FESTIVALS In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan - and us look ahead to this lot.
FEBRUARY
11 Catholic Action 12 Urban Development Industry Takeover 12 Welcome To Wonderland: The Experience - Little Simz & Friends 13 Vant + Zuzu + Isaiah Dreads 14 Festival Producers Project 15 Edges 16 Rising Sounds album launch 17 Rising Soundclash ft. Boko! Boko! + S I S T E R + So Future + In Good Company 18 Festival Producers Day 19 Sumo Chiefs + KOKOROKO 19 Artist Toolkit Day
YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND-HOUSE Vant and Catholic Action head up February’s Roundhouse Rising.
After last year’s shebang hosted The Magic Gang, Black Honey and INHEAVEN, Roundhouse Rising has confirmed its return, taking over the Camden venue between 11th and 18th February for a series of live gigs and workshops. Artists set to appear include DIY faves and Class of 2016 alumni VANT, Glasgow noiseniks Catholic Action, breakthrough rapper Little Simz and newcomer Tom Grennan, while an Artist Toolkit Day will have various industry bods offering advice to young artists.
I’M ALIIIIIIIIVE (AT LEEDS)
Slaves, Black Honey, The Big Moon, The Magic Gang… next year’s LAL is RAMMED. Live at Leeds returns on 29th April 2017, taking over the city’s venues once more, and it looks like a bumper year.
Slaves, Black Honey, The Magic Gang, The Big Moon and Wild Beasts are among the first names for the event, which will also host Jagwar Ma, JAWS, Teleman, White Lies and, making their oh-so-long awaited return, Superfood. Head to diymag.com for the full list of acts confirmed.
NIFTY FIFTY
Sløtface, Abattoir Blues and Eat Fast among those headed to The Great Escape in May. Celebrated with the ‘First Fifty’ gigs in London in November, The Great Escape have confirmed the first, er, fifty names for next year’s event. Class of 2017 stars Sløtface, Abattoir Blues and Eat Fast are among them, with other hot newcomers heading to Brighton between 18th and 20th May including Goat Girl, Skott, Yonaka and Cabbage. What’s more, they’ve also confirmed Young Adult tickets will be on sale, allowing 16-17 year olds in on the fun. Hooray!
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NEWS In Brief
Muse will headline Reading & Leeds (25th - 27th August) with Bastille, Major Lazer, At The Drive-In, Glass Animals, Architects, Against The Current, While She Sleeps and Danny Brown also in the first announcement. Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, The xx and Frank Ocean are the big names headed to Barcelona’s Primavera Sound (31st May - 4th June), with Skepta, Against Me!, Formation, Glass Animals, Run The Jewels, Swet Shop Boys and er, Slayer also playing. Arcade Fire, Solange and Blink-182 lead the latest Roskilde (24th June - 1st July) announcement, with Foo Fighters, Jagwar Ma, Warpaint and Kano also off to the massive Danish bash. Dream Wife, Pixx, Sløtface, Weaves, VANT and Trudy and the Romance are just a handful of the 200+ acts on their way to Texas for SXSW (10th - 19th March), where Nile Rodgers is one of the keynote speakers. Frank Ocean has been confirmed as headlining Lovebox (14th - 15th July) as a ‘London Festival Exclusive’. Aphex Twin will be headlining this year’s Field Day (3rd June), after mysterious scratchcards were left around various London boozers advertising the fact. There won’t be a T in the Park in 2017. The Scottish festival is taking a year out after stating the constraints placed on them by the planning permission required to continue at their Strathallan base is “not workable”. The event moved from its previous home in Kinross in 2015.