Thursday 9 May 2013

Handmade Festival - final line-up confirmation‏


Handmade Festival, a music and arts festival taking place at venues across Leicester city centre, can now confirm the full line-up for this year's first event.

Taking place from Friday 24th to Sunday 26th May, the festival will feature the likes of Dutch Uncles, Rolo Tomassi, The Twilight Sad, Tall Ships, Nine Black Alps, Maybeshewill, Sam Duckworth, Sky Larkin, Arcane Roots, Johnny Foreigner, We Were Promised Jetpacks and Her Name Is Calla among many other bands as well as comedy, a pop-up cinema (based in a fifteenth century merchants dwelling) and art and photography exhibitions, taking over not just Leicester city centre's established music venues but also reclaimed spaces such as the 14th century Guildhall, a Methodist Church and Leicester Castle.

Weekend tickets are now on sale priced £25 with day tickets available for just £10 each from http://handmadefestival.co.uk. There is also a special after party event on Bank Holiday Monday 27th May which is ticketed separately, also £10.

The line-up is as follows:

Friday 24th May
Rolo Tomassi, Maybeshewill, Codex Leicester, Surrender The Coast @ The People’s Photographic Gallery
Arcane Roots, Speaking In Italics @ Firebug, plus comedy from James Acaster and Rob Deering and The Art Machine
Stand-up comedy plus music photography exhibition @ Duffy’s Bar

Saturday 25th May
We Were Promised Jetpacks, Nine Black Alps, Little Night Terrors @ The People’s Photographic Gallery
Johnny Foreigner, My First Tooth, Haus @ Firebug, plus Plug At The Bug club night, Dan Nicholas' Conversation Garden, improvised comedy and The Art Machine
Sam Duckworth, Grace Petrie, Charlotte Carpenter, Mark Elliott @ The Cookie Jar, plus photography exhibition of John Taylor & Co bellfoundry by Leicester Lo-Fi and Balloon Roulette
Her Name Is Calla, Peter Wyeth, Midas Fall, Kenworthy, Katie Malco, Weikie @ Bishop Street Methodist Church plus Rachael Smith's Complete A Comic and light installation by Joe Moran
Stand-up comedy plus music photography exhibition @ Duffy’s Bar

Sunday 26th May
Dutch Uncles, Tall Ships, Sky Larkin, Dark Dark Horse, Silent Devices @ Firebug downstairs
Arms Of Atlas, Disability, Colobos @ Firebug upstairs, plus comedy, Barbara Steele's Wheels Of Steel, The Art Machine
The Twilight Sad, We Three And The Death Rattle, Preacher And The Bear, The Demons Of Ruby Mae @ The Guildhall
TE Morris @ Leicester Castle
Sulk, The Cream Tangerines, Feedback Voice @ The Cookie Jar, plus plus photography exhibition of John Taylor & Co bellfoundry by Leicester Lo-Fi and Balloon Roulette
The Handmade Cinema @ Wygston’s House
Stand-up comedy plus music photography exhibition @ Duffy’s Bar

Monday 27th May
Handmade Festival After Party featuring Robin Ince's Dirty Book Club @ Firebug

Full schedule details, including venue age restrictions and stage times, are at http://handmadefestival.co.uk/schedule/




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