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The Charlatans

Ever present in the charts and ever popular with fans, The Charlatans have lived through the Madchester era and are still making wonderful indie-pop tunes on the other side. With a back catalogue including 'The Only One I Know', 'Weirdo' and 'One To Another' to complement their new material, expect something truly special live.

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The Blockheads

Formed in 1977 to promote Ian Dury's album New Boots and Panties on the first Stiff Records tour of the UK. Chaz Jankel, Norman Watt-Roy, John Turnbull and Mick Gallagher still remain from the original band, and the current line-up is augmented by Gilad Atzmon and Dylan Howe. These legendary funksters will be playing all the old favourites and plenty of new material.

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Nerina Pallot

A gifted singer songwriter who writes soulful lyrical songs woven with passionate sentiments. Driven by an obsessive love of music, she manages to create material that has a life all of its own. In the words of Times Online, she has an 'astonishingly versatile voice' and a 'knack for alchemising half-focused images into phrases that haunt as long as her opulent tunes echo in the head'.

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Buzzcocks

One of the great British punk bands from the '70s, whose hits included 'Ever Fallen In Love' and 'Orgasm Addict', featuring original members Pete Shelley and Steve Diggles.

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The Beat

Ranking Roger, Everett, Saxa and Neil Deathridge combined with Tony O'Donnell, Andy Pearson, Dave 'Blockhead' Wright on keyboards and Roger's son Murphy make up the new The Beat lineup. Combining some of the old classics with some brand new material. Worth going to see live to hear 'Mirror In The Bathroom' in all its glory.

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Seth Lakeman

2005 Mercury Music Prize nominee Seth Lakeman is a dynamic young Devon musician and one of the biggest stars on the folk roots scene. His album 'Kitty Jay' was launched in front of an audience made up of inmates at Dartmoor Prison and was voted Time Out magazine's No 1 Folk / Roots album of 2004. He fronts his own band, together with brother Sean Lakeman, one of the most accomplished six string guitarists in the UK and Ben Nicholls, the versatile acoustic double bassist.

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Shooglenifty

The Kings of the new Scottish groove scene playing what has been dubbed 'Acid Croft' music; this six-piece band play a heady, fast and furious hypnofolkedelic mix of traditional and original material.

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The Dhol Foundation

Emerging from leader Johnny Kalsi's massively popular drum classes, the Dhol Foundation (the dhol is a large North Indian drum) perform a wonderful blend of classic Indian music with global rhythms and thumping contemporary beats. This ferociously original fusion should be no surprise as Kalsi has been instrumental in some of the most groundbreaking groups on the Asian and world music scene including bhangra pioneers Alaap, Fun Da Mental, Asian Dub Foundation and Transglobal Underground.

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The Lancashire Hotpots

Famous for their songs 'I Met My Girl On Myspace' and 'Chippy Tea', regularly played by Radio 1's Colin Murray. These St Helens lads mix classic folk music with genius Lancashire-tinged comedic lyrics.

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Trickbaby

East intertwines with West, Bollywood tabla meets hip hop, a mesmerising mix of beats and chants.

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The Kabeedies

This feverishly exciting four-piece are from Norwich. They have inspired quotes such as : 'Gorgeous, wonky Candy-pop with boy/girl vocals. You’d have to have a heart of stone not to love this. The Kabeedies are a suspicious gathering of some boys and a girl who like to concoct new ways of baffling the human ear. Their slightly damaged minds dream up gleeful pop tunes and a live show that leaves audience members dying for their next fix of sweat and gaiety' (Cherryade Records).

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Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds

The Bad Shepherds is the exciting new collaboration conceived by comedian Adrian Edmondson featuring Martin Allcock from Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull, Troy Donockley renowned for his work with Iona, Maddy Prior and Midge Ure plus rising Irish star violinist and vocalist Eimear Bradley. The Bad Shepherds revisit punk era classics and add arrangements inspired by traditional music.

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Miles Hunt

Lead singer and songwriter from Stourbridge indie-rockers The Wonder Stuff, Miles started his solo career after the band split in 1994. The Stuffies re-formed in 2000, and Miles has continued to tour as both a solo artist as well as with the band. Known for his dry wit as well as his songwriting talents, expect some banter, new songs and acoustic versions of one or two Wonder Stuff favourites.

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Erica Nockalls

A graduate of The Birmingham Conservatoire of Music, Erica began playing the violin at the age of seven. She was a founder member of Birmingham rock group Fireswitch, and more recently became The Wonder Stuff's new fiddle player, touring both with the band and singer Miles Hunt on his 'solo' tours.

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Tarras

Formed in 1998 to pay off a considerable bar tab in their local pub, this innovative and young six-piece folk band have gone from strength to strength and are credited as one of the groups who have helped to rejuventate and re-invent the folk cannon.

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Rosie Doonan

'With influences ranging from Free to Laura Viers and deeply rooted in the folk scene, Rosie Doonan is too good to be simply tagged as the new Eliza Carthy' - Uncut Magazine.

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Emma & The Professor

From south Shropshire this duo is in real life Emma Heath and Mark Davies. Emma plays guitar and sings to the accompaniment of Mark's bodhran. They present a mixture of traditional and contemporary folk, folk rock and blues. Relax and enjoy!

Listed on Ents24.com since: Jun 2005

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The Charlatans

The Blockheads

Nerina Pallot

Buzzcocks

The Beat

Seth Lakeman

Shooglenifty

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Trickbaby

The Kabeedies

Adrian Edmondson & The Bad Shepherds

Miles Hunt

Erica Nockalls

Tarras

Rosie Doonan

Emma & The Professor

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