Get ready for an epic night as Seriously Uplifting returns on May 17th, 2025! Headlining the event is North East trance legend James Cottle, with rising star Conor Holohan and the much-anticipated return of Carbs from the Arctic Barbers. But thats just the beginningjoining them are an incredible lineup of DJs including Adam Bellew, Buzzila, Sam Burns, CJ, Colin Lamont, Ian Cowley, Inferno, James Timoney, Dave Moyle, Paul Fowler, Light DJ, George Pennel, and Gav Smyth. Expect amazing light and sound, with two floors and 9 hours of Uplifting Trance and Trance Classics to keep you dancing all night long!

Luke Jackson is a Singer-Songwriter from Canterbury. In recent years he has been developing a reputation for himself on the Folk & Roots circuit and has been nominated for BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 'Horizon Award' His debut album More Than Boys, produced by Martyn Joseph, was released in 2012 followed by Fumes and Faith in 2014. November 2016 saw the release of his third full studio album, 'Tall Tales and Rumours' to universal critical acclaim and his live album Solo:Duo:Trio was voted 2018 Album of the Year by Laurel Canyon and in 2020 his last studio release Journals was voted 2019 Album of the Year by Fatea Magazine. Luke tours relentlessly all over the country, on mainland Europe and has also made inroads in North America. After COVID 19 halted all proceedings, Luke kept himself busy with online live shows and a very well received 7 track EP of songs written in lockdown called Of The Time'. As things opened up again he started 2022 with a prestigious opening slot on the Fairport Convention winter tour.

The Holy Coves singer songwriter Scott Marsden announces his first solo acoustic tour. Playing the award winning album 'Druids and Bards' and other Holy Coves favourites as they were written one man, one guitar and one voice, this is a rare chance to catch this outstanding artist performing solo.

Watching Sloth Racket perform is a thrilling experience, conveying a palpable sense that the musicians are navigating the scores by the seat of their pants, making real-time group decisions that sculpt the compositions into unique shapes each time theyre played. Daniel Spicer, The Wire, December 2021 Sloth Racket is a band of improvisers from London, Manchester and Dundee. Baritone saxophone player Cath Roberts creates scores that form the skeleton of the music, and the band constructs a collective sound out of those pages in the moment. Since forming in 2015 they have toured regularly, appeared at numerous UK festivals, and are releasing their fifth album on the Luminous label this year. The results range across musical territories from fiery free jazz, to minimal improv textures, to deep grooves.

Suspire were conceived in Cowley, earning their stripes on Oxford's historic music scene yet this has undercurrents of a homecoming gig Suspire play Newcastle on Saturday 10th May. Buy a ticket, before you cant.

British folk-punk for a summer's afternoon, a sound forged in festivals and bonfires, with fiddle-driven rabble rousers and songs that stir the soul. The Leylines was started by a group of West Country musicians driving home from a session at the legendary Sawmills Studios. Levelling The Land by The Levellers was on the car stereo. Something about the sound of the record, the rolling Cornwall landscapes and the smell of summer connected in writer and vocalist Steve's head.Steve, a product of council estates and stints in the Army, put his observations on the state of the nation into music and started writing. Adding the different musical backgrounds of band mates Matt (Guitar), Pete (Bass), Dave (Drums) and Hannah (Violin), The Leylines have created a style that combines the acerbic social commentary of the Mod and Punk eras, and a folk-rock vibe that will send you right back to those long, hazy festival days.The band saying is: If you wouldn't go out and have drink with someone, don't work with them. With a fiercely loyal and ever-growing fanbase, The Leylines guaranteed to have their audiences up on their feet and they will be having as much fun as their audience while they're doing it!