Tickets for Farmfestival now on sale

Tickets for Farmfestival now on sale.

Tickets for the UK's 'Best Value Festival' are now on sale. Dates for 2011 are 29th/30th July. Priced the same as last year, Earlybird Tickets £30, adult weekend - no extras. Farmfestival, is expanding, for 2011 there will be an additional live stage, making 3 live stages and 2 dance tents.

To get tickets, follow the link on our website www.farmfestival.co.uk , or call the Farmfestival Office on 0845 838 9924.

Peter Vernon

Yellow Wire release new single, ‘Last Breath’ January 2011

Yellow Wire release new single, ‘Last Breath’ January 2011

Following the timely release, earlier this year, of the debut single ‘Where is the Summer?’ Yellow Wire return fresh from the studio with the heart-stopping new single, ‘Last Breath’, due for release on 3rd January 2011.

Searching lyrics wrapped up in the warmth of its musical sheepskin, ‘Last Breath’ is the sanguine repost to a heart left wanting, culminating in the anthemic crescendo of crashing guitars and the soaring vocals of singer and songwriter, Ol Beach.

Fans of Band Of Horses and The Killers listen up - here is your band to watch in 2011!

More about Yellow Wire: Yellow Wire is the debut solo project by Ol Beach. Since leaving former band Wire Daisies in 2008, Ol has spent two years pursuing his own solo career, writing and producing his debut album in Cornwall with a group of talented session musicians. Lead single ‘Where Is The Summer?’, was released on August 23rd followed by a series of UK gigs.

The new single ‘Last Breath’ is taken from Yellow Wire’s forthcoming album due for release in Spring 2011.

The band will be on tour throughout December and January 2011.

For more information please contact:
louie@all-leo.com, tel: 0207-017-8120

Yellow Wire, the release of ‘Where Is The Summer’ is just the start of a very exciting journey ahead.

 Single ‘Where Is The Summer’ released through Universal on August 23rd 2010

Yellow Wire is the debut solo project by Ol Beach. Since leaving former band Wire Daisies in 2008, Ol has spent two years pursuing his own solo career, writing and producing his debut album in Cornwall and Switzerland. Lead single ‘Where Is The Summer’, released on August 23rd, perfectly showcases his unique style of melodic rock and is already being tipped to become a late-summer anthem.

The son of legendary Queen manager Jim Beach, Ol moved to Switzerland with his parents in 1990 and was educated at L’Ecole Nouvelle in Lausanne. Showing early signs of musicality, he studied for four years under Blue Note recording artist Thierry Lang at the Montreux Jazz Conservatoire. 

In 2002 Ol formed the band Wire Daisies with singer Treana Morris. The band signed a worldwide publishing deal with EMI Music, recorded two albums, achieved number one iTunes tracks in the UK and France and toured extensively supporting artists including Starsailor and Robbie Williams. After parting ways with the group, Ol signed a recording deal with Swiss independent label id Records and began recording under the name Yellow Wire in 2009. 

Alongside the music, Yellow Wire has also teamed up with acclaimed illustrator Jimmy Turrell (the man behind memorable imagery for Glastonbury Festival and the Prodigy) and renowned photographer Gabrielle Crawford to create stunning artwork for the project.
With so many great things on the horizon for Yellow Wire, the release of ‘Where Is The Summer’ is just the start of a very exciting journey ahead.
 Yellow Wire will be performing live at the following venues:

July 28th, 9 pm, London – Monto Water Rats
August 4th, 9 pm, London – Monto Water Rats
August 11th, 9 pm, London – Monto Water Rats

yellowwire.co.uk // facebook.com/yellowwire // myspace.com/yellowwire

‘Where Is The Summer’ will be released through Universal on August 23rd,

followed by Yellow Wire’s debut album later this year.

For more information contact riona@all-leo.com or david@all-leo.com / 020 7017 8120

 

Have you got your tickets for the fun @FarmFestival in Somerset yet? (Don't forget your hat)

 The clock is ticking and it will soon time to enjoy another great British summer festival, now fully recovered from Glastonbury 2010 we are getting excited about the line up @famfestival plus the added bonus of a bar selling the best pear cider in the world > Brothers Pear Cider! Loves it..

Anyway for more information on the festival simply click here and we will see you there! > FarmFestival

 

  

FARM FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR ITS 5TH YEAR (also selling Brothers pear cider!); AT £35 IS THE FESTIVAL BARGAIN OF THE SUMMER

Farm Festival office line 0845 838 9924

FARM FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR ITS 5^TH YEAR; AT £35 IS THE FESTIVAL BARGAIN OF THE SUMMER

Taking place on the 30^th and 31^st July in Bruton, Somerset, and FarmFestival returns for its 5^th consecutive year. Mixing lush surroundings, a guaranteed  knees up, stunning up and coming bands and the biggest bargain of the festival calendar at £35 all in, this year sees our most ambitious festival yet. With not a corporate sponsor in sight, FarmFestival  is truly a professionally run grass-roots festival.

Over two days and two nights the crowd will be treated to an eclectic line-up featuring the return of legendary DJ Vadim and Bristol’s finest Smerin’s Anti Social Band.  Heavily touted and tipped breaking acts such as Egyptian Hip Hop, Wild Palms, Standard Fare, Bearsuit and Nedry will also be gracing the FarmFestival stage along with many other fantastic and exciting bands (full line up attached). The festival features a quality dub and reggae tent courtesy of High Grade Rockers Dub Sound System and a main marquee showcasing a range of singer-song writers, bands, comedians and sheer oddities. DJ’s will be steering the festival into the early hours on both nights, including sets from London based Snitch DJ’s and Bristol DJ’s Pardon My French.

It’s not all about the music at FarmFestival though; held on an organic farm the festival offers an intimate, laid-back alternative to large commercial festivals. Featuring clothing and jewellery stalls, delicious hog roast, cider from a local orchard, crazy golf, Punch and Judy and a Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, the weekend is as relaxing as it is fun.

Set up by an enthusiastic group of twentysomethings in 2005, FarmFestival has doubled in capacity every year. Last year saw 2300 revellers rock up (and out) over the weekend. This year we are aiming to double in capacity again.

FarmFestival is non-profit festival and any profit that is made is donated to a charity called Practical Action. The festival was not set up to make money. We wanted to create an event that stood up to the growing number of over priced and overly corporate festivals happening around the U.K every summer. We wanted to create an event that we would want to go to and that we could afford. Judging by the feedback and the retention of our fan base, we were not the only ones who wanted this.

Tickets for FarmFestival 2010 (£30 before 1^st May, £35 after) http://www.quaytickets.com/?Venue=414 

 

Surfer & Musician, Jack Johnson's World Tour 2010 is stopping off @CardiffInternationalArena a Live Nation Venue

 

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2010 will see a brand new studio album, world tour and the return of the Kokua Festival, for Hawaii’s own Jack Johnson. Johnson and his band have entered the Mango Tree Studio to record his 6th studio album. The album (which is as of yet untitled) will be released worldwide the week of May 31st and will be preceded by a single in May. 

Following the May 31st release of his new album, Johnson will embark on his first world tour since 2008, which will kick off in Europe beginning June 16th. The tour will be a mix of headline shows London, Paris, Berlin, and Amsterdam and festivals including Glastonbury (UK), and Roskilde (Denmark). A US Tour will be announced in March. Openers will be announced in the coming months. 

The Kokua Festival will return for a sixth year on Earth Day weekend - April 23rd and 24th, 2010 - at the Waikiki Shell in Honolulu, Hawaii. All proceeds from the Kokua Festival go to the Kokua Hawaii Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Jack and Kim Johnson to support environmental education programs in the schools and communities of Hawaii. This year, Jack is proud to share the stage with Ziggy Marley (solo acoustic) and Taj Mahal at the Sixth Kokua Festival. The festival’s incredible music line-up will be rounded out with local island favorites Jake Shimabukuro and Anuhea. Tickets are available to the general public beginning February 21st with pre-sale tickets available to 
Kokua Hawaii Foundation members starting February 13th. 

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Where In The World Single out – March 29th Plus Tour Dates – including two NME Brats shows, support tour with the Courteeners and headline Lexington show on March 29th

Seb Smart featured in latest music video released by Goldhawks, press play to watch >

Goldhawks release their second single, Where In The World, on Vertigo on March 29th. The single comes amid busy touring for the band with a bunch of headline shows, various club dates and a support tour with the Courteeners. Goldhawks, heavily tipped as One To Watch in 2010, are a live band not to be missed - they wowed the masses last year with a brace of shows at CMJ in New York and a sold-out residency at London’s Ginglik. Their debut album Trick Of Light follows on 7th June.  

It only takes a few bars of Where In The World to tell you that you are in the presence of Big Music. This west London five-piece are not in the business of half measures, not interested in anxious, apologetic, half-baked landfill indie. Goldhawks make their ambitions clear from the start: the giant opening guitar riff sets its cap at arenas, not the toilet circuit. The Where In The World video, shot over a freezing UK Christmas in Cornwall, features UK surf champion Seb Smart, braving the high seas intercut with the band performing.  

Two years ago, under his own name, Bobby Cook was releasing a single, Deja Vu, whose sweeping strings and acoustic shuffle saw him quickly bracketed alongside the likes of Laura Marling, Jamie T and Mumford and Sons on the dawning London skewed-folk scene. Already, people whose curiosity had been aroused by Deja Vu’s gentle acoustica found themselves faced with a very different prospect live. “The songs were getting much heavier,” Bobby remembers. “On one hand, I was drawing on a passion for Ryan Adams. But then I’d find myself being inspired by filmic and more textured music. And it was obvious to everyone that this big, majestic sound wasn’t just down to me.”  

More like revivalist meetings than gigs, Goldhawks’ live performances have reminded older hands of the zealotry and ferment of Echo and The Bunnymen. To their own generation,Goldhawks represent something that can often seem like it’s in very short supply indeed: music that has nothing to do with striking attitudes or ticking commercial boxes, and everything to do with what Bobby calls his only reason for making music in the first place: because he has to, he’s “got no choice”.  

Tour dates –  
 
12th Mar Blackpool, Empress Ballroom (with Courteeners)
13th Mar Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
18th Mar London, Brixton Academy (with Courteeners)
22nd Mar Newcastle, Academy (with Courteeners)
23rd Mar Edinburgh, Picture House (with Courteeners)
24th Mar Glasgow, Academy (with Courteeners)
26th Mar Leeds, Academy (with Courteeners)
29th Mar London, Lexington  

The Specials 30 years on and still magic! Cardiff CIA November 2009

A nightout at the CIA watching a band I used to bop too on the south bank when I was 12 years old and represented me and my generation their lyrics still ring true today.

I just hope they will be at Glastonbury 2010 for the big 40th party.  The only downside was that I missed 2 hours of Crab Island fun this morning, by the time I paddled out I had to make do with an hour and a half of fun.. nevermind... 'I loved da 'Rude Boys..'

Below a personal favourite from The Specials...

Bestival 2009 included awesome weather, Carl Cox, Lilly Allan, Jaguar Skills and nightmare traffic management

Sunset with your mates drinking outdoors and dancing to live music... awesome, the final festival of the summer was superb. A few standouts included: Lilly Allan, Carl Cox, Jaguar skills, Soul wax, Underworld,2manydj's, and many others the place was filled with chilled out party aliens including a rather large and nearly naked Hawaiian Alien 'Hawalien' as described by a group of girls...

The shine of the awesome Bestival weekend was taken away after spending 7 hours trying to get to the ferry port (10 miles away), If I had tried to organise the chaos that was a result of piss poor event car park management then I could not of achieved it.

If anyone from the Bestival team reads this then you need to sort the car parking out feel free to contact me and will give you a run down of basic errors made by your  monkeys in the car park.

Other than that to end on a high, it was an awesome weekend.. Glastonbury next year, they know how to manage the car parks!

P.s will start updating myvox free gower surf report on weds .... Live, surf and travel.

For more info on our surfing lessons or booking a taster session > Click on picture below