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Durham To Host Unsigned Music Festival
Written by Suzanne Bunce | Friday, April 18, 2008 |
A festival celebrating the best unsigned bands in the North East is to take place in Durham. Grassroutes Festival is a two day event that will take place on the 20th and 21st September this year.
The festival will feature 80 bands playing over the two days, and 40,000 people are expected to attend. In addition to this there will be a number of events taking place before and after the festival that will encourage alcohol - free nights for the under - 20s.
Band of the Day are running a competition which is open to all unsigned bands throughout Europe, with the winning band playing at Grassroutes. Steve Lamacq and Huw Stevens will also be doing features on the festival on their shows on Radio 1 at the end of April.
Any profits made by the festival will be used to help promote Durham as a live music venue and for every ticket sold, a small donation will be made to “Bollocks to Poverty“, which is part of Action Aid, and also to “Love Music Hate Racism“.
The line up for the festival so far is:
The Wooden Spoons, Ill Fated Riot, Deltasound, The Chevrolites, Coldseat, The Astons, Destroy The Map, The New Statesmen, The Darlings, Dirty Weekend, World Is Static, Nine Lives For Skydives, The Flytes, Disphoria, The Lexingtons, Cheap Antiques, The Target, The Handels, Indoor Fireworks, The Reverse/Dandy Byron, Colt 45’s, A Certain Romance, Dead Man’s Shoes, Detroit Social Club, SILO, Mild Peril, Cartel Youth Movement, Femme Fatal, Travisty, The Prince Bishops, Breed Abortion, The Astral Janes, DISCOvietnam, Isotopia, The Afterthoughts, Adam Cooper, The Deadwoods, City In Flames, Lucy’s Drowning, The Velvettones, Grand Guignol, Stone Free, This City Romance, 2Many Units, Stump
Plus many more to be confirmed.
Go to www.grassroutesunsigned.btik.com for further information.
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