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26 February 2013

Edwyn Collins and more announced for Deer Shed Festival

Edwyn Collins Deer Shed Festival

Edwyn Collins and more announced for Deer Shed Festival


19th – 21st July 2013

Baldersby Park, Topcliffe, North Yorkshire

2013.deershedfestival.com/tickets/
 

With Darwin Deez, Gaz Coombes, The Unthanks and plenty more musical wonders already announced for Deer Shed Festival 4, this second batch of artists is headed up by two Scottish heavyweights, indie-pop’s poster boy Edwyn Collins and Fife’s beloved son King Creosote, along with South Londoner’s and John Peel favourite’s House Of Love. Also announced are fellow Scotsmen The Phantom Band, Geordie soul outfit Smoove and Turrell as well as; Deaf Club, Novella, Moulettes, Sweet Baboo, AlascA and David McCaffrey.

Best known for his tenure fronting the Scottish pop revivalists Orange Juice as well as his international solo hit "A Girl Like You," Edwyn Collins has secured his status as a legendary singer over the past few years, which was further solidified by the release of his seventh solo album ‘Losing Sleep’. The album received a plethora of positive reviews and is widely seen as his best and ‘brightest’ solo album to date. Edwyn is back on the festival circuit for 2013 and is sure to be a fitting crescendo to the opening night of the festival!

Deer Shed Festival welcomes, as special guests, the House of Love to the Main Stage for the Saturday night proceedings. Handpicked for the penultimate slot just before Darwin Deez; Saturday night doesn’t know what it’s in for! Known for their cult classic singles of Shine and Destroy the Heart, it is widely viewed that House of Love picked up from where The Smiths left off and significantly influenced a generation of bands. With a brand new album She Paints Words In Red out in April this will be the perfect chance to catch the current offerings from a cult status British band with the original members Guy Chadwick and Terry Bickers now reunited and back at the helm!

Always ones to celebrate a friendly face, Deer Shed Festival have requested the return of King Creosote aka Kenny Anderson to the fields of North Yorkshire, but this time for the sheer enjoyment of the Deer Shed crowd! Anderson is a prolific musician; releasing over forty albums in his illustrious and varied career so far! He is the true King of collaboration having joined forces with many of the industry’s top musicians including Brian Eno and 2011 saw his collaborative album with Jon Hopkins – ‘Diamond Mine’, receive a nomination for the Mercury Prize as well as the stamp of approval from many of the industry’s leading critics.

Also hailing from the northern Celtic region of this fair isle are Glaswegian sextet, The Phantom Band. Bursting on to the indie scene in 2009 this multi-layered, multi-faceted, multi-instrumentalist troupe have gained a robust reputation for their complex and sophisticated ‘post apocalyptic pop’. Not content with the usual set up of, guitar, drums, vocal and bass, these playful fellow’s fiddle about with all sorts of toys and tinker about with a vast array of noises to create the astonishing depths in their music.

Since the launch of their debut album ‘Antique Soul’ in 2009 things accelerated very fast indeed for the Geordie duo Smoove and Turrell. With their singles ‘I Can’t Give You Up’, ‘You Don’t Know’ and ‘Beggarman’ scoring two Records of the Week on Radio 2 and a playlist on 6 Music between them, it got off to a cracking start and 2013 is seeing them hit to the road to the great delight of funk and soul fans across the UK!

Joining Edwyn Collins, House of Love, King Creosote, The Phantom Band and Smoove and Turrell on the bill for Deer Shed Festival will also be; the contemplative indie rock of Deaf Camp, the other-worldly fiddle-tastic Moulettes, 60s tinged psychedelic sound of Novella, Moshi Moshi records’ effortlessly sumptuous Sweet Baboo, prog-rock quartet AlascA and astonishingly talented local lad, David McCaffrey.

With a handful of artists still to announce for 2013, the line up forms an impressive array of talented musicians both established and brand new. There are still oodles more Deer Shed Festival announcements to be made so to keep up-to-date with all the latest news by following on facebook or twitter and via the website.

29 January 2013

Deer Shed Festival 4 - First Acts Announced

Deer Shed Festival

Deer Shed Festival 4 - First Acts Announced


19th – 21st July 2013

Baldersby Park, Topcliffe, North Yorkshire
2013.deershedfestival.com/tickets/
 

The first musical morsels to come off the production line for this year’s Deer Shed Festival create a small, but perfectly formed snippet of the treats in store for 2013… The initial batch of artists consists of;  New York guitar and pop maestro Darwin Deez, one of 90s Brit pop leading lights Gaz Coombes, Massachusetts singer-song writer Willy Mason, the multi-award winning ethereal folk sounds of The Unthanks, Tubular Bells for Two’ - the antipodean take on Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells as reincarnated by Daniel Holdsworth and Aiden Roberts in their 2012 Edinburgh Festival hit show, and with The Milk bringing some funk and soul to the show for the Friday night warm-up entertainment, these, along with; Stealing Sheep, Public Service Broadcasting, To Kill A King, Zervas and Pepper, Kitty the Lion, Blue Rose Code and Marconi Union complete this first dollop of mouthwatering artists for the discerning music lover!

Darwin Deez took the airwaves by storm in 2010 with his debut single “Radar Collector” and subsequent self-titled album. Back with his second album released later in 2013, Darwin Deez is set to bring his mix of sunshine pop and indie attitude to drive Deer Shed Festivals’ audience crazy with his offbeat dance routines, which will be sure to set the Saturday night Main Stage alight!

Gaz Coombes will be swinging by Deer Shed Festival’s Lake stage on Friday evening to shake off the shackles of an era and delight Deer Shed Festival’s faithful with a showcase of his delectable individual stylings and multi-instrumentalist talents in the afterglow of his first solo album Here Comes the Bombs’. Released last year his solo style was a more reflective, darker and more experimental sound then in his Supergrass days but the album remains very colourful and live Gaz produces high-octane, premier league entertainment!

Fiction records golden boy, Willy Mason will be bringing his celebrated blend of acoustic folk and roots to delight festival goers. With his long awaited third album Carry On released at the end of 2012 after a five year hiatus since his last album, 2013 is set to see Willy return to the spotlight and Deer Shed are giddy with excitement to be able to welcome this incredibly talented musician to the festival.

The Unthanks will be continuing the strong family vibe from Deer Shed’s frolicking fields onto the stage with their much loved, award winning, highly acclaimed ethereal sounds as they present Songs from the Shipyard. They will be beautifully accompanying archive footage from the height of the Shipping industry through to its decline in the Thatcher era. Political, social, with stories of hardship, pride, war, tragedy and pints of mild; A critically acclaimed audio-visual treat in front of a large cinema screen in the Big Top on Sunday.

The Milk blend classic Motown and Northern soul with modern pop to create their soulful, party-ready sound. Pulling together elements of old school R&B sounds with hip-hop, dub, and rock influences to create a style of pop that delivered big fun on every track. Their debut album, Tales from the Thames Delta, arrived in the summer of 2012 to steely industry nods and a plethora of A&R attention, but more importantly, the crowd loved them and Deer Shed Festival fans will be taken back in time to kick start proceedings on the Friday night to really let their hair down and get the party started!

Tubular Bells for Two is the five star reviewed, sell-out Edinburgh show from Daniel Holdsworth and Aiden Roberts, with such a unanimous public and professional opinion of the show, the Deer Shed audience are pretty much guaranteed an unforgettable experience and are in for a real treat! Public Service Broadcasting does exactly what it says on the tin - taking a nostalgic look back over forgotten public service broadcasts and sewing them together to create fantastic tunes to accompany the priceless collection of antique footage, this audio-visual experience is set to entertain and enthrall! Along with Liverpudlian trio Stealing Sheep, five piece ‘rousing orch-folk’ To Kill a King, the summertime soul of Cardiff’s Zervas and Pepper, the chirpy folk-pop of Kitty The Lion, the Caledonian soul of Blue Rose Code and the ever ambient Marconi Union completing the line-up for this first wave of announcements for Deer Shed Festival 4. The 2013 musical lineup is already taking shape and looking like the best Deer Shed Festival to date!

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