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Festival Coverage: Together the People - Day 2

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With our jeans still damp we return to Preston Park for Day Two, and with a better forecast for the proceedings, we settle down for another feast of music.  

Greeted first by the lively upstarts Skinny Living. The carefully crafted indie poppers were greatly received. With an album out shortly, we can only see bigger and better things in their future. 

Now that our ears are nicely warmed up we're then exposed to the onslaught of the wonderful Seratones, an incredible four-piece from Louisiana, fronted by the amazing vocal talents of A J Haynes.  They bring high energy, rebel rousing guitar sounds that simply blew us away. On the last leg of their UK tour, the leave with a bang and we were so glad we managed to catch them. 

From the roaring and weighty, to the infectious sounds of the joyful Songhoy Blues. Hailing from Mali they are simply a joy to behold.  Their upbeat African rhythm within a blues based guitar proving to be a unique combination.  Touring of the back of their amazing album Music in Exile, the crowd lap up the sheer enthusiasm the band bring to the stage and certainly manage to get the ever-growing crowd ready for the evening.

Peter Hook is now up making every middle aged man at the festival take note.  This is stuff they came to see. When he starts to blast out 'She’s Lost Control' and then 'Blue Monday' you can sense the silent appreciation. He is obviously not allowed to leave without the final track 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' which quite naturally gets the biggest reaction and is fully deserved.

The only act that doesn’t meet the high standard set by the festival is The Horrors. They appear lethargic and nonchalant and not in a good way.  Their music is bland and they simply look like they don’t want to be there.

This is in huge contrast to the appearance of the final act.  Suede and in particular Brett Anderson bring an old school energy that most modern rock act simply don’t have. He is the ultimate frontman, controlling the crowd as he leads us from hit after hit.  He is even honours his mum with a ballad on the anniversary of her death. The hits and the swagger are in perfect harmony. This is a wonderful performance at a time when bands need to be shown how to perform live. They finish with the classic 'Beautiful Ones' as the crowd erupt into a singalong. We trudge away thinking that Together the People have again delivered an excellent festival to Brighton and it’s just what we needed. 

 

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Skinny Living reveal new single ahead of upcoming EP

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Skinny Living are set to release their new single 'Only I' this Friday August 26 via the band's own label Orange Room Records.

The track is taken from the Wakefield based band's debut EP, III, also out this Friday.

The track reflects on a time when vocalist Ryan Johnston found himself in a tricky situation with some local hard men and someone placed a gun in front of him and said, "This is how you sort this." "I thought, 'I am not that person,'" he remembers. "It was a major wake up call, but the song's about how easy it is for any of us to go down that rabbit hole, and find ourselves in these sort of situations."

You can listen to 'Only I' below:

 


Having played plenty of festivals this summer including Live at Leeds, Dot To Dot, The Great Escape, Barn on the Farm, Secret Garden Party, Kendal Calling, Boardmasters and forthcoming appearances at Reeperbahn and more, the band are due head out on a 13-date UK and Ireland tour in October including a headline show at The Lexington, London.

Live Dates:
October 
11th - The Albert, Brighton
12th - The Louisiana, Bristol
14th - Voodoo, Belfast
15th - Whelans (Upstairs), Dublin
17th - The Cookie, Leicester
18th - The Cluny, Newcastle
19th - Broadcast, Glasgow
21st - Soup Kitchen, Manchester
22nd - The Rocking Chair, Sheffield
24th - The Lexington, London 
25th - Ramsgate Music Hall, Ramsgate
26th - New Adelphi - Hull
28th - Stylus, Leeds

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