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Jason Mraz headlined 2009 GoldCoast Oceanfest

Even the most incredible of journeys starts with a single step. For Jason Mraz, his life-altering journey began with a single word: no. No touring, no recording, no work for a year:  “I said, I want to go to the grocery store again. I want to do my own laundry. I want to tend to a garden. I want to raise a cat.”  

Mraz came to the decision after a remarkable four years where he had seen his major label debut, “Waiting for My Rocket to Come” explode off the success of such hits as “Remedy (I Won’t Worry),”  “You & I Both” and “Curbside Prophet.”  Shortly thereafter, he returned with his Grammy-nominated, critically acclaimed “Mr. A-Z,” which continued his chart success with “Wordplay.” Throughout, his reputation as a tremendous live act soared.

But when he took a well-earned break, something unexpected happened: he rediscovered himself.  After a few months, “I suddenly woke up and real songs started coming out of me,” Mraz recalls. “Songs that I didn’t plan on writing. But that just became a reflection of how I feel and the mood that I was in and these awakenings that I was having,” he says.

The result is “We Sing. We Dance. We Steal Things.” his most self-assured effort to date. In true Mraz style, the 12 tunes are wrapped in clever, observant lyrics and strong, engaging pop melodies, but this time they are inspired “by these moments of self realization, self empowerment and self improvement. I was happy to be able to write an album at the same time I was coming back to earth.”

Highlights include first single, “I’m Yours,” a warm breeze of a song about finally giving into love and life’s possibilities set to lilting island tempo. A demo of the song leaked out into the world a few years ago and has developed a cult following. “I didn’t realize how powerful it was until we went to Sweden last summer and 6,000 people sang every word,” Mraz says. “I’d never been to Sweden in my life. I thought, it’s already got a life of its own from the demo, let’s give people a great version of it. I feel like we finally got it right on this album.”

 Another highlight is “Lucky,” a simple, endearing duet with new platinum singer-songwriter Colbie Caillat.  “I got word that she was a fan and wanted to work together, so I immediately demanded her phone number,” Mraz says with a laugh. He sent her segments of a love song that she and her guitarist Timothy Fagan completed.

Caillat then joined Mraz in a London studio where he recorded the album with producer Martin Terefe, best known for his work with Coldplay and James Morrison (who guests on the intricate “Details in the Fabric”).

Terefe, along with songwriter/pianist Sasha Skarbek (who co-wrote James Blunt’s “You’re Beautiful”), also played a hand in co-writing some of the tunes with Mraz, including “Love for a Child,” a searing autobiographical tale of Mraz’s parents’ split when he was five. “I didn’t want to share the lyrics,” Mraz confesses, “but I just let it rip and it wasn’t until playback that I realized how important it was that I needed to write it.”

While Mraz and Terefe deliberately kept the music stripped down, they added flourishes that distinguish “We Sing” from standard pop fare, including a gospel choir on “Live High,” and operatic embellishments and a children’s chorale on “Coyotes.”

“Martin is such a fun guy,” Mraz says. “He loves the quirkiness and loves to keep the pace going with little surprises so he’s always willing to try my goofy ideas,” such as bookending “Details in the Fabric” with real voice mail messages from Mraz’s good friend and sometime co-writer Bushwalla.

The album takes its title from a piece of art by Glasgow-based doodle artist David Shrigley that Mraz saw in Scotland while traveling.
“What I love about mankind is that yes, we sing and we celebrate and we dance when we’re foolish and we steal things,” says Mraz, who asked Shrigley to design the album art. “It’s hard to have a new idea in music, in fashion, the land we walk on. It’s all recycled. I think to say we stole it is a lot more fun.”

While on tour in Australia a couple years ago, Mraz opened his heart and soul to the little miracles that take place every day. “I was in Australia and a package was left for me at the hotel, full of books and CDs:  Books on Buddhism, books on the Bhagavad Gita, on Christianity, Sai Baba’s teachings and ‘Autobiography of a Yogi.’ All these sort of worldly religious books just appeared, no note—other than ‘when you finish reading them, pass them along.’” Mraz dove into the books and world music, which led to his going to India and “just writing things I never thought I would write. To this day, I have no idea who sent me the package. This was one of the many major coincidences that caused me to say, ‘This is who I am and this is why I have taken the time off the road and this is what I’m supposed to be writing about.’”


For an artist who is so well known for his clever, inspired way with words, it should come as no surprise that many of the songs for “We Sing” were born from a songwriting game he plays with a number of other artists, including noted Texas-based songwriter Bob Schneider. “Bob gives us a topic or a phrase and we have to turn that into a song and email it to everyone.” The impressive verbal torrent that spills forth on “Dynamo of Volition,” and once again shows Mraz’s unmatched ability to sing at the speed of sound, came from being tasked to use the phrase “blind man’s bike.” Similarly, “Coyotes,” “Butterfly,” and “Lucky” all sprung to life after starting from songwriting challenges.


Lessons now learned from sages and prophets in all forms, Mraz is confident he won’t lose his way again. “This album, I’m so excited to share it with people,” he says, but adds, “I can’t see myself getting too lost out there on the road. Every couple of weeks I’m going to go home for awhile and I’m going to squeeze my cat and do my laundry, say my thank yous and then I’ll go out and do some more. There’s certain new rules I’m playing by and a new me.”

 

NEWTON FAULKNER

Newton Faulkner is a 23 year old English singer songwriter with a wistful smile and phenomenal dreadlocks. But you’ll already know him as one of 2007’s most striking musical arrivals, clocking up a Number One platinum album, sell-out UK tours and a growing legion of passionate fans. This is an old fashioned word-of-mouth success story from an artist with simply stunning songs and an astonishing virtuoso guitar technique.

So just what is that Faulkner sound? It’s acoustic guitar like we’ve never heard it before. It’s things done to six strings that will boggle the ears and eyes. It’s a throaty but gentle blues croon that speaks of backwoods, beaches and the badlands of, ah, Surrey. It’s t*u*n*e*s, the likes of which have become a word-of-myspace cult across the Cornwall surf scene and landed prestigious support slots with Jack Johnson’s cult buddy Donavon Frankenreiter.

It’s a genius cover of Massive Attack’s Teardrop dropped into a set to silence a rowdy crowd whilst supporting Paulo Nutini during the World Cup or the Python-esque wit with which Newton Faulkner is fast winning over audiences across the UK.

It’s this inventiveness – this esprit de gig – that made this 22-year-old from just outside London one of the most buzzed-about DIY artists of 2006. With no promotion and bugger-all money his first release, spring 2006’s Full Fat EP, reached Number One on Amazon’s singles chart. The shuffling beats; Faulkner’s laidback scat singing and gutsy holler; the chewy blues riffs; the ‘tapping’ of strings – these had (pardon the pun) struck a chord with anyone who had stumbled across his shows in the south-west, causing the low-key release to sell-out its 3000 copies. With his wonderfully dexterous approach to guitar, Faulkner is as exciting to watch as he is to hear.

‘Tapping,’ explains Faulkner, ‘is prodding the strings really hard with your other hand, your picking hand. You can have stuff coming from both sides of the strings. There are certain frets which work really well – you get two notes and they harmonise with themselves. It sounds like there’s more than there actually this. You’re getting stuff out of both sides of the guitar.’

But Faulkner doesn’t want to get all Guitar World on our ass, even if he does play his handmade guitar (‘it’s been built to take a hammering’) with proper affection. He just wants to move us, and himself, with his music. Which is why prefers writing while he’s touring rather than while sitting at home. 

‘Everything makes more sense on the road,’ he says. ‘When you’re not gigging you write stuff that’s for you in a way that you don’t when out doing gigs. If you’re doing gigs whilst writing you know what you need, you have a clear understanding of what people like and want – which I can’t seem to remember when I’m at home. Which is really stupid,’ he says with a grin, ‘but it’s just how it is.’


He spent his teenage afternoons teaching himself the guitar after picking one up for the first time aged 13. He progressed so fast that by age 16 he secured a place at the prestigious Academy Of Contemporary Music in Guildford.

Aware that there would be some serious players also enrolling, super-focused kids who’d been playing since the age of four, this three-year veteran – well, novice – spent the summer before enrolling with a guitar round his neck from dawn to dusk, working on his skills.

His diligence paid off. Under the tutelage of the college’s Head Of Guitar, the legendarily innovative guitarist Eric Roche – who sadly died in 2005 aged only 37 – Faulkner rapidly developed. ‘It was Rock School,’ he admits. But while other students were seriously into ‘heavy metal shredding,’ he was pushing on with his own style of rhythmic, percussive playing.

A stint in a teenage wannabe punk-rock band petered out. ‘I knew we really were a Green Day tribute band when at one gig we played the whole of Dookie, in order.’ He played in another outfit called Half Guy – ‘everyone else was playing angry metal in church halls so we thought we’d be perverse and be the happiest band in town. My guitar was pink…’ But the responsibilities of being, effectively, the band’s manager, soon took their toll.

So Faulkner started writing and gigging on his own. A publishing deal and a record deal – the latter with Ugly Truth, a new subsidiary of SonyBMG – quickly followed. His second release, the UFO EP, came out at the end of  2006. The lead track, a co-write with his brother, is a rippling, infectious tune that had earned him a standing ovation at one of Jo Whiley’s 2006 Xmas Little Noise gigs (sharing the Union Chapel stage with the likes of Coldplay’s Chris Martin, Lily Allen & The Automatic).

‘UFO’ was closely followed by first single proper ‘I Need Something’ which propelled Newton straight onto the Radio 1 Playlist for the first time. Follow-up ‘Dream Catch Me’ became a much coveted Jo Whiley Record of the Week and sat in the UK Top Ten for three weeks while headline shows across the UK helped send his myspace into meltdown with over 1,500,000 plays in just eight months.

Now a fully fledged touring artist, Newton wowed audiences at several major festivals through summer 2007 including Glastonbury, Secret Garden, Cambridge Folk Festival, V, Wireless and Newquay Unleashed. He’s also undertaken several headline tours that have seen him play to sell out crowds the length and breadth of the country.

July 2007 saw the release of Newton’s debut album, ‘Hand Built By Robots’ which showcases not only those fantastic vocals and beautifully dextrous guitar lines, but also wistful and intelligent lyrics delivered with tremendous wit. A winning formula indeed, as the album spent its first six weeks inside the top five, including two weeks at Number One, before quickly being declared Platinum. The album also secured a very tidy six week residency at Number One on the iTunes chart and stayed inside their Top Ten for the rest of the year.
 

By January 2008 ‘Hand Built..’ had gone on to sell over 500,000 copies and secure our hero a Brits nomination for Best Male Artist. Newton has also started spreading the word globally with his first North American and European live dates - a highlight being an especially exciting performance that took place in a hot air balloon high over the Swiss Alps for a radio broadcast.

‘Hand Built..’ also offers the chance to hear that staggering version of ‘Teardrop’. There aren’t many who would have the bottle to attempt a reinvention of Liz Fraser’s spectral vocal and Massive Attack’s symphonic majesty. But Faulkner does, with style. While his guitar gently weeps, his voice quietly soars. It’s quite something. He’s quite a talent. Lord knows what next he’ll magic out of those fingers, that throat, and that instrument.

Prepare to be gobsmacked.
 

THE MARTIN HARLEY BAND

Martin Harley is a contemporary singer/songwriter and an extraordinary guitarist who has a gift for making music that feels as right and comfortable as your favourite pair of shoes, shoes that you can’t help but tap to the beat. Close your eyes and hear a sound where the soothing gentleness of Jack Johnson is tinged with the simmering urgency of swing; a sound where the soulful vocals of Kelly Joe Phelps may at any moment be stripped away to reveal the driving rock and soaring slide guitar of the John Butler Trio….this is the feeling of the Martin Harley Band and it’s a very addictive feeling indeed! Word has been spreading and Martin’s infectious songs have been winning new fans of all ages, from all walks of life and generating invitations to play across the globe. With a new album due out in Spring 2008 and his gig diary filling up rapidly, this trend looks set to continue.

In his early twenties, disenchanted with suburban life in the UK, Martin went looking for adventure and music armed with a little money and an acoustic guitar. His travels took him across the continents, from the United States, to Africa, to India, and somewhere along the line he found himself writing music and playing in small bars across Australia whilst living out of a car. Using a converted 12-string he bought from a junk shop for $30 (and still uses to this day), his warm voice, earnest yet poetic lyrics, and distinctive guitar style made an impression.

Upon his return to the UK he set about recording his debut album, “Martin Harley” (2003), enlisting Adam Wolters on two-string stick bass and Pete Swatton on a minimal cock-tail drum kit and balalaika. With three musicians whose combined sound is hugely greater than the sum of their parts, The Martin Harley Band was born. Martin’s other passion besides music is surfing, and his music has been enthusiastically carried around the globe by fellow disciples of the wave. This word of mouth phenomenon has opened new doors already; Barbados is a shining example, where the Virgin Music Red Eye Festival 2007 was partly staged in order to enable the band to play there. Everywhere that Martin goes people fall in love with his songs, clamour to buy his CDs and urge him to visit again soon.

Martin’s sense of adventure, his love of travelling and his thirst for a deeper understanding of music all cease to diminish and propel him along his journey. In 2005 he took part in what is now officially the “Highest Gig in the World”, playing at 21,000 feet up in the Himalaya. In early 2007 he spent 6 weeks wandering though Mali, Guinea and Senegal in the company of some of the finest of those countries’ musicians, making music day and night, soaking up the experience and most importantly making friends. A French sound and film crew were along for the ride too, and the hundreds of hours of footage and audio files are now being patiently distilled into another Martin Harley gem.

Five years, two albums, and one bass player later, it would seem that the MHB have come a very long way. With the success of their second offering, “Money Don’t Matter”, it is astonishing how much they have accomplished in such a short space of time and almost all of it on their own. With the departure of Adam Wolters, the band enlisted Graeme Ross on double bass. Poached directly from the chaotic dissolution of his previous band, Graeme makes his mark on the MHB sound with his distinctive brand of percussive bass playing. Combined with Martin’s unique take on slide guitar, and Pete’s animalistic, groove infused drumming, they make a formidable trio indeed.

2008 sees a busy year for The Martin Harley Band; a month-long solo tour of Australia, regular sorties to France, Germany, and Holland, an autumn tour of Scandinavia, and an extensive UK tour are now being booked. The forthcoming album “Grow Your Own”, under license to Villainous Records, will be released in the UK in April, accompanied by a single, “One For The Road”. Mastered by studio guru Bob Katz, this collection sees Martin and the boys broadening their sound with tasteful use of strings, horns and electric guitars on odd occasions. The feel of the music drifts from mournful ballads to jazzy swing to bluesy hip-hop and beyond into full blown rock, with not a weak track on the album.

The astonishing journey of The Martin Harley Band continues to roll on, and it has just changed up a gear. Perhaps 2009 will be the year when it rolls past your front door……

RUARRI JOSEPH

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Neil Halstead

of shoegazer band Slowdive and its long-running offshoot Mojave 3, started writing solo albums as a result of a breakup that left him sleeping in a recording studio. The songs he wrote during those two months showed up on Halstead's first solo album, 2000's Sleeping on Roads.

Halstead's latest solo disc, Oh! Mighty Engine, follows the same musical path, with sincere and emotional songs that build a relaxed atmosphere. He performs songs from the new record in a session with World Cafe host David Dye.
 

Two Spot Gobi

It was a little over three years ago at Sussex University in Brighton that the Two Spot Gobi alternative organic pop sound was born – when singer songwriter James Robinson teamed up with cellist Rob Lewis, guitarist Dino Randawa and drummer Ben Matthews. After a couple of line up changes they recruited jazz graduate Matt Ellis on trumpet and most recently Matt Harris on bass. Influences include everything from The Police to Pendulum and Elbow to Jamiroquai. Having released four EPs, (Melodious Star, Hey Now, Outside and Otherside Of The World) they unleashed their debut single Sunshine Lady in June last year. 



As a result TSG were invited to the US to perform a series of intimate east coast shows, after which they linked up with platinum selling and Grammy nominated artist Jason Mraz (Through a remarkable set of coincidences he had discovered TSG at a show in the UK in early 2006) for some arena dates in California. Since then they’ve performed at the first Leeza Gibbons Oscars Aftershow party in LA, have played a couple of European dates with Jason Mraz and, after supporting him on the UK leg of his tour, they embark on their own UK headlining tour to promote their debut album Everywhere You Should Have Been.
 

Ben Howard

r103smallweb_445Ben Howard is one of the UK’s emerging acoustic talents. Brought up in the green rolling countryside of Devon, Ben’s been surfing and playing music from an early age. Now 21, his vast array of percussive guitar skills and vocals trained on whiskey and rollies are turning heads wherever he plays.
Recent months has seen a tour in Europe with Australian Xavier Rudd, an appearance at the British Snowboard awards in Laax, Switzerland, and a rare music sponsorship deal from surf giants Quiksilver.

On top of numerous shows and festivals last year, Ben’s been lucky enough to support the likes of Ash Grunwald, Carus Thompon, Xavier Rudd, and is set to support Brighton based Fink on his UK tour.

Selling out of his first run of a thousand EP’s, Ben’s releasing a single next month and with Quiksilver’s backing, releasing an album before the summers out.

 MAX TUOHY

MAX TUOHY BORN IN ISLEWORTH  18TH APRIL  1992 AN INCREDIBLE YOUNG TALENTED SINGER WITH A  NATURAL GIFT FOR WRITING AND PLAYING HIS OWN SONGS.
MAX HAS JUST SIGNED A RECORDING  AND PUBLISHING DEAL WITH SONY AND HAS STARTED RECORDING HIS FIRST ALBUM.
MAX IS ALSO PLAYING DATES  THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH THE LIKES OF JASON MRAZ, NEWTON FAUKNER,CYPRUS HILL.ETC HE WAS ON THE FRONT COVER OF MUSIC WEEK AND RECORD OF THE WEEK AS ONE TIPPED TO GET TO THE TOP. FOR MORE INFO ON MAX
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/MAXTUOHY 

ZERVAS & PEPPER

A five-piece band centered around the songwriting partnership of Paul Zervas and Kathryn Pepper. With a shared passion for 'radio friendly'  sunny 'west coast' rock they have created a sound that is reminiscent of the classic 1970 bands.  Think 'Fleetwood Mac', Crosby ,Stills & Nash’ and then add the contemporary feel of bands such as 'Cherry Ghost' & 'Fleet Foxes'. But be ensured 'Zervas and Pepper' have a sound that's quite their own.
Following the band's debut EP in early 2008 '  Z&P have created quite a stir on the local Live music scene and have a large, ever-growing loyal following.  While the debut EP quickly gained the interest of many industry professionals Z&P choose to release all their music and promote the band independently on their own ‘Zerodeo’ record label.  Now in 2009 with the May release of the brand new 2nd EP Zervas and Pepper are taking the band back on the road. 

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For more info/ Cd sales check out: www.myspace.com/paulzervas

DAVE GANDER

After the hailed launch of EP “Girl on the moon”Dave Gander is set to release his much anticipated new album early June 2009. Touching upon a range of styles and not restricted to one genre - surf cultured, blue roots and easy listening - the new album proves to be his most creative and eclectic collection to date. Dave enlisted the musical talent from some of his closest musician friends which has taken the album down a new path of creativity and diversity with one track to the next telling a musical story of its own. The album is reection of the musical journey of which Dave has travelled. Originally from Sydney, Australia singer/songwriter Dave Gander has been playing guitar since the age of 13 where he grew up surng as a fully sponsored surfer, hanging out on the beaches and listening to surf cultured music all of which he was inuenced by. When he left Australia to embark on his journey of worldwide travels he took his guitar with him. To name a few America and Canada, are just two of the places where he lived and performed many gigs across the country. Supporting amongst many Mick Hart, Rob Sawyer, Carus his musical travels have led him to perform gigs from his hometown across the world and in Europe. A promotional tour of gigs/festivals coming up around the UK/Europe is being finalised showcasing the new album taking in regional radio and a press campaign.
For more information check out www.myspace.com/davegander

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AMY NEWTON

Amy is a singer songwriter based in Devon England.She was born and lived in the village of Croyde which is a surfing community and some of her inspiration comes from that environment.Her songs
have been used on surf movies and the lyrics touch everyone in some way.
She studied music at Liverpool School of Performing Arts where she attained a degree.
She has been performing mainly her own songs at gigs throughout the South West of England and has good underground following in the UK. 

The Breaks COLLECTIVE

A Hip Hop troupe that fuse vocal, instrumental and turntable talents into an unstoppable dance friendly force. They blend together Breaks, Funk, Jazz and freestyle to create an original sound that is full of flavour and diversity.

breaksskull_156From there improvised beginnings in 2005, they have progressed on to become one of the South West’s top Hip Hop acts playing tight sets and sharing the stage with Toots and the Maytals. Courtney Pine, the Pharcyde, the Scratch Perverts, Soweto Kinch, Ursula Rucker, the Freestylers, London Elektricity, DJ Format, Ed Motta, Gilles Peterson, Jungle Drummer & DJ Fu.


During the recording and release of their first full length album entitled Finally in 2008,  (having previously releasesd 2 E.P.s) they became known as the Breaks Collective, this is due to their desire to incorporate various musicians into the band both in the studio by creating a richer sound palette’s for various tracks and in a live situation where there is more scope for diverse improvisations.


One thing that is for sure is the when the Breaks play, the dance floor will be filled with slow jams and up tempo beats that will get you moving to a sound that is super bouncy and wholly refreshing.

JULIE DASKE

Although known in musical circles for her extraordinary voice, Julie Daske is an accomplished and talented instrumentalist. She plays both piano and guitar and it is with these tools that she can really showcase the full range of her ability. Based in the South West of England, Julie is a prolific and imaginative singer and songwriter. After several years of session work and collaborations, in-between full time motherhood, she has now assembled a group of musicians who are capable of taking her songs to the next level. With Bill Banwell on bass, Greg Shepheard on guitar and Jamie Hickey on drums, percussion and programming, Julie now has a band who are more than capable of interpreting and delivering her highly original music in an exciting and dynamic way.
Musical influences include a range of artists from Blondie, Kate Bush and Joni Mitchell, to Prince, Muse and Jeff Buckley. Somewhere in the middle sits Julie Daske who will captivate you with her infectious hooks, quirky melodies and honest performance.
www.juliedaske.com
www.myspace.com/juliedaske

JIM JONES

“Pouring his life into his music is what South West based Acoustic singer songwriter Jim Jones does best. Honest, emotional glimpses of moments caught in song and played with simplicity, sincerity and soul."
After years of playing in bands and writing for various musical projects Jim Jones has finally completed his first solo album "Daylight & Stars" (Although he didn't do it alone, recorded & Produced by Peter Bruntnell) and it only took him 2 years!! Jim says: "Making this album has been a great experience for me and a lot has happened in the last couple of years. Finding the time to record this album wasn't always easy but when it did happen it was always productive and always a good laugh. At times it felt more like a social event than making an album as I would hook up with Pete (with the occasional visit from Dave Little and Will Greeves) in is Mortehoe Basement studio. Plied with red wine and treats Mr. Bruntnell would twiddle and press stuff and I would do my best to sing and play my newly scribed tunes. Dave, Will and Pete did a great job of helping me colour the album in and the result maybe that this one is a little brighter in feel than the STM album "Monochrome."

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‘Hey' from 'Daylight & Stars' featured in Mojo's top ten playlist” - Mojo Magazine

Jones specialises in intimate songs about life’s important moments, Timeless, classic stuff! - Q magazine

A troubadour in the real sense – just guitar, lyrics and voice. And what a voice! - Americana – UK


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Douglas E Powell

Douglas E Powell's own take on folk and Americana has earned him great respect from fans of his music all over the world. Choosing to play solely with acoustic guitar and harmonica, Douglas tips his hat to his musical heroes Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Burt Jansch. His live performances are intensely charged with deeply personal lyrics over gritty and beautifully simplistic guitar work.
www.douglasepowell.co.uk
www.myspace.com/douglasepowell
www.douglasepowell.blogspot.com
www.twistervalleyrecords.blogspot.com

DEVIL DELTA BLUES BAND

Latest news - we have just returned from London where we supported Alabama 3 (writers of The Serpranos theme among other things) for the second time, with a firm invitation to suport them again. Other than that we have just been giging regularly around Devon cementing our reputation as the Southwest's premier blues band.

Cablecar-catastrophe

are a 4 piece Indie / Pop Punk from NorthDevon. Caught in the crossfire of Get Cape Wear Cape Fly and The Libertines, they bring you their own sound. With the use of catchy lyrics, melodic piano and acoustic guitar, they are backed by hard hitting drums and bass. This has made them stand out in the local scene, building and large following in and around the area. Having just come off tour at the end of April, they have already started booking a summer tour, so watch this space!

Some of the Names over the Years

Here are some of the names who played GoldCoast Sundowner Sessions over the years...

Carbon 14, Junction 27, Evan Fly, InVitro, The Lost Girls, BlackBud, The Naked Apes, Severe Zero, Small Town Mentality, Amy Newton, Jim Jones & Dave Little, Pete Bruntnell, Jonny Marrs, Billy Crawford, Jaimeson, Sellors and the Scientists, Yes Sir Boss, Hey Molly, Scaramoose, Tarka Groove Experiment, The Imperial Vipers, Urusen, Britonica, The Liquidators, Captain Everything, Two Spot Gobi, Fandangle, Rob Sawyer, Mick Hart, Farryl Purkiss, Wille & the Bandits, Ash Grunwald, Rupert Oxlade Band, Martin Harley Band, Meet Me at the Pub, The Beautiful Girls, Donavon Frankenreiter...