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THE
ZUTONS
8.45pm - 10.00pm
myspace.com/thezutons
With three top ten albums and a string of top forty sing-a-long-able
singles, including You Will You Won't, Valerie and Always Right
Behind You, tremendous Liverpool indie-rock five-piece The Zutons
are pretty much the perfect festival headliners.
Formed in 2001, the band's music has often proved difficult to categorise
with a range of influences such as Talking Heads, Devo, Sly &
The Family Stone, Dexy's Midnight Runners and Madness all being
thrown into the melting pot.
Working with legendary producer Ian Broudie, they've received a
plethora of plaudits including Mercury Prize nominations and plenty
of positive column inches from every music mag imagineable - not
to mention crowd pleasing festival appearances all over the world!
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THE
SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND
7.35pm - 8.20pm
myspace.com/thesunshineunderground
The Sunshine Underground burst overground courtesy of absolute-killer
dance-floor filler tracks like 'Commercial Breakdown' and 'Put You
In Your Place' and support slots with everybody from Klaxons to
The Happy Mondays to LCD Soundsystem. Crowd pleasing performances
at Glastonbury, T In The Park and Leeds/Reading cemented the band's
place in UK indie's Premier League and with a new album set to be
unleashed before the end of the year, there's no chance of relegation
anytime soon for these chaps.
"A relentless assault on the synapses like a British Rapture.
By the time the encore swings round they've taken the funk-punk
rhythms a stage further, wigging out on a chaotic 'Raise The Alarm'
like Led Zep gone new rave..." NME
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EBONY
BONES
6.25pm - 7.10pm
myspace.com/ebonybones
Despite her relative youth, Ebony Bones is a showbiz veteran having
starred as Yasmin Matthews in Channel 5's infamous soap "Family
Affairs." Of her time on the show, Ebony says "they knew
I was heading to music when I brought in my laptop and padded the
dressing room for soundproofing." We're very relieved that
she did head into music and we're not the only ones - everybody
from Timbaland to Zane Lowe to Massive Attack to Barack Obama (!)
to Basement Jaxx to The Slits are big fans of her M.I.A.-esque Afro-punk.
"The sound of X-Ray Spex getting
hammered with Derrick May and Girls Aloud, there'll be no stopping
this woman. Would you dare stand in her way?" The Observer
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MASTER
SHORTIE
5.20pm - 6.00pm
myspace.com/mastershortie
One of BBC's "Sound Of 2009" nominees (alongside Little
Boots, VV Brown, Lady GaGa etc), Master Shortie recently wowed the
crowds as main support for Basement Jaxx and he's also toured with
the likes of Hadouken and The King Blues. Despite being just 19,
he's more than ready to unleash his molten mix of The Rapture, Outkast,
DMX, Usher, Klaxons, Prince, Axel F and drum'n'bass on the world.
The question is, is the world ready for such an unquantifiable boy
genius as MS?!
"Tipped as the next star of British hip-hop,
the fluorescent Master Shortie spans the roles of grime MC, cool
club kid and teen-friendly pop singer, with a dash of indie influence
thrown in." BBC Sound Of 2009
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ZION
- A TRIBUTE TO BOB MARLEY
4.00pm - 5.00pm
www.ziontheband.com
A festival's not a festival without a dash of reggae and we have
our friends at WorldFest to thank for this spectacular nine
piece tribute to Bob Marley.
Bob Marley was not just a Jamaican singer,
guitarist, songwriter and activist. He was without question the
most widely known performer of reggae music the world has ever
seen, and is regarded by many as a prophet of the Rastafari Movement.
Zion capture all the great man's power and energy, and relive
the magic of all his memorable hits: "I shot the Sheriff",
"No Woman, No Cry", "Jammin", "Redemption
Song", "One Love" and many more recreated in a
manner that Bob himself would've been proud of. Marley magic all
the way.
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RAYGUN
3.00pm -
3.40pm
myspace.com/raygunofficial
Having recently been hand picked by Pink to support her on her
sold out UK arena dates, we reckon that London rockers Raygun
are going to be MASSIVE. Their swagger is made for sold out stadium
gigs and those tunes, cor blimey… those tunes! Huge pop songs
that sit somewhere between Kiss, The Steve Miller Band and The
Killers; admittedly that sounds like quite a peculiar place to
sit, but believe us, it's the sassiest and most exciting seat
in town!
"They summon up the razzle of new wave and the dazzle of
Scissor Sisters' disco, the filthiness of INXS, as well as the
rock nous of a band long ready to start a revolution." The
Guardian
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VAGABOND (change
from brochure)
2.00pm -
2.40pm
myspace.com/vagabond
Vagabond are a five-piece hailing from Uruguay, Denmark, east
London and Huddersfield and they've just signed to the newly revived
Geffen label. Their old-fashioned blue-eyed soul will appeal to
lovers of "smoov" balladry and lapsed soul fans who
remember old-style R&B. Comparisons to Toploader, Wet Wet
Wet and Simply Red are perhaps a bit unfair, so don't let that
put you off - just check out their top pop tunes on the ol' myspace
and you'll soon see why James Morrison hand picked the band to
support him on his recent sold out UK tour…
"If Duffy can successfully repackage
60s soul, there's no reason why Vagabond can't do the same for
the 70s variety." The Guardian
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WILL AND THE PEOPLE
1.00pm -
1.40pm
myspace.com/willandthepeople
With influences including Sublime, Bob Marley, Cat Stevens, Muse,
Crowded House, Talking Heads, Rage Against The Machine and Bob
Dylan, you wouldn't necessarily expect Will and The People to
sound how they do actually sound. "How do they sound?"
we hear you ask... well, let us tell you! They sound like a band
who write rather splendid ska and reggae tinged pop hits. They
sound like a band who write the perfect main stage festival feel
good Summer sing-a-long songs. They sound like a good time. They're
coming to us on the back of touring with some band called Girls
Aloud and they've also recently toured with The Hoosiers and supported
The Police at Hyde Park Calling. Lucky swines…
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GENERAL FIASCO
1.00pm -
1.40pm
myspace.com/generalfiasco
Belfast's finest new indie-rockers General Fiasco are what you
could describe as a "hot tip". In the past we've brought
you the likes of Bloc Party, The Kaiser Chiefs and Editors (to
name but a few!) whilst they've been under the hot tip umbrella...
well, we've got a funny feeling that General Fiasco could well
follow in their footsteps.
They'll be playing for y'all on the back of amazing performances
at SXSW in Texas and tours with One Night Only, The Pigeon Detectives
and The Wombats. Nice. Their catchy-as-can-be indie-rock anthems
remind us here at Music Live HQ of a combination of much missed
Geordie rockers Yourcodenameis:milo and moustache wielding Yanks
We Are Scientists. Quite a combo.
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The main gate is just along from the
Town Hall on Albert Road. Gates open
at 11.30am. Just a reminder you’ll get
in quicker if you’re not carrying a bag.
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