Virginia recorded her debut album The Music, while signed to a small independent label in London, 1995, produced by Phil Saatchi (Joan Armatrading, Pete Smith), and featuring string arrangements by Oscar-winning composer and Art of Noise founder, Anne Dudley. If We Are Ever, taken from the album, was BBCR1 play-listed in February ’97 shortly before the label’s demise. Virginia then joined the legion of artists recording on own-labels, taking control of the way their music was produced, presented and promoted.
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Describing Hayley as inspirational, refreshing and unique, is without doubt accurate, but this only touches the surface of a musical talent whose depth at times seems immeasurable. With a voice which can melt the hardest heart to piercing solid granite rock without ever losing control or technique, the Leeds-based singer-songwriter has established a fan-base far beyond her home city.
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Black Flowers Audio formed in late 2009 comprising Dan Francis (vocals/guitar), Joe Goodwin (guitar), Aiden Doherty (bass) and Oliver Lloyd (drums/vocals). Having initially formed to perform a Bond theme written by Daniel Francis for a ‘musical mission’/documentary about a twenty-something songwriter trying to get his hero (in this case John Barry) to listen to his take on the unique sub-genre of James Bond theme music; Black Flowers Audio took on very much a life of its own.
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The Limetree Family Affair a hugely talented group of musicians, pulled in from many world famous groups. This is a one time opportunity to witness these musicians performing together. The line-up will remain a closely guarded secret but all of the line-up are Limetree Festival veterans.
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Animal Circus are a four-piece band based in East London, their music is a mix of reggae, ska and good old fashioned rock’n’roll – all delivered with an authentic punk DIY ethic. Through live shows, social networking and giving their debut album away for free they’ve achieved great buzz and hype on the London gig circuit in a very short amount of time. In November 2010 the now fully formed Animal Circus recorded their debut self-entitled album at House of Strange Studios in East London, used by Noah and the Whale and Mumford and Sons. The album represents the early stage of the band’s development and the songs are the essence of their sound.
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Marcus was born in North London and from an early age played Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and an array of blues and folk by his mother and father who made him tapes of old LP’s he owned, Marcus proceeded to break these tapes through over playing quicker than his dad could make them till he was given a guitar made from a shoe box and elastic bands to keep him occupied. It wasn’t till 12 years later at the age of 15 he actually picked up a real guitar.
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Deadbeat Descendant are the purveyors of a high energy, stomping, psych-punk and roll experience. Strange tales of Cold War rock stars behind the iron curtain, midweek rebellion, protestations at MDF and the potent and enduring power of the black juice.
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8-Bit Ninjas started as I expect most bands do, a bedroom project. Andy experimented with chip sounds and trackers and started adding guitars to it. The mission was to bring something to their humble region of the UK to break the cliques and sterile music scene there. Bored of attending gig after gig of cloned and boring beige music, they wanted to inject some primary colours into it. They were massively influenced by Alice in Videoland and Thermostatic in the early days but drawing influences from people like Crystal Castles, Sabrepulse, Fighter X, mixing that with Andy’s background in rock bands and indie rock especially, they aimed to create something danceable, but not alienating the indie crowds they were surrounded with
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Freak Owls was created from the amalgamation of ideas, restlessness, and frustrations of Josh Ricchio. After spending the past 12 years playing and touring in a wide variety of collaborative rock bands (most recently, “Pela”, “Ladycop”, “The Symphony Case”), the desire to lock himself in a room and write what he calls, “catchiness incarnate” became too great.
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The Raisers were formed in 1990
to play for a one-off event to raise
money for charity. Although the
line up has changed over the
years, the music still remains
the same
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