Introducing First Degree Burns, founders of a ‘Ska-Hop’ revolution!
A live 8 –piece band with huge stage presence and BIG sound guaranteed to get the party well and truly started.
Since their formation in 2001 First Degree Burns have maintained a belief in creating a sound of invitingly innovative fusions, culminating in an exiting mix of live hip-hop, skank driven ska and rootsy reggae.
The ska-hop revolution has proved an intoxicating elixir...
Emily hails from the quiet Blackwood Valley, where lies a town called Bridgetown. It’s in the South West of Western Australia. As a teenager she was known to sing heavy metal and soul covers at highschool assemblies (it was a compromise with the bogan boys in the band: she would sing heavy metal, in return for them playing soul. Fair enough she thought.) Emily’s love of music spilt beyond her schooling years and across the seas to the UK.
TWINKRANES are a whacked out closely knit trio hailing from rain splattered, Liffey stenched Dublin City. They specialize in zone out progressive pop music. The three members ROOSTER (vocals, guitars and tapes) BLONDE FOX (vocals and drum set) and AUBURN SPINNER (synthesiser’s and soundscapes) have spent the last decade and a half as part of each others strange rotating orbit and at least one quarter of that decade and a half as members of one of most strange and un-compromising musical acts in the kosmos.
When Amy was just 18yrs old she was accepted as one of the first students at LIPA. It was only from her natural ability on the guitar at the audition that got her through as she had no formal music knowledge.
Amy has , over the last 2 years, developed a strong underground following and based in Croyde in the West Country U.K. she has the support of the surfing community . Her fans keep in touch through her own website
www.amynewton.com and www.myspace.com/amynewtonmusic
There are two bands with the name Paper Heroes. 1. One is a rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Five guys who have been playing together since 1998. They have a two song demo and have played many places in the last couple of years. Members are : Tim Ellis, Andrew Kinghorn, Tim Smith, Dan Colston, Russ Bagget 2. The second is a UK band formed in 2007/8 at Westminster University, London when singer, Matt Weedon, sent his song 'Jenny Jones' into a SkinsLife competition.
Formerly a member of The Incredible String Band, Mike Heron made a solo album in 1971, Smiling Men With Bad Reputations. After the ISB broke up in 1974 he formed his own band, Mike Heron's Reputation.
Dub FX is the name of two artists: one being a street performing, loop station, beatbox, free-styler, the other being a reggae band. Dub Fx the street-loop-beatboxer grew up in St Kilda / Melbourne / Australia performing in various bands before hitting the world-wide road. Dub Fx uses Roland BOSS effect & loop pedals to create sounds which when layered creates a live musical construct. Predominantly Dub Fx can be found busking through Europe with his Girlfriend the 'Flower Fairy' who also performs along side.
"What is the War Against Sleep?"The Casio-psychosis of a moral dyslexic squeezing out songs like glue to hold himself together. The act of picking cigarette ends off the floor because you like the taste of cheap lipstick. Love crafted from a night in with Teletext and Benylin. A suit, stained with the amphetamine sweat-beads of your worst porno nightmare. A stolen suit, a borrowed suit, a dead man's suit, a dead-skin mask. Dance with me, you syphilitic tramp. I love you.