Soco Stage
Love music with flair and a twist? Want to experience something new and different? Ejectorseat Arts is proud to announce a second live music stage for this year's festival, run and organised with the help of local music group SoCo. On the SoCo stage bands will engage in exciting collaborations, fusions of sound and create something unique and not to be missed. With the assistance of local musicians and orchestras, it is going to be something not to be ignored. |
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Doyle and the fourfathers (21:00 - 21:30)
Originally hailing from Southampton, Doyle and the Fourfathers grew out of a project started by William to collaborate with his mates, Alex, Michael and Ben. Now an established band, Doyle and the Fourfathers combine a mix of excellent musical ability and poignant songwriting that's putting them on a path previously trodden by some of their heroes, Scott Walker, Jarvis Cocker, Neil Hannon and Ray Davies. At the festival they will be performing with a string section. |
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Thee Exciters (20:00 - 20:30)
Thee Exciters were formed in Southampton 2003 and will be performing with a brass section.
"Raw 60s garage punk with big fuzz guitar" - Artrocker
"They'd whip the **** out of at least 70% of garage bands working today" - Q Magazine |
Neko Roshi and the Cats Chorus (19:00 - 19:30)
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DirectorSound (18:00 - 18:30)
Multi instrumentalist Nick Palmer started Directorsound in 1998 releasing his debut 'Redemptive Strikes' on Geographic in the UK and Felicity in Japan. Earlier recordings where then collated for 2005's 'Tales from the tightrope vol.1' for Japanese label Powershovel Audio and Dorset Paeans in the UK. After a series of low key CDR releases throughout the late noughties radio silence was broken in 2010 with the joint release of 7" single 'Before the March' and LP 'Two Years Today' on Swedish label Tona Serenad and Inpartmaint in Japan.
Live performances see Palmer employing a range of acoustic and home made instruments, often simultaneously to play out his pan-european, junkshop, circus folk stylings.
Seven years in the making, Dorset multi-instrumentalist Nick Palmer's second Directorsound LP is a crucible of junkshop esoterica: bowed saw, cheery banjo, barroom piano, Victorian dulitone, et al. Thus equipped, he navigates a jaunty, mellifluous path between chintzy folk, nouvelle vauge soundtrack and music hall vamp. |
powerdove (17:00 - 17:30)
Annie Lewandowski was born and raised in Midwest US and now lives in Southampton. She writes songs under the name powerdove. She has also recorded with Hawnay Troof (Islands of Ayle, 2008), The Curtains (David Shrigley's Worried Noodles, 2007), and Xiu Xiu (Tu mi piaci, 2006), and toured the US and the UK as a member of The Curtains in 2006. Powerdove's first album, "Be Mine," was released on Circle into Square Records in 2011. |
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John Fashole - Luke (16:00 - 16:30)
Graduating from Southampton University with a music degree specialising in jazz piano performance and John still lives in Southampton, promoting musical events, playing with a number of bands, teaching and recording. John plays various styles of music in over a dozen groups so you'll need to come to his show and see him for yourself! |
Your smiling now but we'll all turn into demons (13:00 - 13:30)
You're Smiling Now But We'll All Turn Into Demons, or let's say 'Demons' for short, are an alt-rock, psyche-drone four-piece from Portsmouth. The Demons are hard working boys indeed, constantly playing shows up and down the country, bringing their psyche noise to the masses and converting all who bare witness to their impressive live performances. Demons will be performing with a Sitar player. They have played alongside Damo Suzuki (Can), Wooden Shjips and Dead Meadow. |
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Piggery Jokery by Hand to Mouth Theatre (12:30 - 13:00)
Piggery Jokery" is a whimsical perambulation through the seasons, touching on the circular nature of time, as told by the Green Man and his hurdy-gurdy playing Droning Crone and their troupe of rag-bag characters. There is plenty of laughter along the way as the old farmer tends his land and fattens his pig for the winter.
It is both moving and entertaining with resonances of ancient pagan ritual and dark humour.
It has an atmosphere of Dark Ages & New Ages which will captivate All Ages, particularly Middle Ages and Older Ages .... from little acorns to old oaks.
