Bearded Theory festival Announce Headline Acts incl: James and Alabama 3

Bearded Theory festival Announce Headline Acts incl: James and Alabama 3

The unique, family friendly festival Bearded Theory are thrilled to announce what is their strongest line-up yet in 2015, their 8th year. Multi-million selling indie legends JAMES will now bring the festival to an emphatic close when they headline the festival on Sunday night. Fresh from a sold out UK tour, their 13th studio album La Petite Mort was released earlier this year to critical acclaim and hailed as one of the “Best Albums of 2014” by The Guardian featuring the singles ‘Moving On’, ’Frozen Britain’ ‘Curse Curse’ and 'All I'm Saying', all mainstays on BBC6 Music. 

Jim Glennie from James said: “It's a real pleasure to be asked to play at Bearded Theory 2015. I've heard great things about the festival and I appreciate the ethics and principles behind it. I'm thoroughly looking forward to it and I hope we can end the weekend with a bang”.

Steve Blount from Bearded Theory says “We are delighted to have secured arguably our biggest booking to date while freezing adult ticket prices and having reduced or frozen child ticket prices. 2015 is on course to be our quickest sell out in our history after 25% of our capacity sold on the first day tickets went on sale and with early bird tickets selling out in less than 4 minutes”.

Bearded Theory is a creative and performing arts family festival hosted in the heart of England at the picturesque Catton Park on the West Midlands and Staffordshire border. Hosted over 4 days, with a line up unrivalled against the ticket price and still allowing your own drinks into the arena, Bearded Theory remains the best value independent festival in the country. Bearded Theory remains independent and the organisers remain unsalaried and work fulltime. This means they can deliver the best festival experience possible against the ticket price.

The festival has set up home at Catton Park where the festival showcases 5 stages including a Woodland Stage celebrating the National Forest location, a dance arena, huge outdoor Main Stage and all with cutting edge production. The festival is hosted over Spring Bank Holiday 21st – 24th May 2015.

See more at: www.beardedtheory.co.uk/line-up

2015 Line up in full:

THE PALLET STAGE

Friday

The Mission, Alabama 3, Gun, Itch, Dizraeli and The Small Dogs, The Wakes

Saturday

New Model Army, Afro Celt Sound System, British Sea Power, The Mahones, Skinny Lister, Neck, Three Minute Heist,

Sunday

James, Buzzcocks, Misty In Roots, The Beat, Mad Professor + The Robotiks, Pronghorn, Back To The Planet, New Town Kings

MAGICAL SOUNDS STAGE

Friday

LAB4, Jah Scoop/ Geezer, Zion Train, Clumsy, Halcyon, Andy Haze, Chigs and Techip, Data 3, Drum Machine

Saturday

East Static, Green Nuns of the Revolution (DJ set), Cosmosis, Ed Tangent, Zetan Spore, Kristian, The Pressure Technique, Charlie H, Drum Machine

Sunday

Banco De Gaia, Merv Pepler (DJ set), Transglobal Underground, Black Star Liner (DJ set), Dr Trippy, Templehead, Grousebeater Soundsystem, Rev Phil Dread, Ushti Baba

THE WOODLAND STAGE

Friday

Jaya The Cat, The Talks, Pigbag, Kilnaboy, Tree House Fire, Captain Knives,

Saturday

Cara Dillon, Bill Smarme, The Jack Ratts, Louise Distras, The Leylines, Joe Zeffa, Mark Harrison, Troubadour,

Sunday

Paprika Corps, JB Conspiracy, P.A.I.N, Baba Jack, Mistys Big Adventure, Keiths Big Uke Jam, Superfast Girly Show, Please Y Self Skiffle Band, Mr Motivator

SOMETHING ELSE BIG TOP STAGE

Thursday

3 Daft Monkeys, Hobo Jones and The Junkyard Dogs, Bar-Steward Sons of Val Doonican, Zombie Met Girl

Friday

Radical Dance Faction, John Player Specials, Gaz Brookfield, Muff Said, Sweetchunks Band, Ash Victim, Ukulele Dave,

Saturday

Inner Terrestrials, Tarantism, Who Killed The Bear, Pure Evil, Demob, Muddy Summers & Gails Whores, Efa Supertramp

Sunday

AOS3, Stuart Turner and The Flat Earth, Society, Abdoujaparov, Skewwiff, Quercus Burlesque, Penny Orchids, Tez and The Suicidal Fish

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Alabama 3 release new single Following Rainbows

Alabama 3 release new single Following Rainbows

They're not from Alabama and there sure as hell ain't three of them, but for two decades Alabama 3 have been unleashing their unique blend of Country Acid House from their adopted home in Brixton, South London. Always doing things differently , with an outspoken manner, they are back with their new single "Following Rainbows" taken from their upcoming 12th studio album Women from W.O.M.B.L.E Vol 2 (2015).  A departure from the sound they have become synonymous with, this single has been birthed from an unsolitary period of exploration. Instead of the usual sex, drugs and rock n roll antics, this track is cut with 100% legitimate pop melancholy .. a tale of lost love, strange cities and borderless existence.

Alabama 3's wild blend of the unthinkable, their proclivity for rock n roll decadence and acute social conscience has made them an unique unstoppable entity in the music industry. Their twenty year track record has seen extensive world tours, including performances on Later With Jools, The Tonight Show With Jay Leno, Glastonbury and even quirkier events like longtime fans Stephen Kings book launch, to the funerals of Great Train Robbers Bruce Reynolds and Ronnie Biggs. Their track " Woke Up This Morning" reached worldwide audiences as the soundtrack for the HBO TV series The Sopranos.

The new upcoming album Women from W.O.M.B.L.E Vol.2  see's the band leave a female contingent to front-line the record, giving freedom to the soulful mother's and sisters of their community to explore the playing field in a male dominated industry. As a 9-1 male-female dominated band, they are curious..  Can feminism find its place among funky dance floors again?

The band has always had a loyal and devoted following in the UK and with this at hand they embark on a Winter 2014 tour . For  a full tour schedule and to buy tickets go here 

Live in London - December 13th 2014  - Electric Brixton

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BoomTown festival 2014 final acts announced

Chapter six of BoomTown’s annual Fair is set to surpass anything they’ve done before, and that is no mean feat for the UKs most boundary pushing festival! New additions to its already immense line-up include one of the biggest crossover successes in dancehall reggae, the one and only Shaggy! As well as blues, country, electro fusion outfit Alabama 3 and the final edition to the bill is legendary Jamaican ska institution The Skatalites, if any one band could be attributed to brining the genre out of its homeland and to the masses, it’s this ever evolving line-up of ska stalwarts! These newly announced acts will be joining the hundreds of artists already announced including headliners The Cat Empire, NOFX, Jimmy Cliff, The Wailers, Tinariwen and Bellowhead.

Other musical treats in store at the 2014 fair will include the very welcome return of Tribe of Frog’s psytrance forest party. Just one of the many secret forest parties to be found around the city’s outskirts, Tribe of Frog landed in 2013 and bought with them a brand new world of colourful psychedelic lunacy that captured many a BoomTown resident for the entire weekend in the sun dappled, sandy forest clearing hosting giant butterflies and happy souls! More information can be found here: http://www.boomtownfair.co.uk/city-guide/main-stages/tribe-of-frog

With all the bands and the theme of Outrageous Carnival now announced, it is time for all potential BoomTown residents to make the vital decision of which district they will make their home for the four days and nights of utter escapism and proper old fashioned fun! Each of the eight districts have their own flavour and theme, to get a taste of the difference and the full line-ups take a peek at the ‘Explore Our World’ guided tour of the city from BoomTown HQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=caYp6IYSgwc

BoomTown Fair aims to be affordable and accessible to all and has a series of measures to ensure that all potential citizens get the chance to be a part of the spectacular show! From the easy payment plan to a whole host of job opportunities, there is every reason to get involved:

Easy Payment Plan, pay just £40 by this Friday 2nd May to secure a ticket and then pay as much as you can afford when you can, as long as the full ticket price is all paid up by 1st July. For full details head to: https://www.theticketsellers.co.uk/tickets/boomtown-fair-2014/10028744&wlid=3945

Tickets are still available from the website at the final tier price of £150 (+BF & EcoBond): http://www.boomtownfair.co.uk/tickets. Headliners for the festival include: The Cat Empire, NOFX, Jimmy Cliff, The Wailers, Tinariwen, Bellowhead, Afro Celt Sound System, Playing for Change, Raggasonic, Lady Saw, UK Allstars World Debut, Babylon Circus, Toasters, Tipper, Boddika, Special Request, Eats Everything and many more…

Mountain of Love album release and UK tour

Mountain of Love is the new project from two of the three founding members of Alabama 3, writers of "Woke Up This Morning", theme tune to the hit HBO series The Sopranos. They will be touring the UK in September and October to support their eponymously named debut album “Mountain of Love", which will be available on iTunes and all the major download sites in September.


Mountain of Love is the brainchild of Piers Marsh and Sir Eddie Real, who along with Larry Love were the founder members of Alabama 3. The album features a selection of guest MC"s and vocalists, including Siobhan Parr, Brother Culture, Lisa Billson and Robert “Hacker” Jessett.


With vocal duties on the Autumn tour being handled by Saul Drillaz, ex of London Big Beat outfit, the Headrillaz, they will be bringing their thrilling mix of heavy swampy beats, killer dub bass lines, swooping synths and funky guitars to:


6 Sept  The Cellars at Eastney, Portsmouth

7 Sept  Surya, London

13 Sept  Erics, Liverpool

14 Sept  The Continental, Preston

19 Sept  Pivo Pivo, Glasgow

21 Sept  The Moorings Bar, Aberdeen

27 Sept  The Donkey, Leicester

27 Sept  The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham

10 Oct  The Joiners Arms, Southampton

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