LAUREN APRIL. Photo Credit: Unknown.
An EP launch and two festivals. GIGS – dontcha love em? x
FRIDAY
This Friday Ike Productions brings you a bunch of Acoustic bliss in the form of LAUREN APRIL’s EP Launch at The Maze.
If you’re unfamiliar with Lauren, she brings a touch of Country to beaut Acoustic Pop. Really really catchy Acoustic Pop, which transports you to like, the middle of Nashville. Full of beaut harmonies, poetic lyrics, and some super catchy choruses. And now shes got another EP’s worth to share with you lovely lot.
Supporting we have even more Acoustic goodness. TORI SHEARD is up first, bringing her soulful, sunshine-y Folk to your ears. And then there’s KALLI ASHTON, who like Lauren, manages to bring everything ya love about Country, give it a proper British tip, and then wrap it up in a package full of lovely melodies.
Friday 20th July
The Maze
Price: £6.60
Doors: 7pm
FRIDAY – SUNDAY
Deerstock returns again this year, to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside (cos its for charity, not the Red Stripe), and as always it’s full of local musicians (three stages worth actually). A Not for Profit charity festival, run entirely by volunteers. Having raised over 70k in the past for charitable causes, its back to boss it in 2018. With over 30 bands, from the Electronic-Pop awesomeness of APRIL TOWERS, to the HUGE Indie sounds of THE SHRIVES. The beatbox-machine known as MOTORMOUF, or the masked madness of BONE CULT. It’s a beaut day, for a beaut cause. You’re beautiful. Go be beautiful with them. Beaut.
Friday 20th July – Sunday 22nd July
Trent Valley
Price: Weekend Ticket – £55
Doors: Differs each day
SATURDAY
It. Is Back. Nottingham’s biggest festival, Splendour, returns to the field of deer this Saturday for its ten year anniversary, and brings a bunch of Notts musicians along for the ride. Three stages Whether you’re bopping to the spandex-clad Glam-Rock of #FSN2018 champs THE DANDYLIONS on the Main Stage, throwing your first in the air aggressively to the anthemic ASHFIELDS on the Confetti stage, or having your eardrums serenaded by the beautiful sounds of KATIE COOPER on the Acoustic Rooms stage, there is *CLICHE ALERT* something for everyone here. And the weather is meant to be banging too, so get your floral shorts out, grab some £1.50 sunscreen from Wilkos, and get involved with some lovely Nottsness.
Full line-up HERE.
Saturday 21st July
Wollaton Park
Price: £53
Doors: 1130am
Yours in Love of New Music,
Sam Nahirny x
