Kendal Calling is an independent music festival held annually at Lowther Deer Park in the Lake District, Cumbria. It has grown from a two-day, 900 capacity event in 2006 to an 8000 capacity three-day music festival. Kendal Calling has 9 stages and has featured live performances from notable artists such as Pendulum, Doves, Dizzee Rascal, Mumford & Sons, Calvin Harris and British Sea Power. In...
Kings of Leon are an American rock band that formed in Nashville, Tennessee, United States in 1999, consisting of brothers Anthony Caleb Followill (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Ivan Nathan Followill (drums, percussion, backing vocals) and Michael Jared Followill (bass guitar, backing vocals), with their cousin Cameron Matthew Followill (lead guitar, backing vocals). Each member of the family...
The Crawl first came to Camden in the mid-nineties as a one-day event . It died out after a few years but was revived in 2005 and quickly gained notoriety as one of the best new and alternative festivals in the UK. The Camden Crawl is a a yearly event featuring dozens of bands playing over two days at venues across camden. Following a month of online voting, the Gaymers Camden Crawl topped the...
British Sea Power are an indie rock band based in Brighton, England, although three of the band come originally from Kendal in Cumbria. Their style ranges from the sweeping, often epic, guitar pop sound to the visceral and angular. British Sea Power are famed for their live performances and their choice of unusual locations for some of their shows. The Decline of British Sea Power, the...
Black Country Communion are an English-American rock supergroup featuring Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian, and Joe Bonamassa. The band was originally conceived during a concert being held for Guitar Center in November 2009. The group took their name from the English industrial area where both Hughes and Bonham hail from. Black Country Communion’s debut album is “Black...
Kate Victoria Tunstall, better known as KT Tunstall (born 23 June 1975) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist. She broke into the public eye with a live solo performance of her song “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” on Later… with Jools Holland. She has enjoyed commercial and critical success since, picking up three nominations before winning a BRIT Award, and a Grammy...
Paul Smith (born 13 March 1979, Billingham, Stockton-on-Tees, England) is the singer for the British indie rock group, Maxïmo Park. Before Smith was recruited to Maxïmo Park they were a four-piece band on the verge of splitting up. Bassist Archis Tiku was originally the lead singer along with Duncan Lloyd, but revealed to the band that he and Lloyd had no intention of being frontmen. Smith can...
We Are Scientists is a New York-based rock band that formed in Berkeley, California in the year 2000. Originally formed of Keith Murray on drums, Chris Cain playing bass guitar and Scott Lamb providing vocals and guitar, before Michael Tapper became drummer and Keith became vocalist and guitarist. After their move to Brooklyn, New York in 2001 We Are Scientists began self recording their debut...
Mark Daniel Ronson (born 4 September 1975) is an English guitarist, music producer, artist and co-founder of Allido Records. Ronson was born into a wealthy family, the son of writer and socialite Ann Dexter-Jones and one-time band manager and real estate entrepreneur Laurence Ronson. Mark Ronson debut album Here Comes the Fuzz failed to make an impact on the charts, his second album, Version...