Hayden Thorpe is best known as the former frontman and chief songwriter for the much-loved band Wild Beasts. He returns to the stage with his beautifully singular third album Ness, made in collaboration with best-selling nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Hayden will perform Ness alongside members of Propellor Ensemble, promising to be a sonically spectacular and transformational live show. AGE RESTRICTION: This is a 14+ show. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult.

One evening at the Jaz z Cafe, Camden in 2018, six artists came together in celebration of John Martyn's music. It was an evening of deep connection, not just to John's music, but also with a unique community of John Martyn fans. That night saw the sparks of what was to become ' The John Martyn Project' - an ongoing homage to a truly pioneering and unique musical soul. E ach bring ing their own story and relationship to John's music, they continue to keep the spirit of his music alive whilst collecting stories and insights from the crowds they play to. With thanks to John and those that find connection in his music.

Northern Irish experimental folk songwriter and producer Joshua Burnside is something of a regional anomaly. With a brooding, powerful sound echoing artists of places afar and time long gone, his enthralling craft defies local comparison in striving towards an aesthetic as much as visual as it is sonic. Balanced with a diverse palette of sounds, Burnside deftly blends alt-folk and elements of the Irish folk song tradition with South American rhythms and Eastern European influences, whilst introducing synthetic and found-sounds, synths loops and crunching beats to create a stormy world that shifts and swirls perspective like a lingering lucid dream.

Although still in his 20s, Jerron Paxton has earned a reputation for transporting audiences back to the 1920's and making them wish they could stay there for good. Paxton may be one of the greatest multi-instrumentalists that you have not heard of. Yet. And time is getting short, fast. This young musician sings and plays banjo, guitar, piano, fiddle, harmonica, Cajun accordion, and the bones (percussion). Paxton has an eerie ability to transform traditional jazz, blues, folk, and country into the here and now, and make it real. In addition, he mesmerizes audiences with his humour and storytelling. He's a world-class talent and a uniquely colourful character that has been on the cover of Living Blues Magazine and the Village Voice, and has been interviewed on Fox News. Paxton's sound is influenced by the likes of Fats Waller and "Blind" Lemon Jefferson.

Taking inspiration from their roots in the Irish and English traditions, Flook have an enviable trademark sound, weaving and spinning traditionally rooted tunes over precise acoustic grooves, with a rare blend of fiery technical brilliance, delicate ensemble interaction and a bold, adventurous musical imagination. There is certainly no shortage of virtuosity amongst the members of Flook, but the unique impact of this band stems from the wholly intuitive, almost symbiotic, exchange between the various flutes, frets and skins.

Acclaimed Northumbrian singer-songwriter drawing comparisons to John Martyn and Captain Beefheart.

Following on from the success of 2024’s “Any Port in a Storm” tour, King Creosote’s 2025’s follow-up “Any Storm in a Teacup” promises a night of modular synth, I DES tracks and KC classics.

Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage have more or less perfected a scuzzy and urban style of indie-folk - a 21st Century mash-up of Pete Seeger, R. Crumb and Sonic Youth. A born and raised New Yorker, Lewis has been hard at work in the underground music and art world since the turn of the century - touring throughout the world and releasing eight acclaimed albums on the record labels Rough Trade and Don Giovanni. He is also a widely respected comics artist who self-publishes a comic book series called Statics. On stage Lewis is backed by his band the Voltage, including longtime collaborators Brent Cole (drums) and Mem Pahl (bass), as well as recent addition Mallory Feuer (violin and keys).

Welsh quintet who keep the spirit of the '70s and '80s alive with their pounding, ultra-melodic hard rock.

The Seven Wonders are a stunning tribute to the music and legacy of Fleetwood Mac. They authentically recreate all the great hits of Fleetwood Mac, including Dreams, Go Your Own Way, Rhiannon, Landslide, Gypsy, and more. Replicating the sounds of one of the worlds best-loved, top-selling bands, The Seven Wonders reconnect fans with the music they love.

Singer-songwriter Jessica Pratt mixes folk and country in playful ways.

Jontavious Willis is resolved in his mission: to reinvigorate today's Blues with the spirit of the past. Drawn to a time when the Blues were plentiful and rhythm reigned supreme, Jontavious leverages his unique sounda synthesis of his Georgia heritage and the rich history of the Bluesto get the world dancing again. A Grammy-nominated musician and songwriter, Jontavious performs original, toe-tapping tunes in the style of Delta, Piedmont, and Texas Blues. With a bawdy, playful sense of humour, he channels the lively rent parties and juke joints of yesteryear, imparting the vitality of the Blues across communities today. Jontavious was born and raised in rural Georgia, an environment with deep cultural roots that inspire his soulful vocals and virtuosic technique. He spent much of his childhood singing Gospel music with his grandfather at the Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church, the site of his earliest live performances. A teenage phenom, Jontavious achieved widespread acclaim when he accompanied living Blues legend Taj Mahalwho would go on to dub him his Wonderboyonstage in 2015. His first opportunity to tour nationally soon followed; he opened for Taj Mahal and Keb Mo during their joint TajMo tour in 2017. In 2016, his debut album Blue Metamorphosis garnered rave reviews in Living Blues and Blues & Rhythm, later winning the Blues Foundation's International Blues Challenge 2018 Award for Best Self-Produced CD. Spectacular Class, his Grammy-nominated sophomore album in 2019, saw Jontavious survey an array of Blues styles with dynamic ensemble performances. His forthcoming West Georgia Blues, a self-produced album featuring a full band, is slated for release this August 2024. Jontavious considers himself an ambassador to the Blues, and this latest album brings the versatility of the genre right to the forefront. While tackling time-honored themes of heartbreak, hardship, and resilience, Jontavious also reminds us that the Blues are meant to bring us together in times of celebration through song and dance.

Formerly half of the team that fronted the Go-Betweens, the Australian songwriter is also a solo artist, critic, and author. As a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Robert Forster has always had a knack for crafty pop songs along with the brooding ballads he contributed to the Go-Betweens.

Brothers Brían and Diarmuid Mac Gloinn grew up playing music together around their hometown of Carlow, a small town in the southeast of Ireland. After moving to Dublin in 2012, they quickly became a staple of the live music and session scene in Ireland, playing their own original songs as well as folk songs from Ireland, Scotland, England and America.

With their seamless vocal harmonies, The Wandering Hearts are reminiscent of First Aid Kit and Of Monsters and Men, whilst channelling Fleetwood Mac’s pop sensibility and the storytelling of Chris Stapleton, all the while keeping their British roots at their heart.

The eight piece London band touch on ‘post-rock, emo, folk, and minimalist classical’, focusing on space: both what can be achieved in negative, and how it can be populated by texture and rhythm.

Welcome to Tubeway Days, the ultimate Gary Numan tribute experience. We bring you the authentic sound and feel of Gary Numan's music, with our unique tribute shows that transport you back to the golden era of the synthesizer. Don't miss our live shows, where you can experience the energy and excitement of Numan's music like never before.

Stevie Toddler and Daphne Gale are a duo of singer/songwriters looking to share their intimate stories/ harmonies with attentive audiences. Daphne Gale is a guitarist/ singer based in New York. With a sound at once new and familiar, sophisticated and uncluttered, Daphne blends folk, jazz, and art song seamlessly through intimate, stirring music Stevie Toddler is a bassist/ singer from Bristol. Her songs incorporate elements from the various musical worlds she's occupied as a bass player, namely jazz, classical and pop, blending intentional lyrics with a mellow and contemplative sparseness. The two met in Berlin in spring 2024 and are planning to reconnect through touring this summer.

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As a long-serving troubadour of the folk and acoustic music scene, master songwriter and storyteller Steve Knightley has spent much of his life on the road, collecting songs, stories, anecdotes and observations with the odd disaster along the way. Best known for his work with the award-winning acoustic roots group Show of Hands, Steve has performed in venues from the Albert Hole in Bristol to the Albert Hall in London. His impressive back catalogue of songs are modern classics, still filling the folk clubs and festival fields, and forever influencing the next generation of folk artists. Steve says, 'A life on the road certainly has its challenges, but I can't say I'd do it differently if I had to start all over again. The format of 'Songs and Stories', and now 'Roadworks' allows me to share the stories I've collected over the years, along with plenty of observations along the way. It's just me, a radio mic and a couple of guitars which is daunting and liberating in equal measures, and it's enabled me to build elements into my shows which I've never been able to before.'

Accompanied by Benji Kirkpatrick & Alex Hart Following on from the sell-out success of a Spring tour this year, Westcountry folk singer and multi-instrumentalist Seth Lakeman has announced another run of intimate shows in 2023 accompanied by folk singer and musician Benji Kirkpatrick and Devon singer-songwriter Alex Hart. Seth Lakeman was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2005 for 'Kitty Jay'. It catapulted Lakeman into the forefront of the new British folk movement and his follow up was the gold-selling ‘Freedom Fields’. Produced by his brother Sean Lakeman it went on to become Seth’s first of 6 UK Top 40 albums. It was the 15th anniversary of the album, which includes ‘Lady of the Sea’, ‘King and Country’ and ‘White Hare’, in 2021 which prompted a Deluxe Reissue on Vinyl with bonus tracks. Seth released his 11th studio album Make Your Mark in November 2021. Written during his enforced 18 months off the road, the album features 14 powerful, brand-new songs including the singles Higher We Aspire and title track Make Your Mark which were playlisted at BBC Radio 2. The following year, Seth was part of the ‘Sea Song Sessions’ album released in September 2022 on Topic Records. A collection of British maritime folk songs and sea shanties performed by Jon Boden, Seth, Ben Nicholls, Emily Portman and Jack Rutter.

Cerys Hafana is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who mangles, mutates, and transforms traditional music. She explores the creative possibilities and unique qualities of the triple harp, and is also interested in found sounds, archival materials and electronic processing. She comes from Machynlleth, Wales, where rivers and roads meet on the way to the sea. Cerys has won over audiences from Green Man to the Eisteddfod and from BBC 6 Music Festival to Celtic Connections with her magical, progressive sound. Her second album Edyf was selected as one of The Guardian’s Top Ten albums of 2022, as well as receiving wide-spread media attention and critical acclaim.

Chris Renzema Get Out of the Way of Your Own Heart Connection. It's a word the world was forced to grapple with when we lost our ability to convene in 2020. How do we stay together when we have to be apart What defines meaningful connection And can we really find it screen to screen With these questions swirling in his head, uncertainty hovered over Chris Renzema like an ominous cloud. Thanks to a canceled tour and a global pandemic, he had ample time to reflect, so the singer/songwriter did the thing that comes most naturally to him. He set words to melody. He soon realized, however, that there was a self-imposed obstacle standing between the isolation he felt and the empathy he desired to express. And it was in the tension of that moment that Get Out of the Way of Your Own Heart was born. Since independently releasing Ill Be The Branches in 2018, Renzema has built a loyal following, literally one fan at a time. Two years later, his Centricity Music debut, Let The Ground Rest, garnered the Michigan native 90 million streams, a spot on Pandora's Artist to Watch list and a GMA Dove Award nomination for New Artist of the Year. All of this with little to no radio airplay. Renzema's secret sauce His live showan emotional connection point for the transparent artist and his fans. It was the strength and uniqueness of the live experience that Renzema was thinking about when he started to craft the semi-autobiographical Get Out of the Way of Your Own Heart at the beginning of what would be a long, unexpected year. Let The Ground Resta project ironically themed around Sabbathhad just dropped, and Renzema called on kindred spirit and former collaborator Hank Bentley (Crowder, Zach Williams) to help him plant new musical seeds. Together, they formed their own quarantine pod and hunkered down to co-write and co-produce what would become Renzema's third full-length album. I think I pretty much celebrated the release of Let The Ground Rest by starting to write these songs, Renzema shares. When I started writing, it was just a creative outlet, a distraction. I definitely was not thinking of it in terms of an album or necessarily even songs that I was going to put out. I was just attempting to process the internal, mental and spiritual insanity of 2020. His close alignment with Bentley helped him sort his emotions, simply because their physical proximity meant he didnt have to wade through his feelings in solitude. Hank was such a lifeline, Renzema reflects. Our friendship became a pretty central part of the creative process, and at the same time, I didnt have to process the insanity alone. Reflective of the year, the record is rife with questions. Yet at the same time, it's bursting with hope. I feel like this album in a lot of ways touches on the desire for real connection, the longing for meaningful connection with others and with God, he offers. I hope that a listener would hear it and feel empathized with. Perhaps no track is more empathetic than Stronger Love, a unifying anthem Renzema penned with Leeland Mooring, who also lends his vocals to the cut. Culturally, we are often told that the solution to making the world a better place is within ourselves or some sort of self-actualization, but Ive seen over and over again that's not true, Renzema says of the message behind the track the men wrote during the height of the nation's racial reckoning. As humans, we dont have something within us that's good enough for meaningful change. So this idea of needing a stronger love than the love we possess on our own became kind of this anchor point for that song in particular and, I think, an anchor point for a lot of what Im trying to say on the whole album, too. In addition to Leeland, Renzema co-wrote selections with Ellie Holcomb and Matt Maher, both of whom are featured on the respective tracks they contributed to. I truly feel like the songs wouldnt exist in the way that they do if they hadnt been written with those people, Renzema reflects. You not only can just feel the specific talent of that person on the track, but their DNA is in it too, which I think is really cool. Although he wrote it a month before the worldwide health crisis took root, the poignant The Right Thingsan ode to what truly mattersnow feels like the perfect post-pandemic ballad. The lyrics address the power technology'specifically our phonescontinues to wield over us. I feel like there was this page turn of like, Man, this is the war that we are fighting nowthis complete dissociation of ourselves from the quietness of our own thoughts and our relationships outside of this square, Renzema offers. He reasons the best stuff in life cant be measured. Time's worth more than money, he sings, and Im done buying what wont last... I want to hold onto the right things and let go of the rest. Elsewhere, songs like the artistic Heart, Soul, Blood, Bone unearths the commonalities we all share. Pop gem Just As Good, featuring Holcomb, builds a monument to the faithfulness of God, and the wistful Old Friend depicts Jesus as a longtime companion, as familiar as Springsteen on a 45. The album ended up being a lot about me allowing myself to feel okay with my weaknesses and maybe be a little bit nicer to myself, Renzema shares, referencing a lyric from the title-cut: Take yourself down off the line now, show yourself a little grace. It's a fragile balancing act he perfects on the album's introspective opener, Hope or Nostalgia, a song Renzema describes as something of a thesis statement. That song is basically about looking at yourself and going, I thought I would understand how this all works by now, and I dont, he says. Sometimes I feel like no forward motion is a problem, but I also see my relationship with the Lord being incredibly cyclical and seasonal. Like a loop, youre relearning the same things over and over. But Im learning how to be OK with the loop versus moving on some linear trajectory. The title of the song also lends itself to Renzema's fall tour, a 28-city trek that will see him playing the largest venues of his career, with many of them already sold-out. It's the perfect exclamation point on Get Out of the Way of Your Own Heart, an album crafted in a vacuum of isolation in the hopes that one day these songs would be shared communally. I think subconsciously a lot of the production choices and tempos and energy of these songs came from a longing to do that again, Renzema admits of the nostalgic, 80s rock vibe that colors the 12-track collection. A room full of people singing songs together is just such a liberating and unifying experience, and I think the last 15 months were the direct opposite of those things. Honestly, just being shoulder-to-shoulder and singing the same words to the same Jesus is about as good as it gets for me. While Get Out of the Way of Your Own Heart doesnt always provide painless resolution or black and white answers to gray areas, it does emphasize the fact that we never have to wrestle with life's hardest questions alone. Every single person walks into a room at a concert with all of this stuff, just baggage and garbage that they kind of hold over themselves personally, Renzema acknowledges. So there is something exciting about getting to tell people, Hey, you dont really have to hold onto this if you dont want to. That 'stronger love, that hope, is the thing that actually lets us extend grace to ourselves.

Terry ‘Superlungs’ Reid has been performing and writing for over 40 years. He was a wanted man by the formative Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple, and was a songwriter with and for Graham Nash and Rumer among many others.