July 31, 2025 • 56 mins
Join us for an exciting journey into the vibrant local music scene with our latest episode, "Shop Local 2025." Discover the stories and sounds of incredible bands like:Orphan BoyHEALEREverSam SimmonsMintLeon Blanchard and The Tint GiantsLola and The Cosmic GetawayShinesSandra's WeddingLast of The Wonder KidsPalm Trees of VeniceElsonEden-Rae LakeBrad ArlissDJ Guy KeebleHost Dave, and guests: Rob Cross and Andrew Tiplady give a unique run down on the inaugural event. Each band brings a unique flavor, from indie rock to electronic vibes, ensuring there's something for everyone. Don't miss out on this celebration of local talent and community spirit! Follow the link to grab a ticket now - https://www.cleethorpescricketclub.com/shop-local-grass-roots-music-festival/Big shout out to the Shop Local 2025 and Cleethorpes Cricket Club dor sponsoring this episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
Tell me what you know about U f A.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Are we doing the job?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Rogan straight in Shop Local boys, let's get into it,
but first they introduce yourselves.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
My name is Rob Musician, local musician and awfume boy
and shines and now becoming a promoter and putting on
a festival in the summer and.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
The Tip Lady Tippers local music fan, very amateur music journalist.
Friends with a lot of the bands and yeah shot
vocals were doing.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
A all around ambassadors for local music. I think, yeah,
that was a much better intro to me, if ye.
So getting to it then Shop Local? How did it
come about? It's it's been.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
It's been in my mind for I don't know, four
or five years, I suppose. And a life member at
the Cricket Club. Done a lot of things with the
Cricket Club.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Cricket Club.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And you know, I was involved in a committee down
there that I'm no longer involved with, but we did
all sorts of things. We started that that committee started fireworks.
I worked with a great guy down there called Phil
Rogers who me and in come up with the firework thing,
the Halloween thing, father Christmas thing for the kids. Because
the club was it was on its ass a bit.
It was, it wasn't doing particularly well financially. Moved away
(01:49):
from that, but I've had a, you know, an avid
interest in the place, maintained that avid interest in the
place and nagged them about getting bands on. You did
a gig with Alternative Ages down there. Off the back
of that. Sam's almost got a bit of a residency
down there. Sam Sam plays Sam. Yeah, And I don't know.
(02:14):
I just always thought I'm missing a trick with taking
something a bit bigger. They've done big band stuff on
down there before, you know, swing bands in a marquee,
and I just mentioned, you know, you need to be
having a festival down there, and they that said to
me last year, this this festival you're always on about,
tippers Fest, jokingly tip Fest, tippers Fest.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Do you want to do it? And I said, yeah,
I do.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
And then they started telling me, oh, we can have
so and so, so and so, you know, covers bands,
and I said, just leave it with me for two weeks.
I was going to a couple of your gigs, a
couple of Shanes gigs at the time, so I know
I'll be seeing you pretty soon after this conversation, and
I approached Rob and Rob straight away yeah, often, but
(03:01):
I'll do it, probably Shines will do it. But more
than that, he was it was like he was into
it with me, which was you know, for me, it
was a weight lifted off my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, I think you've been mentioning it for years, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, sorry, just pull that Micah.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, you'd been talking about it for a long time.
But it just took shape kind of last year, didn't it.
We went to moss Fest was a mos Fest togave
in Sheffield.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, next, Yeah, we played that.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
We like the way that they did like an alternating
stage thing, main stage and then a second stage and
when one band finished, the next stage would begin. And
we was like we was talking about our festival idea
and we could let's do it like this. Look, let's
have a marquee as well, like the Mossfest marquee.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And yeah, is that the plan then is?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, well the mark is not quite as big as
the moss Fest mark. You know, it's it's just as
I was talking to you just before, we began, like
we're starting with it, We're starting small with it. We
wanted to be intimate We want the crowd to be
kind of concentrated, to have that real kind of live
gig feel. It's very much a grassroots music festival. So
grassroots gigs at the best, you know, are small venues,
(04:11):
packed crowd. You know, the atmosphere you just right for
every stage.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
You know, it's it's And we have got the club
lens itself to these two stages.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Doesn't it that we've got like.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
A little verandar area outside that you'll eased to get,
you know, a couple of hundred of people packed into
that undercover alone, but spill out, you know, spill out
beyond that.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I had no idea you had a second stage. I mean,
my book to play, I had no idea you're on.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
The second stage at dinner time, chairs, mate. The second
stage is it's on the veranda, so it's just outside
the club. But we're gonna have a stage built there.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Next year. We're going to look at the expanding we've got.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Obviously, the Critic Club is a huge area, so there's
room to expand it and have extra stages. And that's
that is the plan to make it a little bit
bigger each year. Obviously, with it being the Cricket Club.
It's a huge area, so people might come there thinking
it's going to be like a doc's fest sized gig.
It's that's not the way it's going to be. It's
much more, you know, it's a much more intimate event
(05:11):
as I just said. So, but the idea is to
build it and.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
The Cricket Club.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But it's yeah, it's it's not that it will be
a very special date.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So I mean it will be a big event in
that sense, but there's going to be hundreds of people.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
There from the line up alone. Yeah, yeah, I was
going to say from the lineup alone, you know it's
going to attract a good amount of that, was it.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I mean, we we we had to put a bit
of a business plan to put an Excel spreadsheet together,
so we were I don't know, we're feeling away a
bit of the budget weren't were to start with. But
it's I don't know, it's been pretty.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Easy, but the Cricket Club has just been really The
thing is with the Cricket Club, they put the fireworks
on every year, which is a huge event, thousands of people,
so they used to they know how to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So we've left a lot of the logistics to them.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
So our main role has been to get the bands
create the kind of vibe.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
They come up with the sort of ideas for promoting it.
We need to shout out Sash and Simon, Simon homes
and for Robot, they've been really good.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Working with Yeah they have. Yeah, they're fully on board,
haven't they. And yeah, you know, and yeah, really embraced it.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And Amanda, don't you don't know a manager. Amanda the manager,
she's she's really thrown herself into it. There's a girl
who's running the actual ticket side, who's posting because the
tickets are on online as well as in the club.
She's posting tickets outs. There's a lot of people working
on it. Yeah, behind the scenes, and it is a
real collective. Yess what it is, which is what we wanted,
(06:43):
that was that was the vision and it's just I
don't know, it's.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Just every every idea we've had, they've just been open
to it. And yeah, yeah, there's a good there's a
good buzz about the whole event from the from the
people that are organizing it, and then from the town
as well.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I think just from the actually people are to talking
about it all the.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Bands are absolutely buzzing about it.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
That's that's something else everybody wants to part of it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Which is we said earlier that there's quite a few
bands that are not on the line this year that
we want to get on next year because there's so
many good Low said it on the last podcast before.
But the scene is really buzzing in Grimsby at the moment.
I don't know what it's like in other towns, but
for some reason, there's so much happening, so many bands
are making records, doing great gigs.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I think, I think it's mind at the minute. I think, yeah, yeah,
I think we're on the precipice of like guitar music
becoming it's definitely coming the new mainstream. Maybe things like
Oasis reform and have helped that along its path, you know,
more recently as well.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
But I wonder as well if.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
There's a lot of bands smashing it at the minute.
You know, there's bands getting number ones in the official
album charts again, and that's just unheard off for a while.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
That is true, there are more bands in the charts now,
but grass Mouse music is stronger than it was because
people has just have got so much more access to is.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Because it's easier to put out. It's harder to but
it's easier to put back.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
In the nineties, like your grassroots scene, you go and
watch a local band at a local pub and they
might be a really good band, but unless they got signed,
they couldn't really go anywhere with that, so most people
get their music from the industry mainstream bands. Since then,
I think the mainstream has got pretty poor over the years.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Over the manufactured yeah, it's killed itself.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And the grassroots is just healthier and healthier. So more
and more people are turning.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
To that, and I think it's been it was taken
for granted for too long. And with the cost of
living yeah, and rising energy prices and things like that,
places are being crippled. So site more people are wanting
to embrace and nurture their grassroots venues because they are
closing it and alarming rate it's unbelievable, are quickly closing.
So congrats here for even deciding to put something like it,
(08:49):
because it's not the optimal time to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
You can see fourteen local bands, good local bands for
twenty five quid where Yeah, you want to go out
of town and see a ticket Master gig. It's fifty
quid at ticket minimum and then.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
At the hotel, the hotel and then everything else, yeah
eight quid appintment and new Lands as well, Yeah, in
new Lands as well in London.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Honest, I wan't see the Pixies in London a couple
of weeks a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The night wanst to cost me six quid. Yeah yeah
really up the missus Neltel room and everything.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah. See that's where I don't I'm doing Tramlines festival.
Daughters decided to go this is decided to come and
stay for the weekend. I might come on with Sunday,
I don't know yet. The following weekend we're going to
see Oats. Well that's family holiday. Yeah, it's family this
year this year.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, yeah, I'm getting married in a few months. Yeah,
so let's let's have a bit of a rundown if
the bands are on on the day. Yeah, what do
we want to start?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, I don't want to kind of do it in
terms of we haven't actually settled running order of the
banjett so let's not do that. Let's just's just going
randomly and yeah, if they won't.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Forget anyone, let's out Shines.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Shines. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Okay, So Shines are the band that I've been heavily
involved in for the last few years. Me and Dutton
started Richard Dutton, that is the singer in Shines, started
a project in twenty twenty one and it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Just kind of grew from there.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Put out an album and a few singles this year,
and recently Shines have just signed a record deal with
Eco Based record So they're in a really good place now.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So this this is they got.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
They're going to be on the main stage and things
are just kind of buzzing and bubbling away for Shines.
So it should be a really good kind of gig
for them, like on the up of the kind.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Of crest of the wave.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Hopefully it's been good time to see them.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
By the time this goes out, people will probably know
that I'm I'm stepping away from Shines at the end
of the summer.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Exclusive.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So yeah, but they're in a good position because the
new signed a deal.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
My reasons for that are I want to focus Shigns
are looking nationwide now, They're looking to go on the
road and do gigs all over the place. I'm not
in a position to commit to that. I want to
focus on the local scene.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
So it is great to see because you know, you
shared the early demos with me, what three four.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Years ago, Tippers just just move that might near your
face mate chairs.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Three four years ago. It is good to see that
there is that breakthrough and you're you know, you are
leaving at a time with it. Probably you need to
store it for yourself, but they've got something great to
work with.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean, and I mean, if if
it feels right for you, it feels right, don't know,
at the end of the day, it's it's a big
commitment being in a band, especially when you're looking to
go on tour nationally and things like that.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, I mean, I just I just think if you
if you're not going to commit to doing something full like,
then don't do it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
No half measures.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
And I don't want to commit something as a half
measure on my point. Yeah, So yeah, that's my reason basically.
But yeah, Ship Shines are going to be playing shop
Local playing their first album, new songs from the second
album coming up, and I think it'd be an absolutely blinding.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Set that do you wanna do you want to get
into my mate Yeah's wedding, Yeah, Yeah wedding.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Met them in pl and Jack's Records. Actually they I
mean they've They've released a lot of albums, pushed a
lot of stuff out in the final they wrapped up
at MAT's one day and I think we're dropping five
records and basically just gave him. But I said to him, well,
I'm not just going to give him away. I'll sell
him for Andy's Man club that.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Does a lot for that Mat Driver.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
And I'm one of his best customers, big record collection.
And he basically said to me some his wedding tippers.
You need to get into these. And I think it
was the hopeful for Boy replacement service put some fancy
labels on, so I bought one of them. They came
and did a gig a week or so later, they
brought a lot more. I think it was Framed Yourself.
(13:13):
They brought in a few more copies and they said,
I've just given them to the people who bought the
last one. So I took to a few morequ with
him and his own club, got to know him, bought
the rest of their albums. I did a long review
for Framer Frame Yourself, which fantastic album. Just got to
know the lads and they've played quite a bit around
here and we thought, yeah, you know another from I
(13:36):
think the only ones from out of town.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, theol to me like I want it to be
shop local, but it's to me, I'm including like Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Going for next year.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
We do want to get some more bands places at
those places on but they for.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Me, they were a big draw. I mean, you've had
Joe in here recently. Very interesting guy, very articulate guy.
I think he was on underselling himself as a songwriter
to be fair. I think you know, he's been name
checked by people like Paul and there are parallels with
Beautiful House Martins and Smith's, and I think they will appeal.
So there's something in there for everybody. It's very very
(14:16):
authentic sounding. It's very resonant with even though they're from Gold,
it's very resonant around here. But yeah, I've known Joe
and Johnny Hughes for quite a lot, played with him
in the early days of Healer and yeah, yeah two
absolutely spotting Blakes.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's good to see them getting involved. They're excited about
it as well. I spoke to him about it when
there was over in the I really looking forward to it.
So good to have them on board. It is definitely yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Who should go on to next?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I'm just writing all the names. Devastated to miss someone
off right, Okay, So I'll talk about Elson if you want,
go for it.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, so yeah Elson.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
They've done a few gigs of us Shines that is recently.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I just think there are really all kind of young
band who've got great sound, great songs.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
The complete package out there.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, going from they're one of the younger bands on
the bill, so it's exciting to have younger bands on board.
They've got a very to me, they've got a little
bit of a grungy sound, a little bit shoegaze, but
also there's a bit of a pop center. There's you
can hear the Cure and the Smith's in there. So
I think they'll just they'll add a bit of a
bit of style and a bit of to the.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
They've got very articulate sound that you can tell they
give a ship about every single phrase single.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
If you mentioned the showg thing, my Bloody Valentine to
the ride, end of the shoege and everything in between.
And yeah, they Transcend Everything.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
The great band. I don't know if I can talk
about this, but Elson are doing something with Healer at
the back end of the.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Year, collaborate.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
What kind of collaboration, I don't know. I don't know
if I can say anymore, I don't When this comes out, yeah, okay,
I'll say so. Hitler are going to be doing a
headline show at Docs Academy in November, and Elson are
going to be opening for us. There's going to be
another band on the bill as well. But I might
have got myself in trouble and aouncing and ye our jacket.
(16:17):
They might just be like at this point of the episode. Yeah,
but yeah, yeah, we've got something plan with Elson. We
think they're great. Yeah, we really like Elson.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, that'll be a great show. I mean, Elson are
just they're so laid back. It's like they're happy just
to go on and support it. They just they just
love playing. And with the rocks up in that little.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Car so you yea, spiders didn't they were just literally
getting chased.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
In the car yea.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah talking about outside really really.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
There's no like ego there to him.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I mean, they do need to really like start putting
on their own shows and taking that next step, which
are sure they will though.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Like laid back, very serious, very h very serious about
the quality of it, you.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Know, m hmm. Yeah, they've got something good going for themselves.
They just they just need to go out of it
fast because they've still got youth on their side and
that matters. Fifty Should I go into a shameless helo
plug then yeah, go for it. So yeah, we're we're
on the night. I think we're what second to last. Yeah, yeah,
(17:17):
so we'll be on just before All for the Boy.
By the time this comes out, will have just come
off the back of the London time release. Bad Patterns
will be out soon. Yeah, we can't wait. May. Obviously
you reached out. I think we was quite early to
get on board one way. That was a big thing
to get you guys on as well. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, you're doing a lot of good stuff locally, got
good fan.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Base, Yeah, which straight away with fo Yeah fucking too right,
we'll support that. Yeah. So where we're looking forward to it.
May looking forward to it. You've got you have a launch.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Most of the bands appeal to the sort of core
of the people we're going to attract.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, generally we appealed to all their mums as well.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yeah, yeah, mat drive, but he says, hey, look they
like the place. So I don't get that, but I
get where he's coming from.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, if you know.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
You've got a really a good, strong pop.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
To me, it's like a good pope, very rat same
radio friendly.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Makes it seem a little bit like I think it
is very commercially, it's very Yeah, I think I think Steve.
I think Steve allows us to be a bit more
do what we want because his vocals always bring it
back to that commercial sort of viability, do you know
what I mean? His lyrics are very deeper, articulate. But
(18:33):
with the with the new record we've just we've just
put together, like I said, off the back of London Town,
Bad Patterns will be out shortly after this episode's out,
and then uh and then the next two. It's some
of the most experimental stuff we've put down so far.
But it's very much more experimental than we've done in
(18:54):
the past. I've added a few extra instruments onto the
tracks and things like that. So the movement, remember haven't
you so? Yeah we have yeah yeah, yeah, So we've
got Joel here on board now, I think Joel's been
involved in Shop Locals to some extent as an a.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah, he's going to be doing a bit of video
work on the day. He's actually playing along with me
and Sam Carlton. He's the only person playing two sets.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, yeah with Lowland the Cosmic Getaway. Yeah. And then
we've got we've got Connor on board now he's our
new basis too. So but things are going really well.
Let them been out. We've we've kind of hit a
point now where we've all got that shared vision and
that shared goal and we we know what we want
to do, we know what we've got to do to
achieve it. Now we're just throwing ourselves in things we've
(19:37):
been half fastening in the past, you know, socials and
things like that. We're just all over it now.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Thinking mentioned earlier, London Town lyrically does kind of connect
with the theme massively.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah, because I've put that review out. We're linked the lyrics,
the lyrics to just linked to locally is about this,
We're not you're not hearing us.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
We've got lots Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well I mentioned this on the last podcast, but we
do get forgotten and not forgot about nothing.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
That thought about in the first place.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
It's just it is starting off from the rest of
the music scene in the country, and I know that
is changing a little bit, but I think it's given
as a really healthy scene because everyone kind of looks
inwards more.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
It's creating a self sufficiency and with that there is
so many If everybody's helping everybody else out, that's that's
what you're doing here, That's what we're doing with Shop Local.
I don't know that just there's there's this real cooperative
spirit that seems to sort of self propagate great, great talent.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You know, that's why I started writing about this stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I've never written anything in my life before until eighteen
months ago.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You know, it's just enjoyable to be part of it.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
That's what the festival's about really, just like it's what's
going on in being Cleethorpes needs to be celebrated, I think.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So that's what.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, there's other good festivals locally, obviously Docs Fest bringing
in established professional bands, which hasn't happened before, but we're
doing a different angle to that. We're focusing on, you
know that the local talent, which deserves its What.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
John and Wayne are doing, it's great, but we're not
we're not competing festival. Yeah yeah, it's not that that
is all part of this cooperative. We're just doing something
that's slightly different and slightly more for the local.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Band to have to have three well there's there's there's more.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Just three festivals.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
For original music, three big festivals in the local area.
And there was nothing years ago, was there? So you
might have a battle of the bands or something at
the beach coma. Well that's that was about it. So
I just think it's great. We've got all so much
going on that after spend six from quid.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
A thriving and I, believe it or not, last night
there was two bon Jovi bands playing in Grimsby concurrently,
one Docs Academy one of the beds. I couldn't believe
it last night. Where else in the UK right now
where you're getting two bon jv bands playing concurrently.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Both were packed with her.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Docs Academy was certainly packed it. There was a lot
of very very keen bon Jovie fans at Docks Academy
last night. I saw them all else we got on
the list. Ever, there's about fifteen left to ghost. Yeah. Ever,
stick out to whoever yeah, well, absolutely smash it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Ever, obviously the youngest band on the bill, they're.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
The youngest down there.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
They are.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, easily the youngest. I think they're at seventeen.
Well I know a couple of them because they went
to the school that I teach at. Yeah, so they
didn't leave that long ago, so that they are really young.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But they're absolutely killing it. Great musicians.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Just been out to LA and recorded to material stream
in La doing that. They've got a management company, We've
got great connections and so they are set to have
the kind of.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
They've actually played Cricket Club before.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
What I like about them is they have played so
many gigs already probably paid and played more gigs and
a lot of the bands in the lineup, and they're
so young.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
They just had an they just love doing it.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
They just they would play anywhere and it's it's made
them really tight and they're really quite seasoned already. Obviously,
the future is very bright for those guys. So for
us to get them on on the lineup was a
big thing.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Really, you've got a band on your lineup that's also
on an e A Sports NHL game.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
They may be to play next year, so that's the
right that is.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, they are smashing it. Props to them a revivaly
on the lineup.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
But they couldn't do if we approached it did approach
a lot of bands.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Obviously, we can't get every it's fitting them all on
as well, because you know, not every band would be
happy going on early for example, different bands, different stages
in there kind of yeah, yeah, but we want to
put another festival on next year. We want to get
all the bands that didn't make it on this year
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on next year and then who else. There may be
some bands emerge in that time that we're not even
aware of yet.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
So the diversity is absolutely brilliant because ever at one
head of a spectrum, yeah, they're very rocky get away
at the other end of the spectrum, Yeah, there is
literally something for everybody.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
But while we're on about young band Shower of Ivory,
because they are also smashing it Friday, obviously you know
three young ambassadors for the time.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Yeah, the EP landed this week and yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Josh was down here last night. We had a sober
session here last night, Charles Sober Sessions and Pether played
and Josh has popped down to a couple of Army
taking some photos. So shout out Josh Carefield Photography because
I think he's new to his photography stuff, but he's
doing some really good live music stuff already. But who's
next on the list, because I think that's fourteen left
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now and we're working away through it. Do you want
to do brad arlist?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Because you've made Yeah, another great young singer songwriter. I
had a chat with him a couple of weeks back
to to sort of write a profile on him. We
got talking about the clash and straight away anybody who
can talk about the clash.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
There, that's it. Yeah, they're on the bill.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Excite what he's doing, some great, really meaningful, hard hitting lyrics.
Got He's obviously got a big social conscience see parallels
with Frank Turner with him himself.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
He's another one that is just really keen to play
as well. Yeah, he's got a great attitude. The solo
artist will be going on earlier on the bill, but
he's he's not been kind of, you know, sniffy about that.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It's just yah.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
To be on the bill and and be a part
of it. It was great to get him on board.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (25:59):
When I I messaged him and said, because I've not
seen a lot of his stuff, to be fair, so
I've been listening to our Spotify couple. Just have a check,
says I'm writing you're a profile. Says you're writing me
a profile says yeah, says we'll talk about your welcome music,
and he says, class not tell you what it is,
but yeah. He was just absolutely buzzing to be to
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be chatting about it and have somebody engaging with him
about something he's going to do.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
It's not just going to rock up. There's actually thought
going in to.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
What we're Yeah, it's not just it's not just about
the thirty minutes or forty minutes whatever that they play
on the date. It's about all the promo leading up
to it. It's about Tippers right ups that he's doing,
the profiles that were putting out there. We want it
to be for every everyone involved who wanted to really
help them to kind of push on and develop and
get a.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Bit more more of a spotlight on him, because.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's not just about the day. Well you just mentioned
about walk out music and picking Walkout music that that's
fucking ruining Healer from the inside out, mate, All right.
There's a lot of arguments because I have this one
song that I demand we come out to every every
every time we play, and we have the opportunity. I
want this one song and everyone's like, oh, but everyone
(27:11):
loves yea Zoo only you say that game yea Zoo
only you. It's amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you hear it, mate,
you'll be singing it and you don't even realize. Everyone
absolutely but yeah, but that's not in now. Yeah, they
say ten minutes on this Yazoo should be the wall.
It's brilliant, mate. It's one of them songs that everyone's
(27:32):
mum knows and obviously that's our clientele. The fan heler
gates the one that Sam covers. He covers Yazoo song. Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Get mixed up between Yazoo and yas anyways.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
About anyway we digressed, but yeah, just let you know
you're ruining Healer from the inside of heart, mate with that.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Well, you've got, however long between now when you put
this out. I've got that time.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
So for you, I'm going to look stupid if we
don't come out to that. Now what from Hanley Jack's
pick you one?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
So we on two next shall we do Mint?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Men, Yeah, I'll talk about Mint.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Yeah. I mean obviously they were They've been around for
a while now, just real big local band. They've played
sellout shows locally, they've had a bit of industry attention,
They've put loads of great songs out again.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Just massive to have them on board because.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
There's such a big stage presence as well, all big characters.
Obviously Zach as well is the Collagen Livee front man,
so they will put on a fantastic show because the
great musicians.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
They've got big rock sound as well.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Which will compliment some other bands on the bill.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, just Zak is.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Going to be doing a bit of work with me
as well, a bit of promo work hopefully, so by
the time this comes out, hopefully there should be some
of that should be emerging, a little bit of we
want to get doing it, maybe get doing a few
solo performances and acoustic performances from some of the people
are taking part.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
It means that are working on that.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
At the moment, I feel pretty stupid now that doesn't materialize,
but we've announced.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I'll come down and do a ye Zoo cover just
on my own.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Brilliant that's going to happen now, Dave.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
The last thing you want is me doing that to
promote your festival, mate, me and my personal collection. Mint
will be fantastic. They always put in a good show,
you know that.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
They're one of the main stays of the local scene
for the last few years. Just there would have been
a mint shaped hole in the festival bill if they've
not agreed to do it.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Very good, very good, And that leads us nicely on
too to do palm trees.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, do palm trees. Good friends of mine. No secretly
them into the sort of mod new wave sort of
scene and that's where.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
They that's where they sit, Palm trees of Venice. Palm
trees of Venice.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, great, great lads putting their putting a piece of
irodyl out like the ship comes out just after the festival.
Actually again a band that will appeal to probably the
older end of the audience because of the mod new
wave thing that they they sort of sit around. But
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within that whole sound there's diversities as well. You know,
some of the songs very punky blondie ish o. The
songs Scar influenced a bit of the Cure in their
very very you know jam look to them, look the
part good musicians and good friends of mine.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Socialized with them. It was actually it's actually.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
With Lewis till early hours of Saturday morning, listening to
music with Lewis a little bit. And they were they
worked for it as well.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, they've got good enthusiasm and attitude for it as well.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Like they're just again, everybody we were talking about is different.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Ye is true, you know, you know it's very it's
very guitar flavored the bill.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
There's rock bands, there's punkier bands.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Indeed, every flavor, every flavor.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Palm have got more of a well it's got modern influences,
but it's not that, is it.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
They've got the rest of the band.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yeah, songwriting band, that's good. Some some nice you know,
some nice sort of instrumental, big instrumental sound that they
bring with them as well. They've been at it for years.
I mean they were they were involved with the Chariots,
weren't they were ten years ago and they've actually got
a bit of that sounded. Chatting to them on Friday
(31:53):
and we were talking about that. There's definitely a little
bit leftover Chariots in there.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, speaking diversity, It's good to have Lola.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
And the Cosmic Getaway on the pill, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Because they have They are the most electronic band on
the bill easily, and I do wish there'd be more
bands that were more. I mean, obviously his kid's spirit
as well. He's a lot of simps. They're not on
this year, but all.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
This year but hopefully next year. But yeah, Lowela definitely,
I mean, and too nice of people. You couldn't bet
Joel obviously if you're working with Joel. Yeah, but Joel
Loui is absolute.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, yeah, Louise is great. Joel's all right.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
You've been arguing with him about the walk On music.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahs at the minute of that walk
Art music. No, No, Joel is so talented Joel. You know,
me and Joel had become very close over the past
couple of months when he's you know, since he's joined Heiler. Yeah,
but he still puts absolutely everything into Lawyer in the
Cosmic gat Away as well. I don't know, yeah, so
many gigs. I was a rehearsal with Joel last week.
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We got there a little bit early, like we usually do,
just a nerd out over stuff and that and he
put something on and it sounded so dirty, and I
looked over and he was like, that was minding Louise's
new song. So it an't as as I'm aware, but
hopefully it'll be at the festival. Sounds ridiculous. The latest
(33:17):
single that they're working on sounds incredible. Yeah, looking for Turing.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
That just a bit of a maestro, any I mean,
you could just do so many things, like he's doing
videos for us on the day. He don't be doing
videos for Shines over the last few years.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
He's doing two sets on the day.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
He's doing two sets on the day. I can imagine
he plays about twelve different instruments.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Louise's voice as well, I mean, yeah, phenomenal, strong voice, haunting,
very very good, Yeah, very.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Good outfit, right, okay, erm I spoke quite a lot
about Sam Simmons on my last podcast. Do you want
to talk about Sam?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Sam? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Well again, it's a bit of a local treasure, a
local institutions ours ours keeping, Yeah, national treasure, fantastic musician.
Halfway through reviewing his new album. Actually, obviously he did
a big gig with Ellen Henderson singing with Carry and
(34:22):
now I think that's bringing something to his sound, his
solo stuff. People call him the human juke box around it,
which I think, Yeah, it's great. But it's good to
see him putting more of his own music out now.
I haven't act him a bit about again. So hard working.
I mean, how many gigs.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Is he playing? Does it?
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I think it's the only one on the bill that's
making a living.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
He's been some more weddings than a vicar, and he's
doing a bit of everything, isn't it. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
he makes his living doing it, and he pays his
cover sets. He's playing my wedding, and you know he
is prolific, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeahs has been.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Fantastic every time we get into it with Simon, and
multiple people say he needs to do more with Love
and Memory, definite Love and Memory greatly some great music. Yeah,
it's a shame to not see him play his own music.
That was exactly what the human jukebox thing is great.
But Sam's got so much more and I'm so glad
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he is starting to play it a bit more.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah, he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
He doesn't do that many local gigs do his own
music anymore, does he?
Speaker 4 (35:29):
He started to feed a few. He has started to
feed a few in. But it's going to be great
to see.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Him on the bill.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Yeah, definitely, And it's no stranger to the cricket club
he plays. He plays in the cricket club of lots.
He's got a bit of a he's got a bit
of following in his own right in the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
So yeah, speaking of it Ella Henderson show.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Really we had Eden ray Lake on that, didn't we
So yeah, time to mention her, yes, Yeah, because she's
back on the scene recently. She kind of went off
for a while, didn't she. She's been doing a lot
of gigs locally recently. She's obviously some of a lot
of potential, great local singer songwriter, and it's good to
have females on the bill to give it that diversity
(36:13):
because the writing the right enough locally.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I don't think a great voice fantastic, it's got a
great vice And she did a bit we did.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
She did some were collaborating a few songs with Shines
and she did the vocals on the end of something.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah. Just great singer, good performer.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
You know, let's talk about We've got we've got a
playlist out with all these bands talking about but there's
a shop local playlist linked to the link to the socials.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I'll drop it below the episode. Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Anyone watching it who is intrigued by all these bands
that were mentioned but probably you know, probably don't know
most of them, go to Tippers's playlist, which will be
linked on your page, and then just just listen to that.
Just put that on and just soak it up. And
then how advise anyone to do that as coming to
the festival, because it will enhance the day knowing all
the songs.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Look look back through that through the previous podcast. Most
of these have been on Orphan Boy, Men Men I've
been on yet, but they have done the Saber sessions.
But they are coming on the podcast, I should say,
if they've not already been on at this point when
this episode comes out. But yeah, look look back through
there's there's there's loads on there, load than the Cosmic
getaways on there.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
All these bands have got great songs as well, So
you know, it's not going to be the people that
don't know much about the local scene. There might be
there might have been a bit of a stigma about
local grassroots bands, but they're all really really good and
all deserve attention, and there's not much difference in quality.
I don't think I've noticed this when I was gigging
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with awphun Boy around the country, and most of the
best bands that I saw on my favorite bands that
I was listening to were unsigned bands just at the
same level we were.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
We would meet them at.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Gigs and befriend them, and the music was fantastic. And
I almost think sometimes when a band gets taken into
the industry, they lose a little bit of something. Somebody
gets kind of sucked out of them. And that's probably
why a lot of bands first album first albums are
their best albums, and that comes from.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
They wrote those albums as grassroots bands, which is what.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
You've not been forced like batterians to churn something. It's
from from the heart, from the cell.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I think. I think you see a lot of that,
particularly guitar.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
I think there's something about that once, once it becomes
your job, suddenly the whole creative process changes, and it's
the freedom goes out of it. It's not something you're doing
for fun and for play anymore something you have to
do to meet a deadline, and suddenly it just adds
a bit of pressure that maybe just sucks a little
bit of the life out of what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah, or maybe an inflated ego.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Does that as well.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah, Yeah, I think that affects a lot of things,
to be honest, you know what I mean. Think it's
like trying to break through to that next level. You've
almost forgot what you've broken through and what you're broken
through from, do you know what I mean? Like you've
broken through and now you're at that level. You're like,
it's human nature. You only try when you have to try.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah, once, once you've made it, I suppose the pressure
is off and the band set the foot off the gas,
So that's part of it.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Probably. Yeah, definitely, we're doing pretty well. Yeah. I think
we've got for a few, haven't we. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Last of the Wonder Kids.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Last of the Wonder Kids. Yeah, another sound, another very
original sound. Last of the Wonder Kids gone from being
a three piece to a four piece with Lenny.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yeah. Also the day.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
They need their own green room more than you know
what I mean. I mean again, I've no Laura since
she was a kid. She's daughter of a friend of mine.
So seen them evolves.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
A long time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, done a lot of
good stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
They're also playing dogs Fest this year, which is a
great Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Long Ether also playing docs Fast. I know they're taking
a lot of stuff down off Spotify because the way
we re recording it all in New York, and I
think there was some issues. I don't know whether the
a young Ful studio, I think that was working out
for a bit, wasn't they did they go both to
the studio. I'm not sure. I'm not sure there's a
load of music there ready to come out.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
They've re recorded a lot of the old stuff because
I don't know whether you've noticed started doing the stuff
from Waves. The EP that they released got eight nine
years ago that it did get a lot of radio play.
But again the band that's got a lot of influences
post punk, indie.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Again, there was another one a bit like Elson.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
They've got a slight American sound, almost like college in
the sound like a band like.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Palm Trees has got a very British sound. But yeah, yeah,
then like Last of the Wonder Kids, they're.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Almost like the American equipment American sound equivalent. It's quite spiky,
but very very diverse within what it's all very you know,
in the same art, but quite diverse within it. And
I know that might sound a bit of a dichotomy,
but that's that's what that's what it is to me.
And again a great back catalog. Yeah, really exciting energetic performances,
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I think, and I think Lenny brought that. Lenny brought
that to them when he joined, what a couple of
years ago now three years ago?
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Good.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Yeah, usually performs in double denim as well, which sometimes
triple actually yeah, sometimes he's.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Got a little bit of a different different image to
the other three. But the gel really well. And then
they work really hard because they all have different placesas
over in Leeds and got a lot going on, but
the very very committed and again another one that we're
so glad to have on the bill because they've been
(41:53):
part of the local soon for so long.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
M hm does that leave us one? We've got We've
got three more, three more yea yeah, yeah, yeah, So
this is such a catalog of band I think there last, mate,
you've got to say them to last save often by
till last. But you can talk about when out feeding
because well you talk about Leon then Leon Yeah again
(42:17):
profile went out this week. Leon Blanchard, Yeah, Leon, the
Tiny Giants.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
Yeah, I mean, you know, Leon's no, no, no, sort
of stranger to successful songwriting.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
I mean, the Bright Lights.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Were a great band on the verge of you know
what was hopefully bigger things than it. Sadly it wasn't
to be. And it's great to see him with a
batch of songs that have been really well produced, you know,
over the past sort of twelve months, getting out there
and you know, played some great gigs locally and you know,
(42:51):
again a different sound, very very you know, I don't
know where you would describe it.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
He's got kind of a ballad kind of sound. It's
a bit springs the kind of.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
It is, but it's still got a little linitly twist
to it. But it's got such a distinct had.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
There's a lot of piano as well.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah. The piano is not the case of a lot
of the bands on the bill. That's something a bit
different again, the piano is taking the lead. Yeah. Yeah, again.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
Been chatting to Leon for about a year because he
makes pulling into it so done some articles for him, Yeah,
I mean he he really for me, is is somebody that.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I don't know wh we need him there to almost.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Yeah, it's just enough name that like it has to
be involved just because of his pedigree what he's done
in bright lights, but in like ving a carva, casting
over and now with the Tiny Giants.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Yeah, go back years. Well they used to play with
a cava a bit and that was yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Well he put a big event on that Minster last
year into Yeah. You know, it's just that was a
different and special kind.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Of gig he likes to.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
He just he's got a bit of a vision for
doing big, going big with it as any Yeah, we.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
Were chatting and he was saying, I'm doing a giggle.
It's nobody's done it before, and it was worrying around
my head. I was thinking I started doing gigs at
home Minster. He's doing the Minister literally as he was
tapping it out, I was tapping it out. It was yeah,
memorable that it was busy. Kid's spirited lower great, great night.
(44:23):
It's like a mini shot loc.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Just very cold, which hopefully won't be on the day.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
It should be warm. Good time he here for it.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
Yeah, well we've gone for a Marquie as well, which
I just I just think music sounds better in a
tent or a marquee. I just think outdoors you can
sometimes if it's windy, you can lose a bit of
the sound. But we've got a marquee, so even if
it rains, there's no excuse. Get yourself down. But I'm
sure it'll be glorious.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Son, it's going to be like it. It's going to
be like it. Promised us. We'll manifesto few calls. I
don't know his core mate for that one.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Before we do Orphan Boy, we should mention Guy Cable.
When I did the Orphan Boy podcast, we didn't mention
Guy Cable. But even when I got back home, I
didn't mention Guy. I was mortified.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
He actually messaged me about slugging you half.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
He was the manager of Orphan Boy for a good
couple of years.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Well you want to know that because you didn't mention,
Maybe we can edit this back into when's he going
to Guy? When's he going to pinch Guy? I thought
the same thing. Mate had a word after.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
And Guys that seeing isn't He's intrinsic to it. He
you know, he's going to link the day brother.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, he's going to be DJing, Yeah, the main stage.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Yeah, he's he's been djaying for years. He knows exactly
what to play and when and how to build the
crowd up. So he want to speak to about your
walk on song day message, make it happen for you.
But yeah, he's been a big part of like Orphan
boys journey, so it's great to have him involved as well.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
And the last but not okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Well that's awesome boy in my band, Shop Local is
the name of our first album, so that's where it
came from.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
When it's a brilliant that was a brilliant idea, that
was a right brain with yourslf.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
You just watched that, Mike, please mate, when hard work
in it. It's hard work looks easy, don't it on YouTube?
Hard work.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
When we come up with the name shop Local years
ago for the album, I had a vague idea of
what I meant, what I thought it meant, But over
the years it's just kind of clarified it in my head.
What I was on about back then when I called
the album shop locally, it is about looking at what's
going on in your doorstep basically, and not being not
being prejudiced about things that aren't successful or on a
(46:52):
screen like you can you can go to a local
gig and see a great band and it can be
a fantastic experience.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
You don't have to just rely on.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
What's on the radio or what's what's trending on whatever
social media.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
I mean, you can shop local is like a moral obligation,
and even more so when you're from somewhere like this
where you need to feed your own economies. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Yeah, but it's not so it's not just as a
sense of duty. People should go to this festival.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
I'm trying to sell it, but.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
It will be I think you can have a fantastic
time going getting involved. Me you'll know better than anyone
to because you go to so many gigs at that level,
and you can connect with the bands.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
You can you can.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Get to the front of the stage and see the performance,
and you can just be part of the journeys these
bands evolve and grow.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
That's exactly it. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
Yeah, there is a bit of social conscience in it,
but the people coming they won't they won't be coming
out of social conscience, but there might be unbiased social conscience.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
People just comen't want to get pissed and that's fine
because it will be perfect, perfect event for that.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
I kind of get too pissed if I need you
to be in charge.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
I've got too much else to be responsible person.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
Awtume Boy Obviously we've probably been I think we've been
going the longest out of all the bands.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
We'll built twenty.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
It was two thousand and five, but.
Speaker 3 (48:27):
We we kind of split up and then got back together,
and like we've we've been going for years, so we've
built up a big fan base locally. When we play locally,
we can usually sell three or former tickets no problem.
So we're hoping that would be a great way to
finish the night off.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
Often by gigs are an event, yeah, locally an event
when he played twice again and that's too much for Smith.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
He wants to wind it down first.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
You know, played a couple of big gigs again. You're
the dogs for to Academy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
We felt like real big events massive.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
I want this festival to have the same kind of field.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
But I mean it will probably come out in the
in the profile, all right, so will probably be out
by the time this comes out. But everybody goes to
an Awful Boy gig there's a ball of potential energy
and then it hits critical mass.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
For a lot of people. It's the one night out
of here they're allowed. No, it is the amount of
people I know. It is the one night out of
here they're allowed. It's the one three parts.
Speaker 4 (49:38):
Of gigs and other places. Coventry, Blackbird Enemy right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Yeah, yeah, always been good gigs, mate. Every every single
Orphan boy I've been gig I've been to has been
been a decent one's been you know, been lucky enough
to do a couple of you now as well. So
Sonne a few bits together now, aren't we the Bird?
Speaker 2 (49:59):
I mean we have we have Well we played dos.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
First moss Fest we played with Shines was on, Healer
was on. So yeah, I've done a few bits now,
haven't we shared stage a few times? Mate? Yes?
Speaker 4 (50:10):
On three very distinct different albums. Yeah, very very you know,
high quality. I remember Text and Christy Day when I
was in HP and Newcastle was there and Q Magazine.
(50:31):
I think he got four or five starts and four stars.
Stereophoonics who released an album that Chris Who having about that.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
Yeah, we did quality stuff.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Yeah, we did all right back in the day.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Another band that we could have made it things if
the I don't know that the cards had fallen, but differently,
but with we've achieved achieved the kind of a level
of success that it has been pretty special.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
In its own right. You know, if you have fun
doing it, they definitely Yeah, that's all that matters. And
at the end of the day, that's the way I
see it. Once the fun goes from it, there's no
pointers there.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
This gig is going to not just the often boy
a bit, but everything. The whole of it may be
a fun day. It's going to be an absolute party.
I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
Yeah, you can have all all them different personalities in
one place for an entire day. It's such a stack
line of the green room will be interesting, that'll be Yeah,
Lenny is going to be there, man, No, it is.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
It's going to be special. On that Monday morning, It's
going to be okay, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
I kept panicking, you know what, because it's actually on
a Sunday, isn't it The amount of times I've googled
bank Holadays twenty twenty five thinking I've got the wrong
date and it's actually going to be like a.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Normal Monday the next day.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Yeah, it's definitely yeah.
Speaker 4 (51:49):
But it's it's it will be, but it's christ We've
got to go again now because we will be starting
to plant well we're already yeah, yeah, you know, plan
him next year.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
But it won't be only rest. Well, we'll be.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
Like we've had a good sign planning it.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
The cricket club, get my monopoly pieces out, you know,
the red and green hotel and houses, just planning everything out.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
We're all going to.
Speaker 4 (52:18):
Go because I had to dash off because I was
taking counter.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
For his gig.
Speaker 4 (52:26):
And you text me that's what I came up with.
It's just it has it's been a laugh.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
I mean how long I have known you? Yeah about that?
Speaker 4 (52:34):
Yeah, I probably knew Christian. Christ is the first one
you get to know. Believe it or not, everyone knows Christian. Yeah,
I work out to not know Christian and then obviously
got to know swiftly.
Speaker 1 (52:48):
But then.
Speaker 4 (52:50):
I'm not a very gregarious person and you're.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
Quite uh wels.
Speaker 4 (52:59):
We've known each other weelve, Yes, I think we've got
to know each other a lot better in the last
twelve for two months. Who would were quite like minded?
I think we yeah, same sort of moral attitude. Yeah, yeah,
it's it has it's been fun.
Speaker 1 (53:16):
It has been fun. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
Yeah, well twenty twenty six. Any bands that would like
to consider it, get in touch and we'll we'll.
Speaker 2 (53:26):
Yeah, we're going to We're going to go.
Speaker 3 (53:28):
We're going to expand next year, bigger marquees, bigger stages.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
Yeah, who knows.
Speaker 4 (53:33):
Yeah, I mean the club's going to do very well
out of it, and we need to ring fence some
of the budget.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
For next year. Yeah, definitely keep reinvesting, keep growing and
keep I mean there's learned a lot as we're going,
and there's things we would probably do a little bit different.
And there is no shortage of talent, mate, you know,
from here to Hold to Lincoln, there is no shortage
of talent. There is so many bands who are having
a really good go out of the minute. I'm sure
you have no problem putting an absolute staf lying upon it.
Speaker 4 (54:00):
We've got to give a shout out to the other
people who are involved because there's all of his by
design chuped a few quid in.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
Very early Yeah, the sponsors, Yeah, yeah, has been great.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
Yeah, we've got some good vendors there on the day
as well.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
Do Brothers are there.
Speaker 4 (54:14):
Greek Shark people who run the kitchen at the Cricket Club,
absolutely brilliant Sunday lunches there, grazing platters there. They'll be
doing food it's poor and nice cocktails. So there's there's
there's there's local vendors that brought into it as well.
Speaker 3 (54:28):
Some people will go to the to the event and
probably not watch any bands. Were just just sit at
a in the ber garden bit and enjoy the food
and socialized we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
We're going to do some little profiles for them as well.
Speaker 4 (54:41):
We've got Paul Burchess, photographer who's been helping us out
as well, and he snap. Paul's been helping us. We're
going to go to the hopefully go to the vendors shops,
take some photographs and doing little profiles in a week's time,
give them a bit of advertised we might even get
some free food.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
Oh you know, you can't turn down some free food,
can Yeah? So yeah, right. Honestly, I'm buzzing for the day.
I can't wait for it. I'm glad that either a
part of it, and I'm glad that we've done this.
Hopefully this will appreciate having is on day, but all
the links for this are going to be down below. Yeah, yeah,
it's it's gonna be a cracking day. I can't wait.
(55:23):
I can't wait. If you've got anything else, anything, any
closing statements, closing statements, Get your tickets quick because they're going.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
Yeah, it probably will sell out, so get a ticket
from from the Cricket Club.
Speaker 2 (55:37):
You can buy it online as well. There's a link.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
We'll stick that link into cricket. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (55:41):
Alan Jack's Scott at replay Freeway. Actually he's been supported
these selling tickets as well.
Speaker 1 (55:48):
Or on the link or likewise, give give our page
a message and we'll we'll make sure people get get
linked up with that. Nice one. Boys. Thanks coming down.
Then maybe we'll do one again next year. Yeah, kiss
Baran Chased Boys
Tell me what you know about U f A.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Are we doing the job?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Rogan straight in Shop Local boys, let's get into it,
but first they introduce yourselves.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
My name is Rob Musician, local musician and awfume boy
and shines and now becoming a promoter and putting on
a festival in the summer and.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
The Tip Lady Tippers local music fan, very amateur music journalist.
Friends with a lot of the bands and yeah shot
vocals were doing.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
A all around ambassadors for local music. I think, yeah,
that was a much better intro to me, if ye.
So getting to it then Shop Local? How did it
come about? It's it's been.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
It's been in my mind for I don't know, four
or five years, I suppose. And a life member at
the Cricket Club. Done a lot of things with the
Cricket Club.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Cricket Club.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
And you know, I was involved in a committee down
there that I'm no longer involved with, but we did
all sorts of things. We started that that committee started fireworks.
I worked with a great guy down there called Phil
Rogers who me and in come up with the firework thing,
the Halloween thing, father Christmas thing for the kids. Because
the club was it was on its ass a bit.
It was, it wasn't doing particularly well financially. Moved away
(01:49):
from that, but I've had a, you know, an avid
interest in the place, maintained that avid interest in the
place and nagged them about getting bands on. You did
a gig with Alternative Ages down there. Off the back
of that. Sam's almost got a bit of a residency
down there. Sam Sam plays Sam. Yeah, And I don't know.
(02:14):
I just always thought I'm missing a trick with taking
something a bit bigger. They've done big band stuff on
down there before, you know, swing bands in a marquee,
and I just mentioned, you know, you need to be
having a festival down there, and they that said to
me last year, this this festival you're always on about,
tippers Fest, jokingly tip Fest, tippers Fest.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Do you want to do it? And I said, yeah,
I do.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
And then they started telling me, oh, we can have
so and so, so and so, you know, covers bands,
and I said, just leave it with me for two weeks.
I was going to a couple of your gigs, a
couple of Shanes gigs at the time, so I know
I'll be seeing you pretty soon after this conversation, and
I approached Rob and Rob straight away yeah, often, but
(03:01):
I'll do it, probably Shines will do it. But more
than that, he was it was like he was into
it with me, which was you know, for me, it
was a weight lifted off my mind.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
And yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Well, I think you've been mentioning it for years, haven't you.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, sorry, just pull that Micah.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Yeah, you'd been talking about it for a long time.
But it just took shape kind of last year, didn't it.
We went to moss Fest was a mos Fest togave
in Sheffield.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, yeah, next, Yeah, we played that.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
We like the way that they did like an alternating
stage thing, main stage and then a second stage and
when one band finished, the next stage would begin. And
we was like we was talking about our festival idea
and we could let's do it like this. Look, let's
have a marquee as well, like the Mossfest marquee.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
And yeah, is that the plan then is?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, well the mark is not quite as big as
the moss Fest mark. You know, it's it's just as
I was talking to you just before, we began, like
we're starting with it, We're starting small with it. We
wanted to be intimate We want the crowd to be
kind of concentrated, to have that real kind of live
gig feel. It's very much a grassroots music festival. So
grassroots gigs at the best, you know, are small venues,
(04:11):
packed crowd. You know, the atmosphere you just right for
every stage.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
You know, it's it's And we have got the club
lens itself to these two stages.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Doesn't it that we've got like.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
A little verandar area outside that you'll eased to get,
you know, a couple of hundred of people packed into
that undercover alone, but spill out, you know, spill out
beyond that.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
I had no idea you had a second stage. I mean,
my book to play, I had no idea you're on.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
The second stage at dinner time, chairs, mate. The second
stage is it's on the veranda, so it's just outside
the club. But we're gonna have a stage built there.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Next year. We're going to look at the expanding we've got.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Obviously, the Critic Club is a huge area, so there's
room to expand it and have extra stages. And that's
that is the plan to make it a little bit
bigger each year. Obviously, with it being the Cricket Club.
It's a huge area, so people might come there thinking
it's going to be like a doc's fest sized gig.
It's that's not the way it's going to be. It's
much more, you know, it's a much more intimate event
(05:11):
as I just said. So, but the idea is to
build it and.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
The Cricket Club.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
But it's yeah, it's it's not that it will be
a very special date.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So I mean it will be a big event in
that sense, but there's going to be hundreds of people.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
There from the line up alone. Yeah, yeah, I was
going to say from the lineup alone, you know it's
going to attract a good amount of that, was it.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
I mean, we we we had to put a bit
of a business plan to put an Excel spreadsheet together,
so we were I don't know, we're feeling away a
bit of the budget weren't were to start with. But
it's I don't know, it's been pretty.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
Easy, but the Cricket Club has just been really The
thing is with the Cricket Club, they put the fireworks
on every year, which is a huge event, thousands of people,
so they used to they know how to do it.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
So we've left a lot of the logistics to them.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
So our main role has been to get the bands
create the kind of vibe.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
They come up with the sort of ideas for promoting it.
We need to shout out Sash and Simon, Simon homes
and for Robot, they've been really good.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Working with Yeah they have. Yeah, they're fully on board,
haven't they. And yeah, you know, and yeah, really embraced it.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
And Amanda, don't you don't know a manager. Amanda the manager,
she's she's really thrown herself into it. There's a girl
who's running the actual ticket side, who's posting because the
tickets are on online as well as in the club.
She's posting tickets outs. There's a lot of people working
on it. Yeah, behind the scenes, and it is a
real collective. Yess what it is, which is what we wanted,
(06:43):
that was that was the vision and it's just I
don't know, it's.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Just every every idea we've had, they've just been open
to it. And yeah, yeah, there's a good there's a
good buzz about the whole event from the from the
people that are organizing it, and then from the town
as well.
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I think just from the actually people are to talking
about it all the.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Bands are absolutely buzzing about it.
Speaker 4 (07:03):
That's that's something else everybody wants to part of it.
Speaker 3 (07:07):
Which is we said earlier that there's quite a few
bands that are not on the line this year that
we want to get on next year because there's so
many good Low said it on the last podcast before.
But the scene is really buzzing in Grimsby at the moment.
I don't know what it's like in other towns, but
for some reason, there's so much happening, so many bands
are making records, doing great gigs.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
I think, I think it's mind at the minute. I think, yeah, yeah,
I think we're on the precipice of like guitar music
becoming it's definitely coming the new mainstream. Maybe things like
Oasis reform and have helped that along its path, you know,
more recently as well.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
But I wonder as well if.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
There's a lot of bands smashing it at the minute.
You know, there's bands getting number ones in the official
album charts again, and that's just unheard off for a while.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
That is true, there are more bands in the charts now,
but grass Mouse music is stronger than it was because
people has just have got so much more access to is.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Because it's easier to put out. It's harder to but
it's easier to put back.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
In the nineties, like your grassroots scene, you go and
watch a local band at a local pub and they
might be a really good band, but unless they got signed,
they couldn't really go anywhere with that, so most people
get their music from the industry mainstream bands. Since then,
I think the mainstream has got pretty poor over the years.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
Over the manufactured yeah, it's killed itself.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
And the grassroots is just healthier and healthier. So more
and more people are turning.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
To that, and I think it's been it was taken
for granted for too long. And with the cost of
living yeah, and rising energy prices and things like that,
places are being crippled. So site more people are wanting
to embrace and nurture their grassroots venues because they are
closing it and alarming rate it's unbelievable, are quickly closing.
So congrats here for even deciding to put something like it,
(08:49):
because it's not the optimal time to do it.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
You can see fourteen local bands, good local bands for
twenty five quid where Yeah, you want to go out
of town and see a ticket Master gig. It's fifty
quid at ticket minimum and then.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
At the hotel, the hotel and then everything else, yeah
eight quid appintment and new Lands as well, Yeah, in
new Lands as well in London.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Honest, I wan't see the Pixies in London a couple
of weeks a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
The night wanst to cost me six quid. Yeah yeah
really up the missus Neltel room and everything.
Speaker 4 (09:22):
Yeah. See that's where I don't I'm doing Tramlines festival.
Daughters decided to go this is decided to come and
stay for the weekend. I might come on with Sunday,
I don't know yet. The following weekend we're going to
see Oats. Well that's family holiday. Yeah, it's family this
year this year.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
Yeah, yeah, I'm getting married in a few months. Yeah,
so let's let's have a bit of a rundown if
the bands are on on the day. Yeah, what do
we want to start?
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Well, I don't want to kind of do it in
terms of we haven't actually settled running order of the
banjett so let's not do that. Let's just's just going
randomly and yeah, if they won't.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Forget anyone, let's out Shines.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Shines. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Okay, So Shines are the band that I've been heavily
involved in for the last few years. Me and Dutton
started Richard Dutton, that is the singer in Shines, started
a project in twenty twenty one and it.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Just kind of grew from there.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Put out an album and a few singles this year,
and recently Shines have just signed a record deal with
Eco Based record So they're in a really good place now.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So this this is they got.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
They're going to be on the main stage and things
are just kind of buzzing and bubbling away for Shines.
So it should be a really good kind of gig
for them, like on the up of the kind.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
Of crest of the wave.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Hopefully it's been good time to see them.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
By the time this goes out, people will probably know
that I'm I'm stepping away from Shines at the end
of the summer.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
Exclusive.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
So yeah, but they're in a good position because the
new signed a deal.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
My reasons for that are I want to focus Shigns
are looking nationwide now, They're looking to go on the
road and do gigs all over the place. I'm not
in a position to commit to that. I want to
focus on the local scene.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
So it is great to see because you know, you
shared the early demos with me, what three four.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Years ago, Tippers just just move that might near your
face mate chairs.
Speaker 4 (11:26):
Three four years ago. It is good to see that
there is that breakthrough and you're you know, you are
leaving at a time with it. Probably you need to
store it for yourself, but they've got something great to
work with.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
Yeah, yeah, totally. I mean, and I mean, if if
it feels right for you, it feels right, don't know,
at the end of the day, it's it's a big
commitment being in a band, especially when you're looking to
go on tour nationally and things like that.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, I mean, I just I just think if you
if you're not going to commit to doing something full like,
then don't do it.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
No half measures.
Speaker 3 (11:56):
And I don't want to commit something as a half
measure on my point. Yeah, So yeah, that's my reason basically.
But yeah, Ship Shines are going to be playing shop
Local playing their first album, new songs from the second
album coming up, and I think it'd be an absolutely blinding.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Set that do you wanna do you want to get
into my mate Yeah's wedding, Yeah, Yeah wedding.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Met them in pl and Jack's Records. Actually they I
mean they've They've released a lot of albums, pushed a
lot of stuff out in the final they wrapped up
at MAT's one day and I think we're dropping five
records and basically just gave him. But I said to him, well,
I'm not just going to give him away. I'll sell
him for Andy's Man club that.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
Does a lot for that Mat Driver.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
And I'm one of his best customers, big record collection.
And he basically said to me some his wedding tippers.
You need to get into these. And I think it
was the hopeful for Boy replacement service put some fancy
labels on, so I bought one of them. They came
and did a gig a week or so later, they
brought a lot more. I think it was Framed Yourself.
(13:13):
They brought in a few more copies and they said,
I've just given them to the people who bought the
last one. So I took to a few morequ with
him and his own club, got to know him, bought
the rest of their albums. I did a long review
for Framer Frame Yourself, which fantastic album. Just got to
know the lads and they've played quite a bit around
here and we thought, yeah, you know another from I
(13:36):
think the only ones from out of town.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, theol to me like I want it to be
shop local, but it's to me, I'm including like Lincoln.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Going for next year.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
We do want to get some more bands places at
those places on but they for.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
Me, they were a big draw. I mean, you've had
Joe in here recently. Very interesting guy, very articulate guy.
I think he was on underselling himself as a songwriter
to be fair. I think you know, he's been name
checked by people like Paul and there are parallels with
Beautiful House Martins and Smith's, and I think they will appeal.
So there's something in there for everybody. It's very very
(14:16):
authentic sounding. It's very resonant with even though they're from Gold,
it's very resonant around here. But yeah, I've known Joe
and Johnny Hughes for quite a lot, played with him
in the early days of Healer and yeah, yeah two
absolutely spotting Blakes.
Speaker 1 (14:30):
It's good to see them getting involved. They're excited about
it as well. I spoke to him about it when
there was over in the I really looking forward to it.
So good to have them on board. It is definitely yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Who should go on to next?
Speaker 3 (14:41):
I'm just writing all the names. Devastated to miss someone
off right, Okay, So I'll talk about Elson if you want,
go for it.
Speaker 2 (14:53):
Yeah, so yeah Elson.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
They've done a few gigs of us Shines that is recently.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
I just think there are really all kind of young
band who've got great sound, great songs.
Speaker 1 (15:06):
The complete package out there.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Yeah, going from they're one of the younger bands on
the bill, so it's exciting to have younger bands on board.
They've got a very to me, they've got a little
bit of a grungy sound, a little bit shoegaze, but
also there's a bit of a pop center. There's you
can hear the Cure and the Smith's in there. So
I think they'll just they'll add a bit of a
bit of style and a bit of to the.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
They've got very articulate sound that you can tell they
give a ship about every single phrase single.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
If you mentioned the showg thing, my Bloody Valentine to
the ride, end of the shoege and everything in between.
And yeah, they Transcend Everything.
Speaker 1 (15:46):
The great band. I don't know if I can talk
about this, but Elson are doing something with Healer at
the back end of the.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Year, collaborate.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
What kind of collaboration, I don't know. I don't know
if I can say anymore, I don't When this comes out, yeah, okay,
I'll say so. Hitler are going to be doing a
headline show at Docs Academy in November, and Elson are
going to be opening for us. There's going to be
another band on the bill as well. But I might
have got myself in trouble and aouncing and ye our jacket.
(16:17):
They might just be like at this point of the episode. Yeah,
but yeah, yeah, we've got something plan with Elson. We
think they're great. Yeah, we really like Elson.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
Yeah, that'll be a great show. I mean, Elson are
just they're so laid back. It's like they're happy just
to go on and support it. They just they just
love playing. And with the rocks up in that little.
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Car so you yea, spiders didn't they were just literally
getting chased.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
In the car yea.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah talking about outside really really.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
There's no like ego there to him.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
I mean, they do need to really like start putting
on their own shows and taking that next step, which
are sure they will though.
Speaker 4 (16:50):
Like laid back, very serious, very h very serious about
the quality of it, you.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Know, m hmm. Yeah, they've got something good going for themselves.
They just they just need to go out of it
fast because they've still got youth on their side and
that matters. Fifty Should I go into a shameless helo
plug then yeah, go for it. So yeah, we're we're
on the night. I think we're what second to last. Yeah, yeah,
(17:17):
so we'll be on just before All for the Boy.
By the time this comes out, will have just come
off the back of the London time release. Bad Patterns
will be out soon. Yeah, we can't wait. May. Obviously
you reached out. I think we was quite early to
get on board one way. That was a big thing
to get you guys on as well. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
Yeah, you're doing a lot of good stuff locally, got
good fan.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Base, Yeah, which straight away with fo Yeah fucking too right,
we'll support that. Yeah. So where we're looking forward to it.
May looking forward to it. You've got you have a launch.
Speaker 4 (17:47):
Most of the bands appeal to the sort of core
of the people we're going to attract.
Speaker 1 (17:52):
Yeah, generally we appealed to all their mums as well.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Yeah, yeah, mat drive, but he says, hey, look they
like the place. So I don't get that, but I
get where he's coming from.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, if you know.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
You've got a really a good, strong pop.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
To me, it's like a good pope, very rat same
radio friendly.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Makes it seem a little bit like I think it
is very commercially, it's very Yeah, I think I think Steve.
I think Steve allows us to be a bit more
do what we want because his vocals always bring it
back to that commercial sort of viability, do you know
what I mean? His lyrics are very deeper, articulate. But
(18:33):
with the with the new record we've just we've just
put together, like I said, off the back of London Town,
Bad Patterns will be out shortly after this episode's out,
and then uh and then the next two. It's some
of the most experimental stuff we've put down so far.
But it's very much more experimental than we've done in
(18:54):
the past. I've added a few extra instruments onto the
tracks and things like that. So the movement, remember haven't
you so? Yeah we have yeah yeah, yeah, So we've
got Joel here on board now, I think Joel's been
involved in Shop Locals to some extent as an a.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Yeah, he's going to be doing a bit of video
work on the day. He's actually playing along with me
and Sam Carlton. He's the only person playing two sets.
Speaker 1 (19:16):
Yeah, yeah with Lowland the Cosmic Getaway. Yeah. And then
we've got we've got Connor on board now he's our
new basis too. So but things are going really well.
Let them been out. We've we've kind of hit a
point now where we've all got that shared vision and
that shared goal and we we know what we want
to do, we know what we've got to do to
achieve it. Now we're just throwing ourselves in things we've
(19:37):
been half fastening in the past, you know, socials and
things like that. We're just all over it now.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
Thinking mentioned earlier, London Town lyrically does kind of connect
with the theme massively.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
Yeah, because I've put that review out. We're linked the lyrics,
the lyrics to just linked to locally is about this,
We're not you're not hearing us.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
We've got lots Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well I mentioned this on the last podcast, but we
do get forgotten and not forgot about nothing.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
That thought about in the first place.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
It's just it is starting off from the rest of
the music scene in the country, and I know that
is changing a little bit, but I think it's given
as a really healthy scene because everyone kind of looks
inwards more.
Speaker 4 (20:21):
It's creating a self sufficiency and with that there is
so many If everybody's helping everybody else out, that's that's
what you're doing here, That's what we're doing with Shop Local.
I don't know that just there's there's this real cooperative
spirit that seems to sort of self propagate great, great talent.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
You know, that's why I started writing about this stuff.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I've never written anything in my life before until eighteen
months ago.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
You know, it's just enjoyable to be part of it.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
That's what the festival's about really, just like it's what's
going on in being Cleethorpes needs to be celebrated, I think.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
So that's what.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, there's other good festivals locally, obviously Docs Fest bringing
in established professional bands, which hasn't happened before, but we're
doing a different angle to that. We're focusing on, you
know that the local talent, which deserves its What.
Speaker 4 (21:15):
John and Wayne are doing, it's great, but we're not
we're not competing festival. Yeah yeah, it's not that that
is all part of this cooperative. We're just doing something
that's slightly different and slightly more for the local.
Speaker 3 (21:27):
Band to have to have three well there's there's there's more.
Speaker 1 (21:32):
Just three festivals.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
For original music, three big festivals in the local area.
And there was nothing years ago, was there? So you
might have a battle of the bands or something at
the beach coma. Well that's that was about it. So
I just think it's great. We've got all so much
going on that after spend six from quid.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
A thriving and I, believe it or not, last night
there was two bon Jovi bands playing in Grimsby concurrently,
one Docs Academy one of the beds. I couldn't believe
it last night. Where else in the UK right now
where you're getting two bon jv bands playing concurrently.
Speaker 2 (22:08):
Both were packed with her.
Speaker 1 (22:09):
Docs Academy was certainly packed it. There was a lot
of very very keen bon Jovie fans at Docks Academy
last night. I saw them all else we got on
the list. Ever, there's about fifteen left to ghost. Yeah. Ever,
stick out to whoever yeah, well, absolutely smash it.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Ever, obviously the youngest band on the bill, they're.
Speaker 1 (22:29):
The youngest down there.
Speaker 2 (22:30):
They are.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, easily the youngest. I think they're at seventeen.
Well I know a couple of them because they went
to the school that I teach at. Yeah, so they
didn't leave that long ago, so that they are really young.
Speaker 1 (22:43):
But they're absolutely killing it. Great musicians.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Just been out to LA and recorded to material stream
in La doing that. They've got a management company, We've
got great connections and so they are set to have
the kind of.
Speaker 1 (22:58):
They've actually played Cricket Club before.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
What I like about them is they have played so
many gigs already probably paid and played more gigs and
a lot of the bands in the lineup, and they're
so young.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
They just had an they just love doing it.
Speaker 3 (23:11):
They just they would play anywhere and it's it's made
them really tight and they're really quite seasoned already. Obviously,
the future is very bright for those guys. So for
us to get them on on the lineup was a
big thing.
Speaker 1 (23:24):
Really, you've got a band on your lineup that's also
on an e A Sports NHL game.
Speaker 3 (23:31):
They may be to play next year, so that's the
right that is.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Yeah, they are smashing it. Props to them a revivaly
on the lineup.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
But they couldn't do if we approached it did approach
a lot of bands.
Speaker 3 (23:46):
Obviously, we can't get every it's fitting them all on
as well, because you know, not every band would be
happy going on early for example, different bands, different stages
in there kind of yeah, yeah, but we want to
put another festival on next year. We want to get
all the bands that didn't make it on this year
(24:08):
on next year and then who else. There may be
some bands emerge in that time that we're not even
aware of yet.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
So the diversity is absolutely brilliant because ever at one
head of a spectrum, yeah, they're very rocky get away
at the other end of the spectrum, Yeah, there is
literally something for everybody.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
But while we're on about young band Shower of Ivory,
because they are also smashing it Friday, obviously you know
three young ambassadors for the time.
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Yeah, the EP landed this week and yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Josh was down here last night. We had a sober
session here last night, Charles Sober Sessions and Pether played
and Josh has popped down to a couple of Army
taking some photos. So shout out Josh Carefield Photography because
I think he's new to his photography stuff, but he's
doing some really good live music stuff already. But who's
next on the list, because I think that's fourteen left
(25:02):
now and we're working away through it. Do you want
to do brad arlist?
Speaker 4 (25:06):
Because you've made Yeah, another great young singer songwriter. I
had a chat with him a couple of weeks back
to to sort of write a profile on him. We
got talking about the clash and straight away anybody who
can talk about the clash.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
There, that's it. Yeah, they're on the bill.
Speaker 4 (25:28):
Excite what he's doing, some great, really meaningful, hard hitting lyrics.
Got He's obviously got a big social conscience see parallels
with Frank Turner with him himself.
Speaker 3 (25:40):
He's another one that is just really keen to play
as well. Yeah, he's got a great attitude. The solo
artist will be going on earlier on the bill, but
he's he's not been kind of, you know, sniffy about that.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
It's just yah.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
To be on the bill and and be a part
of it. It was great to get him on board.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
Wasn't it?
Speaker 4 (25:59):
When I I messaged him and said, because I've not
seen a lot of his stuff, to be fair, so
I've been listening to our Spotify couple. Just have a check,
says I'm writing you're a profile. Says you're writing me
a profile says yeah, says we'll talk about your welcome music,
and he says, class not tell you what it is,
but yeah. He was just absolutely buzzing to be to
(26:21):
be chatting about it and have somebody engaging with him
about something he's going to do.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
It's not just going to rock up. There's actually thought
going in to.
Speaker 3 (26:29):
What we're Yeah, it's not just it's not just about
the thirty minutes or forty minutes whatever that they play
on the date. It's about all the promo leading up
to it. It's about Tippers right ups that he's doing,
the profiles that were putting out there. We want it
to be for every everyone involved who wanted to really
help them to kind of push on and develop and
get a.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Bit more more of a spotlight on him, because.
Speaker 1 (26:49):
It's not just about the day. Well you just mentioned
about walk out music and picking Walkout music that that's
fucking ruining Healer from the inside out, mate, All right.
There's a lot of arguments because I have this one
song that I demand we come out to every every
every time we play, and we have the opportunity. I
want this one song and everyone's like, oh, but everyone
(27:11):
loves yea Zoo only you say that game yea Zoo
only you. It's amazing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you hear it, mate,
you'll be singing it and you don't even realize. Everyone
absolutely but yeah, but that's not in now. Yeah, they
say ten minutes on this Yazoo should be the wall.
It's brilliant, mate. It's one of them songs that everyone's
(27:32):
mum knows and obviously that's our clientele. The fan heler
gates the one that Sam covers. He covers Yazoo song. Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Get mixed up between Yazoo and yas anyways.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
About anyway we digressed, but yeah, just let you know
you're ruining Healer from the inside of heart, mate with that.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Well, you've got, however long between now when you put
this out. I've got that time.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
So for you, I'm going to look stupid if we
don't come out to that. Now what from Hanley Jack's
pick you one?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
So we on two next shall we do Mint?
Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
Men, Yeah, I'll talk about Mint.
Speaker 3 (28:19):
Yeah. I mean obviously they were They've been around for
a while now, just real big local band. They've played
sellout shows locally, they've had a bit of industry attention,
They've put loads of great songs out again.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
Just massive to have them on board because.
Speaker 3 (28:34):
There's such a big stage presence as well, all big characters.
Obviously Zach as well is the Collagen Livee front man,
so they will put on a fantastic show because the
great musicians.
Speaker 2 (28:48):
They've got big rock sound as well.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Which will compliment some other bands on the bill.
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Yeah, just Zak is.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Going to be doing a bit of work with me
as well, a bit of promo work hopefully, so by
the time this comes out, hopefully there should be some
of that should be emerging, a little bit of we
want to get doing it, maybe get doing a few
solo performances and acoustic performances from some of the people
are taking part.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
It means that are working on that.
Speaker 3 (29:13):
At the moment, I feel pretty stupid now that doesn't materialize,
but we've announced.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I'll come down and do a ye Zoo cover just
on my own.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Brilliant that's going to happen now, Dave.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
The last thing you want is me doing that to
promote your festival, mate, me and my personal collection. Mint
will be fantastic. They always put in a good show,
you know that.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
They're one of the main stays of the local scene
for the last few years. Just there would have been
a mint shaped hole in the festival bill if they've
not agreed to do it.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Very good, very good, And that leads us nicely on
too to do palm trees.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
Yeah, do palm trees. Good friends of mine. No secretly
them into the sort of mod new wave sort of
scene and that's where.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
They that's where they sit, Palm trees of Venice. Palm
trees of Venice.
Speaker 4 (30:13):
Yeah, great, great lads putting their putting a piece of
irodyl out like the ship comes out just after the festival.
Actually again a band that will appeal to probably the
older end of the audience because of the mod new
wave thing that they they sort of sit around. But
(30:34):
within that whole sound there's diversities as well. You know,
some of the songs very punky blondie ish o. The
songs Scar influenced a bit of the Cure in their
very very you know jam look to them, look the
part good musicians and good friends of mine.
Speaker 1 (30:50):
Socialized with them. It was actually it's actually.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
With Lewis till early hours of Saturday morning, listening to
music with Lewis a little bit. And they were they
worked for it as well.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Yeah, they've got good enthusiasm and attitude for it as well.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Like they're just again, everybody we were talking about is different.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Ye is true, you know, you know it's very it's
very guitar flavored the bill.
Speaker 2 (31:16):
There's rock bands, there's punkier bands.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
Indeed, every flavor, every flavor.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
Palm have got more of a well it's got modern influences,
but it's not that, is it.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
They've got the rest of the band.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Yeah, songwriting band, that's good. Some some nice you know,
some nice sort of instrumental, big instrumental sound that they
bring with them as well. They've been at it for years.
I mean they were they were involved with the Chariots,
weren't they were ten years ago and they've actually got
a bit of that sounded. Chatting to them on Friday
(31:53):
and we were talking about that. There's definitely a little
bit leftover Chariots in there.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Yeah, speaking diversity, It's good to have Lola.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
And the Cosmic Getaway on the pill, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (32:05):
Because they have They are the most electronic band on
the bill easily, and I do wish there'd be more
bands that were more. I mean, obviously his kid's spirit
as well. He's a lot of simps. They're not on
this year, but all.
Speaker 4 (32:16):
This year but hopefully next year. But yeah, Lowela definitely,
I mean, and too nice of people. You couldn't bet
Joel obviously if you're working with Joel. Yeah, but Joel
Loui is absolute.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
Yeah, yeah, Louise is great. Joel's all right.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
You've been arguing with him about the walk On music.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahs at the minute of that walk
Art music. No, No, Joel is so talented Joel. You know,
me and Joel had become very close over the past
couple of months when he's you know, since he's joined Heiler. Yeah,
but he still puts absolutely everything into Lawyer in the
Cosmic gat Away as well. I don't know, yeah, so
many gigs. I was a rehearsal with Joel last week.
(32:57):
We got there a little bit early, like we usually do,
just a nerd out over stuff and that and he
put something on and it sounded so dirty, and I
looked over and he was like, that was minding Louise's
new song. So it an't as as I'm aware, but
hopefully it'll be at the festival. Sounds ridiculous. The latest
(33:17):
single that they're working on sounds incredible. Yeah, looking for Turing.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
That just a bit of a maestro, any I mean,
you could just do so many things, like he's doing
videos for us on the day. He don't be doing
videos for Shines over the last few years.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
He's doing two sets on the day.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
He's doing two sets on the day. I can imagine
he plays about twelve different instruments.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Louise's voice as well, I mean, yeah, phenomenal, strong voice, haunting,
very very good, Yeah, very.
Speaker 3 (33:49):
Good outfit, right, okay, erm I spoke quite a lot
about Sam Simmons on my last podcast. Do you want
to talk about Sam?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Sam? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Well again, it's a bit of a local treasure, a
local institutions ours ours keeping, Yeah, national treasure, fantastic musician.
Halfway through reviewing his new album. Actually, obviously he did
a big gig with Ellen Henderson singing with Carry and
(34:22):
now I think that's bringing something to his sound, his
solo stuff. People call him the human juke box around it,
which I think, Yeah, it's great. But it's good to
see him putting more of his own music out now.
I haven't act him a bit about again. So hard working.
I mean, how many gigs.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Is he playing? Does it?
Speaker 3 (34:41):
I think it's the only one on the bill that's
making a living.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
He's been some more weddings than a vicar, and he's
doing a bit of everything, isn't it. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
he makes his living doing it, and he pays his
cover sets. He's playing my wedding, and you know he
is prolific, isn't he?
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeahs has been.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Fantastic every time we get into it with Simon, and
multiple people say he needs to do more with Love
and Memory, definite Love and Memory greatly some great music. Yeah,
it's a shame to not see him play his own music.
That was exactly what the human jukebox thing is great.
But Sam's got so much more and I'm so glad
(35:22):
he is starting to play it a bit more.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yeah, he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
He doesn't do that many local gigs do his own
music anymore, does he?
Speaker 4 (35:29):
He started to feed a few. He has started to
feed a few in. But it's going to be great
to see.
Speaker 1 (35:34):
Him on the bill.
Speaker 4 (35:36):
Yeah, definitely, And it's no stranger to the cricket club
he plays. He plays in the cricket club of lots.
He's got a bit of a he's got a bit
of following in his own right in the Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
So yeah, speaking of it Ella Henderson show.
Speaker 3 (35:51):
Really we had Eden ray Lake on that, didn't we
So yeah, time to mention her, yes, Yeah, because she's
back on the scene recently. She kind of went off
for a while, didn't she. She's been doing a lot
of gigs locally recently. She's obviously some of a lot
of potential, great local singer songwriter, and it's good to
have females on the bill to give it that diversity
(36:13):
because the writing the right enough locally.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
I don't think a great voice fantastic, it's got a
great vice And she did a bit we did.
Speaker 3 (36:23):
She did some were collaborating a few songs with Shines
and she did the vocals on the end of something.
Speaker 1 (36:30):
Yeah. Just great singer, good performer.
Speaker 4 (36:34):
You know, let's talk about We've got we've got a
playlist out with all these bands talking about but there's
a shop local playlist linked to the link to the socials.
Speaker 1 (36:42):
I'll drop it below the episode. Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Anyone watching it who is intrigued by all these bands
that were mentioned but probably you know, probably don't know
most of them, go to Tippers's playlist, which will be
linked on your page, and then just just listen to that.
Just put that on and just soak it up. And
then how advise anyone to do that as coming to
the festival, because it will enhance the day knowing all
the songs.
Speaker 1 (37:05):
Look look back through that through the previous podcast. Most
of these have been on Orphan Boy, Men Men I've
been on yet, but they have done the Saber sessions.
But they are coming on the podcast, I should say,
if they've not already been on at this point when
this episode comes out. But yeah, look look back through
there's there's there's loads on there, load than the Cosmic
getaways on there.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
All these bands have got great songs as well, So
you know, it's not going to be the people that
don't know much about the local scene. There might be
there might have been a bit of a stigma about
local grassroots bands, but they're all really really good and
all deserve attention, and there's not much difference in quality.
I don't think I've noticed this when I was gigging
(37:47):
with awphun Boy around the country, and most of the
best bands that I saw on my favorite bands that
I was listening to were unsigned bands just at the
same level we were.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
We would meet them at.
Speaker 3 (37:58):
Gigs and befriend them, and the music was fantastic. And
I almost think sometimes when a band gets taken into
the industry, they lose a little bit of something. Somebody
gets kind of sucked out of them. And that's probably
why a lot of bands first album first albums are
their best albums, and that comes from.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
They wrote those albums as grassroots bands, which is what.
Speaker 4 (38:18):
You've not been forced like batterians to churn something. It's
from from the heart, from the cell.
Speaker 1 (38:25):
I think. I think you see a lot of that,
particularly guitar.
Speaker 3 (38:28):
I think there's something about that once, once it becomes
your job, suddenly the whole creative process changes, and it's
the freedom goes out of it. It's not something you're doing
for fun and for play anymore something you have to
do to meet a deadline, and suddenly it just adds
a bit of pressure that maybe just sucks a little
bit of the life out of what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (38:47):
Yeah, or maybe an inflated ego.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Does that as well.
Speaker 1 (38:50):
Yeah, Yeah, I think that affects a lot of things,
to be honest, you know what I mean. Think it's
like trying to break through to that next level. You've
almost forgot what you've broken through and what you're broken
through from, do you know what I mean? Like you've
broken through and now you're at that level. You're like,
it's human nature. You only try when you have to try.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
Yeah, once, once you've made it, I suppose the pressure
is off and the band set the foot off the gas,
So that's part of it.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Probably. Yeah, definitely, we're doing pretty well. Yeah. I think
we've got for a few, haven't we. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Last of the Wonder Kids.
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Last of the Wonder Kids. Yeah, another sound, another very
original sound. Last of the Wonder Kids gone from being
a three piece to a four piece with Lenny.
Speaker 2 (39:33):
Yeah. Also the day.
Speaker 4 (39:39):
They need their own green room more than you know
what I mean. I mean again, I've no Laura since
she was a kid. She's daughter of a friend of mine.
So seen them evolves.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
A long time. Yeah, yeah, yeah, done a lot of
good stuff.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
They're also playing dogs Fest this year, which is a
great Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:59):
Long Ether also playing docs Fast. I know they're taking
a lot of stuff down off Spotify because the way
we re recording it all in New York, and I
think there was some issues. I don't know whether the
a young Ful studio, I think that was working out
for a bit, wasn't they did they go both to
the studio. I'm not sure. I'm not sure there's a
load of music there ready to come out.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
They've re recorded a lot of the old stuff because
I don't know whether you've noticed started doing the stuff
from Waves. The EP that they released got eight nine
years ago that it did get a lot of radio play.
But again the band that's got a lot of influences
post punk, indie.
Speaker 2 (40:37):
Again, there was another one a bit like Elson.
Speaker 3 (40:39):
They've got a slight American sound, almost like college in
the sound like a band like.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Palm Trees has got a very British sound. But yeah, yeah,
then like Last of the Wonder Kids, they're.
Speaker 4 (40:54):
Almost like the American equipment American sound equivalent. It's quite spiky,
but very very diverse within what it's all very you know,
in the same art, but quite diverse within it. And
I know that might sound a bit of a dichotomy,
but that's that's what that's what it is to me.
And again a great back catalog. Yeah, really exciting energetic performances,
(41:17):
I think, and I think Lenny brought that. Lenny brought
that to them when he joined, what a couple of
years ago now three years ago?
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Good.
Speaker 3 (41:25):
Yeah, usually performs in double denim as well, which sometimes
triple actually yeah, sometimes he's.
Speaker 4 (41:32):
Got a little bit of a different different image to
the other three. But the gel really well. And then
they work really hard because they all have different placesas
over in Leeds and got a lot going on, but
the very very committed and again another one that we're
so glad to have on the bill because they've been
(41:53):
part of the local soon for so long.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
M hm does that leave us one? We've got We've
got three more, three more yea yeah, yeah, yeah, So
this is such a catalog of band I think there last, mate,
you've got to say them to last save often by
till last. But you can talk about when out feeding
because well you talk about Leon then Leon Yeah again
(42:17):
profile went out this week. Leon Blanchard, Yeah, Leon, the
Tiny Giants.
Speaker 4 (42:22):
Yeah, I mean, you know, Leon's no, no, no, sort
of stranger to successful songwriting.
Speaker 1 (42:29):
I mean, the Bright Lights.
Speaker 4 (42:30):
Were a great band on the verge of you know
what was hopefully bigger things than it. Sadly it wasn't
to be. And it's great to see him with a
batch of songs that have been really well produced, you know,
over the past sort of twelve months, getting out there
and you know, played some great gigs locally and you know,
(42:51):
again a different sound, very very you know, I don't
know where you would describe it.
Speaker 3 (42:56):
He's got kind of a ballad kind of sound. It's
a bit springs the kind of.
Speaker 4 (43:01):
It is, but it's still got a little linitly twist
to it. But it's got such a distinct had.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
There's a lot of piano as well.
Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah. The piano is not the case of a lot
of the bands on the bill. That's something a bit
different again, the piano is taking the lead. Yeah. Yeah, again.
Speaker 4 (43:18):
Been chatting to Leon for about a year because he
makes pulling into it so done some articles for him, Yeah,
I mean he he really for me, is is somebody that.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
I don't know wh we need him there to almost.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
Yeah, it's just enough name that like it has to
be involved just because of his pedigree what he's done
in bright lights, but in like ving a carva, casting
over and now with the Tiny Giants.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Yeah, go back years. Well they used to play with
a cava a bit and that was yeah.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
Well he put a big event on that Minster last
year into Yeah. You know, it's just that was a
different and special kind.
Speaker 1 (43:56):
Of gig he likes to.
Speaker 3 (43:58):
He just he's got a bit of a vision for
doing big, going big with it as any Yeah, we.
Speaker 4 (44:02):
Were chatting and he was saying, I'm doing a giggle.
It's nobody's done it before, and it was worrying around
my head. I was thinking I started doing gigs at
home Minster. He's doing the Minister literally as he was
tapping it out, I was tapping it out. It was yeah,
memorable that it was busy. Kid's spirited lower great, great night.
(44:23):
It's like a mini shot loc.
Speaker 3 (44:27):
Just very cold, which hopefully won't be on the day.
Speaker 1 (44:31):
It should be warm. Good time he here for it.
Speaker 3 (44:34):
Yeah, well we've gone for a Marquie as well, which
I just I just think music sounds better in a
tent or a marquee. I just think outdoors you can
sometimes if it's windy, you can lose a bit of
the sound. But we've got a marquee, so even if
it rains, there's no excuse. Get yourself down. But I'm
sure it'll be glorious.
Speaker 1 (44:51):
Son, it's going to be like it. It's going to
be like it. Promised us. We'll manifesto few calls. I
don't know his core mate for that one.
Speaker 3 (45:04):
Before we do Orphan Boy, we should mention Guy Cable.
When I did the Orphan Boy podcast, we didn't mention
Guy Cable. But even when I got back home, I
didn't mention Guy. I was mortified.
Speaker 1 (45:14):
He actually messaged me about slugging you half.
Speaker 2 (45:19):
He was the manager of Orphan Boy for a good
couple of years.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Well you want to know that because you didn't mention,
Maybe we can edit this back into when's he going
to Guy? When's he going to pinch Guy? I thought
the same thing. Mate had a word after.
Speaker 4 (45:32):
And Guys that seeing isn't He's intrinsic to it. He
you know, he's going to link the day brother.
Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, he's going to be DJing, Yeah, the main stage.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
Yeah, he's he's been djaying for years. He knows exactly
what to play and when and how to build the
crowd up. So he want to speak to about your
walk on song day message, make it happen for you.
But yeah, he's been a big part of like Orphan
boys journey, so it's great to have him involved as well.
Speaker 2 (46:05):
And the last but not okay, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:07):
Well that's awesome boy in my band, Shop Local is
the name of our first album, so that's where it
came from.
Speaker 4 (46:16):
When it's a brilliant that was a brilliant idea, that
was a right brain with yourslf.
Speaker 1 (46:19):
You just watched that, Mike, please mate, when hard work
in it. It's hard work looks easy, don't it on YouTube?
Hard work.
Speaker 3 (46:29):
When we come up with the name shop Local years
ago for the album, I had a vague idea of
what I meant, what I thought it meant, But over
the years it's just kind of clarified it in my head.
What I was on about back then when I called
the album shop locally, it is about looking at what's
going on in your doorstep basically, and not being not
being prejudiced about things that aren't successful or on a
(46:52):
screen like you can you can go to a local
gig and see a great band and it can be
a fantastic experience.
Speaker 1 (46:58):
You don't have to just rely on.
Speaker 3 (47:00):
What's on the radio or what's what's trending on whatever
social media.
Speaker 1 (47:05):
I mean, you can shop local is like a moral obligation,
and even more so when you're from somewhere like this
where you need to feed your own economies. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Yeah, but it's not so it's not just as a
sense of duty. People should go to this festival.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
I'm trying to sell it, but.
Speaker 3 (47:24):
It will be I think you can have a fantastic
time going getting involved. Me you'll know better than anyone
to because you go to so many gigs at that level,
and you can connect with the bands.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
You can you can.
Speaker 3 (47:37):
Get to the front of the stage and see the performance,
and you can just be part of the journeys these
bands evolve and grow.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
That's exactly it. Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (47:52):
Yeah, there is a bit of social conscience in it,
but the people coming they won't they won't be coming
out of social conscience, but there might be unbiased social conscience.
Speaker 3 (48:01):
People just comen't want to get pissed and that's fine
because it will be perfect, perfect event for that.
Speaker 1 (48:06):
I kind of get too pissed if I need you
to be in charge.
Speaker 2 (48:11):
I've got too much else to be responsible person.
Speaker 3 (48:15):
Awtume Boy Obviously we've probably been I think we've been
going the longest out of all the bands.
Speaker 2 (48:21):
We'll built twenty.
Speaker 1 (48:24):
It was two thousand and five, but.
Speaker 3 (48:27):
We we kind of split up and then got back together,
and like we've we've been going for years, so we've
built up a big fan base locally. When we play locally,
we can usually sell three or former tickets no problem.
So we're hoping that would be a great way to
finish the night off.
Speaker 4 (48:43):
Often by gigs are an event, yeah, locally an event
when he played twice again and that's too much for Smith.
Speaker 2 (48:52):
He wants to wind it down first.
Speaker 1 (48:56):
You know, played a couple of big gigs again. You're
the dogs for to Academy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:05):
We felt like real big events massive.
Speaker 3 (49:08):
I want this festival to have the same kind of field.
Speaker 4 (49:10):
But I mean it will probably come out in the
in the profile, all right, so will probably be out
by the time this comes out. But everybody goes to
an Awful Boy gig there's a ball of potential energy
and then it hits critical mass.
Speaker 1 (49:26):
For a lot of people. It's the one night out
of here they're allowed. No, it is the amount of
people I know. It is the one night out of
here they're allowed. It's the one three parts.
Speaker 4 (49:38):
Of gigs and other places. Coventry, Blackbird Enemy right, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Yeah, yeah, always been good gigs, mate. Every every single
Orphan boy I've been gig I've been to has been
been a decent one's been you know, been lucky enough
to do a couple of you now as well. So
Sonne a few bits together now, aren't we the Bird?
Speaker 2 (49:59):
I mean we have we have Well we played dos.
Speaker 1 (50:01):
First moss Fest we played with Shines was on, Healer
was on. So yeah, I've done a few bits now,
haven't we shared stage a few times? Mate? Yes?
Speaker 4 (50:10):
On three very distinct different albums. Yeah, very very you know,
high quality. I remember Text and Christy Day when I
was in HP and Newcastle was there and Q Magazine.
(50:31):
I think he got four or five starts and four stars.
Stereophoonics who released an album that Chris Who having about that.
Speaker 1 (50:40):
Yeah, we did quality stuff.
Speaker 2 (50:43):
Yeah, we did all right back in the day.
Speaker 3 (50:44):
Another band that we could have made it things if
the I don't know that the cards had fallen, but differently,
but with we've achieved achieved the kind of a level
of success that it has been pretty special.
Speaker 1 (50:57):
In its own right. You know, if you have fun
doing it, they definitely Yeah, that's all that matters. And
at the end of the day, that's the way I
see it. Once the fun goes from it, there's no
pointers there.
Speaker 3 (51:07):
This gig is going to not just the often boy
a bit, but everything. The whole of it may be
a fun day. It's going to be an absolute party.
I can't believe.
Speaker 1 (51:15):
Yeah, you can have all all them different personalities in
one place for an entire day. It's such a stack
line of the green room will be interesting, that'll be Yeah,
Lenny is going to be there, man, No, it is.
Speaker 4 (51:28):
It's going to be special. On that Monday morning, It's
going to be okay, no doubt.
Speaker 3 (51:34):
I kept panicking, you know what, because it's actually on
a Sunday, isn't it The amount of times I've googled
bank Holadays twenty twenty five thinking I've got the wrong
date and it's actually going to be like a.
Speaker 1 (51:44):
Normal Monday the next day.
Speaker 2 (51:46):
Yeah, it's definitely yeah.
Speaker 4 (51:49):
But it's it's it will be, but it's christ We've
got to go again now because we will be starting
to plant well we're already yeah, yeah, you know, plan
him next year.
Speaker 1 (52:01):
But it won't be only rest. Well, we'll be.
Speaker 2 (52:03):
Like we've had a good sign planning it.
Speaker 3 (52:07):
The cricket club, get my monopoly pieces out, you know,
the red and green hotel and houses, just planning everything out.
Speaker 2 (52:16):
We're all going to.
Speaker 4 (52:18):
Go because I had to dash off because I was
taking counter.
Speaker 1 (52:23):
For his gig.
Speaker 4 (52:26):
And you text me that's what I came up with.
It's just it has it's been a laugh.
Speaker 1 (52:30):
I mean how long I have known you? Yeah about that?
Speaker 4 (52:34):
Yeah, I probably knew Christian. Christ is the first one
you get to know. Believe it or not, everyone knows Christian. Yeah,
I work out to not know Christian and then obviously
got to know swiftly.
Speaker 1 (52:48):
But then.
Speaker 4 (52:50):
I'm not a very gregarious person and you're.
Speaker 1 (52:53):
Quite uh wels.
Speaker 4 (52:59):
We've known each other weelve, Yes, I think we've got
to know each other a lot better in the last
twelve for two months. Who would were quite like minded?
I think we yeah, same sort of moral attitude. Yeah, yeah,
it's it has it's been fun.
Speaker 1 (53:16):
It has been fun. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (53:18):
Yeah, well twenty twenty six. Any bands that would like
to consider it, get in touch and we'll we'll.
Speaker 2 (53:26):
Yeah, we're going to We're going to go.
Speaker 3 (53:28):
We're going to expand next year, bigger marquees, bigger stages.
Speaker 1 (53:33):
Yeah, who knows.
Speaker 4 (53:33):
Yeah, I mean the club's going to do very well
out of it, and we need to ring fence some
of the budget.
Speaker 1 (53:40):
For next year. Yeah, definitely keep reinvesting, keep growing and
keep I mean there's learned a lot as we're going,
and there's things we would probably do a little bit different.
And there is no shortage of talent, mate, you know,
from here to Hold to Lincoln, there is no shortage
of talent. There is so many bands who are having
a really good go out of the minute. I'm sure
you have no problem putting an absolute staf lying upon it.
Speaker 4 (54:00):
We've got to give a shout out to the other
people who are involved because there's all of his by
design chuped a few quid in.
Speaker 1 (54:05):
Very early Yeah, the sponsors, Yeah, yeah, has been great.
Speaker 2 (54:08):
Yeah, we've got some good vendors there on the day
as well.
Speaker 1 (54:11):
Do Brothers are there.
Speaker 4 (54:14):
Greek Shark people who run the kitchen at the Cricket Club,
absolutely brilliant Sunday lunches there, grazing platters there. They'll be
doing food it's poor and nice cocktails. So there's there's
there's there's local vendors that brought into it as well.
Speaker 3 (54:28):
Some people will go to the to the event and
probably not watch any bands. Were just just sit at
a in the ber garden bit and enjoy the food
and socialized we're going to do.
Speaker 1 (54:39):
We're going to do some little profiles for them as well.
Speaker 4 (54:41):
We've got Paul Burchess, photographer who's been helping us out
as well, and he snap. Paul's been helping us. We're
going to go to the hopefully go to the vendors shops,
take some photographs and doing little profiles in a week's time,
give them a bit of advertised we might even get
some free food.
Speaker 1 (55:02):
Oh you know, you can't turn down some free food,
can Yeah? So yeah, right. Honestly, I'm buzzing for the day.
I can't wait for it. I'm glad that either a
part of it, and I'm glad that we've done this.
Hopefully this will appreciate having is on day, but all
the links for this are going to be down below. Yeah, yeah,
it's it's gonna be a cracking day. I can't wait.
(55:23):
I can't wait. If you've got anything else, anything, any
closing statements, closing statements, Get your tickets quick because they're going.
Speaker 3 (55:31):
Yeah, it probably will sell out, so get a ticket
from from the Cricket Club.
Speaker 2 (55:37):
You can buy it online as well. There's a link.
Speaker 1 (55:39):
We'll stick that link into cricket. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (55:41):
Alan Jack's Scott at replay Freeway. Actually he's been supported
these selling tickets as well.
Speaker 1 (55:48):
Or on the link or likewise, give give our page
a message and we'll we'll make sure people get get
linked up with that. Nice one. Boys. Thanks coming down.
Then maybe we'll do one again next year. Yeah, kiss
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