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Festival Preview : Lewes Psychedelic Festival

 

There's more to Lewes than November 5 effigy burning it seems. Back for another year, on March 19, comes the Lewes Psychedelic Festival, a day & night of music along with visuals from Innerstrings (co-partnering the event with Brighton's Melting Vinyl).

For the low sum of £15 you'll be able to enjoy the likes of psych-krautrock supergroup Zofff, upcoming, Bobby Gillespie-championed Novella, Faux Discx luminaries Soft Walls, new Brighton act Wax Machine and a number more to be announced in the weeks ahead.

Tickets are available from the outlets below and you can keep up to date via the event's Facebook entry (link at article top):-

Ticketweb - http://www.ticketweb.co.uk/event/206099
Seetickets - http://www.seetickets.com/event/lewes-psychedelic-festival/all-saints-arts-centre/930510/
Resident - https://www.resident-music.com/tickets
Union - https://unionmusicstore.com/
The Vinyl Frontier - https://www.facebook.com/vinylfrontierrecordshop
Music's Not Dead - https://www.facebook.com/Musics-Not-Dead-135705629845716/timeline/
Pebbles - https://pebblerecords.co.uk/
Wow and Flutter - https://www.facebook.com/wowandflutterhastings/

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Festival Preview : Best Kept Secret, Tilburg

 

Brought to you by the team behind the Incubate event (which we were lucky enough to be invited to attend & review last September) Best Kept Secret returns this summer for its fourth year and the early line-up announcement shows it's already in line to maintain its recognised level of quality.

So far scheduled to play across the weekend are the likes of Beck, Wilco, Beach House, Explosions In The Sky, Editors, Caribou, Bloc Party and more. Many further acts will be added to the bill between now and June.

Weekend tickets have remained the same price as last year at £112 (+ booking fee). Buy yours & keep up to date with the festival's announcements (85 further artists' names are still to be made public) & news here.

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Festival Preview : Hipsville Carnival A-Go-Go, Bordon

New year, new venue for Hipsville as it shifts from Bisley to Bordon for its fourth weekender. This means more camping for those heading along but the site's fully set up for that, rather than just being a random field with portaloos as at some events.

On stage The Jackets make a return and are joined across the three days by upcoming frenetic US duo Archie & The Bunkers, the astounding Baron Four, the ever reliable Widebeests, an expanded MFC Chicken, hot French property The Missing Souls (the highlight of last year's Cosmic Trip & set to make splash this year), Stags/Shook-Ups combination Davros & The Space Deviants and a rake more.

Tickets are £65 (& include your camping pitch) and can be purchased via the event website here.

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Festival Preview : Pop! South Weekender, Glasgow

Having recently almost doubled the event line-up now seems like an excellent time to report on Pop! South's 2016 weekender at Glasgow's Glad Cafe.

Alongside the previously announced likes of TRUST FUND, The School, MJ Hibbett & The Validators, Milky Wimpshake and Breakfast MUFF (last enjoyed by us supporting The Spook School at their album launch) you can now also get your indie kicks from such luminaries as Duglas T. Stewart, ChorusgirlThe Catenary Wires, Pete Astor and a load more.

Tickets for the 12 - 14 February event are only £22 and can be obtained from here, along with further details of the event and this year's charitable connection.

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Festival Preview : Garageville, Hamburg


Now that the dreary old festive season's out of the way it's time to get thinking about the festival season (which, if you play your cards right, can last the other 11 months of the year). Here at Musos' Guide the first event to excite us, in what promises to be a packed year for such things, is the 5th iteration of Hamburg's Garageville. A relatively small event as such things go it does though offer up a boat cruise disco on the mighty Elbe river on its third day. Small ones are more juicy anyway.

Over the weekend of 8-10 April then, over two venues (the Hafenklang & the Molotow MusikClub), you can expect to see the likes of the fantastic Strollers, King Salami & The Cumberland 3, Norway's Scumbugs, Germany's own Trash Templars and a host more.

Weekend tickets are 32 euros (boat ticket extra) and information on obtaining those as well as suggested places to stay, record stores to vist etc. can be found here.

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The Wildebeests, Franklin Rock 'N' Roll Club, Edinburgh

 

In the latter half of this year France has been providing the cream of the garage band crop in the shape of The Missing Souls, The Arrogants & Les Gry Grys. The No Things benefit from their own French Connection in the shape of frontman Laurent Mombel and musically they rank comfortably alongside those fully French groups.

A less Francophone unit than Mombel's Les BOF! the quartet allows him possibly even greater freedom of expression than that band. Always an energetic & mobile singer with a great talent for showmanship (witness his arrival onstage via the crowd back at the first Hipsville a couple of years ago) he covers a lot of ground tonight in between shaking tambourine, maracas and blowing away on the harmonica.

'Diamond Ring' and 'Who Did You Rob, Bob?' are two of the highlights of a strongly performed set that sees the dancefloor crowded. Having one way or another managed to miss the band in various support slots this year it's great to finally have clapped eyes and ears on them. Those album recording rumours could do with being true. 

2/3s of The Wildebeests enter into the spirit of the season whilst John Gibb deigns to wear a bah, humbug Santa hat only for the duration of opening number 'Out Of My Head'. Wise man but then if this is as christmassy as it gets for me this year then I can't complain. Shouts of "ZZ Top" are met by replies of "ZZ Bottom" so you know it's going to be one of those nights.

And did we expect anything else? Of course not (& we'd be disappointed otherwise) so, digging into their back catalogue along with covers never before attempted live (The Boston Dexters' 'Nothin's Gonna Change Me Now', Motorhead's 'Motorhead') we get 'Pow Wow', 'Mongoloid', 'Comanche', 'Lucinda', 'Rowed Out', 'Cadillac' and a host more. Laurent's called upon to provide harmonica on a track or two but is unable to & so cheerleads for an encore instead. Teases of 'Public Image' are made a number of times but it's not to be.

A fun show to round off a very good year for the Franklin Rock 'N' Roll Club, the undisputed home of garage punk and related sounds in Edinburgh. It's a resource that can only get stronger in 2016, given the commitment of those involved. 

No-Things photograph by Debbie Sheringham.

 

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