Hailing from Hebden Bridge, The Tiny Mind’s music is transcendence & sublimation, pink grapefruits, rainbows, cynical surprises and paranoid delights. Infinite, universal, timeless & evolving in a creative four piece dreamy pop package.

Check their videos for tracks Miss Mysticism and Skulls & Bones on YouTube.
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A London based vocal led quartet with backing vocals and horns – Vibe Machine are constructed with the finest hand engineered rhythm & rhyme. Unflinching social commentary with a tight ‘n’ funky sound, Vibe Machine have been described as ‘Ian Dury bumping into Gil Scott Heron in 21st century London and then moving to LA to be produced by Steely Dan ”
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AOS3 started in 1990, as the free festival scene was staging it’s last stand. They began really as a way of playing the free festivals, and were unexpectedly swept up into a wave of political protest and rebooted psychedelia- which was nice!

The band have been influenced over the years by sounds from the 60’s and 70’s, Reggae and anarcho-punk and they blended these together to create an up-tempo high energy sound, with an ear for melody.

Perceived as a punk band, in truth the thread of discordianism runs through the very surface of their music and lyrics, with a lot of songs based on Wilsonian ideas, such as obvious pieces like ‘Emperor Norton’ and ‘Dark Matter’. Their die-hard supporters have christened themselves ‘the Dead Fanatics’ – go figure.

AOS3 now mostly live in London, playing shows and making different kinds of art, absolutely refusing to take any of it seriously. This is a deliberate, foolhardy labour of Love.

You can find them at facebook.com/AOS3official

Fronted by Barry Dobbin, formerly of the brilliant and critically acclaimed Clor, Barringtone will be bringing their crisp off-kilter electro pop to our main stage on Friday night.

“If Frank Zappa had ever bothered – deigned, stooped – to write a hit single, it might have sounded a bit like this darting, careening slither of melodic madness… Barringtone make unhinged but accessible, deranged but irresistible experimental pop with a sensibility informed by a love of Eno, Moroder, Devo and, yes, Todd Rundgren, pop’s greatest ever wizard and should-have-been true star.” Paul Lester in The Guardian

https://soundcloud.com/barringtonetone
https://www.facebook.com/barringtoneband
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G I B L E T are a four piece conceptual rock band who mostly manifest their art in and around the city of Londinium.

Here are some thoughts on their debut album ‘Holding The Egg’:

“… if you twisted my arm for a quote, I’d describe it as “Gentle Giant and Current 93 having a threesome with Van Der Graff Generator”. Which worked for me.”
Ian ‘Cat’ Vincent – Fortean Journalist

“Giblet’s CD ‘Holding the Egg’ is everything I love about rock music: progressive, daring, eccentric, heavy, inventive, uncompromising, bat shit crazy and utterly fearless.”
Nick Stephenson – Song writer and singer

https://www.facebook.com/gibletmusic/
See also Twitchey Spleen..

Knifeworld is Eight of Dense. Her psychedelic ray gun spray silver matter into their captive thirdeye.

Formed in 2009, the brainchild of the stupendously prolific Kavus Torabi (Cardiacs, Gong, Guapo, Mediaeval Babes, Monsoon Bassoon), and featuring members of Chromehoof, Sidi Bou Said and North Sea Radio Orchestra, Knifeworld will be bringing their blistering live show to Festival 23 to headline our main stage on Friday night. Knifeworld straddle genres, bringing intricate time changes, soaring vocal harmonies and spiralling metal riffs to bear on rock solid melodic and hook filled songwriting.

Born of neglect, rocket fuelled by Dionysian arkana then atomsmashed onto the shores of Lysergia. Cursed into documenting God and the Devil shaking hands forever. Sexy transgression, carnal mandala, a sacrament of truth ablaze in the shit-tunnel of existence. Knifeworld are the last, only and everything you truly dig.

New album Bottled Out of Eden released on 22 April, watch their new video ‘High / Aflame’

www.knifeworld.co.uk
www.facebook.com/knifeworld

Brighton’s Map 71 combine the words of artist Lisa Jayne with the productions of Andy Pyne, bringing together sinister ritual percussion and sparse electro textures with a voice racing between surreal demons and earthy anxiety.

Lisa Jayne is a regular performer on the Brighton poetry scene and the originator of chaos improv unit Ringlock. Andy Pyne records as Ugly Animal and has played drums with Medicine & Duty, West Hill Blast Quartet, Kellar, Shrag, Black Neck Band and many others, as well as performing live with Kid Millions’ Man Forever project.

“Apocalyptic proclamations from some piss-stained midnight car park of the mind” (The Wire)

“Jayne rants like Lydia Lunch run through a vocoder” (Byron Coley)

“Map 71 trudge a hollowed shadow lined path where lurk the ghosts and remnant sonic skins of PIL, Cabaret Voltaire and This Heat” (The Sunday Experience)

Check out the preview for their forthcoming album Sado-Technical-Exercise at www.map71.bandcamp.com

New live performance video from March 2016.

Bloom make alternative, life affirming music using experiments with natural and augmented vocal harmonies, syncopation and synthesisers. The music is about nature, magic and being in awe of life whilst also surviving it.

As Bloom and under their previous name The Beautiful Word the band were played by pioneers of alternative pop Tom Robinson (BBC) Ruth Barnes (Resonance FM) Kairen Kemp (BBC Introducing) Co founder of label Bella Union Simon Raymond (Amazing Radio) and James Fox (Juice FM). They have performed at events including Secret Garden Party, The Great Escape Festival, Brighton Dome (SPECTRUM) and T in the Park. The band have been supported with words by Source Magazine, Q Magazine, Brighton Dome and Brighton Noise.

Bloom are Megan Clifton (vocals, synth) Emily Cluley (vocals, guitar, Casio) Thomas Newman (electric guitar, vocals, Casio) Scotty Jones (bass) and Gruff Keogh (drums). Bloom are based in Brighton, UK.

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www.twitter.com/wecanbloom
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www.soundcloud.com/wecanbloom