The final acts set to play the 13th annual Glasgowbury festival at Eagle’s Rock Valley this July have been confirmed.
Joining headliners The Answer, The Japanese Popstars and And So I Watch You From Afar at our two-day celebration of homegrown musical talent include Belfast-based rockers LaFaro, hugely popular ska-punk troupe Pocket Billiards and critically acclaimed singer-songwriter Peter McAuley AKA Rams Pocket Radio.
Also amongst the final acts to be confirmed are Dublin’s blues-rock quartet The Mighty Stef, singer-songwriters Katharine Philippa (pictured), Alana Henderson, Rob Murphy, and festival staple Paul Casey. Dance DJs Deep Fried Funk, electro-indie outfit Don’t Fear The Natives, Derry rock outfit Wyldling, and fast-rising guitar-based indie-rock bands Hurdles, Aces Wild, Windings and The Last Generation.
In addition to established acts, participants of Derry~Londonderry’s City Of Culture’s Childrens’ Music Promise programme will also be performing on the Friday evening.
The announcement comes off the back of us unveiling the line-up for our G-Spot comedy stage. Headlined by BBC NI talent show Find Me The Funny winner Micky Bartlett, Belfast-born clown and comedian Paul Currie and Dublin funnyman Marcus Olaoire top the bill organised in association with Daly’s Comedy Club in Omagh. Paddy McDonnell, Sean Hegarty, Terry Keyes, Phil McEwan, Terry McHugh and Digger Browne will also perform.
For the first time ever Glasgowbury will expand to a two day festival across the weekend of July 19th – 21st, staging a County Derry showcase at Eagle’s Rock on Friday 19th in support of Derry~Londonderry’s City Of Culture celebrations.
The final line up is as follows:
The Answer / Japanese Popstars / And So I Watch You From Afar / Jetplane Landing / Little Bear /Axis Of / Ed Zealous / In Their Thousands / More Than Conquerors / Million Dollar Reload / Trucker Diablo / The Bonnevilles / Runaway GO / PigsAsPeople / Vanilla Gloom / The Wood Burning Savages / Pretty Child Backfire / Furlo / Robyn G Shiels / Rosie Carney / Ryan Vail / The Dead Presidents / Silhouette / Our Krypton Son / The Wonder Villains / VerseChorusVerse / The Clameens / Susie Blue / Those Ghosts / LaFaro / Pocket Billiards / Rams’ Pocket Radio / The Hot Sprockets / The Greased Palm / Paddy Nash & The Happy Enchiladas / Orchid Collective / Children Of The Son / Emerald Armada / Alana Henderson / Aces Wild / Hurdles / Wyldling / Rob Murphy / Windings / Don’t Fear The Natives / The Mighty Stef / Paul Casey / The Last Generation / Katharine Philippa / Rural Key Participants / Childrens’ Music Promise Participants / Deep Fried Funk / Radio DJ’s/Club DJ’s and Comedians Mickey Bartlett / Paul Currie / Paddy McDonnell / Digger Browne / Marcus Olaoire / Sean Hegarty / Terry Keyes / Terry McHugh / Phil McEwan
Creative Director, Paddy Glasgow, had this to say about the line-up:
“Every year, Glasgowbury aims to reflect the great success of our homegrown music scene and 2013’s line-up is arguably one of our best and most vibrant. The beauty of the festival is that we can have acts such as And So I Watch You From Afar and The Answer, who are representing Northern Ireland on an international scale, alongside bands and artists fresh on the gig circuit, playing their first festival slots.”
Hands down one of the finest bands we’ve ever produced, Derry quartet Jetplane Landing are on the verge of releasing their highly-anticipated new album, Don’t Try. As part of their forthcoming schedule in getting their new material out there and into as many ears as possible, the guys are also set to play this year’s Glasgowbury – undoubtedly one of the most exciting prospects this year’s festival. Talking future plans, the aforementioned new album and all things Glasgowbury, we catch up with the band’s bassist Jamie Burchill to get the lowdown on Jetplane’s summer.
Hi Jamie. It’s safe to say that Jetplane Landing are a rejuvenated band. How are things going at the minute?
Jamie: Rejuvenated? No, we’re always pure tense even when we aren’t making records. It just feels like we are rejuvenated to anyone who doesn’t have to spend the long, patient years in between the records living with us. You are set to release your fourth studio album, Don’t Try, in the summer. Can you tell us about both the songwriting and recording process? Was perfectionism involved at all?
Jamie: The album was written against all accepted logic. Right, take a deep breath, let me try to explain and give full credit to each and everyone involved. I’d been writing words since our last album, Backlash Cop, and had built up, what we jokingly referred to as: the motherload. Also Cahir had written the largest amount of riffs and musical ideas know to mankind during his protracted dealings with Atlantic records. I sent my lyric ideas to Andrew without knowing what he would use, what he would ditch, and on which songs he would use them.
Still, the melodies had to be written: Andrew and Cahir formed these. I was sending in suggestions from time to time on how each track might develop. Andrew then acted as conduit, organiser and leader of men so we could finish the writing process, bringing each and every disparate idea under control. Amazingly this was all mainly done between the three of us via email as I was living in France during the whole writing process. Even more amazingly it worked! Oh and I should say Andrew mainly wrote the lyrics for ‘Magnetic Sea’, the final track on the album.
Cahir, Andrew and Chris Cassidy recorded the album in Derry, in Smalltown America’s studio. Craig McKean of Fighting with Wire played drums. I just flew in and played my bass parts in a few days, like a make-believe rock star. Voila!
And yes, perfectionism is always involved.
You are, of course, playing this year’s Glasgowbury festival. How are the band feeling about getting out there and playing new material?
Jamie: It’s going to be interesting. How many new songs do you think we can get away with playing? I think we should do a perfectly cut down and rehearsed medley, just like Queen on Live Aid, where we just play all the good ones and a little bit of ‘Hammer to Fall’. In a broader sense, how important do you think Glasgowbury is to Northern Irish music, in general?
Jamie: I’m pleased to be playing there because it does seem truly independent. Did you read Richard Hawley having a dig at Glastonbury and V festivals? He was talking about what he saw as audiences at corporate festivals paying for the privilege of being ‘trapped in a field and marketed to’. He just about nailed that one. Richard, come on pitch up at Glasgowbury next year, you know you’re going to love it.
In your estimation, what, if anything, sets it apart from other Northern Irish festivals?
Jamie: The view for one thing. Also, see my previous answer.
Outside of performing at Glasgowbury yourselves, who are you excited to catch live this year?
Jamie: I’m looking forward to label mates More than Conquerors and Axis Of and hopefully someone’s selling breakfast baps.
As a gig-goer yourself, do you have anything particular fond memories of Glasgowbury?
Jamie: Being asked to play it about six years ago, it was as flattering at the time as it is now.
Finally, what are the plans for Jetplane Landing over the next few months?
Jamie: Our new album will come out. I can’t wait for people to get a blast of it! Also we’re going on a UK tour in September. There, I’m going to try and get a nice cuddle every night, just like the old days, back in the Travelodge with Cahir.
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Having grown in stature, fanbase acclaim over the last year, there can be no question whatsoever that Million Dollar Reload and Trucker Diablo are two of the exciting and accomplished hard rock acts in the country right now. Joining fellow rockers, headliners The Answer at this year’s festival, we catch up with their respect frontmen, Phil Conalane and Tom Harte, to get their thoughts on all things Glasgowbury.
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Phil: Yeah, Million Dollar Reload are very exciting about playing Glasgowbury, but to be honest I’d say we are all a tiny bit nervous. I’ll explain why. This is our first “mainstream” festival and we are used to playing at full on rock festivals such as Download Festival and Bloodstock festival in the UK. The audiences are full blown metal/rock audiences at those festivals and they know exactly what they are going to get in an Million Dollar Reload set.
Tom: Yeah thanks for having us – really looking forward to it. It’s a festival we always wanted to play and we can’t wait to get in front of a home festival crowd and really cook it up…
Phil: The Glasgowbury audience will be a lot more diverse – maybe 30-40% full blown “rockheads” – so we will have our work cut out to win them over but we are up for the challenge. We are not gonna “tailor” our set or “lighten” it up in anyway just to fit-in; we are just goin to do our thing and play our brand of rock n roll and make sure the Glasgowbury audience has a good time while we are on stage.
What has been the band’s experience with Glasgowbury as festival-goers?
Phil: It’s kind of unfortunate really. Every year Glasgowbury has been on we have been playing at other festivals or on tour. Although Finn (drums) has only been in Million Dollar Reload for less than a year I know for sure he has been at Glasgowbury loads of times. In fact, he has played at Glasgowbury with his previous band (Swanee River) and he tells us its a fantastic festival so that bodes well!
Tom: I have never been myself, but loads of friends have been and said it’s like a big party in your backyard with loads of mates around. So can’t wait to get involved in that!
What do you think make Glasgowbury unique? Why does it stand out?
Phil: It’s unique from the point of few that it has got bigger and bigger every year. The tag “Small but Massive” doesn’t really apply anymore I’d say – it has grown so much. It is without doubt the most important festival in Northern Ireland and probably the whole of Ireland. They seem to book the established bands and the upcoming bands too. I know for sure through our management and label in the UK that it is definitely an internationally recognised festival now and that can only be a good thing for all concerned. Paddy Glasgow and his team have done a fantastic job building the festivals reputation and prestige over the years.
Tom: Apart from being the only festival I know called Glasgowbury, it’s an awesome platform to celebrate all the great talent we have in our wee country. It’s becoming a bit of an institution. Years ago people would have been talking about looking forward to Feile or Sunstroke. But these days it’s all about Glasgowbury baby.
In your view, how important are the likes of homegrown festivals like Glasgowbury to Northern Irish music generally?
Phil: It is definitely very important, bringing all the best and biggest bands across all genres onto one festival can only be a good thing. It gives all the Glasgowbury festival goers the opportunity to see a lot of acts they probably wouldn’t normally get a chance to see. The Irish press, north and south, will all be there too, giving bands that normally would be overlooked a few column inches in reviews. That is also a good positive thing.
Tom: In my opinion, very important. For us, we almost had to go away to come back. We have been working hard on building our profile outside of the country to broaden the appeal. Our fans here have been amazing and to get a chance to showcase at N.I’s premier festival is a great opportunity. Also a great opportunity for other local bands, it’s a statement that says this is the cream of the crop of Northern Irish talent. It can open doors to better things and get their music out to people who may not have heard of them. People always say to me there are so many great bands from N.I. I couldn’t agree more.
With the Answer headlining and there being other rock acts on the bill, what do you think about the genre’s representation at this year’s festival
Phil: Yeah, that’s what pleases me the most this year. I definitely don’t think its just a token gesture by putting a few rock bands on the festival. Over the past few years the hard rock bands in Northern Ireland have been building international audiences and reputations and selling a lot of albums worldwide, so I think it would be just weird to ignore the rock bands in this country, on the biggest Northern Ireland festival. I mean, The Answer have sold tens of thousands albums all over the world, toured the world with the biggest band in the world, AC/DC. We have have played the biggest rock Festival on the planet Download Festival – three times in five years! We signed to the biggest indepentent rock label in Europe, Frontiers Records, last year and put out our second album A Sinners Saint with them and its selling really, really well all over the world. We’ve toured consistently over the past few years including the USA and mainland Europe and not too sound in any way arrogant, we deserve a spot at Glasgowbury this year. And with our buddies Trucker Diablo, who are also doing fantastically well, there is sure to be a slab of rock served up at Glasgowbury this year.
Tom: It’s awesome. Northern Ireland always had enough rock bands for its own festival and for Glasgowbury to sit up and take notice its shows that we are all doing something right and bringing focus on the country through our music and that is a great thing.
What other acts at this year’s festival are you looking forward see?
Phil: And So I Watch You From Afar is the one band I definitely want to see at the festival. I’ve heard so many good things about them that it would be a sin not to see their set. I’ve heard a few Japanese Popstars records so I think I want to see them too. I’d say we will try an get to see as many bands as possible over the weekend but those two are on the priority list.
Tom: Apart from Million Dollar Reload and The Answer, I am really looking forward to checking out newer bands I haven’t heard before. Also looking forward to seeing Furlo, my old mate Robyn G Sheils and ASIWYFA.
Aside from playing Glasgowbury what are the plans for the band over the summer?
Phil: We have a lot going on right now. We have a live album coming out at some point later in the summer, so a new release always brings a lot of press/promo stuff, interviews, radio sessions etc. We have a few European festivals to do, one in particular that we are really looking forward too is the GP Motorbike festival in Holland – that should be great! We have shows in France again and Germany also. Throw in a few home gigs with all that and we are pretty busy over the coming months.
Tom: Yeah we are pretty busy over the summer. We will are taking our second trip back to Europe at the end of June, then at the end of July we will be in the UK for a few festivals. After that we will be back home to play some local shows and festivals. In October we will be doing our first headline UK tour to promote the album and after that back to Europe again. See ya soon – trucker hugs.
Tickets for Glasgowbury 2013 are available to buy here.
Following on from our interview with three of the most exciting new acts playing this year’s festival – Vanilla Gloom, The Clameens and PigsAsPeople – we catch up with Stephen McAvoy, frontman with one of the more established acts returning to Eagle’s Rock Valley this summer, Belfast-based indie rock band Ed Zealous. Having played the festival on a couple of occasions, the guys are very much geared up for heading back up the mountain this to deliver yet another unmistakably zealous-like set…
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Hi Steve. Ed Zealous have played Glasgowbury before. What are your memories of performing the festival and how are the band feeling about returning this year?
Yeah, we can’t wait to play this year! I pretty much remember my car being absolutely knackered the last time we played and the drive down being done at a fairly casual top speed of 30mph. It finally died before we reached the carpark so we ran with our gear the rest of the way so we could make our slot. I guess it was a warm up of sorts but the crowd more than made up for it when we got on stage. Glasgowbury always has great people and great vibes and my birthday always seems to land on one of the days so the added bonus of cake makes it particularly awesome.
As a festival-goer yourself, what do you think makes Glasgowbury such a unique experience? Any particular highlights spring to mind?
The location makes Glasgowbury special but it’s Paddy Glasgow’s spirit that really sets it apart. It’s the same spirit that ASIWYFA embodied when they did ‘A Little Solidarity’. It’s inspirational to see that vision and to know that you’re not just going to some generic festival.
In your view, how important do you reckon the likes of homegrown festivals like Glasgowbury to Northern Irish music in general?
Undeniably vital. The growth of Glasgowbury itself is proof that Northern Irish music is more alive and in demand than ever but ultimately its the sense of community it brings to both bands and audience alike that’s really special. You are witnessing local people digging local music in a big way and that’s a particularly special thing for anyone to see, especially someone wanting to start their own band. That we have a local music culture thats strong enough to warrant a festival like Glasgowbury is testament to quality of artists Northern Ireland is producing at the moment.
What other acts at this year’s festival are you looking forward see?
ASIWYFA, The Wonder Villains, Axis Of, Japanese Popstars, Ryan Vail, More Than Conquerors, Jetplane Landing … as many as is humanly possible to fit in to be honest.
Any new bands playing that you’ve got an eye (ear) on/think might go far in the years to come?
Go Wolf are writing some really great material at the moment. I heard a preview of their forthcoming EP a couple of weeks ago and it really sounds fresh, different and effortless. They’re still a fairly young band but with a songcraft well beyond their years. For anyone who may not know, Niall from ASIWYFA has had an on-going solo project quietly bubbling away for a long time now called A Bad Cavalier and he was playing me some new stuff he’s written. If you remember Panama Kings, well it’s still his unmistakeable voice and style and the songs are yet again magnificent. It was shit when Panama Kings broke up but people should get excited at this because its bloody exciting. When any of this is released, I do not know, but keep your ears to the ground for some great new N.I music.
Aside from playing this year’s festival, what are the plans for the band over the summer?
Gigs and quite a few other festival dates. We’re playing the Belfast Pride after party in QUBSU on July 6th with Not Squares,Wonder Villains and Go Wolf along with Taboo DJs, Marty Morrison, Stuart Millar and the Radar DJs should be a lot of fun! After that it’s a couple of other festival and the Open House Finale Aug 31st with Kowalski and Go Wolf.
Tickets for Glasgowbury 2013 are available to buy here.
Having been a side-splitting, rip-roaring, rib-tickling success over the last two years, we are very pleased to announce the return of the G-Spot comedy stage at this year’s Glasgowbury Music Festival.
Upping the comedic ante that little bit more, we are teaming up with the guys behind Daly’s Comedy Club in Omagh, which finished a very respectable runner up in the Dave’s One Night Stand UK Comedy Club of the Year 2013 Award. Seeing as they’ve worked with some of the biggest acts in Irish and UK comedy over the past few years we couldn’t be more delighted to welcome them onboard this year’s festival.
A regular panelist on BBC comedy gameshow Monumental and SKETCHY, we are equally pleased to announce that acclaimed comedian and actor Micky Bartlett will headline the G-Spot stage at this year’s festival. Having won BBC NI’s stand up talent show Find Me The Funny, the skilled comic actor is also known for appearing on the I Am Fighter videos on Youtube, created by Colin Geddis.
A hit at the world-famous Edinburgh Fringe festival, Belfast-born clown and comedian Paul Currie will also bring his uniquely nonsensical approach to this year’s festival. Having been called “the Monty Python version of stand up comedy” by Fringe Guru, he is an unmissable proposition – a totally one-one artist set to appear on BBC3’s comedy variety show Live At The Electric.
Several other well-known faces and fastest rising stars from the local comedy scene will play this year’s G-Spot tent, including fast-rising Dublin comedian Marcus Olaoire,
stand-up/West Belfast taxi driver Paddy McDonnell and master of the dead-pan one-liner, Sean Hegarty.
The full line-up for the G-Spot comedy stage is as follows:
Micky Barlett Paul Currie Marcus Olaoire Paddy McDonnell
Sean Hegarty
Terry Keyes
Phil McEwan
Terry McHugh
Digger Browne
Tickets for Glasgowbury 2013 are available to buy here.
As our motto goes: “Small but MASSIVE”. Over the last 13 years, we at Glasgowbury have been on the look-out for some of the most exciting up-and-coming acts stemming up from right across the country. Not satisfied with settling for exclusively established or well-known talent, the guitar-wielding and beat-making stars of the future play an absolutely pivotal role in not only how our annual festival plays out, but also how our Rural Key Project and regular G Sessions come together time after time. After all, a band must be small before they ever become massive.
In the first of a regular feature looking at our line-up for this year’s festival, we catch up with three new acts playing this year’s Glasgowbury festival for the very first time: all-female post-punk three-piecce Vanilla Gloom, Derry indie-rock band The Clameens and decidedly heavy trio PigsAsPeople. Whilst very diverse in sound and image, we have every faith in each of these acts treading the same paths as the biggest headliners to ever past through Eagle’s Rock Valley…
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This is the first year you’ve played Glasgowbury. Are you excited about playing? What’s the gameplan?
PigsAsPeople (Stevie Lennox, guitarist): Well, we got together as a band at roughly the same time as last year’s festival and being a Mid-Ulster native (’13 being my sixth consecutive year up the mountain), Glasgowbury’s pretty much the one weekend in the year that us locals set aside with a ‘Do Not Disturb’ note.
The Clameens: Yeah, this is our first year at the festival and we are totally overwhelmed to be performing. To be playing on the same bill along with some of the greatest acts in the Northern Irish music scene is really incredible. Especially with this with our city being the City of Culture and how it’s tying in with the festival, a lot of our friends will be performing such as Little Bear, Ryan Vail and Japanese Popstars. Everyone will be in top form this year.
Vanilla Gloom: We’re definitely excited and feel very privileged to be playing Glasgowbury this year, especially as it will be the first time the festival stretches to two days. We had great craic and met some lovely people at the G Session in May; we can only assume the festival will be even better! We’d say our only game plan is to play as best we can and ultimately have fun.
PigsAsPeople(Stevie): Playing the festival was definitely one of the goals we set ourselves when we got together – as it is for pretty much everyone – but didn’t for a second think it would happen so quickly! Admittedly, it’s been on my bucket list for a while…
PigsAsPeople (Wilson Davidson, drums): The plan for our set this year is to basically give people an introduction to how we sound. As we’re a new band, people might not have seen us, so the set will basically be an introduction to PigsAsPeople as a whole, including some surprises!
The Clameens: We don’t have a game plan but we are going to give 110% in our performance. As far as we know Ethan (Clameens guitarist) is the youngest player at this years festival as he’s only two years older than the festival itself!
What has been your experience with Glasgowbury as a festival-goer? What makes if unique, if anything? Any particular highlights in mind?
Vanilla Gloom (Shannon O’Neill, guitar/vocals): All three of us have been lots of times between us. Myself and Megan’s first experience of Glasgowbury was in 2009 when the awesome And So I Watch You From Afar headlined – amazing! It was our first time at a music festival so we were all starry eyed and excited but the wind was soon taken out of our young sails when our tent collapsed under heavy rain at 3 in the morning, leaving us to sleep inside bin bags until dawn.
PigsAsPeople (Stevie): There are actually several photos of the three of us at Glasgowbury ’10 – before I’d ever met the other two – close together at the bands we’d managed to catch (one of which was unsurprisingly in the front row of LaFaro’s main stage slot). The location itself is a sight to behold, and not one festival on these islands can claim to be as scenic as Eagles Rock.
Vanilla Gloom (Grace Leacock, drums): A highlight of mine is remembering a big gathering of lots of musicians in a teepee tent playing music together. It’s a unique sense of community that makes Glasgowbury particularly unique.
PigsAsPeople (Stevie): Some sets that really linger in the memory are Mojo Fury’s in 2011, ASIWYFA’s headlining performance back in 2009 and their playing ‘Don’t Waste Time Doing The Things You Hate’ with a huge cast of friends onstage in 2008. I’d never heard of them prior to that performance, and it was a pretty huge moment. Japanese Popstars last year was something completely fresh too, and it was great to see someone like that up the mountain.
The Clameens: The thing that we love most about Glasgowbury is the atmosphere, in both the music venues and campsite. Everyone is incredibly friendly, there is a really positive vibe and everyone is there to have a great time and to listen to some great local music. Our Glasgowbury highlight so far has to be seeing the Japanese Popstars at the 2012 festival. The show they put on was fantastic and everyone there was blown away by their performance.
In your view, how important are the likes of homegrown festivals like Glasgowbury to Northern Irish music generally?
The Clameens: Very important. Festivals such as Glasgowbury give bands and artists the perfect platform to perform their music to an audience that are really keen to hear new music. It’s through these festivals that Northern Irish bands are given the opportunity to establish themselves and build a significant fan base. The festival experience in general is also really beneficial to local acts.
Vanilla Gloom: As the festival continues to grow in popularity each and every year, playing at it gives smaller, less well-known bands a greater opportunity to perform for a more diverse audience and to get their name out there. The whole festival has such a friendly atmosphere and everyone we have met from the Glasgowbury team have been so supportive – you can tell they care about young bands and they really give you that fire in your belly to go further!
PigsAsPeople (Stevie): Essential. This really can’t be understated. It gives bands not only something to work towards, but an incentive to progress and up their game. You see bands like Mojo Fury, Axis Of and ASIWYFA who’ve played, starting out as a hot new prospect and getting up to the level of potential headliners. The other great thing is that the grassroots ethos and the sense of community during the weekend means that even if you’re playing, you’re still going as a fan. Obviously, such a diverse lineup can only do good for the festivalgoers in terms of getting some excellent local music into their ears. I know with 100% certainty that without Glasgowbury, I wouldn’t have gotten into local music the way I have.
What other acts at this year’s festival are you looking forward see?
Vanilla Gloom: We’re all pretty psyched to be seeing the return of Jetplane Landing and some of our favourite local bands like VerseChorusVerse, The Bonnevilles, Our Krypton Son, More Than Conquerers, PigsAsPeople, The Dead Presidents and And So I Watch You From Afar.
PigsAsPeople (Stevie): Jetplane Landing in a major way, for both their music and the fact that they helped lay the groundwork with the D.I.Y. approach in the music scene over here – we really respect that. I’ve been really admiring The Wood Burning Savages and Vanilla Gloom too; they’re probably the 2 new bands I’m most excited about in the country right now, and we’re all big fans. The Dead Presidents, Axis Of,More Than Conquerors, Japstars, Little Bear, Trucker Diablo and VerseChorusVerse all stand out as bands we’re looking forward to seeing this year.
The Clameens: We are staying the two days camping over this years festival so we are going to try catch as much of the acts performing as possible. We have never seen ASIWYFA before so this will be our first this time seeing them – really excited.
Aside from the festival, what are the plans for the band over the summer?
The Clameens: We are pretty busy throughout the summer. We have a few more festivals and a lot of gigs coming up , both north and south, so we will be on our feet pretty much all of the summer. We are also scheduled to record this summer with our new producer who we have worked on with our latest single ‘She’s Got My Heart’ which will be released before July.
Vanilla Gloom: We’ve got a fairly busy Summer ahead of us. We’re going on a tour of Scotland during the first week of July including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and more. We’re playing some other class Northern Irish festivals as well and we’re going to use the summer months to write new songs which we hope to record in the Autumn.
PigsAsPeople (Chris Lecke, bass/vocals): This summer is very hectic for us – we’ve got Glasgowbury, touring and an EP to release all in one month. August is going to be our serious writing month. We’ve really began to find a comfortable place between chaos and beauty in our music and we’re so excited to show you all the new stuff we’ve been working on. We’ve got plans to record again soon but for now it’s all about touring and releasing this next EP! Oh, and house gigs, lots and lots of house gigs!
Look out for our “… MASSIVE” interview with Belfast-based indie rock quartet Ed Zealous at the end of the week.
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With one eye firmly on the local environment, we are delighted to announce that we are teaming up with J&K Coaches to offer a bespoke bus route service to this year’s Glasgowbury festival. With routes organised around where passengers live, a first-rate, reliable and competitively priced service taking you ‘from your doorstep’ straight to this year’s festival is guaranteed.
Once again hoping to encourage the green aspect, we also call on regular drivers to consider the bus service as an alternative, friendly and totally hassle-free means to get to and from this year’s “small but massive” event, taking place at Eagle’s Rock Valley, Draperstown.
Interested? Book your place by contacting J&K via (028) 867 37776/07783176060 or info@jandkcoaches.com
Tickets for this year’s Glasgowbury 2013 are still available here.
If you do decide to take a car, we have secure 24-hr parking at the site at a cost of £5 per car.
Bringing a campervan? Just contact us at: info@glasgowbury.com to arrange a pitch.
We are delighted to bring you the first round of line-up announcements for this year’s two day festival extravaganza.
Headline acts for this year’s ‘Small but Massive’ event a include a Northern Ireland exclusive performance from Downpatrick rockers The Answer, Derry dance duo The Japanese Popstars and north coast instrumentalists And So I Watch You From Afar.
The first round of announcements for this year’s festival comprises some of the best in new, emerging and established talent from throughout Ireland, including:
Jetplane Landing, Little Bear, Axis Of, Ed Zealous, In Their Thousands, More Than Conquerors, Ryan Vail, Million Dollar Reload, The Wonder Villains, Trucker Diablo, VerseChorusVerse, The Bonnevilles, Runaway GO, The Clameens, Susie Blue, PigsAsPeople, Vanilla Gloom, Those Ghosts, The Wood Burning Savages, Pretty Child Backfire, Furlo, Robyn G Shiels and Rosie Carney – with many more still to be announced!
For the first time ever Glasgowbury will expand to a two day festival across the weekend of July 19th – 21st, staging a County Derry showcase on Friday 19th in support of Derry~Londonderry’s City Of Culture celebrations.
The announced line-up so far represents just the tip of the festival iceberg with many more announcements due over the coming weeks!
This year’s festival will also see the return of the acclaimed G Spot Comedy Stage and a host of carnival and samba band activities. And, for the first time, Glasgowbury will also link with Derry based CultureTECH festival to bring a technology inspired tent to the field featuring screenings, gaming and interactive activities to help keep the mind active over the long weekend.
“Every year, Glasgowbury aims to reflect the great success of our homegrown music scene and 2013’s line-up is arguably one of our best and most vibrant,” said organiser Paddy Glasgow.
“The beauty of the festival is that we can have acts such as And So I Watch You From Afar and The Answer, who are representing Northern Ireland on an international scale, alongside bands and artists who are fresh on the gig circuit, playing their first festival slots.
“The acts so far announced reflect less than half of the overall line-up and with a full festival programme combining comedy, street theatre, samba and technology – this could be the most exciting Glasgowbury yet.”
Tickets for Glasgowbury 2013, priced from just £35, are on sale now from THIS LINK.
Glasgowbury gratefully acknowledges the support of Arts Council NI, Northern Ireland Tourist Board and Culture Company towards festival costs.
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GLASGOWBURY have been selected as Arts Council clients under the Annual Funding Programme receiving significant support from the body.
The Draperstown based arts organisation is responsible for the delivery of the annual Glasgowbury Music Festival as well as a year-round programme of activities including monthly showcase gigs, tutoring sessions and artist support and mentoring programmes.
The Arts Council’s support will allow Glasgowbury to provide high quality arts activities and cultural events as well a number of programmes to support local community development.
“We have been working with the Arts Council for a number of years and are very pleased that the organisation have now accepted Glasgowbury under the Annual Funding Programme,” said Glasgowbury Creative Director Paddy Glasgow.
“This Arts Council commitment allows Glasgowbury to continue its exciting and innovative work on the ground in Mid-Ulster, benefitting thousands of people of all ages across projects such as our BT Connected Communities Computer classes, our weekly instrument tutoring for children and adults and, of course, the festival, among many other things.
“2013 will be our most ambitious year yet as additional festival programming will support Derry~Londonderry in its UK City of Culture celebrations and we seek to develop a heritage building as a community resource from which we can deliver all of our events, activities and much, much more. We hope this is an exciting new phase of our partnership with ACNI and look forward to their on-going support”.
Maria McAlister, Arts Development Officer for the Arts Council, said, “The Arts Council is delighted to support Glasgowbury which celebrates the best in new, emerging and established homegrown talent.
“The organisation shines a positive light on our artists, enhancing their careers and preparing them for a professional career in the music industry.
“Public funding will allow the organisation to develop this impressive event, expanding to two days in 2013 to support Derry~Londonderry as the 2013 UK City of Culture as-well as supporting other skills development activities throughout the year.”
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