One of the coolest bands to grace the stage at Port Eliot, Ice Cold Idiots are a classic rock band with a combined age of just 39! With a playlist made up of ACDC, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin numbers, these 12-year-olds know how to rock with the best of them. Their cover of The Undertones’ ‘Teenage Kicks’ has already received nearly 40,000 views on YouTube…
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Celtic folk noiristes, Songdog combine acoustic and electronic instruments to create soundscapes and vignettes on life, love and loss. They'll be enchanting us with their heartbreaking and magical songs at this year's festival.
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Ed Harcourt is one of Britain’s most celebrated singer-songwriters, having released a number of albums and gained critical acclaim across the board. His fifth and latest album, Lustre (2010), reflects his multi-instrumental and eclectic indie sound, which has often seen him likened to Tom Waits and Jeff Buckley. His songs are “so intuitive and instantly familiar, it’s as if you’ve been humming them for years” (BBC Music).
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Fusing alt-country, pop, bluegrass, Latin and jazz, London-based Police Dog Hogan claims to pick up members like a trucker takes on hitchhikers (that is with a generous, open-minded regularity rather than with a view to robbing them in the woods).
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Wilfredo is the alter ego of Matt Roper, a comedian, writer and musician. As the darling of London’s alternative cabaret scene, the grotesque, crude and deluded Wilfredo is a self-described Spanish “pop God” who has taken the UK festival circuit by storm.
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Blending classic Punjabi folk and global music, RSVP’s performances are dynamic, infectious and lots of fun. You’ll soon be chanting Bhangra anthems and dancing your socks off.
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Former lead singer and Grammy-winning songwriter with The Wallflowers, Jakob (son of Bob) has released two successful solo albums, including Women and Country (produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett) this spring – which is “full of emotive tunes that walk a balance between folk and pop…tackling a conflicted spirituality, poverty, love and the profane shortcomings of life in back-country America” (PopMatters).
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Cherry Ghost is an award-winning band who blend evocative lyrics with haunting melodies to reflect life in all its magical splendour. Their new album Beneath This Burning Shoreline is full of the messy, muddled loveliness of romance and the band will be romancing their way onto the Caught By The River stage for us at this year's festival.
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Thomas Ford & the Dirty Harmonys are a six-piece bash happy rhythm and blues band, led by 24-year-old singer, slide guitarist and harmonica player Thomas Ford, who also supported Hayseed Dixie earlier this year.
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The Melegari are now established as one of the leading quartets in the South West. Not your average string quartet however, Melegari have an eclectic repertoire – effortlessly mixing classical music with modern and their own take on pop tunes ranging from The Foo Fighters, Savage Garden and even Coldplay.
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