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Scarborough's Beached Festival 2003

Saturday 9th August

& Sunday 10th August

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Saturday 9th August

Main Stage Lineup

Acoustic Stage Lineup

12:00 Setback : Local Young classic Guitar, Bass, Drums and lead singer combo, played last year as a duo. Given the daunting task of opening the proceedings this year. Go on then bring on the sunshine!

01:00 Snatch : local covers band that'll grab you by the short 'n' curlies

02:00 The Dog Roses : From away, featuring a local lad who now lives darn sarf - Modern traditional music for 2003 a bit poges in places.

03:00 Puritan : ask steve @ mojos

04:00 Fuzz Gun Sniper : Local energy ball of Pop-punk-fusionists, samples, guitars 'n' powerful vocals... this century's Public Image Limited.

05:00 The Mad Cyrils : Local Black Grape/Stone Roses Tribute Fun-time band include their first original track 'Mad For it, sorted, our kid' from the Beached:CD

06:00 The Dead Pets : Ska-Punk band who were big crowd pleasers last year with Limbo dancing intervals, jumping around and general moshing FUN!

07:00 tbc

08:00 Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets) : Come find out what this legend of modern pop culture has been up to since last you saw him on TOP of the POPS! He's not been too far away as he's an act that's here to stay!

09:00 Parisman : Last year Paris Man rocked Scarborough beach in the same way as John Wayne and the Americans rocked Omaha Beach. Keyboards that swirl and swoop between soaring guitars like a deranged seagull soaring over silver waves...

10.00 Spear of Destiny : With help from our friends at "The Kazbah", Scarborough's newest and best live music venue, we have booked Kirk Brandon and Spear of Destiny to headline this first day.

Rising out of the ashes of early '80s punk group Theatre of Hate, vocalist/guitarist Kirk Brandon assembled the first Spear of Destiny lineup in 1983. They went on to release many top 20 albums including, 'Grapes of Wrath', 'One Eyed Jacks', 'World Service', 'Outland', 'The Price You Pay'. They had a top-selling UK single entitled "Never Take Me Alive."

The current SOD live show pulls on material from all eras of Kirk Brandon's career, songs from "Theatre of Hate", all past incarnations of "Spear of Destiny", new tracks from the forthcoming album "Volunteers" and even a "Pack" song, have found their way into the most recent live sets. www.kirkbrandon.com

 

 

 

11:00 Chris Marsden (DJ Set) : All hands on discs!

 

More acts to be confirmed - billing subject to change.

12:30 Cal Williams : A Young Australian lad and his guitar, could be Rolf Harris's son but isn't.....he's not irritating he's irritatingly good..

 

01:30 Alex Kirby : Local singer song writer who opened last year's event. Trying out new material amongst old favourites from his CD 'Love to be with you', New CD out toward end of year!

02:30 Stepney : Pretty Boy Power-Pop stars of the 21st century

03:30 The Dharma : Latest and newest incarnation of MATT & MIKE & friends...expect an electric guitar Joy Ride

04:30 This Garden : former talbot band reform special for beached

 

05:30 Sarah Lawton : violin acordian tradional folk stuff

 

06:30 Tom Townsend : Local Singer Guitarist Songwriter

07:30 Geoff Martyn (ex-Travis) : see official website click here

 

08:30 Martin Stephenson : see official website click here

Sunday 10th August

Main Stage Lineup

Acoustic Stage Lineup

12:30 Paul Tilley : Local Singer song writer and human juke box that visitors book holidays to Scarborough for...

01:30 The Favours : Female fronted indie music that'll either send you asleep or lift you

02:30 The Senses : ask steve @ mojos

03:30 Hiatus : Canadian Guitar Sludge Stomp with 'inteligent' lyrics and diverse scratching/sampling...modern skate board hip hop to you and me

04:30 Rainmen : You like Travis? you'll love these guitar based players, light and breazy..

05:30 Bifta Smoking Eskimos : Guitar based laid back familiar smiley music you expect on an indie land of the midnight sun summer compilation album.....some happy surprises.....ie they're surreally good!!

06:30 SammyUSA : Last year they played a strong set of solid self -written material that had the beach rockin and the audience rolling. this year they'll have the whole of the country doing likewise!

07:30 Chikinki : Recently signed to Island Records with an album on the way and a limited edition single called 'Hate TV' including another track called 'F@*king with our clothes on' to be released on 25th August. Their sound? modern escapism.

08:30 Colour Of Fire : Colour of Fire newly signed to Riverman Records hail from York and are potentially the perfect indie band. They sound like a mixture of Iggy, Muse and The Ramones - and look good while they're doing it!

09:15 Electric Eel Shock : The Japanese invasion continues..After giant teddy bears:  "With a beat that sounds like Godzilla trampling Tokyo underfoot, Electric Eel Shock mean business, after seeing them you will truly believe that Rock & Roll Can Rescue The World... Do not miss EES". - quote from Kerrang!

10.15 Quireboys : Ok gotta be careful not to spell their name wrong! These guys started playing festivals way back in 86/87 When they started they were called the Choirboys but changed it to Queerboys after a building site joke about the way they looked....then they were offered the Reading Fest on the condition they changed their name to the Quireboys and so a legend grew....

After playing the festival, the band had a solid following and released a couple of independent singles, 'Mayfair' & 'There She Goes Again' through Survival Records.

'89/90 The album 'A Bit Of What You Fancy' followed, entering the UK charts at number two, and over the next 13 months, the band toured the world. They went to the US, playing clubs with LA Guns, arenas with Heart and festivals such as the Gathering of the Tribes (the blueprint for Lollapallooza) with The Charlatans, Soundgarden, Ice-T, Queen Latifah, Sinead O'Connor, Cramps, Iggy Pop and The Cult.

In June 1990, whilst touring the US, the band were offered a special guest slot with the Rolling Stones at St James's Park, Newcastle (Spike's dream gig!)

Also back home, the band played to 72,000 people at Donington Park with Whitesnake, Aerosmith and Poison, during the Monsters of Rock tour.

And if that wasn't enough, The Quireboys finished off the year with a memorable gig at the Tokyo Dome on New Year's Eve with Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Skid Row, in front of 50,000 people.

Tramps & theives was released toward the end of 1992 but grunge had taken over the charts and although going platinum in Canada was great their chart success locally was not as massive as their Live performances and so they decided to bow out....until now that is!

THIS IS ROCK 'N' ROLL . . .

Spike and Griff met up in LA in the summer of 2000 while Griff was touring with Glimmer and wrote a couple of new songs. Sanctuary Records heard demos through a friend of Spike and, much to their surprise, offered the lads arecord deal. At this point, they weren't going to call the new band The Quireboys but once Nigel expressed a desire to be involved, they couldn't be called anything else!!!

Two new members were added from the now defunct Glimmer. British born Luke Bossendorfer on guitar and Martin Henderson on drums. And for touring purposes, Keith Weir on keyboards.

They then started work on a new record,'This is Rock 'N' Roll',free from the constraints of management, record companies and producers.

The LP was finished after four weeks rehearsal, three weeks in the recording studio and was released July 2001. The band plugged the LP with some low key dates, including a special show with Status Quo at Hyde Park. After it proved obvious there was interest from the fans, a more extensive and successful tour of Canada and Europe in September/October followed and the rest, hopefully, is history.

Cropped down from the website mostly written by © Clare Turner/ The Quireboys 2001 with a few tweeks by me Cap'n Ants

More acts to be confirmed - billing subject to change.

12:00 Pepperland: Acoustic guitars & vocal from two parts of former local rockers The Pepperland Band

01:00 Rebecca Roberts : Angelic and highly polished young lady guitarist, and singer song writer...eclectic selection traditional and modern songs.

02:00 Asylum Seekers : York based Folk rockers of the 21st century

03:00 Jesse Hutchinson : Local Legend in own lunch box, his guitar playing will spell bind you and vocals clear out your ears.

04:00 R@E : Talented Singer songstress, plays original compositions that stretch the boundries & spell bind the audience.

05:00 Yumi Yumi : Bob the bear's japanese girl Bubblegum-power-pop, electro-punk rock band is fun writ large!

06:00 Darren Cooke : Rythmic guitarist & singer song writer whose self penned song Julianna you'll be humming all the way home...

07:00 Holly Lowe Band: Yet another piece of young talent, musical talent I mean...influenced by Pink Floyed with her own original lyrics and music...as with many of the other local artists showcased over the two days she also has a cd to plug...

08:00 Tribalize: didgerido's, bongos, ethic bits of wood, vocalisation, perspiration, dance, trance kinda vibe....summer sit round a campfire beach music.

Find out more visit the official website...

http://www.beached.net....Click here

or take a look at the beach....

LIVE! Surf Cam....click here
Scarborough's south bay

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