Truck Festival 2018

Truck Festival will be back in July 2018 for another weekend of fantastic live music and entertainment.

Please visit www.truckfestival.com/ for more information.

Featuring

Friendly Fires

Formed by a trio of lifelong friends, Friendly Fires began combining the anthemic choruses and swooning melodies of indie rock and shoegaze with the insistent pulse of dance music in the mid-2000s. This mix of styles sounded prescient on 2008's Friendly Fires and 2011's Pala, while the band's later singles and albums reflected how enmeshed the worlds of indie and dance were as the 2010s came to a close. After their second album the band went on a hiatus due to some personal tragedies and illnesses within the band, but returned in 2018 with a new track co-prodcued by Disclosure and their long-awaited third album being released in 2019.

See Friendly Fires tour dates

George Ezra

Young singer/songwriter folk-blues balladeer George Ezra first came to attention when BBC Introducing in his adopted home of Bristol picked up on a handful of tracks posted online. That led to a live session at the legendary Maida Vale studios and an oversubscribed performance on their stage at the 2013 Glastonbury Festival. The singer/songwriter possesses a deep, resonant, and emotionally weathered voice that belies his considerable youth. Influenced by similarly precocious troubadours like Dylan and Hank Williams, Ezra was just 19 when he issued his debut single 'Budapest', a warm, amiable, and soulful slice of classy folk-pop that invoked names like Willy Mason, Ben Howard, Ray Lamontagne and Tom Odell.

See George Ezra tour dates

Courteeners

Manchester's Courteeners both look and sound as though they've come straight out of another time and place, and yet, somehow, are bang up to date. Think Babyshambles meets The Smiths and you'll be somewhere close to their gritty, electrifying sound. The band, who have been friends since childhood, have grown into one of the UK’s premier guitar bands delivering such era-defining anthems as ‘Not Nineteen Forever’, ‘Are You in Love with a Notion’, ‘How Good It Was’, ‘The 17th’ and last year’s ‘Hanging Off Your Cloud’.

See Courteeners tour dates

Gaz Coombes

The former Supergrass frontman, now a solo artist. No longer getting caught by the fuzz, but thankfully Gaz's sound has not matured TOO much. The catchy punky indie-rock songs are still there, but perhaps with a little more depth. Things are still alright!

See Gaz Coombes tour dates

Drenge

Hailing from the Peak District, Drenge are brothers Eoin and Rory Loveless who peddle a fine line in punked up blues-rock mayhem. "Drenge are a formidable, exciting live band, whose eruption of garage, grunge and space rock combines with Eoin’s Damned/Misfits-style crooning to turn the jam-packed audience into a heaving mass in minutes" - The Guardian.

See Drenge tour dates

Rat Boy

Rat Boy (real name Jordan Cardy) is a man painting a picture of being young in suburban Britain, following in an illustrious line of great urban storytellers from Squeeze to Blur and The Streets. The music Rat Boy uses to spread his messages is a neat, powerful brand of indie hip-hop rock, all samples, sound effects, slashes of guitar and machine beats. After making waves with his Top 15 debut album ‘Ssum’, he took a leftfield turn by teaming up with his hero Tim Armstrong (Rancid, Transplants) to create the punk ‘n’ beats mayhem of the ‘Internationally Unknown’ mixtape. One to watch, probably over your shoulder, in the dead of night, after the pubs have shut, the fights have started and the chip shops are doing a roaring trade.

See Rat Boy tour dates

Peace

Based out of Birmingham, Peace create drifting, melodic indie rock that merges the crawling atmosphere of classic post-punk with the pop-oriented bounce of modern bands like Vampire Weekend. Formed by brothers Harrison and Samuel Koisser, on vocals/guitar and bass, respectively, as well as guitarist Douglas Castle and drummer Dominic Boyce, the band came together in 2010 before gaining recognition among the UK. press with its debut outing, the Delicious EP, then going on to score two UK top 20 albums.

See Peace tour dates

Shy FX

The the pseudonym of Andre Williams, Shy FX is a London based Drum And Bass and Jungle DJ, producer and remixer. He has produced for Dizzee Rascal and Yasmin and remixed for DJ Fresh. Shy FX crashed the British charts in 1994 with 'Original Nuttah', one of the most infectious Ragga-Jungle anthems of all time, and he quickly became one of Jungle's most respected producers.

See Shy FX tour dates

Sub Focus

From his beginnings as a bedroom DJ five years ago, to headlining the Glade stage at Glastonbury in 2010, Nick Douwma, better known as Sub Focus, has become one of the most interesting, innovative and important voices working in British electronic music today. Douwma has created compositions for Chase & Status (Flashing Lights) and Example (Kickstarts), remixed The Prodigy, Deadmau5 and Dizzee Rascal, while his own tracks (including Airplane, X-Ray, Rock It, Could This Be Real) have won Sub Focus fans in the form of Zane Lowe, Annie Mac, Grooverider and Mistajam.

See Sub Focus tour dates

Kurupt FM

A DJ Collective from Brentford featuring MC Sniper and DJ Beats. They featured in the BBC Three mockumentary People Just Do Nothing following the exploits and lives at a pirate radio station.

See Kurupt FM tour dates

Moose Blood

Formed in 2012, Moose Blood is a four piece alternative / emo band hailing from Canterbury, Kent. Drawing influence from British and American emo bands popular in the mid to late 90s, Moose Blood combine intimate lyrics with a melodic sound to create songs epic in both scope and emotion.

See Moose Blood tour dates

The Big Moon

The Big Moon are a young London pop-punk four piece consisting of Juliette, Soph, Celia, and Fern. Musically they’re somewhere between PJ Harvey’s more widescreen rock moments and Howling Bells’ ragged intensity, but with a crackling girl-gang energy recalling Elastica.

See The Big Moon tour dates

We Are Scientists

The Californian duo of Keith Murray and Chris Cain continue to generate rock music of the thoughtful, sometimes epic, often loud, vaguely danceable, implicitly humanist variety.

See We Are Scientists tour dates

Rhythm Of The 90s

Remember when rhythm was a dancer and groove was in the heart? Remember when tie-dye and centre partings were acceptable? Then you probably grew up in the 90s, when dance music was fun, uncomplicated and infectious. Since forming in 2012 - Rhythm of the 90s have taken the UK and Europe by storm. They are not just your typical covers band. This group, made up of some of the top session players in the industry with over 120 years of experience, has created something special and unique. Rhythm of the 90s has spent years taking tunes that were never intended to be played live and honed them into a show like no other. This attention to detail and passion is why this band sells out large venues around the UK and Europe and have been invited to play at some of the largest festivals around: Glastonbury Festival, Isle of Wight Festival, Victorious Festival, Latitude Festival – including main stage performances. We defy anyone who is a fan of 90s dance music not to dance their socks off when they experience this band for the first time! If you want the get a party started, then look no further than Rhythm of the 90s. You won’t be disappointed!

See Rhythm Of The 90s tour dates

The Old Dirty Brasstards

A tweed-clad 10-piece drum and brass power house playing an eclectic mix of pop, R&B and soul covers that never fail to get the crowd dancing for joy!

See The Old Dirty Brasstards tour dates

De La Soul

One of the most artistic and creative hip-hop acts ever, this trio from Long Island have had an unquestionable influence since their debut in 1987. As well as hits from their legendary album '3 Feet High and Rising' including 'The Magic Number', 'Say No Go' and 'Me Myself and I', their recent releases have included a collaboration with Gorillaz, 'Feel Good Inc', which reached no 2 in the UK singles charts. Founding member David Jolicoeur, who also performed as Trugoy the Dove, sadly died in February 2023 at the age of 54.

See De La Soul tour dates

Circa Waves

Known for their nervy, melodic indie rock, Britain's Circa Waves first gained buzz in the 2010's with hooky singles like 'Get Away' and 'Stuck in My Teeth'. The Liverpudlians earned favourable comparisons to the Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, and the Vaccines even before they hit the Top Ten with their debut, 2015's Young Chasers. Without shying away from their influences, the band has matured, while continuing their knack for crafting their own distinctively infectious, post-punk anthems.

See Circa Waves tour dates

Lewis Capaldi

Lewis Capaldi grew up in the small town of Bathgate outside Glasgow. He picked up the guitar at aged 9 and started writing songs shortly after. By the age of just 12, he began sneaking into pubs around Glasgow, honing his craft playing impromptu sets anywhere he could find an audience. He found global fame in 2019 with his multi-platinum hit, Someone You Loved, and since then has gone on to tour the world while scooping up GRAMMY nominations and Brit Awards. 2019 also saw the release of his long-awaited debut album, Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent, which sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide within the first year, with combined global streams of over 3 billion.

See Lewis Capaldi tour dates

•  > Hill Farm