Saturday 14th January 2012 – Ulysses

Come celebrate with us on our 3rd year anniversary!!! Live music from The Ulysses, they did us proud at 2011 Music Festival, now they are back to help celebrate our anniversary. One night not to be missed!!!!!

“Astonishingly well-observed resurrection of late-period psychedelia pomped up through a glam-rock filter and expanded beyond decency and reason. Hailing from Bath, these boys have got the psychedelic party anthems to set any dancefloor alight!”

CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE – HEAVY ROTATION FEATURE – JUNE 2011

Friday 3rd February – Sixteen Stone Pig

Back by demand, come party with us. Sixteen stone pig is a four piece rock/pop cover band, covering hits from recent days. This is one band which will have you up and dancing from start to finish!

Saturday 17th March – ST PADDY’S!!!!! – Wessex Contraband

Coming back for their 3rd year running we are proud to annonuce we are celebrating St Paddy’s with a great Irish band!!!!! A unique, exciting band who can get the audience going from the first tune, or perhaps play a thoughtful travelling song, or a well known Irish drinking song!!!.  An acoustic mixture of traditional tunes, popular Irish songs and the occasional Bluegrass song, with fiddle ,whistle, mandolin, accordion, melodeon, banjo ,guitar ,bodhran, bells, tambourines , voices and a good smattering of low class humour. We’re quirky and like to stamp our feet a lot……..

Friday 6th April (Good Friday) – Watts Up

Returning to us from last year a fab band who know how to rock!!!

Watts Up is the unlikely combination of a procurement director, a skills trainer, a doctor of philosophy and a pilot. They formed in 2010 and have been rocked Bath and beyond ever since. A style of  music which is loosely based on the classic British blues/rock of groups such as Free and Bad Company.

Sunday 6th May (BANK HOLIDAY) – The Rough Street Jug Band

A four-piece band, combined age probably in excess of 240 years, currently wowing audiences all the way from Bath to Bedwyn and back. Their main musical inspiration is very much the black American jug band music of the 1920s:- The Memphis Jug Band, Gus Cannon’s Jug Stompers, The Mississippi Sheiks etc – a foot tapping mix of blues, jazz, and ragtime with the odd suggestive lyric: all good entertainment. Instruments ? Well, you name it really:- jug (of course), washboard & drums, kazoo, stroh viol, concertina, upright bass, banjo, mandolin, harmonica, swanee whistle, ocarina, ukulele, even guitar ….. mainly a vocal band with a bit of nonsense going on as well.

 Friday 18th May – The Peppercorn’s

A two-piece acoustic group made up of members of Bazooka Joe, who play rock and 80′s pop covers, along with lots of jokes and parodies.

Tuesday 22nd May – Spring CME International Tour

“Twice a year CME Artist Services (fka as Chicago Music Explosion) run by Convulsions’ frontman Ben Ruth invites diverse acts from around the world to apply for a musical pub and small club tour of the UK. Two acts are selected, usually one acoustic or semi-acoustic and one electric and although the genres may vary widely between and within tours the quality is always top notch. From RnB from Canada, punk from Ireland, blues from Australia (and Chicago), Latin jazz from Tampa Bay, pop from Holland, rock from Costa Rica, electric marimba from Bulgaria, classical guitar from New York and blue eyed soul and funk from New Jersey you never know quite what to expect but do expect to be amazed!”

Trip Hop Jazz Pop from Vienna meets Ballistic Jam Funk from Philadelphia

What does a high energy instrumental funk jam band from Philadelphia have in common with a three piece trip hop jazz pop outfit from Vienna? Simple, they’re performing together on CME Artist Services 11th annual Spring UK Tour.

Flux Capacitor have been cramming dance venues on the East Coast with their blazing organ driven instrumental funk for several years now. They are characterized by tight but complex arrangements projected with fierce conviction. Marina Zettl with partner Thomas Mauerhofer offer a melodic but infectious contrast with a groove redolent of Luscious Jackson (remember them?) with tunes that refuse to budge from a delighted brain. Delicious music you could eat. Both acts should compliment each other well and we’re particularly looking forward to this event which sees two new venues brought into the fold: Three Horseshoes at Bradford on Avon and the new performance centre at Lancaster Brewery.

http://marinazettl.com/                 http://www.fluxcapacitorband.com/