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After the success of their first release ‘Russian Warship (Go F**k Yourself!)’ The Anti-DicKtators return with their follow up single ‘Home’. This time producer Phil Meadley (The Gaslight Troubadours), vocalist/songwriter Yuriy Gurzhy (RotFront – Emigrantski Raggamuffin Kollektiv/The Disorientalists), fiddle player Jon Sevink (Levellers), bassist Tom Robinson (Tom Robinson Band/BBC Radio 6Music presenter), and vocalist Katya Tasheva (RotFront) are joined by Afro-Celt Sound System and Imagined Village founder Simon Emmerson on cittern, Richard Evans (Peter Gabriel/Birdy) on mandolin, Irish musician Lottie Cullen (Afro Celt Sound System) on pipes and whistle and Ukrainian artist and activist Diana Berg.
]]>After the success of their first release ‘Russian Warship (Go F**k Yourself!)’ The Anti-DicKtators return with their follow up single ‘Home’. This time producer Phil Meadley (The Gaslight Troubadours), vocalist/songwriter Yuriy Gurzhy (RotFront – Emigrantski Raggamuffin Kollektiv/The Disorientalists), fiddle player Jon Sevink (Levellers), bassist Tom Robinson (Tom Robinson Band/BBC Radio 6Music presenter), and vocalist Katya Tasheva (RotFront) are joined by Afro-Celt Sound System and Imagined Village founder Simon Emmerson on cittern, Richard Evans (Peter Gabriel/Birdy) on mandolin, Irish musician Lottie Cullen (Afro Celt Sound System) on pipes and whistle and Ukrainian artist and activist Diana Berg.
The specially commissioned artwork is by Levellers bassist and artist Jeremy Cunningham. All proceeds for this release will go to Diana Berg’s Mariupol relief fund. Jez is also joined on the cover of the ‘Standing For Ukraine Mix’ by legendary UK artist and anarchist Jamie Reid whose artwork defined the image of punk rock in the late 70s with his famous Sex Pistols covers (Never Mind The Bollocks, Anarchy In The UK, God Save The Queen to name but a few). There’s also very powerful lyric video for ‘Home’ which features footage filmed by ordinary citizens on the streets of Mariupol this year.
Here is the Link to buy the new single and help the people of Mariupol
All proceeds for this release will go to Diana Berg’s Mariupol relief fund:
https://tu.org.ua/news/requisites-for-rapid-help-fund
Devon’s annual Beautiful Days festival have announced their full line-up for the main stages at the 2022 event plus their Sunday theme. Flogging Molly return to the festival to headline Friday night on the Main Stage. It’s been over two decades since the Celtic punk rockers burst onto the scene with their classic debut album Swagger. Armed with a fistful of rousing songs that are timeless in sentiment, their live shows are nothing short of legendary. Saturday headliners are The Specials - one of the most influential and important bands of all time. Changing the face of UK music in the 80’s with hit singles including ’Too Much Too Young’ and 'Ghost Town’ they were at the forefront of the 2 Tone movement infusing ska with punk and homegrown political anxiety with wider issues. Studio album Encore, their first new music for 37 years, was released in 2019 and went straight to number 1 in the UK Official Charts. Festival foundersLevellers will headline the Main Stage on the Sunday night to close the weekend with a hit-rich set followed by the traditional firework spectacular. The band will also open the festival with an acoustic set in The Big Top.
Also announced for the Main Stage are alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols from Portland, Oregon whose 25 year career includes nine studio albums, two compilation albums and 27 singles including hits “Bohemian Like You” and ‘We Used To Be Friends’. Plus the brilliant Maximo Park play for the first time at Escot. From the very first song on their very first album, 2005’s A Certain Trigger – a multi-platinum selling, Mercury-nominated breakthrough in every sense – singer and lyricist Paul Smith pinned his socio-political colours to the mast. American blues guitarist and singer Seasick Stevewho is known for his fantastically compelling live shows, plus two-tone-inspired, powerfully melodic, punk-fuelled LA band The Interrupters and Lars Frederiksen who is best known as a guitarist and vocalist for the punk band Rancid and has been a major player in the California punk scene since the 90’s. 2021 saw the release of Frederiksen’s debut solo project “To Victory”, Sheffield’s Reverend And The Makersfronted by Jon "The Reverend" McClure and favourites Ned’s Atomic Dustbin with their bass-heavy wall of noise are also on the bill.
Completing the Main Stage line-up are singer-songwriter Jim Bob who, outside of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, has had a long and successful solo music career plus West London’s Hollie Cook - one of the most exciting voices in reggae, seven-piece Franco-Irish group The Celtic Social Club, Australian Celtic-folk band The Rumjacks, London feral post-punk band Snapped Ankles and new and exciting talents Bob Vylan and Cam Cole. Plus psychedelic punk rock duo The Lovely Eggs, Coventry five piece Feet, the creatively unpredictable Brighton band Opus Kink, the high-energy footstompin Noble Jacks, acerbic post-punk band Deadletter, riotous 3 piece Idestroy and one man electro blues band Funke And The Two Tone Baby.
BRIT Award winner, and two time Mercury Prize nominee Beth Orton headlines Friday night in The Big Top. Over the course of her six albums to date, Orton resolutely refutes categorisation, weaving from a hushed, folk-informed storytelling to dark, brooding esoteric experimentalism. Through all these different sonic explorations, Beth remains a fantastically evocative songwriter and one of the UK’s most unique and beguiling voices. Headlining Saturday night we have a very special performance from The Imagined Village who are reuniting with most members of the original line-up for just two major festival performances this Summer. The most ambitious folk fusion band of the 21st century, The Imagined Village set out to match English traditional songs against the sounds of contemporary multi-cultural England, with influences from Asia, the Caribbean and elsewhere. And they did so with an extraordinary line-up that included folk celebrities Eliza Carthy and Martin Carthy, Simon Emmerson (of Afro-Celt Sound System fame), sitar exponent Sheema Mujherjee, that rousing dhol and tabla percussionist Johnny Kalsi, and drummer Andy Gangadeen. Topping the bill on Sunday night is the UK's foremost political singer-songwriter Billy Bragg. Orator, entertainer, rabble-rouser, negotiator, pamphleteer, the fabled ‘big-nosed bard from Barking’, Billy Bragg is many things. His new album ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’ was released in 2021.
Also announced for The Big Top are Mercury prize nominated The Unthanks featuring Tyneside sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank who, as well as preparing to release their brilliant new album Sorrows Away, recently found time to provide the soundtracks for Mackenzie Crook’s beautiful adaptations of Worzel Gummidge. The festival welcome back Cornwall’s finest export the singing group Fisherman’s Friends and also on the Big Top line-up is Anais Mitchell who is a songwriter of exceptional imagination who released her first solo work in a decade in January this year, UK four piece (two pairs of brothers and sisters) The Magic Numbers who are renowned for their unique harmonies, Westcountry multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman who recently released new album Make Your Mark, Bristol singer Katy J Pearson whose debut album ‘Return’ was one of the standout releases of 2020 and Eliza Carthy and The Restitution. Eliza Carthy MBE should by now need no introduction. A multi award-winning singer, songwriter and musician, she is one of the most recognisable faces of the English folk revival.
The Big Top line-up also features Thea Gilmore, an artist of enduring international acclaim whose creative rebirth and repositioning produced the brutally honest album Afterlight in 2021, plus Brighton-based multi-instrumentalists Hannah Moule & The Moulettes, the brilliant Sudanese-Scottish singer-songwriter Eliza Shaddad, Yorkshire folk singer Jack Rutter and Terrorvision’s Tony Wright. Completing the bill on that stage are dynamic Glaswegian trio The Langan Band, Edinburgh-born songwriter Ross Wilson aka Blue Rose Code, Brighton punk-rock band The Bar Stool Preachers,Plymouth singer-songwriter Alex Hart plus the annual Sunday Service from festival friends The Bar Steward Sons Of Val Doonican and guests.
Friday in The Little Big Top is the Craig Charles Funk And Soul Club with Craig Charles plus Boca 45’s, Reach Up Disco Wonderland, Filthy Dirty Disco and Webmoms (Live). Saturday is Chris Tofu’s Version Excursion with BCO: Grime Orchestrated (Live), Mr Bruce (Live), Mista Trick (Live), Dat Brass, DJ Tofu, Binbag Wisdom and Tofu & Fizzy. On Sunday a Dubwiser takeover with Dreadzone DJ Set with Greg Dread & Guests, plus Gaudi (Live), Don Letts, Bazil, Danny Briottet and Professor Skank. There are also live sessions from Laid Blak, Barefoot Bandit and Gaslight Troubadours plus Silent Disco with Swing and Bass All Stars, Just A Couple Of Mums, Dave Cridge, Frankie G, King Farmer, Chris Hybrid and the Silent Disco Club and the family rave on the Friday afternoon - Big Fish Little Fish.
The seated Theatre Tent will play host to Spitz & Co presenting Elvis’ Blue Hawaii, Le Navet Bete, The Tootsie Rollers, Scratchworks presenting The Grimm Sisters, Entertainingly Different’s morning Rise N Shine, Jez Mansfield (Magician) and Chris James (Hypnotist) with more to come. First names announced for The Bimble Inn are Samantics, The Sweetchunks Band, Davey Malone, Power Ballad Yoga, Millie Manders and the Shutup and SLEAZE with many more to be announced. You’ll also find pop-up folk/roots sessions in The Fiddler’s Arms next to The Big Top curated by Seth Lakeman’s musician dad Geoff Lakeman. Plus the festival has walkabout theatre, amazing site art, a high children’s area, a vast selection of food and traders real ale bars are run by Otter Brewery. Beautiful Days is the Levellers festival, organised by DMF Music, and has been running annually since 2003 (except for a Covid enforced break for 1 year in 2020).
The Sunday theme this year is ‘Peace & Love’
Tickets for the 2022 event are on sale now. There are family campsites, campervan fields, caravan pitches and some bell tent & tipi hire options still available. For information about accessibility, go to the festival website.
Artists announced today
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Shirts will be shipped w/c 21st March
Like most of us watching the crisis in Ukraine unfold we were appalled at the suffering going on there and thought is there any small thing we can do to help.
Jez had already donated artwork to the cause and then put the Levs ‘peace plane’ in Ukrainian colours on his Instagram page. That plane design goes back to the Iraq war - we were hoping not to have to use it again!
Anyway, there was a big response to the artwork and folks enquiring about it being on a shirt maybe … we thought that was a great idea, so here you go!
All profits will be donated to WarChild who specialise in protecting children in conflicts and war zones
You can also donate here WarChild
Size guide - S 38" M 42" L 44" XL 48" 2XL 52" 3XL 56"
]]>Beautiful Days 2022 line-up includes FLOGGING MOLLY, THE SPECIALS, LEVELLERS, THE DANDY WARHOLS, MAXIMO PARK, SEASICK STEVE, THE INTERRUPTERS, BETH ORTON, THE IMAGINED VILLAGE, ANAIS MITCHELL, BILLY BRAGG & LOADS MORE. Plus ‘PEACE & LOVE’ Sunday theme
Devon’s annual Beautiful Days festival have announced their full line-up for the main stages at the 2022 event plus their Sunday theme. Flogging Molly return to the festival to headline Friday night on the Main Stage. It’s been over two decades since the Celtic punk rockers burst onto the scene with their classic debut album Swagger. Armed with a fistful of rousing songs that are timeless in sentiment, their live shows are nothing short of legendary. Saturday headliners are The Specials - one of the most influential and important bands of all time. Changing the face of UK music in the 80’s with hit singles including ’Too Much Too Young’ and 'Ghost Town’ they were at the forefront of the 2 Tone movement infusing ska with punk and homegrown political anxiety with wider issues. Studio album Encore, their first new music for 37 years, was released in 2019 and went straight to number 1 in the UK Official Charts. Festival foundersLevellers will headline the Main Stage on the Sunday night to close the weekend with a hit-rich set followed by the traditional firework spectacular. The band will also open the festival with an acoustic set in The Big Top.
Also announced for the Main Stage are alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols from Portland, Oregon whose 25 year career includes nine studio albums, two compilation albums and 27 singles including hits “Bohemian Like You” and ‘We Used To Be Friends’. Plus the brilliant Maximo Park play for the first time at Escot. From the very first song on their very first album, 2005’s A Certain Trigger – a multi-platinum selling, Mercury-nominated breakthrough in every sense – singer and lyricist Paul Smith pinned his socio-political colours to the mast. American blues guitarist and singer Seasick Stevewho is known for his fantastically compelling live shows, plus two-tone-inspired, powerfully melodic, punk-fuelled LA band The Interrupters and Lars Frederiksen who is best known as a guitarist and vocalist for the punk band Rancid and has been a major player in the California punk scene since the 90’s. 2021 saw the release of Frederiksen’s debut solo project “To Victory”, Sheffield’s Reverend And The Makersfronted by Jon "The Reverend" McClure and favourites Ned’s Atomic Dustbin with their bass-heavy wall of noise are also on the bill.
Completing the Main Stage line-up are singer-songwriter Jim Bob who, outside of Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine, has had a long and successful solo music career plus West London’s Hollie Cook - one of the most exciting voices in reggae, seven-piece Franco-Irish group The Celtic Social Club, Australian Celtic-folk band The Rumjacks, London feral post-punk band Snapped Ankles and new and exciting talents Bob Vylan and Cam Cole. Plus psychedelic punk rock duo The Lovely Eggs, Coventry five piece Feet, the creatively unpredictable Brighton band Opus Kink, the high-energy footstompin Noble Jacks, acerbic post-punk band Deadletter, riotous 3 piece Idestroy and one man electro blues band Funke And The Two Tone Baby.
BRIT Award winner, and two time Mercury Prize nominee Beth Orton headlines Friday night in The Big Top. Over the course of her six albums to date, Orton resolutely refutes categorisation, weaving from a hushed, folk-informed storytelling to dark, brooding esoteric experimentalism. Through all these different sonic explorations, Beth remains a fantastically evocative songwriter and one of the UK’s most unique and beguiling voices. Headlining Saturday night we have a very special performance from The Imagined Village who are reuniting with most members of the original line-up for just two major festival performances this Summer. The most ambitious folk fusion band of the 21st century, The Imagined Village set out to match English traditional songs against the sounds of contemporary multi-cultural England, with influences from Asia, the Caribbean and elsewhere. And they did so with an extraordinary line-up that included folk celebrities Eliza Carthy and Martin Carthy, Simon Emmerson (of Afro-Celt Sound System fame), sitar exponent Sheema Mujherjee, that rousing dhol and tabla percussionist Johnny Kalsi, and drummer Andy Gangadeen. Topping the bill on Sunday night is the UK's foremost political singer-songwriter Billy Bragg. Orator, entertainer, rabble-rouser, negotiator, pamphleteer, the fabled ‘big-nosed bard from Barking’, Billy Bragg is many things. His new album ‘The Million Things That Never Happened’ was released in 2021.
Also announced for The Big Top are Mercury prize nominated The Unthanks featuring Tyneside sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank who, as well as preparing to release their brilliant new album Sorrows Away, recently found time to provide the soundtracks for Mackenzie Crook’s beautiful adaptations of Worzel Gummidge. The festival welcome back Cornwall’s finest export the singing group Fisherman’s Friends and also on the Big Top line-up is Anais Mitchell who is a songwriter of exceptional imagination who released her first solo work in a decade in January this year, UK four piece (two pairs of brothers and sisters) The Magic Numbers who are renowned for their unique harmonies, Westcountry multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman who recently released new album Make Your Mark, Bristol singer Katy J Pearson whose debut album ‘Return’ was one of the standout releases of 2020 and Eliza Carthy and The Restitution. Eliza Carthy MBE should by now need no introduction. A multi award-winning singer, songwriter and musician, she is one of the most recognisable faces of the English folk revival.
The Big Top line-up also features Thea Gilmore, an artist of enduring international acclaim whose creative rebirth and repositioning produced the brutally honest album Afterlight in 2021, plus Brighton-based multi-instrumentalists Hannah Moule & The Moulettes, the brilliant Sudanese-Scottish singer-songwriter Eliza Shaddad, Yorkshire folk singer Jack Rutter and Terrorvision’s Tony Wright. Completing the bill on that stage are dynamic Glaswegian trio The Langan Band, Edinburgh-born songwriter Ross Wilson aka Blue Rose Code, Brighton punk-rock band The Bar Stool Preachers,Plymouth singer-songwriter Alex Hart plus the annual Sunday Service from festival friends The Bar Steward Sons Of Val Doonican and guests.
Friday in The Little Big Top is the Craig Charles Funk And Soul Club with Craig Charles plus Boca 45’s, Reach Up Disco Wonderland, Filthy Dirty Disco and Webmoms (Live). Saturday is Chris Tofu’s Version Excursion with BCO: Grime Orchestrated (Live), Mr Bruce (Live), Mista Trick (Live), Dat Brass, DJ Tofu, Binbag Wisdom and Tofu & Fizzy. On Sunday a Dubwiser takeover with Dreadzone DJ Set with Greg Dread & Guests, plus Gaudi (Live), Don Letts, Bazil, Danny Briottet and Professor Skank. There are also live sessions from Laid Blak, Barefoot Bandit and Gaslight Troubadours plus Silent Disco with Swing and Bass All Stars, Just A Couple Of Mums, Dave Cridge, Frankie G, King Farmer, Chris Hybrid and the Silent Disco Club and the family rave on the Friday afternoon - Big Fish Little Fish.
The seated Theatre Tent will play host to Spitz & Co presenting Elvis’ Blue Hawaii, Le Navet Bete, The Tootsie Rollers, Scratchworks presenting The Grimm Sisters, Entertainingly Different’s morning Rise N Shine, Jez Mansfield (Magician) and Chris James (Hypnotist) with more to come. First names announced for The Bimble Inn are Samantics, The Sweetchunks Band, Davey Malone, Power Ballad Yoga, Millie Manders and the Shutup and SLEAZE with many more to be announced. You’ll also find pop-up folk/roots sessions in The Fiddler’s Arms next to The Big Top curated by Seth Lakeman’s musician dad Geoff Lakeman. Plus the festival has walkabout theatre, amazing site art, a high children’s area, a vast selection of food and traders real ale bars are run by Otter Brewery. Beautiful Days is the Levellers festival, organised by DMF Music, and has been running annually since 2003 (except for a Covid enforced break for 1 year in 2020).
The Sunday theme this year is ‘Peace & Love’
Tickets for the 2022 event are on sale now. There are family campsites, campervan fields, caravan pitches and some bell tent & tipi hire options still available. For information about accessibility, go to the festival website.
MAIN STAGE
Our Levelling the Land 30th Anniversary tour starts soon! Can’t wait to get back out and see you all. We’ll be playing the whole album plus lots more including songs from PEACE
Lots of festival friends are joining us on the road. Check the website or flyer to see who will be where. Quite a few dates sold out and others are close so don't leave it too long to get your tickets!
We’ll also be at Kubix Festival on 02 October and in Bedford at the Halloween Town Festival on 31 October too.
Levellers x
All dates & links: https://www.levellers.co.uk/events
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All dates & links: https://www.levellers.co.uk/events
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LOCKDOWN SESSIONS
Levellers announce their new album 'The Lockdown Sessions' which is available on CD, Black vinyl and an Exclusive Rocket Red Vinyl.
Each format also includes a DVD of the Levellers live in the studio running through songs from the last album, Peace and some of their greatest hits.
Tracklisting:
1. Generation Fear
2. Our New Day
3. Calling Out
4. Food Roof Family
5. The Men Who Would Be King
6. Four Boys Lost
7. One Way
8. Hope Street
9. Truth Is
10. Carry Me
11. The Cholera Well
PRE-ORDER HERE
NEW DATES ON SALE TODAY FOR ‘LEVELLING THE LAND’ 30TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR
We are celebrating the 30th anniversary of Levelling The Land in 2021 with a 17 date UK tour playing the album in full plus other favourites and songs from Peace.
A number of our shows were postponed from 2020 due to the pandemic and now extra dates have been announced in Newcastle, Plymouth, Manchester, London, Birmingham, Glasgow and Cardiff.
Tickets are on sale now for the new shows and there are only a few left for others so don’t leave it too late!
All dates & links: https://www.levellers.co.uk/events
OCTOBER 2021
30 - NEWCASTLE o2 City Hall
NOVEMBER 2021
22 - SHEFFIELD Leadmill - SOLD OUT
23 - FROME Cheese & Grain - SOLD OUT
24 - PLYMOUTH Pavilions
25 - LANCASTER Town Hall
26 - MANCHESTER Academy
27 - LONDON o2 Brixton Academy
DECEMBER 2021
08 - MARGATE Dreamland
09 - GUILDFORD G Live - SOLD OUT
10 - BIRMINGHAM o2 Academy
11 - YORK Barbican
12 - GLASGOW Barrowland
14 - NORWICH UEA
15 - SOUTHAMPTON o2 Guildhall
16 - CARDIFF Motorpoint Arena
17 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City
18 - NOTTINGHAM Rock City - SOLD OUT
SPECIAL GUESTS
Boydie, Innes & Uilly AKA Peat & Diesel will be joining us on the new dates in Plymouth, Manchester, London, Birmingham, York and Cardiff. We’re looking forward to seeing them and all the other artists who be supporting us on the Levelling The Land tour.....
The Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican – Sheffield, Lancaster & Nottingham
Gaz Brookfield – Frome & Southampton
The Leylines – Margate, Guildford & Norwich
Maelor Hughes – York
Davey Malone - Margate
Nick Parker Music & The False Alarms - Nottingham
Supports in Newcastle and Glasgow are TBC
Hope to see you at one of the shows, we cant wait to get back out on the road x
All dates & links: https://www.levellers.co.uk/events
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwguqzNaXuc
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See the Live page for dates https://www.levellers.co.uk/events
]]>Beautiful Days welcomes back Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls to headline the Main Stage on Friday night. Over the course of an astonishing career now spanning 20 years + and counting Frank has to date sold in excess 1 million records and played to over 2 million people. He is arguably one of Britain’s hardest working musicians.
Topping the bill on Saturday night are James who return after headlining Beautiful Days in 2016. Since their breakthrough single in 1991, Sit Down, James have released 15 studio albums, selling over 25 million copies in the process. They’ve announced the release their new studio album ‘All The Colours Of You’ on 4th June with new single ‘Recover’ out now.
Festival founders Levellers will close the festival on the Sunday night. The band released new studio album ‘Peace’ in Summer 2020 which entered the UK Official Album Charts at #8 - the band's highest charting entry since 1997's Mouth to Mouth. Levellers will also open the festival weekend with their traditional acoustic set in The Big Top.
Also announced for the Main Stage is icon and pioneer of electronic music Gary Numan, plus New Model Army who celebrated their 40th anniversary last year, Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May, one of the UK’s most formidable live acts Skindred, the Balkan ska punk extravaganza that is Dubioza Kolektiv, punk-rock, blues and country band Alabama 3 and From The Jam led by bassist/singer and original Jam member Bruce Foxton.
Plus festival favourites Dreadzone, high energy dub outfit Gentleman’s Dub Club, Mexican ska-rock band Los De Abajo, British reggae band The Skints, Irish powerhouse Damien Dempsey, cosmic four-piece Henge, Leeds alt-rock band Pulled Apart By Horses, garage-punk band Avalanche Party, breakthrough Hebridean sensation Peat & Diesel, indie-pop foursome Lottery Winners and Wild Front.
Topping the bill on the festival’s second stage - The Big Top – on Friday night are the legendary and pioneering Hawkwind. With founder Dave Brock still at the helm, the band recently celebrated their 50th anniversary.
Saturday night welcomes The Lakeman Family Gathering – an exclusive performance featuring musician dad Geoff Lakeman with sons Sean, Sam and Seth plus Cara Dillon and Kathryn Roberts performing all together for the first time ever.
Sunday night headliners are Van der Graaf Generator featuring Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton & Guy Evans - the three surviving members of the original group formed in 1968. Darker and wilder than most of their contemporaries VdGG were known for sprawling, dense and complex songs on six albums recorded for the Charisma label between ‘69 and ‘76.
Also announced for The Big Top are London punk-pop four-piece The Big Moon, folk stalwarts Show Of Hands, folk-punk band Ferocious Dog who release their new album ‘Hope’ this Autumn, infectious folk-gypsy outfit Mad Dog Mcrea, Bristol’s The Longest Johns - the men behind the viral sea shanty trend with their track Wellerman, plus Rock meets Americana with Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners, Welsh harpist Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita and bluegrass collaborative Watkins Family Hour featuring Nickel Creek founder member Sara Watkins.
Rev Hammer & Nick Harper will play a special acoustic set, 3 Daft Monkeys return to continue their 20th anniversary celebrations, folk-punk band Sons Of Clogger, Irish singer-songwriter Amy Montgomery, singer-songwriter Katherine Priddy, punk band Headsticks and festival friends The Bar-Steward Sons Of Val Doonican’s Sunday Service with special guests.
The first acts announced for The Little Big Top are The Orb, Mungo’s Hi Fi, Youth, Adrian Sherwood, Eva Lazarus, Altern-8, Shades Of Rhythm (Live), Slipmatt, 2 Bad Mice, Mark XTC, The Moody Boys and family rave Big Fish Little Fish. The seated Theatre Tent will play host to theatre, comedy and dance with shows including the circus that is like no other - Circus Of Horrors, plus the super talented quadruple that is 4 Poofs & A Piano (known for being the house band BBC One chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross) and performances from The Rubbish Shakespeare Company, Morgan & West, The Black Eagles, John Udry, Dan The Hat, Jack Dean Company and Entertainingly Different.
Beautiful Days has never just been about the music though – the festival has a seated Theatre Tent, walkabout performances, site art installations, an array of food & crafts stalls and real ale bars run by local brewers Otter Brewery. The 2021 theme is still to be announced!
We are working hard planning to go ahead at full capacity following Step 4 of the Government’s roadmap which hopes to allow large events to take place without restrictions. 95% of tickets have already been sold for the 18th edition of the festival with the last few tickets available.
TICKETS
Beautiful Days welcomes back Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls to headline the Main Stage on Friday night. Over the course of an astonishing career now spanning 20 years + and counting Frank has to date sold in excess 1 million records and played to over 2 million people. He is arguably one of Britain’s hardest working musicians.
Topping the bill on Saturday night are James who return after headlining Beautiful Days in 2016. Since their breakthrough single in 1991, Sit Down, James have released 15 studio albums, selling over 25 million copies in the process. They’ve announced the release their new studio album ‘All The Colours Of You’ on 4th June with new single ‘Recover’ out now.
Festival founders Levellers will close the festival on the Sunday night. The band released new studio album ‘Peace’ in Summer 2020 which entered the UK Official Album Charts at #8 - the band's highest charting entry since 1997's Mouth to Mouth. Levellers will also open the festival weekend with their traditional acoustic set in The Big Top.
Also announced for the Main Stage is icon and pioneer of electronic music Gary Numan, plus New Model Army who celebrated their 40th anniversary last year, Irish singer-songwriter Imelda May, one of the UK’s most formidable live acts Skindred, the Balkan ska punk extravaganza that is Dubioza Kolektiv, punk-rock, blues and country band Alabama 3 and From The Jam led by bassist/singer and original Jam member Bruce Foxton.
Plus festival favourites Dreadzone, high energy dub outfit Gentleman’s Dub Club, Mexican ska-rock band Los De Abajo, British reggae band The Skints, Irish powerhouse Damien Dempsey, cosmic four-piece Henge, Leeds alt-rock band Pulled Apart By Horses, garage-punk band Avalanche Party, breakthrough Hebridean sensation Peat & Diesel, indie-pop foursome Lottery Winners and Wild Front.
Topping the bill on the festival’s second stage - The Big Top – on Friday night are the legendary and pioneering Hawkwind. With founder Dave Brock still at the helm, the band recently celebrated their 50th anniversary.
Saturday night welcomes The Lakeman Family Gathering – an exclusive performance featuring musician dad Geoff Lakeman with sons Sean, Sam and Seth plus Cara Dillon and Kathryn Roberts performing all together for the first time ever.
Sunday night headliners are Van der Graaf Generator featuring Peter Hammill, Hugh Banton & Guy Evans - the three surviving members of the original group formed in 1968. Darker and wilder than most of their contemporaries VdGG were known for sprawling, dense and complex songs on six albums recorded for the Charisma label between ‘69 and ‘76.
Also announced for The Big Top are London punk-pop four-piece The Big Moon, folk stalwarts Show Of Hands, folk-punk band Ferocious Dog who release their new album ‘Hope’ this Autumn, infectious folk-gypsy outfit Mad Dog Mcrea, Bristol’s The Longest Johns - the men behind the viral sea shanty trend with their track Wellerman, plus Rock meets Americana with Ginger Wildheart & The Sinners, Welsh harpist Catrin Finch & Seckou Keita and bluegrass collaborative Watkins Family Hour featuring Nickel Creek founder member Sara Watkins.
Rev Hammer & Nick Harper will play a special acoustic set, 3 Daft Monkeys return to continue their 20th anniversary celebrations, folk-punk band Sons Of Clogger, Irish singer-songwriter Amy Montgomery, singer-songwriter Katherine Priddy, punk band Headsticks and festival friends The Bar-Steward Sons Of Val Doonican’s Sunday Service with special guests.
The first acts announced for The Little Big Top are The Orb, Mungo’s Hi Fi, Youth, Adrian Sherwood, Eva Lazarus, Altern-8, Shades Of Rhythm (Live), Slipmatt, 2 Bad Mice, Mark XTC, The Moody Boys and family rave Big Fish Little Fish. The seated Theatre Tent will play host to theatre, comedy and dance with shows including the circus that is like no other - Circus Of Horrors, plus the super talented quadruple that is 4 Poofs & A Piano (known for being the house band BBC One chat show Friday Night with Jonathan Ross) and performances from The Rubbish Shakespeare Company, Morgan & West, The Black Eagles, John Udry, Dan The Hat, Jack Dean Company and Entertainingly Different.
Beautiful Days has never just been about the music though – the festival has a seated Theatre Tent, walkabout performances, site art installations, an array of food & crafts stalls and real ale bars run by local brewers Otter Brewery. The 2021 theme is still to be announced!
We are working hard planning to go ahead at full capacity following Step 4 of the Government’s roadmap which hopes to allow large events to take place without restrictions. 95% of tickets have already been sold for the 18th edition of the festival with the last few tickets available.
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We wanted to update you on where we are with Beautiful Days 2021
Unlike some of our bigger friends we have a little bit more time before we have to make a decision as to whether we can, or cannot, go ahead this year. We are continuing to discuss and plan for 2021 and will be closely monitoring how things develop over the next few months. A decision will be made at the beginning of April.
Thank you to everyone who rolled ticket bookings over from 2020. If we’re able to go ahead this year then tickets will go back on sale in April and we will start announcing artists. We very much hope to see you all this Summer
In the meantime stay safe
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