Coming straight out of Newport The GLC are officially Britain’s biggest rap group. Known for classics like “Guns don’t kill people rappers do”, The GLC started almost by accident around the turn of the century with Eggsy’s impromptu rap about his tracksuit over a serious piece of music Rhys was working on in the studio. Adam Hussain, Billy Webb, Mystkal, the Maggot, 2hats and Mike Balls convinced Rhys to record the rap. Fuelled by Lambrini, fags, Chicken Tikka Massala and weed they all took to the mic and The GLC’s first album “Don’t Blame the Chain” was born. And so it began, the journey which has so far seen The GLC rise to the top of the charts, perform around the world and at every major festival in the Western Hemisphere and make millions of people laugh along the way. Now many years since that first rap about Eggsy’s tracksuit, the boys are still keeping it real in the rap game and hold the title of the most successful UK rap act ever. To date The GLC have released 18 albums… and amazingly none of them have died yet. You knows it! GLC (Live) plus special guests

The UK’s best Stone Roses Tribute return to the stage after a brief 16 month, covid-induced hiatus. If you love I Am The Resurrection, Made Of Stone, Fools Gold, Waterfall, She Bangs The Drums and many more then do not miss this exclusive opportunity to hear your favourite Stone Roses anthems performed live by the UK’s finest tribute! Support comes from Oaysis, one of the UK’s best Oasis tribute bands performing a hits packed set that’s guaranteed to be biblical!

The Dunwells are a successful Leeds based Indie-folk / Americana band with strong vocals, powerful melodies and heartfelt lyrics. Their debut album “Blind Sighted Faith” was released in 2012 following which they have released a further 6 albums/EP’s. The Dunwells have found favour with audiences across the world having toured extensively in USA, Europe and the UK as well as having supported artists including Mumford and Sons and Elbow on UK tours. They are passionate and prolific singer-song writers having written material for joint collaborations as well as other high profile up and coming artists.

Welly is an extraordinary character with a remarkable literary way of describing himself, his band and society. A square peg in the round hole of suburban life, Welly embraced his difference from an early age and went onto channel his observations on suburbia into songs. Whip-smart, playful, funny and terrifyingly smart pop songs to be precise. He then set about finding the perfect vehicle to pedal his wares and so formed a band and delivered a debut album bursting with democratised pop music for people that feel fun in the charts stopped at Love Machine by Girls Aloud.

The band formed of former Fall members from various eras of the legendary bands existence, have always been more than simply a continuation of their past musical endeavours. More of an open community to all ex Fall-ers, centred around a core line up, House of All have now bolstered their already mighty fine line up by creating a three drummer strong rhythm section, taking it in turns to play on various tracks.

The 9075, formed in August 2019 from a jamming session, are the world's first tribute dedicated to celebrating the music and essence of The 1975. With a 2-hour show, The 9075 brings the spirit of the original band to life, creating unforgettable nights filled with nostalgia and excitement. Whether you're a die-hard fan or new to the music, The 9075 promises an unforgettable experience that pays homage to one of the most iconic bands of our time.

"After a few years' break from touring Blighty, we're excited to return to the land of Greggs and be joined by the lovely and brain-bruisingly heavy lads of Raised By Owls for a heap of shows in 2025. Perhaps more illustriously, we're dragging their filthy British asses to Ireland for three glorious shows on our sceptred isle. Who's better - Britain or Ireland? We'll finally find out on this tour. Except, it's Ireland."

DJ Chris Arnold takes you on a magical mystery tour of his collection of covers, remixes and tracks that sampled arguably the greatest band that ever existed The Beatles. Expect to hear plenty of reggae, ska, latin, hip hop, dub, funk, house and even drum & bass takes on the wonderful music created by John, Paul, George & Ringo.

Love Thy Neighbour presents Nic Cage Against The Machine Presented by Love Thy Neighbour Music. This is an 18+ event

Kareem Dennis, better known by his stage name Lowkey, is a British rapper and activist from London. He first became known through a series of mixtapes he released before he was 18.

Manchester quartet who effectively bring the brooding sound of the post-punk genre into the 21st century.

Post-punk duo from Leicestershire featuring the eccentrically-named bassist House of Lords who count Tom Vek, The Futureheads and Gang of Four among their fans.

A triple header is coming to The Ferret with Rao Metal icons Hacktivist with special guests Waterlines and FMA + 12 Gage!

Pentire are an indie band who make pop songs for the post-jangle generation through the smiles and sweat of the mosh pit. This Herefordshire four-piece tell cheap lager-soaked stories of student life, a small-town upbringing, and the innocence of youth. Brought up on a diet of The Killers, Paolo Nutini and Stereophonics, frontman and principal songwriter Jack formed a band with his best mate Owen in the sleepy town of Ross-on-Wye. The two friends met drummer Jake and bass player Jacob whilst at university, which cemented the four-piece that is now selling out venues across the UK.

Improvised lyrics and yowled vocals are specialities of Scottish outfit Humour, whose debut EP is a riot of invention.

The Real People, from Liverpool, England, were one of the very first bands to play what is today known as Britpop, and have been quoted by Oasis as being one of their major influences. They were formed in 1988 by brothers Christopher and Anthony Griffiths, the original line up consisted of Chris Griffiths (guitar and vocals), Tony Griffiths (bass and vocals), Dave Reilly (drums)(ex China Crisis), Jay Norton (keyboards)(ex Its Immaterial) and Gordon Morgan (guitar)(ex Black). Tony Elson (drums) replaced Dave Reilly (and he was replaced by Garry Ford) and Gordon Morgan was replaced by Sean Simpson (guitar) (later to be replaced by Alan Gillibrand and then by Ian 'Sitar'). The current line up is Tony & Chris Griffths (bass guitar vocals, guitar and vocals), Martin Lappin (guitar) and Tony McGuigan (drums).

The Lovely Eggs are an underground surreal-psych punk rock duo from northern England. They have a fierce ethos that music should have no rules. For Holly and David, being in a band is a way of life. True to this , they live the way they play -- fiercely, constantly, in search of the good times. With 8/10 thumbs up from the NME and much support from BBC6 Music and Radio 1, the band continues to sell out gigs across the UK without the help of management, booking agent or record label support. With six BBC 6 Music sessions under their belt, as well as sessions for Radio 1 and XFM, The Lovely Eggs have enjoyed huge support from BBC 6 Music with airplay from DJs Marc Riley, Steve Lamacq, Lauren Laverne, Chris Hawkins, Gideon Coe, Shaun Keavney and Radcliffe and Maconie. Their songs have been produced by Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), remixed by Tinder Singh (Cornershop) and sampled by Zane Lowe for Scrubius Pip. With releases in the UK, Europe, USA and Japan, The Lovely Eggs have played around the UK, USA and Europe. With observational and often surreal lyrics about life, The Lovely Eggs have a powerful, stripped-down sound: one vintage guitar amp, One Big Muff distortion pedal, a guitar and drum kit.

Heavy Lungs are an alt rock band from Bristol.

Crime & the City Solution are an Australian rock band formed in late 1977 by singer-songwriter and mainstay Simon Bonney. They disbanded in 1979 leaving only bootleg recordings and demos. In late 1983, Bonney travelled to London and in 1985 he formed a new version of the group in the U.K. which included members of Nick Caves recently disbanded The Birthday Party; later they transferred to Berlin, where they issued four albums Room of Lights (1986), Shine (1988), The Bride Ship (1989) and Paradise Discotheque (1990) before disbanding again in 1991. In 2012, Bonney reformed the band in Detroit with two veterans of its Berlin era and a handful of new members.

This Autumn 2025, Mobius Loop embark on their next performance adventure with the Peaceful World Tour! The family folk-rebel band are heading out to the UK's best grassroots music venues to bring their mesmerising festival vibrations indoors, launching their new music including the brand new single Peaceful World. The trio, celebrated as Prestons most successful band, create gloriously eccentric folk stories, fusing world music and conscious rap with eruptions of free-form dance charged with an intimately powerful and intense energetic live performance. Expect a night of ecstatic dancing, majestic melodies, epic beats and vibrant voices all woven together in this call for a peaceful world!

When Bob Log III was a child, he lost his left hand in a boating accident. It was soon replaced with a monkey paw, and a new guitar style was born. 'It's my own personal style, see,' Log says, 'the paw moves much quicker than a normal hand, so my real hand has to flop around a lot to compensate.'" Bob Log III, one man band crown prince of punk blues from Tuscon, Arizona. Witnessing Bob Log live is an unmissable and unforgettable experience. By rights he should be a punk blues stadium super star. He takes to the stage with his face masked in a crash helmet with a black visor and a telephone wired in it for a mic and wearing a blue jump suit. Bob then unleashes a torrent of hardcore Mississippi Delta blues, hip hop beats and punk rock. The crash helmet telephone distorts the vocals and his hands, arms, legs and feet become a blur of jump suit clad limbs as he plays slide, triggers drum machines and drums with his feet simultaneously. Bob then adds extra ingredients to this punk blues bouillabaisse with his unique version of audience participation. More often them not he’ll bounce a couple of audience members on his knees while playing, and then bring on the infamous Boob Scotch. The audience are invited to literally stick their boob in his scotch which he then drinks. If Bob feels satisfied, he will then launch into his anthem Boob Scotch! Everyone has to look out when the rubber dinghy makes an appearance.

Bilk are three musicians creating a unique angsty blend of indie, rap and punk from the suburbs of Essex. The brainchild of frontman Sol Abrahams, completed by bassist Luke Hare and drummer Harry Gray, their honest social commentary is as real as it gets, reflecting on the highs and lows of British youth culture today.

Hello Bastards x The Ferret = SMOTE PRIMITIVE KNOT + MORE TO COME 19th October 2025 The Ferret, Preston SMOTE: Clyppan is an Old English verb meaning to embrace or to clasp. It also referred to an ancient ritual in which people gathered in a circle, singing together around a sacred shrine. Its a fitting title for the latest release from Newcastles Smote a visceral document of the bands electrifying live set, captured within the walls of Londons Bear Bites Horse recording studio. Following the release of their acclaimed 2024 album A Grand Stream, Smote embarked on an intensive tour schedule, refining their live performance along the way into something transcendental a full-spectrum psychic voyage. Anyone who caught them at Supernormal, Supersonic, or this years Roadburn Festival can attest: Smote are an unforgettable sonic presence, a near religious experience. Recognising the urgency and potency of the bands current live form, Rocket Recordings encouraged Smotes founder and sonic architect Dan Foggin to document their live set in the studio. It was a sound too powerful to be left undocumented it was something that needed to be clasped for future generations. On January 22, 2025 the day before their thunderous performance at Londons ICA alongside labelmates Teeth Of The Sea the four members of Smote entered Bear Bites Horse studio. With producer Wayne Adams at the controls, they laid down a live set brimming with raw, elemental power. What emerged is Clyppan four drone-and-repetition driven incantations, distilled from the primal essence of Smotes sound. These tracks channel something ancient and urgent, summoning spirits and revelations in their wake. Its music as ritual, as invocation pure aural sorcery. So gather together. Form a circle. Join hands. And embrace the ecstatic, untamed energy of Smote in their most untethered and primal form. PRIMITIVE KNOT: Songs for an age of weaponised mirrors which endlessly reflect our inner darkness. An age where we are free to own our hate and, in turn, to be pwned by a higher hate. We will never be fooled again. Because our actions will bring about our destruction. Never has a steady drift into existential nihilism felt so very satisfying. - Louder Than War

Body Horror deal in a hard electro based type of rhythmical post punk, a type of savage New Order soundtrack overlayed by an unrepentant snarl - Steve Lamacq BBC Radio 6

Blues is the teacher. Punk is the preacher. Its all about emotion and energy, experience and raw talent, spirit and intellect. Exciting things happen when these things collide. Bob Vennum and Lisa Kekaula made the BellRays happen in 1991 in Riverside but they weren't really thinking about any of this then. They wanted to play music and they wanted it to feel good. They wanted people to WANT to get up, to NEED to get up and check out what was going on. Form an opinion. React. So they took everything they knew about; the Beatles, Stevie Wonder, the Who, the Ramones, Billie Holiday, Lou Rawls, Hank Williams, the DB's, Jimmy Reed, Led Zeppelin, to name a very few and pressed it into service. It was never about coming up with a 'sound', or fitting in with a scene. It was about the energy that made all that music so irresistible. It was the history BEFORE Led Zeppelin that led them to that point. The Beatles thought they were playing R&B. It just came out like 'Rubber Soul'. The Ramones were trying to be Del Shannon or Neil Sedaka and out came 'Rocket to Russia'. With the BellRays there was no conscious effort to 'combine' rock and soul because they didn't see them as divided in the first place. Blues was teaching. Punk was preaching. The BellRays were always listening.

Join The Empire Police, as they return home to The Ferret in Preston for an EP launch show as part of their autumn tour. Supports TBA.

The music from Wes Anderson’s films performed live. A musical tribute to one of the most unique and idiosyncratic directors of our generation. Expect original score & deep-cut soundtracks. In case you've been living under a rock for the last 20 years, Wes Anderson is the auteur behind the iconic films The Grand Budapest Hotel, Fantastic Mr Fox, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, Moonrise Kingdom, Isle of Dogs and many more. Now you can sit back and experience the music of these iconic films live, from the original score music to some of the amazing and obscure needle drops, all performed by a four-piece multi-instrumentalist band led by composer/director Adam Znaidi.

Rock & Roll’s finest. A switchblade songwriter with a voice of soul. Through politics and crime, love and loss, Louis sets it straight. Only recently has music become the escape route for Louis from his past. The voice of a god and a future not to be messed with, catch him live before he graces the stadiums!

The man himself Vinny Stigma of The Agnostics is coming to Preston for a very special show as part of his UK tour!

With the help of the audience and some clever, sexy sound cues, Clem will create her own improvised soap opera for 25mins.

From old skool to old bastard, Donald Jenkins has been addicted to the rave scenes sweaty underbelly for over thirty years. Still Raving in Your 40s? mixes music, dramatic monologue and spoken word poetry to ask, should middle age stop you from being a raving reprobate? Come on a fascinating journey through the most epic musical movement of the British underground. This is the journey of illegal all-nighters, Class A drugs and never ending after parties. The spoken-word show is a funny, lyrical and highly relatable enactment of the fascinating, grimey world of rave culture. Jenkins explores how this 30-year obsession has affected him physically, mentally and financially. Isnt it time he grew up and packed it all in? Jenkins has performed throughout the UK including at Glastonbury Festival and the Royal Albert Hall. His work has been featured on ITV. Still Raving In Yours 40s? was developed through a residency with Newcastles Alphabetti Theatre. Reviews: Emotional and euphoric, smothered with laugh out loud comedy Newcastle Fringe Festival Funny, moving, sweet and honest Sound of the Underground Festival, Ouseburn Trust Heartwarming to hear rave culture being talked about openly, honestly, from lived experience Show attendee

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, a band as comfortable wading through the darker quarters of their subconscious as they are punishing ampstacks.

Join us in celebrating almost two decades of Prestons iconic live music venue, The Ferret, with an all day party on September 20th. In its 19 year history, The Ferret has hosted acts who would go on to achieve music superstardom, the hottest new bands from around the country, and the brightest up-and-coming local talents in Preston and Lancashire. This all-dayer will feature performances from City Dog, Charlie Floyd, Peggy, Third Warning Party and Ben & The Believers, as well as DJs keeping the party going into the night.

Since exploding onto the scene, The Meffs have built up a reputation as purveyors of frantic punk rock and a rowdy must-see live sensation.

plus an afternoon of vintage cinema featuring Laurel & Hardy | Buster Keaton | Charlie Chaplin & more.

"And then theres this guy named Bob Log, you ever heard of him? Hes this little kid nobody ever knows how old he is wears a motorcycle helmet and he has a microphone inside of it and he puts the glass over the front so you cant see his face, and plays slide guitar. Its just the loudest, strangest stuff youve ever heard. You dont understand one word hes saying. I like people who glue macaroni on to a piece of cardboard and paint it gold. Thats what I aspire to basically. - Tom Waits