Sophie Duker is BACK! The Taskmaster champ is back on tour and dealing with her (sugar) daddy issues in a hilarious new stand-up show.

BUT DADDY I LOVE HER sees Sophie take the stage with her trademark naughtiness, this time arguing that we should all choose silliness over common sense and hot wet fantasies over cold, bleak reality. In this intentionally unhinged hour, delulu is the solulu.

She rips through sex and race with relish

★★★★ TheSundayTimes

shrewd storytelling and pop culture hot-takeṣ̣̣̣

★★★★ FestMag

Laugh-out loud funny

★★★★ TheTelegraph

she is clearly going places

★★★★ EveningStandard

wickedly funny

★★★★ TheHerald

riotously funny

★★★★ Skinny

Extremely funny

★★★★ Scotsman

This is an 16+ event

Please Please You

Sophie Duker: But Daddy I Love Her

Sophie Duker

comedy

Comedy

York

The Crescent

Man/Woman/Chainsaw are Billy Ward (vocals, guitars), Emmie-Mae Avery (vocals,keys/synths), Vera Leppänen (vocals, bass), Clio Starwood (violin) and Lola Cherry (drums).

A precociously talented band from London, who recently celebrated their 100th gig. Since their debut at 16 years old and across three self-released singles,the band have proven themselves as one of the most exciting and unpredictable young acts in the capital, both joyous and raucous in equal measures. Last year’s “What Lucy Found There” was to be their breakthrough, securing attention for the band from the likes of The Quietus, NME, The Line Of Best Fit, So Young, BBC 6 Music and more.

This November the band truly come of age with their debut EP, “Eazy Peazy”, to land on the indie taste-maker label Fat Possum Records. Recorded with Gilla Band’s Daniel Fox at Echo Zoo studio in Eastbourne, the group present us with cinematic arrangements, mauled by moments of cacophony; the band’s Billy Ward says of their writing process,“we thrive on the thin line between pretty and noisy, often trying to jump between the two-it’s that chaos that excites us.”

This is a 16+ event

Brudenell Social Club

Man/Woman/Chainsaw

Gigs

\*This is a seated show with all seating unreserved.\*

Shovel Dance Collective are a group of nine musicians united by a passion for the beauty, force, and political charge of the traditional musics of Britain, Ireland and beyond. They are committed to Folk music not as an archaeological artifact to be unearthed, but as a living communal activity - inviting and generous to those it speaks to. They arrange the source material into a kind of musique boue (mud music), simultaneously traditional and experimental they engage a deep, cross-temporal synthesis of free improvisation, tape manipulation and field recordings. Their music appears as a patchwork as pieces are stitched together, rearranged and recontextualised. The yarn is threaded with both their sense of aesthetic innovation, and with a deep sense of the ways in which traditional music holds the voices of the oppressed, the everyday and those who, by their labour, create the wealth of the world.

​They have performed sold out shows across the UK, with headline concerts at venues such as Cecil Sharp House, Kings Place and Cafe OTO. The collective have appeared at many major festivals: Glastonbury, Roskilde, SXSW, Green Man, End of the Road, Sidmouth Folk Festival, Supernormal and Supersonic festivals among others. Publications such as The Wire, Loud and Quiet, NME, Financial Times and The Times have heralded their live performances across the years.

Shovel Dance Collective

Rob Auton 'The Eyes Open and Shut Show’

“Brilliant” Stewart Lee

“One of my absolute favourites” Daniel Kitson

“Rob Auton is the mother freaking greatest” James Acaster

Award winning writer, comedian and actor Rob Auton brings his latest show ‘The Eyes Open and Shut Show’ to INSERT NAME OF VENUE HERE. Rob has written ten hit Edinburgh Festival Fringe comedy/theatre/spoken-word shows on specific themes including the colour yellow in ‘The Yellow Show’, sleep in ‘The Sleep Show’ and hair in ‘The Hair Show’.

The Eyes Open and Shut Show is a show about eyes when they are open and eyes when they are shut. With this show Rob wanted to explore what he could do to himself and others with language when eyes are open and shut. After writing ten shows on specific themes, he wanted to think about what makes him open his eyes and what makes him shut them.

Winner Best Daily Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2020

Winner Dave Joke of the Fringe 2013

Winner Three Weeks Editor’s Choice Awards 2017

Praise for Rob Auton:

“You'll laugh a lot, you'll smile a lot and, mark my words, you'll want to see him again. One of my favourite shows this year.” Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke ★★★★★

“A genuine original” Paul Fleckney, The Guardian

“beautifully crafted; just like Auton’s comedy… his act is well honed and his ease is infectious… Watching, you’d struggle not be swept up in the charm of it all” Isobel Lewis, The Independent ★★★★

Rob Auton: The Eyes Open & Shut Show

Rob Auton

Lucy Porter bounces back into action with a show all about regrets. Frank Sinatra had too few to mention, but Lucy’s got hundreds, and she’s prepared to go into graphic detail about all of them. Disastrous dates, professional calamities, ruined friendships and parenting fails. Lucy describes all the mistakes she’s made, works out why they happened, and ponders how her life would have turned out if she’d acted differently.

Lucy looks at the things we might all collectively regret - not sticking to the work-life balance we strove for during lockdown, not realising that clapping for the NHS wouldn’t be enough to save it, allowing people we thought were quite fun on TV to become politicians.

How does regret tie in with guilt and shame? As a middle-aged, middle-class, left-leaning ex-Catholic, guilt is one of Lucy’s top five hobbies (along with going to the garden centre, doing jigsaws, making bread and watching subtitled foreign dramas on Netflix. She’s also ashamed of all these hobbies.)

It’s not all bad. If you regret something, you can use it to change your ways: see the thing you regret as your rock bottom, and let it spur you on to become a better person. Lucy looks at how she can use shameful or annoying things from her past to change her future.

Lucy regrets volunteering at the school fete when her kids were younger, because now she’s committed to being the Hook a Duck Lady twice a year for the rest of her life. Maybe she could learn to say No a bit more?

Lucy Porter: No Regrets

Lucy Porter

As founding members of the British band Gomez, Ian Ball and Ben Ottewell have shaped the sound of indie rock with their eclectic blend of blues, rock, folk, electronic and experimental influences. In March 2024, they embark on the Total Recall Tour, celebrating the full breadth of Gomez’s career by performing at least one song from each of the band’s seven studio albums, along with tracks from Abandoned Shopping Trolley Hotline and the Machismo EP.

Gomez first made waves with their 1998 debut Bring It On, which won the Mercury Prize. Ian and Ben’s contrasting vocals and musical style became a defining feature of the band. They followed with the atmospheric Liquid Skin (1999) and the more experimental In Our Gun (2002), each expanding their musical reach.

The band continued to evolve with Split the Difference (2004), How We Operate (2006), A New Tide (2009), and their latest, Whatever’s On Your Mind (2011).

Both Ian and Ben have pursued successful solo careers, but their chemistry remains as strong as ever. The Total Recall tour offers a rare opportunity for fans to experience the full scope of Gomez’s music, celebrating their enduring legacy and creative partnership through songs that have defined their remarkable three-decade spanning career.

Ben and Ian will be joined by LA based singer songwriter and long term collaborator Buddy.

Ben Ottewell & Ian Ball

Ben Ottewell

Ian Ball

Now settled in fertile east London, Snapped Ankles maintain the feral energy of the forest. Fight or flight. Primal motorik rhythms, the rush of white noise and post-punk angles; an aural onslaught played out on homemade log synths, electrified guitars and sticks beating hell on taut animal skin.

Snapped Ankles have flourished in the sub-tropical climes of warehouse and squat parties, moving onto performance art collaborations with filmmakers and shows in unlikely locations such as barber shops, games arcades and the forests they once called home. They plough a singular furrow at improbable angles. The woodwose have discovered electricity and they’re not afraid to use it.

This is a 16+ event.

Snapped Ankles

Snapped Ankles - Rhythm Is Our Business - Edit

The Sick Man of Europe

Action! Presents

Miracle of Sound

\+ Colm R. McGuinness

This is a 14+ event (under 16s accompanied by adult (adult must provide ID))

Kilimanjaro

Kilimanjaro Live Limited

Miracle of Sound

Colm R. McGuinness

\*This is a standing show\*

After a roaring spring tour celebrating the release of our politically charged album Kleptocracy and follow up Part 2 tour this autumn, we’re looking ahead to a special acoustic tour in Spring 2025. This tour will bring a fresh, stripped-back sound as we present a new side to the Kleptocracy album, dive deeper into our back catalogue, and also paying homage to traditional folk songs that have inspired Ferocious Dog from the start.

While Kleptocracy saw us expanding our sound with heavier rock influences and more Celtic elements, this tour will offer a different kind of intensity rooted in the raw, unfiltered energy of acoustic instruments (with a little help from the microphones). We want to give our fans an up-close and personal experience of our music, offering a more intimate performance.

The acoustic setlist will include fan favourites from throughout our career, reimagined with an even folkier twist, alongside renditions of traditional folk songs that reflect the same themes of resistance and rebellion present in Kleptocracy. These are stories of struggle and resilience that feel as relevant today as ever, and we're excited to give them new life on stage.

This tour is a unique follow-up to the journey we’ve taken with Kleptocracy—from the roaring full-band energy, we're now inviting audiences to experience the heart of our music in a more stripped-back setting. We're looking forward to connecting with everyone in a way that feels both nostalgic and new, drawing from the power of folk traditions to keep the spirit of resistance alive. Taking things back to our roots—just as ferocious, but a little more acoustic.

Ferocious Dog

Ferocious Dog - Slow Motion Suicide

FEROCIOUS DOG

“Here we go – first thing’s first,” spits Kid Kapichi frontman Jack Wilson on ‘Artillery’, the opener to the Hasting punks’ essential third album, ‘There Goes The Neighbourhood’. It’s a rousing call to arms – one that gets straight down to business, and a summation of the LP’s battle cry against a grey Britain where “The problems are the people’s when the problems get worse”. Kid Kapichi are a band for the people, and their new Suggs-featuring record is here to help you party and protest in equal measure.

Having gained an ardent cult following with their 2021 debut ‘This Time Next Year’ and the rollicking 2022 follow-up ‘Here’s What You Could Have Won’, Kid Kapichi arrive with their third album in as many years – a testament from one of the UK’s hardest working bands, and one who preach a message of urgency.

The Kid Kapichi movement is about to get a whole lot bigger. See you down the front. Let’s get to work!

Kid Kapichi

\*This is a seated show with all seating unreserved\*

Laura Veirs announces today a spring UK tour. This will be her 22nd year of touring the UK. She will be performing solo with her nylon string guitar and will play songs from her 25-year catalog. Veirs will be accompanied on the road by her fiance Morgan Luker who is a Reed College music professor. The two met when Veirs was teaching a songwriting workshop in his class. They will marry in the summer of 2025.

In recent years Veirs has branched out into making visual art and she will be selling prints of her paintings at her live shows. Veirs also teaches songwriting workshops and will be heading to Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico this December to attend her ongoing residency there. She will also travel to Angouleme, France in May 2025 to accompany a French children’s choir in a performance of a concert of her songs.

Veirs is currently working on new paintings, an instrumental guitar album and a book about creativity.

Portland, Oregon-based singer-songwriter Laura Veirs has produced 14 albums over 25 years, toured internationally, and collaborated with numerous luminaries such as kd lang, Neko Case, Sufjan Stevens, Bill Frisell, Jim James, Colin Meloy, Kate Stables, Sam Amidon, Karl Blau, Shahzad Ismaily and many others. Veirs was inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame in October 2024. Her music blends the poetic sensibilities of contemporary folk with the rough edges of indie rock.

Laura Veirs

The ultimate party starters The Lancashire Hotpots are back with a bang to give you more madcap musical mayhem. For more years than they care to remember the Hotpots have built up a solid reputation as the go to band for the biggest night out. Join Bernard and the boys as they play all your Hotpot favourites: Egg Sausage Chips & Beans, Shopmobility Scooter, Chippy Tea as well as songs from their new album ‘Too Much Too Old’.

Grab your flat cap and get ready to party!

"these guys always make me laugh every time I see them" Jason Manford

"blooming brilliant" Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2

“Every home should have a Lancashire Hotpots record” Steve Lamacq, BBC 6 Music

"St Helens' finest...they'll bring a smile to your face" Chris Hawkins, BBC 6 Music

“You simply cannot fail to smile, or howl...Just brilliant.” Skiddle.com

“Beautifully observed, wickedly catchy songs” Metro.co.uk

The Lancashire Hotpots

Millie Manders and The Shutup are known for their ferocious and joyous live shows, having graced stages at such notable festivals as Slam Dunk, Bearded Theory, North West Calling, Kendal Calling, Rebellion and Boomtown, and have previously toured with the likes of Less Than Jake and Ferocious Dog. The band explore themes of loss, betrayal, heartbreak, anxiety, environmental concern and political unrest – all while exuding the punk attitude and prowess that helps set them apart – and have been championed by the likes of the BBC Radio 1 Rock Show, BBC Introducing and Radio X alongside press coverage from Devolution, Fireworks, Powerplay and Vive Le Rock magazines.

MMATSU will be releasing their 4th and final single “Me Too” from album Wake Up, Shut Up Work in January, in conjunction with their “Choose The Bear Tour”, raising money through a new Angry Ted Plushie for both sexual and domestic abuse charities.

Millie Manders & The Shutup

Your Story

Reclaiming her universe, Jane Weaver returns with brand new single ‘Love In Constant Spectacle’, evoking spectacular images perhaps impossible to capture with the human eye, nor aperture.

Taking measured steps that lead you to something very special, our protagonist pours all her creative resources before the needle drops. Secretly, this might be more conceptual in its execution, than initially meets the eye.

“It’s about searching for joy, wanting to love and feel loved, then uncovering it in unusual places and in the smallest, hidden things in life. Magnified under rocks and stones, it explores connecting with nature and your surroundings as opposed to other people - focusing on autonomy, new beginnings and feeling bewitched” adds Jane Weaver.

This is the poetic vision of one woman only, turning a new chapter, erecting a new scaffold, drawing empty landscapes as we slowly watch new colours, codes shapes and languages fill the frame. Produced by John Parish (PJ Harvey, Dry Cleaning), this is evidently a new awakening.

Accompanied by a new video animated by Kamran Kaur she describes “The woman here is always moving forward in pursuit of something but constantly finding herself succumbing to nature's spell. Nature leads her back to herself, as that which she was searching for was there all along.”

From a long-standing pillar of the UK’s independent pop landscape, this is Jane Weaver’s first single since her unanimously lorded top 40 album ‘Flock’ and one-off single ‘Oblique Fantasy’.

“Genuinely different and exhilarating” ★★★★ The Guardian

Jane Weaver continues to enrapture and expand her legacy into 2025 with a freshly announced tour… and more new music imminently.

Jane Weaver

Jane Weaver - Don't Take My Soul

Critically acclaimed comedian Jamali Maddix is back on the road with a brand new tour show: Aston. Expect Jamali's trademark brutally honest and unflinching perspectives on the world at large. His last tours have sold-out shows across the globe, playing the UK, Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America.

He is a regular on the series of Nevermind the Buzzcocks for Sky and was one of the most anarchic Taskmaster contestants the show has ever seen. Alongside this he was a regular contributor for Frankie Boyle's New World Order (BBC2) and has been seen on 'Live at the Apollo' (BBC Two), '8 Out of 10 Cats' (More4), The Late Late Show with James Corden (CBS) as well as many others.

Jamali Maddix

JAMALI MADDIX

After a busy summer of playing Glastonbury, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Green Man, End Of The Road, and supporting Amyl and the Sniffers around the US, the ferocious Brighton-based noise-punk duo Lambrini Girls show no signs of slowing down with new single ‘Company Culture’.

Elsewhere in 2024 the pair released the singles ‘God’s Country’ and ‘Body Of Mine’, both of which were BBC6 Music Playlisted. The two piece are Phoebe Lunny (Vocals/Guitar - she/they) and Lilly Macieira (Bass - she/they), augmented live by drummer Banksy.

The band have made a name for themselves through unforgettable live performances and support from the likes of Variety Magazine, BBC Radio 1, NME, The Line Of Best Fit, KEXP, Consequence, Evening Standard, CLASH, So Young, and covered Kerrang! Magazine alongside Sleater-Kinney, bagged a nomination for Rolling Stone UK’s Rising Stars Award, and even Iggy Pop is a fan.

Lambrini Girls

Help Me I'm Gay

Direct from the New Jersey Shore music scene, enjoy the soaring sounds of the Billy Walton Band!

For 15 years the Billy Walton Band has been consistently delivering their mix of Rock, Soul and Blues mixed in psychedelic jams with thousands of gigs around the US, UK, and Europe.

Growing out of this rich musical heritage, the band found its groove when Billy teamed with longtime bassist William Paris, Tom Petraccaro on Sax, Eric Safka on Keys and the electric Destinee Monroe on Vocals and Guitar.

Now in full swing, the band has well and truly hit its stride and their efforts have been met with strong interest from the fertile British Blues scene. They have galvansed a dedicated fan base which is growing rapidly, as Blues Rock and Jamband lovers are hungry for their high-energy live shows

Billy Walton Band

DJ Yoda is a world-class turntablist, music producer, and trailblazing video artist. Over three triumphant decades in the game, he’s dazzled audiences around the globe and shared big stages with giants from Snoop Dogg to Damon Albarn, Diplo to Dame Evelyn Glennie.

Described by Q Magazine as “One of the 10 DJs to see before you die”, DJ Yoda channels his Star Wars namesake by remaining one of the only DJs who stays true to hip-hop’s founding creed. Set apart from his contemporaries by remixing short snatches of existing media in fresh and interesting ways – DJ Yoda has expanded his beloved genre’s creative palette beyond all recognition.

From his historic How To Cut & Paste mix series which first showed the world his vivid imagination and sheer technical brilliance, to his landmark shows remixing movies, TV shows, viral internet videos and classic computer games, DJ Yoda’s work consistently underscores his wit, originality and ambition.

A relentless innovator, Yoda’s spellbinding mastery of scratching, sampling and remixing continues to drive the art of hip-hop into thrilling new realms. Aside from ripping up dance floors on every continent, DJ Yoda has performed at the hallowed British Library, written an avant garde ‘turntable concerto’ with Gabriel Prokofiev, and pioneered the art of live video mixing.

2023 highlights for DJ Yoda included a mesmerising performance for 10,000 fans at a Transylvanian castle mixing TikTok videos with hip-hop beats on the fly; a packed out stage at Glastonbury Festival; and a run at the Edinburgh Festival with his Tarantino AV Show. Always on top of the cultural zeitgeist, his recent Stranger Things Mixtape went viral, racing to over a million plays online and prompting a sell-out tour.

Well respected as a producer, DJ Yoda has cut original tracks with the likes of Boy George, Action Bronson, Jamie Cullum and Hollywood A-lister Lily James. Revered industry-wide for his singular vision and shrewd crowd-pleasing instincts, DJ Yoda has been tapped up for bespoke mixes by everybody from Dr. Dre to Mark Ronson, Banksy to BBC Radio 4.

In 2024 DJ Yoda releases an old-school hip-hop project ‘Hometown Heroes’ with The Nextmen and Boston rapper Ed OG, and tours both his 50 Years of Hip-Hop AV show, and a unique immersive 360° AV dome show - a project he’d love to take to the Vegas Sphere…

The beat goes on…

DJ Yoda: 80's Mixtape Live

Big Trouble in Little China

DJ Yoda

The Bluetones are back on tour this spring calling into the York Crescent on Sunday 20th April

The Bluetones first came to prominence in 1995, when their debut release ‘Are You Blue Or Are You Blind’ broke into the Top 40. The single proved to be the launching pad for a run that saw 14 hit singles and 6 albums follow on from it.

From thereon, the band, made up of brothers Mark & Scott Morriss alongside Adam Devlin and Eds Chesters, enjoyed considerable UK and Ireland successes, extending out across into Europe and Japan, before taking a hiatus in 2011 that lasted for 4 years.

Since then they have re-established themselves as one of the UK’s most consistently entertaining live acts, regularly touring their extensive catalogue to their army of devoted fans.

In 2024 The Bluetones released their first new material in 14 years and hit the UK in the autumn with a run of SOLD OUT tour dates. The band are set to release their next EP on the 31st March 2025 to coincide with this new run of shows.

'The Bluetones run the gamut from classic indie-pop to psychedelic tinged rock with unselfconscious ease.'

The Scotsman

'The Bluetones are a band tied to their Brit Pop past but with tunes that begin to transcend it too.'

Louder Than War

The Bluetones

'Just a man with his voice and guitar doing some old fashioned diddly-diddly-diddly-bap-bap' Newton Faulkner.

Newton Faulkner is continually adjusting to a music landscape dominated by flux, he’s moved from the phenomenal success of his debut album ‘Hand Built By Robots’ to the surging triumph of ‘Write It On Your Skin’; from ‘Studio Zoo’ - which was the first album ever to be live streamed online while being recorded, and was also recorded and released in just five weeks – to the sumptuous ‘Human Love’ plus multiple other records over his incredible 15 year career so far. He’s now taking this moment to record his next collection of songs. This time a little more production heavy but still full of powerful vocals and his signature guitar sound weaved through the mix. Newton in the past has often found himself in his home studio working away solo, but not for this next record or in fact this tour. The next phase for Newton is full of collaboration which you can feel in the music to come. Seeing these songs come to life on stage is going to be nothing short of joyous.

Newton Faulkner - Feels Like Home Tour 3

Dream Catch Me

Newton Faulkner

Larry’s been spending a lot of time with his granny lately. He wants to tell you about it.

Join the thrice Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated, two-time star of Live At The Apollo for a hilarious new show about identity, heroes and the benefits of being a dafty.

As seen on Mock The Week, House Of Games, Fandan (Channel 4 Comedy Special) and Michael McIntyre’s Big Show.

'Twinklingly charismatic… the gag rate is ridiculously'

★★★★★ Telegraph

'A superb piece of stand-up… at the top of his game'

★★★★★ Independent

'An innately gifted and multifaceted performer.'

Chortle

'It’s the kind of magnetic set that might restore your faith in the art form.'

Fest Mag

Larry Dean: Dodger

Larry Dean

With one of the most recognizable voices in Canadian music history, alternative rock band Crash Test Dummies are a three-time Grammy nominated and JUNO award-winning group, who soared to the top of the worldwide charts in the early 1990’s with hits “Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm” and “Superman’s Song”. Their cover of “The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead” was a highlight of the soundtrack to the blockbuster film, “Dumb and Dumber”, while simultaneously reaching #4 on the US Top 100 album charts. All of their releases keep the same folk-hued, alternative spirit of their early sound, centering around the distinct baritone of frontman Brad Roberts and Ellen Reid’s folk-rock fusion.

After a twenty-year hiatus, the Crash Test Dummies reunited in 2018 for a two-week tour to celebrate their most successful album “God Shuffled His Feet”. The overwhelming reception to these shows has since led to continuous touring across two continents, with sold-out shows across the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.

“Touring again was not something we’d planned on, but surprisingly– at least to me – there are lots of people who many years later, still want to come and hear us,” says lead singer and principal songwriter Brad Roberts. “It’s humbling, being in the confidence of so many people.” The band is returning to Europe and the UK in the fall of 2024 for an extensive tour before heading down under for sold-out shows in Australia and New Zealand in early 2025.

Crash Test Dummies

All journeys start somewhere. Not many start on the streets, and fewer still end up taking in some of the UK’s best-loved festivals and venues in front of vast, adoring crowds. Fortunately for Pontefract four-piece Glass Caves, theirs did. And while it’s clear the band have already reached impressive heights, for them, this is just the beginning.

Starting life busking on the streets of York, the band quickly amassed a loyal and devoted following who appreciate their no-nonsense, back-to-basics brand of self-promotion - a breath of fresh air amongst the prevalent ‘Who You Know’ mentality music scene. The duo’s straightforward approach to modern rock ‘n’ roll with electric guitars and powerful beats as well as shameless self promo has gained them thousands of fans around the UK.

Glass Caves

Prince Edward Island’s The East Pointers continue to redefine themselves. Their dancefloor-shaking, electro-trad glorious combination of folk/pop sounds has already seen them acknowledged as musical trailblazers internationally.

Their debut album Secret Victory won the 2017 JUNO Award for Traditional Roots Recording of the Year. Their 2023 EP House Of Dreams was nominated for a JUNO Award and won Contemporary Roots Recording of the Year, Group Recording of the Year and Pop Recording of the Year at the 2023 East Coast Music Awards.

Their latest EP, Safe In Sound, was released in November 2023 and it too was a triple award winner at the ECMAs.

The East Pointers

The East Pointers - Wintergreen

Since the mid-late 1990s, Kenny Anderson's DIY pop alter-ego King Creosote has released over 100 records (at a relatively conservative guess), and his songs have been covered and performed by artists including Simple Minds and Patti Smith.

Many of his LPs, EPs and CDRs were self-released via Anderson’s homegrown Fife imprint, Fence-amid major label dalliances (2005’s KC Rules OK and 2007’s Bombshell on Warners), and a long-standing kinship with Domino Records, whose KC dispatches include Kenny and Beth’s Musakal Boat Rides (2003), the Mercury Prize-shortlisted Jon Hopkins union Diamond Mine (2011), and 2014’s From Scotland With Love, which soundtracked the award-winning film of the same name.

Anderson’s latest King Creosote outing is I, Des, an album that characteristically digs deep into his previous work - revisiting and recycling lyrics, home-made tapes, half-spun songs- and continues his quest to navigate mortality, ardour, stormy waters, the moon in the sky, and the East Neuk of Fife. He’s equally commanding whether playing live to capacity crowds at London’s Barbican, Edinburgh’s Usher Hall and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, or serenading fans in the fishing pubs and pottery shops of Crail and Anstruther; whether playing guitar, banjo, accordion, modular synths or wine glass drones. The common threads are KC’s singular voice, and his roguish, roving, ever-evolving, gorgeous songs in the key of Fife.

King Creosote

King Creosote - Bluebell, Cockleshell, 123

“When I finally got to see them live, I was transformed into a hysterical nine-year-old girl at a Beatles concert.” - Kurt Cobain

Shonen Knife - from Osaka, Japan - formed in 1981 by sisters Naoko & Atsuko long before terms like ‘riot girrrl’ and ‘girl rock’ entered the lexicon, the all-female trio were happily snapping guitar strings to the sound of imported Ramones covers.

Like fellow cult Japanese girl group The 5,6,7,8s, Shonen Knife have weathered decades of musical change by adhering to what they know best: belting out their own infectious brand of feelgood pop-punk.

Over the last 40 years they might not have packed out out stadiums but have been credited as a huge influence on alt rock acts from Sonic Youth to Nirvana.

Despite years on the road, their enthusiasm for live performances remains a joy to see as they delve into an extensive back catalogue ranging from solid thrash rock through to hit parade melodies.

But key to their success has been a disarming, often slightly surreal, take on their punk and rock influences - and with songs titled Tortoise Brand Pot Cleaner could they ever be accused of taking themselves too seriously?

Shonen Knife

マスコミュニケーション ブレイクダウン

After spending the past year recording with producer Andy Hawkins at The Nave, York’s Colour of Fire make their return to share a preview of new material alongside a few much-loved classics.

The alt-rock four-piece are putting the final touches on their long-awaited second, album "All The Wolves I Have Known", with a release anticipated towards the end of 2025.

A rare chance to catch this band live.

Colour Of Fire

Formed through a mutual love of 80’s goth and alternative rock music. Sanctum Santorium are a live 6-piece band that faithfully recreate classic hits by artists such as The Cult, Killing Joke, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie & The Banshees, The Cure, Bauhaus and more. Smoke machines at the ready with the clothes and the attitude.

Visually and musically, they are startlingly accurate. SS deliver a blistering live set from She Sells Sanctuary and Love like Blood through to Bela Lugosi’s Dead & This Corrosion. Dust down your leather jacket and paint your nails and get ready to be transported to The Dark Side of the 80’s.

Sanctum Sanctorium - The Dark Side Of The 80s

Sanctum Sanctorium

Established in 2001 Bootleg Blondie is the world's official No.1 Debbie Harry & Blondie tribute band, the only tribute to have performed with two founder members of Blondie, legendary drummer Clem Burke and songwriter, bass player and author Gary Valentine. BB had the honour to be thanked on Blondie’s 11th album ‘Pollinator’ and have played at world famous CBGB in NYC. Bootleg Blondie played two UK tours with Clem Burke under the name CBBB (Clem Burke and Bootleg Blondie) and released an original single "Enigma Soho Au Go Go" to coincide with the tours. It is available through AppleMusic, Spotify, Deezer and itunes. Clem Burke and Bootleg Blondie are currently writing songs for a rock opera about London.

Lead vocalist Debbie Harris (real name!) appeared on two shows for BBC1 picked out of 15,000 applicants to represent Debbie Harry on ‘Even Better Than The Real Thing’ hosted by Paddy McGuinness which attracted an audience of 10 million viewers!

Debbie Harris, lead vocalist of Bootleg Blondie, has the looks, the voice and the attitude of the original Blondie bombshell and like her heroine is typically outrageous on stage. She has been known to wear dustbin liners, thigh length boots and t.shirts with more holes than t.shirt! Debbie's pride & joy is her guitar which she plays at every show and is signed by all the Blondie band members.

Bootleg Blondie

Being loud, brazen and a little bit lairy was all Matt needed to propel himself onto the comedy circuit aged 18 and be presenting national telly by 22. But faster than you can say ‘Celebrity Coach Trip’ he suddenly finds himself in his 30s, so what’s next for the lad?

Matt has moved to the countryside, settled down, and is trying his hardest to not make rude jokes. It’s not going as well as he’d hoped…

Attempting to navigate a world of mate’s kids, mortgages and village life is proving a challenge for the guy who can't resist causing a scene. How do you age with grace and dignity when it’s at odds with all the personality traits that got you this far?

As seen on Dancing on Ice, The Stand Up Sketch Show, Love Island: Aftersun (ITV2), Comedy Central’s Roast Battle and many more.

‘High wattage stand-up’ The Guardian

‘Hilarious and charming’ The Mirror

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