumstances and recorded remotely with Sam’s mate and mentor Jacknife Lee (U2, The Killers, Taylor Swift). Transparency arrived more by accident than design, an experiment that snowballed when the world went in to lockdown last spring. Only when eight songs were completed did the pair accept that an album was underway.

“I barely remember making the music,” says Sam. “That sounds ridiculous, but it was a ridiculous time. I was a new dad, isolating at home in a heatwave because my wife, a nurse, was working on Covid wards. A year of touring turned to dust. I existed for months on two hours sleep a day, having already made myself ill with stress trying to write a new album just as our last one came out. Somehow, from the midst of that chaos came these songs.”

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Twin Atlantic

Twin Atlantic - A Scar to Hide

Paramore GB are the UK's leading tribute to Paramore. With an energetic, action-packed performance, Paramore GB perform songs from Paramore's entire back catalogue, spanning 5 albums including hits such as 'Misery Business', 'Ain't It Fun' and 'Still Into You'.

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Paramore GB

Paramore - Hard Times

Essex born folk songwriter Beans on Toast is an extremely unique performer. Twisting an age-old genre with a D.I.Y. approach and contemporary concerns has earned him the title of a cult figure who tells it like it is. A festival favourite (he’s played Glastonbury every year since 2007) and a prolific writer and performer. He’s written and recorded 15 albums and he’s played every bar, club, venue, pub, festival, party and honky-tonk you can think of.

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Beans On Toast

Beans On Toast - The Great American Novel

Rambunctious Indie-folk band Keston Cobblers Club return to tour the UK this Autumn, supporting the release of their brand new EP. Expect plenty of classics, harmonies, instrument switching, tuba and an abundance of energetic sole healing.

‘Where did this band come from? One of the best new discoveries I made’ – Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 2, BBC 6 Music

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Keston Cobblers Club

Post-something band from Nottingham.

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Cucamaras

Robert Ian McNabb is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Previously the frontman of The Icicle Works, McNabb has since embarked on a solo career and performed with Ringo Starr, Neil Young/Crazy Horse, Mike Scott, and Danny Thompson of folk band Pentangle

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Ian Mcnabb

Ian McNabb

Despite being only 19 years-old, Sunderland-based newcomer Tom A. Smith has already achieved more than most artists do in a lifetime. He played his first ever gig aged just eight, supporting local psychedelic rockers Detroit Social Club at legendary Newcastle venue The Cluny, performed at Glastonbury before he was even in secondary school, and Tim Burgess handpicked him to play his stage at Kendall Calling, making him the festival’s youngest ever performer. He has played live with local hero Sam Fender and Catfish & The Bottlemen, as well as supported other Northern acts on the rise like The Lathums and The Mysterines.   Support has come in by the likes of Jack Saunders Radio 1 and Elton John’s Rocket Man Podcast– heralding Tom as ‘the next big thing.’   Tom’s been working with Larry Hibbitt (Nothing But Thieves/The Snuts/Sea Girls), providing a broad and driven production that goes effortlessly with Smith’s passionate vocals, his music effort makes for powerful listening and showcases a true talent on the rise.

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Tom A. Smith

L1NKN P4RK, the UK's leading Linkin Park tribute come to Guildford for the first time celebrating the 20th anniversary of Meteora!

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L1nkn_p4rk

Baba Ali / Nuha Ruby Ra (co headline show)

Baba Ali

Recognised as one of the most electrifying new acts to emerge from the UK in the past year, Baba Ali is the combined force of American performer and musician Baba Doherty and British guitarist Nik Balchin.   Following the release of their debut Memory Device in 2021 and 18 months of touring, Baba Ali return with one foot firmly placed on the dance floor, and the other in a state of frenzy

Nuha Ruby Ra has been touted as one of the most exciting and provocative new acts in the UK. Following the release of two highly acclaimed EPs, including her newest EP 'Machine Like Me' which arrived in March 2023 and is her most ambitious body of work to date, Nuha has been consistently touring the UK and Europe with acts like Self Esteem, Yard Act, Warmduscher, King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard and more.

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Baba Ali / Nuha Ruby Ra

Burn Me Out

Nuha Ruby Ra

Baba Ali

Full Headline Sets from The Black Charade - My Chemical Romance Tribute & Fell Out Boy - UK Fall Out Boy Tribute

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The Black Charade & Fell Out Boy

Fell Out Boy

The Black Charade

Formed on Canvey Island in Essex in the early 1970s Dr. Feelgood remains one of the most popular and exciting live rhythm and blues acts in the world. The raw and uncompromising style of their performance resulted in the album Stupidity that immediately went to the number one position in the U.K. charts.

Dr. Feelgood have also enjoyed global success with a string of hit singles including Roxette, Back in the Night, Milk and Alcohol, Down at the Doctors, She Does it Right, Going Back Home and See You Later Alligator - which gave the group their first gold record.

The last album to feature Lee Brilleaux - Down at the Doctors, was recorded live at the Dr. Feelgood Music Bar on Canvey Island, (now the site of the Oysterfleet Hotel) just two months before he died.

The current line up features the rhythm section Kevin Morris on drums and Phil Mitchell on bass (both 35 years), Steve Walwyn on guitar (28 years), and Robert Kane (formerly of the Animals) the most recent addition – joining in 1999. Julien Temple’s film Oil City Confidential released on 2nd February 2010 tells the story of the bands formative years featuring the Wilko Johnson era.

May 2011 saw the digitally re – mastered re release of Chessmasters originally released in 2000 on EMI Records … the band’s tribute to the Chess label, home to many of the finest blues artists of the 20th century and the first Dr Feelgood album to feature Robert on vocals.

The band continues to tour extensively throughout the World

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DR Feelgood

Dr. Feelgood

British indie pop band the Primitives were formed in Coventry, England in mid-1985 by singer Kieron, guitarist Paul Court, bassist Steve Dullaghan, and drummer Pete Tweedie; after a handful of gigs Kieron was replaced by vocalist Tracy Tracy, a peroxide-blonde bombshell whose presence inspired a more melodic approach, which earned the group inevitable comparisons to Blondie. The Primitives' debut single, "Thru the Flowers," appeared on their own Lazy label in 1986 and was quickly followed by radio sessions for Janice Long, Andy Kershaw, and John Peel. Their second effort, "Really Stupid," preceded the band's first European tour, with "Stop Killing Me" appearing in early 1987. Tweedie was dismissed from the group (allegedly for mistreating Tracy's cats) prior to the Primitives' signing to major label RCA, and with new drummer Tig Williams the group recorded its 1988 debut LP, Lovely, scoring a major U.K. pop hit with the masterful "Crash." After completing an American tour, Dullaghan exited the lineup, with bassist Paul Sampson stepping in for 1989's Pure; the album failed to re-create the success and excitement of its predecessor, however, and when 1991's Ian Broudie-produced Galore met a similar fate, the Primitives disbanded

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The Primitives

Ion Maiden Formed in August 2018, Ion Maiden was built around the core of four ex-members of some of the best Maiden tribute bands in the UK, and with only one rehearsal their first gig was an instant success with Maiden fans. Since they exploded onto the scene they have played Holland, various clubs throughout the UK, and London raising over £3,000 towards the Legend that is Paul Di’Anno at the Camden Underworld, who was blown away by the video footage that was sent to him in Croatia.

More recently they were honoured to be asked to open the “Birthplace of Iron Maiden” the Cart & Horses after its lengthy refurbishment, with support from another Iron Maiden stars band, Doug Sampson (Airforce) the original drummer of the soundhouse tapes.

With a new singer onboard the band are now putting on some of the most authentic maiden shows you’ll see, apart from the real Iron Maiden that is!

Carl Robert Williams – Vocals Paul O’Shea – Bass/vocals Stephen Munday – Guitar/vocals Neil Phillips – Guitar Craig Simcox – Drums

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Ion Maiden

Cerys Hafana is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who mangles, mutates, and transforms traditional music. She explores the creative possibilities and unique qualities of the triple harp, and is also interested in found sounds, archival materials and electronic processing. She comes from Machynlleth, Wales, where rivers and roads meet on the way to the sea.

Cerys has won over audiences from Green Man to the Eisteddfod and from BBC 6 Music Festival to Celtic Connections with her magical, progressive sound.

Her second album Edyf was selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Ten albums of 2022, as well as receiving wide-spread media attention and critical acclaim.

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