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Diary Dates
Soundhouse Summer Sessions – Every Saturday through the summer
The Soundhouse
The Summer Sessions are BACK. Enjoy live music outdoors on the city centre’s best outdoor stage. From 1-6pm every Saturday through the summer. Enjoy a mixed bill of local acts with some drinks in the sunshine. Free entry and all ages welcome..
The DeRellas – Thursday 7 July
The Musician
London glam-punksters The DeRellas. Reprobrate rock n roll with a cheeky wink to 70s glam rock.
Bex Marshall – Thursday 14 July
The Musician
English-born singer/songwriter, Bex is an established performer on the London circuit. Full of attitude and charm, Bex’s charismatic vocals take a popular musical mix of rock and country to a higher level, and her music is an experience well worth having.
Jack Lukeman – Thursday 14 July
The Shed
“The most magnificent and enigmatic of performers” – Edinburgh Spotlight Magazine. Jack Lukeman is an Irish singer-songwriter, performer, raconteur and a whole lot more besides. A platinum-selling, critically acclaimed artist in his homeland, in recent years Lukeman has devoted more of his time to winning a growing fanbase in the UK and abroad. In this regard, he has toured the UK as Special Guest on tours by artists as varied as Imelda May, Jools Holland, The Proclaimers and Neil Sedaka. Lukeman is a compelling, dazzling stage performer. He has a knack for creating his own ‘magic realist’ world that is peopled by all manner of unusual, picaresque characters.
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PREVIEW: 110 Above FestIval
Nestled away over near Twycross is the site of the brilliant 110 Above Festival, an event that is staking its claim as one of Leicestershire’s summer highlights and one of the festival scene’s best kept secrets.
The festival in fact started as a small party around a campfire to celebrate the organiser’s birthday, and now that’s grown into a festival who this year will be hosting the likes of The Amazons, Sea Girls, Everything Everything, Palace, Hinds and more.
In recent years 110 Above has hosted the likes of Easy Life, Circa Waves, Fickle Friends, Sundara Karma, Pale Waves and many more. With a capacity that’s limited to around just 1000 people it’s a truly unique and special event for all attendees.
“Unpretentious and undeniably fun” is the atmosphere that they strive for and achieve year on year.
With a focus on new music the organisers have built a reputation for providing a place to discover your new favourite band as they showcase breakthrough talent alongside more established artists.
The festival site is at Gopsall Farm, a small farm near to Twycross Zoo. As well as 3 stages (The Commune Stage, Old Town Hall Stage and Gopsall Stage), festival goers can also look forward to pop-up performances in unique spaces, comedy, arts & crafts and more.
110 Above takes place from 11 – 14 August 2022. Day and weekend tickets are on sale now from the 110 Above website.
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WEEKLY PLAYLIST
In this week’s playlist you can get up to speed with the acts performing at 110 Above Festival.
Have a listen and get in touch to tell us which tracks you’re loving.