16 HOLE BOOTS

• SAT 4TH 18+

  The Brink

16 Hole Boots don't hang around. Having formed only in December last year they've been working at a furious pace, writing, rehearsing and recording demo tracks with Elastica/Ride producer Marc Waterman. They're now gigging as much as they can around their native London and are quickly gaining moment...

ABANDON SILENCE DJ'S

• SAT 4TH 18+

  The Garage

ACROBAT

• THU 2ND 18+

  The Kazimier

Live improvised dance music which might be techno or house or something that's a little bit camp, in the best possible way. Hopefully.

ADY SULEIMAN

• SAT 4TH 18+

  The Zanzibar

Ady Suleiman is a singer songwriter hailing from Nottingham. Blending a smooth sound of R&B, Soul and Hip-Hop, Ady has been the focus of regional press this year, with tracks like “Why You Running Away” and “Serious” generating BBC Radio One airplay, as well as performing at the prestigious BBC I...

AEROPLANE FLIES HIGH

• THU 2ND 18+

  Screenadelica

Aeroplane Flies High are a Fuzz/Rock power trio that play huge, filthy, groovy, alt rock songs. Their outlook and delivery, make them poised to soon dominate all the swooning, heart throb media publications of today… Recently signed and managed at London’s SnakeTown Records and playing family friend...

AFTERNAUT

• THU 2ND 18+

  The Kazimier

Afternaut is an electronic music project from the Liverpool based musician, Adam Rowley. Fascinated with the manipulation of sound using effects and synthesis, Afternaut’s journey has led to the release of a series of E.P.s. that showcase his unique style of atmospheric electronica. As well as be...

ALEJANDRA BURGOS

• FRI 3RD 18+

  The Attic

Alejandra's music genre is blues, also rock and roll and pop. Her style shows the influence of artists such as Koko Taylor, Memphis Minnie, Etta James, Ruth Browm, Big Mama Thornton, Wanda Jackson, Janis Martin, Elvis Presley, Janis Joplin and The Beatles, among others. At the age of eight, led by h...

ALESSI'S ARK

• THU 2ND 18+

  Leaf Cafe (Upstairs)

Travel, adventure and personal revelation mark the new album by singer-songwriter Alessi Laurent–Marke of Alessi’s Ark. The Still Life is a work both lucid and heartbreakingly lovely, a sonic landscape that roams a wide range of emotions, with (as the songwriter explains), “Nature and love, as commo...

ALEX HULME

• THU 2ND 18+

  The Brink

"A beautiful song and a wonderful melody" Sir Paul McCartney It’s been a good year for Garstang born, Liverpool based, Alex. Having just graduated from LIPA where he played for Sir Paul McCartney and Billy Ocean as well as supporting a wealth of artists including Willy Mason, Willis Earl Beal and...

ALFRED HALL

• THU 2ND 18+

  Kazimier Gardens

Give a couple of farmhands some guitars and synths, and they make sweet, sweet indie pop? Sometimes things really are that simple. This is the band that has managed to find the perfect pop formula on their first attempt – what other bands spend years trying to figure out. The duo, consisting of B...