Lemonfest 2015 festival - Full Line Up Announced

Lemonfest 2015 festival - Full Line Up Announced 

Lemonfest - the 1 day festival spectacular (with camping) – reveals its full blistering line-up. With four nominations at the recent 2014 UK festival awards, Lemonfest is fast-becoming one of the UK’s premiere boutique music festivals with a reputation for line-ups that punch well above its weight.

World-conquering UK indie rock outfit The Subways are a proud booking for the main stage, along with the inimitable DJ Yoda who will to skilfully cut and paste through his new ‘Breakfast of Champions’ live show. Multiple award winning outfit, Dub Pistols and the UK’s revered scruffy sage, Beans on Toast polish-off a stirling top-billing.

Cornish Reggae rockers and festival favourites ‘Backbeat Soundsystem’ – who are finding popularity in the States, will lively up the crowd along with lyrical Dream Pop specialists Matthew and Me, plus Too Many T’s, 3 Daft Monkeys and Seven Cities.

Electro-terrifiers ‘Lords of Lightning’ from the outlandish Arcadia group will zapp through an awe-inspiring spectacle. Prepare to be shocked as ‘creative genius meets electrical wizardry’. Then the faithful ‘Silent Disco’ will stay open until 4am for those who aren’t quite ready for bed yet (campers only). 

An exciting partnership with MIXMAG sees Lemonfest’s dance village – made up of the Rinse:It Drum and Bass Arena and Souloud House and Techno tent, re-branded as the Lemonfest DANCE DSTRKT. 

Unashamedly epic UK Drum and Bass duo DC Breaks will headline the RINSE:IT stage, the RAM Records pair recently soared into mainstream success with the smash single ‘Faithless’. Known across the House world for attention grabbing releases and rocking crowds at Space Ibiza, Zoo Project, and Manchester’s Warehouse Project, rising DJ /Producer Jamie Trench tops the Souloud bill. Also joining the Lemonfest DANCE DSTRKT line-up will be Drum & Bass Don; DJ PHANTASY and UK house stalwarts Rejekts. RINSE:IT regulars Mr Nice and Insomniax are also welcomed back to the fray. 

The New ‘Downtown Arena’ is an interactive area with immersive theatre, artwork and DJs playing funk/soul/disco/60s/70s forms the final part of DANCE DSTRKT. It’s open until late late late and headlined by Raul Pindi’s Disco Vortex.

BBC Introducing again supports the ‘Locally Grown’ stage with live broadcasts and interviews. This stage has become an important factor which has allowed the festival to maintain popularity and cultivate the best local bands. Look out for local ‘filthy-indie-blues’ duo ‘Moriaty’ fresh from releasing their single featuring Chris Wolstenhome of MUSE. 

Other attractions include: International food stalls including the Lemonfeast Street Food Market, both of which will compliment a ‘Mini Local Real Ale and Cider Fest’. Plus! Space hopper racing, fairground rides, Kids area and Busking at the Bar Stage.

Organiser Matt Freemantle: “This is our strongest line-up yet. The addition of Lords of Lightning is a very exciting one for us, and will provide astonishment for those catch them on the day. Our Mixmag partnership in the Dance DSTRKT is also a real statement of intent as we continue striving towards our ambition of putting on the UK’s best boutique festival. We also cannot wait to open the doors to our new DOWNTOWN arena, which is going to be epic!”

Now in its 6th year, this esteemed festival will stay true to its original ethos of no major sponsors or VIP area and remains completely self-sufficient. Despite the opportunity to expand, organisers will keep the event small and perfectly formed. 

Line Up

Main Stage: Dub Pistols, The Subways, DJ Yoda’s Breakfast of Champions, Beans on Toast, Backbeat Soundsystem, Too Many T’s, 3 Daft Monkeys, Mathew and Me, Seven Cities

Dance DSTRKT: 

Drum’n’Bass RINSE:IT Arena - DC Breaks, DJ Phantasy, Mr Nice, Insomniax

Souloud Dance Arena - Jamie Trench, Alexander Downey, Danbe, DanceDanceDance, Iain Taylor, Jamie Kenty, Scullion, The Magnet, Wade and Nolan, Yiska

Downtown N.A.Stage: Raul Pindi’s Disco Vortex, Tim Fielding and A Child, Rootsoup Soundsystem

Locally Grown Stage: Moriaty, King Tuts Revenge, A$$ Munch, Your Last Day, Someday, The Reggaeskas, Dan Fraser, Datura

Transport to the festival couldn’t be easier, with regular trains into Newton Abbot Station. Tickets are a staggeringly low £20 or £30 with camping. Buy now from www.lemonfest.co.uk/buytickets. Under 10's go free with a paying adult.

For more info see www.lemonfest.co.uk/ www.facebook.com/LemonfestMusicFestival / @Lemonfest

Lemonfest 2015 First Announcement - DJ Yoda /Dub Pistols /Beans on Toast

Lemonfest 2015 First Announcement - DJ Yoda /Dub Pistols /Beans on Toast

Lemonfest returns for the 6th annual instalment of its 1 day festival (with camping) and will once again take place at Newton Abbot Racecourse 30th May 2015. Lemonfest, is one of the premiere boutique festivals in the UK and a fast-growing staple of the festival circuit. With a reputation for line-ups and attractions that punch well above their weight, they scooped four nominations at the recent 2014 UK festival awards!

Leading the charge are legendary crowd favourite, DJ Yoda who will scratch, mix and cut and paste through his new ‘Breakfast of Champions’ live show, and multiple award winning ska, dub, hip-hop, breakbeat, punk, drum and bass outfit, Dub Pistols. The UK’s esteemed scruffy sage, Beans on Toast will deliver his inimitable folk sermons, and lyrical Dream Pop specialists, Matthew and Me will provide chilled out electro bliss. Other acts announced are Seven Cities, plus local talents, King Tuts Revenge and A$$ Munch. MORE HEADLINE ACTS ARE TO BE ANNOUCED SOON!!

The festival remains completely self-sufficient and independent, sticking true to its original ethos of having no major sponsors or VIP area. BBC Introducing will once again be supporting the ‘Locally Grown’ stage with live broadcasts and interviews. This stage has become an important factor which has allowed the festival to maintain popularity and cultivate the best local bands.

Despite the opportunity to expand in physical size and crowd capacity, organisers are keen to keep the event small and perfectly formed in order maintain their unique offering. Organiser Matt Freemantle, says; 

"We can hardly believe that this will be the 6th year of Lemonfest, but are extremely proud to be running a truly independent music festival in the heart of the West Country. We're very excited about this year, and with our strongest line-up to date we aim to deliver the best boutique festival experience in the UK. Saturday 30th May can't come soon enough!"

Five stages include, Main, Dance Tent, Drum’n’Bass Arena, Acoustic & BBC Introducing’s Locally Grown. 

Amongst the attractions shall be international food stalls, Space Hopper racing, 'Downtown' Area, All local Real Ale and Cider bar, Fairground rides, a Kids area and a few more surprises TBA! 

Transport links to the festival couldn’t be easier, with regular trains into Newton Abbot Station. 

Early bird tickets are available now starting at a staggeringly low £20!! And only £30 with camping. Buy now from www.lemonfest.co.uk/buytickets. Under 10's go free with a paying adult.

For more info and updates see www.lemonfest.co.uk / www.facebook.com/LemonfestMusicFestival / @Lemonfest

Beans on Toast unveils video for The Chicken Song

Beans on Toast unveils video for The Chicken Song

Drunk Folk singer, barefoot troubadour and cult legend Beans on Toast drops his 6th studio album on his 34th Birthday. Newly engaged to muse Lizzy Bee and with his biggest year to date behind him, Beans on Toast is turning his irreverent mind to the more valuable things in life with new album ‘The Grand Scheme of Things’. The release is flanked by a 15 date headline tour (with support from Will Varley), including Beans’ largest London show to date, at Electric Ballroom, December 11.

Released on Xtra Mile Recordings, as is tradition on 1st December the album turns to the more wholesome topics of home cooking, an upcoming honeymoon and a whole lot of loving; a marked change in the man who once was a poster boy for recreational drugs. What hasn’t changed though is Beans on Toast’s unrivalled ability to tell a tale, his no holds barred social commentary and his ability to tackle difficult subjects from an everyday point of view. Here, his thoughts from the last year are honestly regaled through eleven life-affirming and frequently humorous tracks.

In the twelve months that have seen him tour the world, open arenas for Frank Turner and play a jam packed summer of festivals, material has come from his experiences, with American tour dates giving way to ‘Fuck You Nashville’ and love song ‘New Orleans Honeymoon’. Memories of his Camp Bestival main stage performance are captured perfectly with ‘Stinging Nettles’, a song he wrote for children about the great outdoors, and topics like gentrification, chicken farming and world peace all get the Beans musical treatment.

Recorded at London’s Soup Studios, ‘The Grand Scheme of Things’ features and was fittingly produced by Sam Beer, an old family friend who taught Beans on Toast his first song on the guitar over eighteen years ago on a camping holiday in Spain, and who was reunited with Beans on the London music circle ten years later. Together, with the help of friends Bobby Banjo and contributors Will Varley and Brooke Sharkey, this is an album that marks a change but not a complete makeover for everyone’s favourite modern one-man band.

LIVE

20 November ABERDEEN The Lemon Tree

21 November GLASGOW Nice N Sleazy

22 November EDINBURGH Voodoo Rooms

24 November NEWCASTLE The Cluny

25 November HULL Fruit

26 November LEEDS Brudenell Social Club

27 November MANCHESTER Ruby Lounge

28 November LIVERPOOL The Shipping Forecast

29 November NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms

03 December BIRMINGHAM Hare & Hounds

04 December CAMBRIDGE Junction

05 December BRISTOL The Fleece

06 December EXETER The Phoenix

09 December PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms

10 December BRIGHTON The Haunt

11 December LONDON Electric Ballroom

Tickets from http://www.beansontoastmusic.com/

Beans On Toast announces new album and UK tour

Beans On Toast announces new album and UK tour

Drunk-Folk singer, barefoot troubadour and cult legend Beans on Toast drops his 6th studio album on his 34th Birthday. Newly engaged to muse Lizzy Bee and with his biggest year to date behind him, Beans on Toast is turning his irreverent mind to the more valuable things in life with new album ‘The Grand Scheme of Things’. The release is flanked by a 15 date headline tour (with support from Will Varley), including Beans’ largest London show to date, at Electric Ballroom, December 11.

Released on Xtra Mile Recordings, as is tradition on 1st December the album turns to the more wholesome topics of home cooking, an upcoming honeymoon and a whole lot of loving; a marked change in the man who once was a poster boy for recreational drugs. What hasn’t changed though is Beans on Toast’s unrivalled ability to tell a tale, his no holds barred social commentary and his ability to tackle difficult subjects from an everyday point of view. Here, his thoughts from the last year are honestly regaled through eleven life-affirming and frequently humorous tracks.

In the twelve months that have seen him tour the world, open arenas for Frank Turner and play a jam packed summer of festivals, material has come from his experiences, with American tour dates giving way to ‘Fuck You Nashville’ and love song ‘New Orleans Honeymoon’. Memories of his Camp Bestival main stage performance are captured perfectly with ‘Stinging Nettles’, a song he wrote for children about the great outdoors, and topics like gentrification, chicken farming and world peace all get the Beans musical treatment.

Recorded at London’s Soup Studios, ‘The Grand Scheme of Things’ features and was fittingly produced by Sam Beer, an old family friend who taught Beans on Toast his first song on the guitar over eighteen years ago on a camping holiday in Spain, and who was reunited with Beans on the London music circle ten years later. Together, with the help of friends Bobby Banjo and contributors Will Varley and Brooke Sharkey, this is an album that marks a change but not a complete makeover for everyone’s favourite modern one-man band.

Tracklisting

1. Folk Singer

2. The War on War

3. Fuck You Nashville

4. The Chicken Song

5. Stinging Nettles

6. Lizzy’s Cooking

7. A Whole Lot of Loving

8. Flying Clothes Line

9. All I see is Wagamama

10. NOLA Honeymoon

11. NYE

LIVE

20 November ABERDEEN The Lemon Tree

21 November GLASGOW Nice N Sleazy

22 November EDINBURGH Voodoo Rooms

24 November NEWCASTLE The Cluny

25 November HULL Fruit

26 November LEEDS Brudenell Social Club

27 November MANCHESTER Ruby Lounge

28 November LIVERPOOL The Shipping Forecast

29 November NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms

03 December BIRMINGHAM Hare & Hounds

04 December CAMBRIDGE Junction

05 December BRISTOL The Fleece

06 December EXETER The Phoenix

09 December PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms

10 December BRIGHTON The Haunt

11 December LONDON Electric Ballroom

Tickets from http://www.beansontoastmusic.com/

Sean McGowan releases debut single Come Unstuck

Southampton-born troubadour Seán McGowan will release his debut, double A-side single Come Unstuck / Swings and Roundabouts on 30th June on Sunday Best Recordings. Produced by Sam ‘Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly’ Duckworth at his Amazing Grace studio in London, these two rambunctious slices of young life display why McGowan has already received props from his peers Billy Bragg and Frank Turner - who sings backing vocals on Come Unstuck.

Raised on a diet of politically charged, punk-ignited artists like The Clash, The Jam, The Specials, and, of course, Billy Bragg, 21-year old McGowan has been playing up and down the country for over two years and has DIY released two EPs (given away / sold on a ‘pay what you want’ basis at shows). One of the buzz artists at last year’s Great Escape festival, an appearance on Bragg’s Left Field stage at Glastonbury saw Sean exposed to his biggest audience yet. He’s also toured and gigged with Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, The Rifles, Beans On Toast and Frank Turner. Expect many more gigs and festival appearances this summer, with a debut album in early 2015.

Sean McGowan live:

19th June              Manchester Gorilla (supporting Felice Bros)

@seanmcgowanuk / https://www.facebook.com/seanmcgowanmusicuk

http://www.sundaybest.net / https://www.facebook.com/sundaybestrecordings

Beans on Toast Announces The Next Album Tour 2014

Drunk folk singer, barefoot troubadour and cult legend Beans on Toast has been around the block more times than he cares to remember. Thankfully though, with his unique blend of simple songs and no holds barred quick wit, he is an act that is anything but tired.

With a fresh spring in his step after an incredible start to the year, which saw him conquer his first American headline tour, play a series of shows with Flogging Molly in the US and perform to over 40,000 people in just one week whilst opening Frank Turner’s UK Arena tour in February, Beans On Toast will be heading back onto the UK live circuit for 16 dates across the country ending with his biggest headline show to date at Electric Ballroom, Camden.

Marking the release of his sixth studio album with Xtra Mile Recordings, as is tradition on his 1st December birthday, ‘The Next Album Tour 2014’ will be an unforgettable experience as the singer, storyteller and guitar player’s self-deprecating nature goes a long way to break down the barriers between musician and audience, creating a real sense of equality. 

With digital single ‘Keep You’ added to the XFM Evening Playlist at the start of the year, a ‘Best of Toast Pressed on Vinyl’ flying off the shelves for Independent Record Store Day and his busiest upcoming festival season yet, anything is now possible for this unmissable performer.

Tickets will go on sale Friday 6th May at 9am via www.beansontoastmusic.com

20/11 ABERDEEN, The Lemon Tree

21/11 GLASGOW, Nice N Sleazy

22/11 EDINBURGH, Voodoo Room

24/11 NEWCASTLE, The Cluny

25/11 HULL, Fruit

26/11 LEEDS, Brudenell Social Club

27/11 MANCHESTER, The Ruby Lounge

28/11 LIVERPOOL, The Shipping Forecast

29/11 NOTTINGHAM, Rescue Rooms

03/12 BIRMINGHAM, Hare & Hounds

04/12 CAMBRIDGE, Junction 2

05/12 BRISTOL, The Fleece

06/12 EXETER, The Phoenix

09/12 PORTSMOUTH, Wedgewood Rooms

10/12 BRIGHTON, The Haunt

11/12 LONDON, Electric Ballroom

www.beansontoastmusic.com   www.facebook.com/beansontoastmusic

www.youtube.com/beansontoasttube  Twitter - @beanstoast

www.xtramilerecordings.com