Pan… Artist, poet, guitarist, singer songwriter… A unique solo acoustic performer influenced by a wide variety of music. With shades of Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Roy Harper, Cat Stevens and Donovan. A modern day Parsival in search of the Grail… in search of Babalon. Courage, love and innocence influence his music with complex droning rhythms and sweet melodic tones, passionately portraying life’s enchantments.
Alfie does songs about anything. His lyrics are simple and his rhythms are catchy. With his guitar and sometimes a piano he will remind you that life goes on and you should have a good time.
Occasionally Alfie’s grandma Edith joins him on stage playing the piano. Alfie and Edith share a common interest in Lady Soverign and Missy Elliot.
Gypsy jazz played with the jaunty abandon of a misspent youth, an abusive PE teacher and a broken heart and arranged for 6 young virtuoso musicians who travel around playing the violin, guitar, double bass and accordion whilst dipping in and out of Parisian alleyways and absorbing pieces of the colourful lives they meet along the way.
“Wonderfully crafted material delivered with a laconic confidence…….a true talent.”
Liverpool Echo
“ Jonathan Paylors insights produced some of the best laughs of the evening…covering subjects as varied as being British, Gay and a football fan, they were all brilliantly observed to great response”
Manchester Evening News
Shelly Cooper Stand-up Comic, Presenter, Actor, & Writer, brought the Queerinspace tent down in 2010 and we are delighted that she’s is returning to the Bet Lynch stage in 2011. Shelly has appeared throughout the UK and in New York & Rome.
A truly unique Festival act from Huddersfield featuring the soulful vocals of sometimes Hospital Records vocalist Pat Fulgoni alongside guitars, drums, horns and electronica.
“Party-worthy music combining rock, funk, dance and soul” says Billboard Magazine “Gorgeous new psychedelic funk” says the NME. Recent concerts include SXSW in Texas, Beijing Midi – China, Glastonbury, Cork Jazz Festivals. Their music is featured in major US TV shows like Dirt, John From Cincinnati, Weeds, games like Stoked and Tap Tap Revenge 3 for iphone. In 2010 Kava Kava toured the States taking in dates in LA, NYC, Texas and Arizona and more importantly, played a stonking set on the Green Man Stage at Limetree!
A hillbilly rabble of 5 scruffy young guitar pickin, harmony-hollerin, bourbon-swiggin folk-blues-country yokels from Manchester, Mansfield, London and Japan – it sounds like it’d never work but these boys sing like angels who’ve been kicked flying out of the rickety saloon doors of a particularly grubby celestial bar by a tattooed ex-marine called Randy. UK national radio has already picked up on first single (Oh Lord & I) Keep On Losing, which was made pick of the week on Absolute Radio’s Sunday Night Music Club show. The band have spent 2 summers playing rapturously received sets at festivals up and down the UK, and supporting the likes of The Charlatans and Alabama3 to name but 2.
Jon Gomm is an acoustic singer-songwriter with an incredible virtuoso guitar style, where he uses one acoustic guitar to create drum sounds, basslines and sparkling melodies all at the same time, and combining styles from blues and jazz to rock and pop. The emphasis is still on the soulful vocals and songwriting however, and his original material is influenced by everything from Robert Johnson to Radiohead.
The Blues Experience is an 11 piece band celebrating the music of the great Blues artists. They play music from artists such as BB King, Robert Johnson, T Bone Walker, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton and many more.
They are a large band comprising of 3 Horns, 2 lead vocalists, 2 backing vocalists and a rhythm section.
Lead vocalists are Juliet Roberts and John McCallum. Both are outstanding singers. Juliet has had top 40 hits both here and in the USA and was a member of the band ‘Working Week’. She is currently a member of the Courtney Pine Band.
Secret Sirens is a Pop music project created by singer/songwriter/keyboardist Narelle Frances and multi-instrumentalist and music visionary Andrew Siron. Based in Leeds, the duo write and produce their music to capture images of fantasy, mythology, love and hate in the form of what has been described as ‘Dramatic Pop’.
Secret Sirens released their first single ‘Black Heart’ at the end of 2010 as a ‘taster’ and is available to download on iTunes and Amazon. The track has received radio play across the BBC network, Kerrang, numerous Internet radio stations and Liverpool FC’s Anfield football ground; receiving positive reviews all round.
