The Artists

Pepper and Shepherd
Tony & James make Lo-fi pop folk and like custard creams. Formed in 2009 Pepper and Shepherd have performed all over the UK including The Great Escape 2010, Camden Lockstock Festival 2009 and 2010 and appeared on Recharged Radio and Balcony TV.

Three Colours
Describing themselves as “3D ALT-Rock with BEATS”, Three Colours have been likened to Battles & 65 Days Of Static , “At The Drive-in playing Bloc Party” and the band’s personal favourite, ‘Acid Skiffle’.

Fat Bicth (think of talking about large pens with a lisp) describe themselves as party rock. Superficially, they’re something like Trumans Water/ I’m Being Good/ ole’ timey skronk (thrown into a blender/ on acid/ from space/ [>goto: trite/ clichéd comparison]). More realistically, it’s a bit like a melting plastic Iron Maiden (the band and the torture device) thrown into cider-soused spring break parties and made to dance like penguins. But refusing. And I can’t put it more clearly than that.

The Thinking Men

The Thinking Men are two guys, one girl and a lot of instruments. Playing an interesting and eclectic brand of jazz-influenced blues rock, the band is defined by frontman Johnny Raspin’s stunningly powerful vocal offerings and an array of sounds from multi-instrumentalists Sarah Barsoumian and Ronnie Smith.

Tribal Fighters

Tribal Fighters come from Manchester and make what they call “Twiddly babe pop”

Macchina Del Tempo

An instrumental three piece band that rates music millions and millions of times more than money and fame, plays with no interruptions riff after riff, indulges in the instruments potential to the point of semi-permanent pain, explores its own mental theoretic skills for volatile and unpredictable compositions and loves the sound of Rock, Prog Rock and Jazz/Rock Fusion of the late 60s-early 70

Rapesbladder

Rapesbladder is probably not right in the head. I’ll tell you one thing, if he was 4, and I was teaching kids, I wouldn’t even give him the play scissors. For a variety of reasons (/mercies), that isn’t the case. There was once an interview with Saint John Peel where he said “I like the idea of Intelligent Dance Music, because it presupposes the existence of stupid dance music”. Rapesbladder might be that. He’s certainly out to make your head feel like you’ve not really got to grips with life and reminding me that fuckstep was a GOOD IDEA

Soulmates Never Die
Citing cups of tea, food, West Yorkshire, Oscar acceptance speeches, Colonel Sanders, Meteorology and Gravy as influences, Soulmates Never Die makes music because he was unhappy with hours and hours of playing Fifa 10 and The Legend of Zelda all day.

The Glass Child
Charlotte a.k.a. The Glass Child, is originally from Sweden but now resides in London. She has this incredible voice with a range to die for. Packed full of emotion and passion, she write songs from the gut and pours her heart on every song like its her last.

Eschar

Creating sprawling epics that are instantly satisfying and rewarding, Eschar defy the usual Post-Rock formula of making the listener work and lie in wait for ‘THAT RIFF’! Delivering a wall of sound that is undeniably massive yet instantly melodic, Eschar have high hopes for 2012 with their debut record ‘Elements’ due for release late february

Itchy Teeth
Itchy Teeth are Xav, Charlie, Oli and Jon. The four piece who are from London, make summery 60s influenced dreamy pop. Real classic British sounds with catchy tunes with a retro edge.

Mothers of The Third Reich

It’s sort of like metal, except metal kind of failed to make a sound that made you feel like your skin was being peeled away by pointy cockroaches (at least since black metal, circa ’95). They’re definitely a duo, it may well be improvised and it sure as shit sounds improbably like a post-fatal bus accident Sun Ra in a mood to break kittens. The best band you’ve not heard of because you’re too lazy and prioritise things like breathing over listening to Mothers of the third Reich.
Sci’enta Dystene [Science-Destiny] is the musical & personal journey of Richard Creek (Drums) & glynne Cicada (guitar). Their basic goal is to create challenging, thoughtful & intuitive music without the constraints of fear, restraint or compromise. To maintain their integrity & passion in an ever changing world perpetually concerned with the mundane & mediocre.

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