Artists are listed in reverse order of appearance. Headliners will play around 9pm. Doors open 2pm on Friday and 11am on Saturday & Sunday with performances starting soon after.
Performance times can be seen at the festival information tent and bar and also in the festival programme.
FRIDAY 3rd september 2010
Main Stage
The Divine Comedy
Turin Brakes
Fyfe Dangerfield
Erland and The Carnival
Sparrow and the Workshop
Ben Calvert
Lunar Stage
Beth Jeans Houghton
Starless and Bible Black
Hannah Peel with Table
Vadoinmessico
Matthew P
SATURDAY 4th september 2010
Main Stage
Donovan
The Low Anthem
High Llamas
Johnny Flynn
Spider John Koerner
Alasdair Roberts
Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver
Lunar Stage
Goodnight Lenin
Dan Walsh and Will Pound
Jo Hamilton
Malpas
Megan Henwood
Arborea
Oh Ruin
SUNDAY 5th september 2010
Main Stage
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
The Unthanks
Lunasa
John Renbourn
The Destroyers
Martin Simpson
Bella Hardy
Lunar Stage
Cut A Shine
Rainbow Chasers
The Urban Folk Quartet
Little Sister
Broom Bezzums
James Hickman, Dan Cassidy and Deborah Hodgson
Samuel Walter
FRIDAY 3rd september 2010
Bohemian Jukebox Stage
Gurdan Thomas
Zoe Mulford
Tara Chinn
99*Star
Beneath The Oak
Fox
Tom Martin
The Gardenelles
Charlie
Bulls Head Pub
SATURDAY 4th september 2010
Bohemian Jukebox Stage
Zapoppin'
Perrot's Folly
Ben Calvert
Boat To Row
Workshop - Rapper Dancing with Ryknild Rabble
A Bull
Friends of The Stars
Rich McMahon
Z+
Workshop - Harmonica with Will Pound
Workshop - Clawhammer banjo with Dan Walsh
Bulls Head Pub
Workshop - Song Writing with Alasdair Roberts
SUNDAY 5th september 2010
Bohemian Jukebox Stage
Elfynn
James Summerfield
Richard Burke
Dust Motes
Workshop - Dancing with Cut A Shine
Loose Kites
Miranda Versus The Crok
Panda Su
Chase Mist
Workshop - Penny whistle with Belinda Hutchings
Workshop - Ukulele with the SCUPA
Bulls Head Pub
Workshop - Song with Bella Hardy
Workshop - Arranging Traditional Tunes with Elfynn
Turin Brakes
Long-time friends Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian spent most of their childhood together. When they decided to form a band, they called it Turin Brakes, hoping that by sticking two unrelated words together they would create something that could only mean their music. The band took an early break when Knights went to film school and Paridjanian attempted to form a band in Toronto. But once reunited the two guys from Balham, London, soon set about creating a sound which was unmistakably theirs.‘Being English, the idea of putting ourselves into a genre makes us want to tear our man flesh suits off’ Knights and Paridjanian exclaim on their MySpace page, and throughout their career they have sat on the cusp of pop, indie, rock, soul, and folk; with a sound in a constant process of subtle evolution. They released their first EP ‘The Door’ in 1999 on Anvil Records, which led them to the attention of larger labels. Their next two EPs ‘The State of Things’ and ‘Fight or Flight’ were released on Source Records, before their real breakthrough, 2001’s ‘The Optimist’. The predominantly acoustic recording was nominated for a Mercury award and, of course, received the host of critical praise which deservedly goes alongside such recognition.
Their second album ‘Ether Song’ represented something of a departure; featuring lots of electric guitar and darker moods than their first record. Recorded in LA, Ether Song reached number 4 in the UK album charts and its single Painkiller also went Top 5. The album introduced Knights’ tenor croon to a mass, and massively enthusiastic, audience, and spawned the popular single ‘Long Distance’. It also created a tension between the boys and their recorded label. Turin Brakes resented the way their label constantly reissued the album; feeling that constant new editions with one or two bonus tracks were disrespectful to their fans.
In the break between ‘Ether Song’ and its studio follow-up ‘Jack In A Box’, Turin Brakes released a ‘Late Night Tales’ DJ mix album. They’ve often done DJ sets in and around London, and this collection of their favourite songs, which included their own cover of ‘Moonlight Mile’ by the Rolling Stones, allowed their increasingly devoted fans a further chance to understand their influences. Despite not having a hit single, ‘Jack In A Box’ was another Top 10 album. It mixed the acoustic and electric sounds of their first two records, while some elements of funk also emerged.
The boys followed the success of Jack In A Box and its sell-out US tour with a download-only album ‘Live at the Palladium’. Then in 2007 came their fourth studio recording ‘Dark On Fire’. Sessions for the record were broken up at one stage by Paridjanian’s wife giving birth to a daughter, but once the album was released it represented an uninterrupted continuation of Turin Brakes’ full and ambitious sound; Knights’ fine voice both mournful and hopeful, with strings sparingly punctuating but never overshadowing Paridjanian’s acoustic guitar.
2008 saw Turin Brakes contributing their writing to Take That’s ‘The Circus’ album and also working with Dido, and the following year they put out a Best Of album to mark the 10th anniversary of their debut. This year’s album ‘Outbursts’ has again seen the guys receive some very positive reviews with four stars from MOJO, and Q referring to their raw acoustic folk as a case where ‘less is undoubtedly more’.
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