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Festival Preview: Twisterella

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The North East is known for its music scene but perhaps not for its festivals. Twisterella however, are here to put the North East back on the new music map, taking inspiration from Liverpool Sound City, The Great Escape and many other events specialising in bringing punters the best in new live music.

Promoters Pay For The Piano and The Kids Are Solid Gold have combined to bring some of the regions, and the UK's, finest new music to Middlesbrough. Both boast excellent rosters, and are well known throughout the North East; Twisterella's line-up showcasing the depth of their previous endeavours. There’s a brilliant breadth and depth to Twisterella’s line-up, here are just a few of our picks from this packed line-up.

Heyrocco are an international addition to the line-up, hailing from South Carolina. They have a pretty distinctive brand of grungey indie rock and are a band tipped for the top, so we’re hoping to catch them whilst we still can.

Happyness have been touring with the likes of Speedy Ortiz of late, another band firmly on the up. We particularly enjoyed their recent show in Newcastle and in our eyes these guys can do very little wrong, especially as they’re labelled as the British Wilco.

Continuing on similar vein, Bad Breeding are another band currently poised to take the UK by storm with a sound akin to early work by Eagulls. The band have put out releases on Hate Hate Hate Records where bands like The Wytches and The Fat White Family have also released their early works.

Capture are an indie rock band hailing from Darlington, the latest in a long line of indie rock bands from the North East. We’re excited to see what they have to bring to the party on first listen; they have a sound that’s close to many of their peers but we shall wait and say.

Not so much new, but still brilliant Leeds’ That Fucking Tank. These behemoths of instrumental rock music are due to set things alight in the middle of the afternoon at Twisterella. We cannot wait for them to light the touch paper with what we’re sure will be a phenomenal day of music.

Another indie rock band hailing from the North East, and making waves all over the UK, are Lisbon. They arrive at Twisterella riding on the crest of a wave having played countless festivals all over the UK, earning a rapturous response at every turn. These guys are set to be huge, definitely a band to catch while you still can.

This is just a small selection of the talent on offer at Twisterella, we cannot wait to get in amongst it. The line-up is truly astounding; a gathering of phenomenal talent, whilst we have our list of who we want to see we can almost guarantee that we’ll discover even better and more exciting acts on the day.

Twisterella takes place on Saturday the 11th of October at venues across Middlesbrough. Tickets are on sale now priced at a mere £15 and are available here,

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