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Liverpool Music Week – First acts announced

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One of the headline acts for this year’s Liverpool Music Week, is one of the world’s most iconic electronic acts LEFTFIELD who close the 2010 festival at Liverpool University.  After a series of outstanding summer festival performances Neil Barnes returns with a new live show.  The band who trailblazed their unique sound in the early 90’s and took John Lydon back to the top of the charts, are back after over a decade.   Leftfield’s debut album ‘Leftfism’ was voted ‘one of the greatest albums of all time’ by Q Magazine, and their follow up album ‘Rhythm & Stealth’ went to Number 1 spawning the techno anthem ‘Phat Planet’.

 
Another of this year’s headline acts will be CHASE & STATUS, after a hugely successful outing at this year’s summer festivals. Currently celebrating the release of their latest hit single “Let You Go”, from their forthcoming (and yet to be titled) 3rdalbum, they headline the o2 Academy on Saturday 13th November.  
 
Another act confirmed for LMW 2010 is the highly acclaimed EFTERKLANG who have recently released their third album entitled Magic Chairs on 4AD. This will be the bands Liverpool debut, and will be flying in from Copenhagen especially to perform during LMW at o2 Academy on Sunday 7th November.
 
 

DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP is the next act to be announced for this year’s festival. Since their Liverpool debut at Liverpool Music Week 2007, they have gone on to become one of the best known names in revolutionary new music. On the back of a blistering festival run and their second critically acclaimed album, ‘Le Sac v Pip’ will take on their biggest Liverpool show yet at o2 Academy on Wednesday 3rd November.

 

 

 

 

 

Further hip hop & electronic beats will come in the form of improvisation sensationBEARDYMAN. Having won the UK beatboxing championships twice in a row, winning best MC at the Breakspoll awards, will make his LMW debut on the opening night of this year’s festival at the Stanley Theatre on Friday 29th October.

 

 

 

 

 

Two other acts to play shows at the Stanley Theatre are HADOUKEN and K’NAAN. A huge favourite in the city, dance-rock-ravers Hadouken will follow on from their second album ‘For the Masses’, and make their LMW debut on the Saturday 30thOctober. 

 

 

 

 

Somali poet & rapper K’naan will make his much anticipated city debut following his huge summer hit Waving Flag, (the official song of the 2010 World Cup) and is touring his new groundbreaking album Troubador, hitting Liverpool on Saturday 13thNovember.
 
 

Liverpool Music Week began in 2003 and over the last 8 years has gone onto become a nationally recognised event and highlight of the music calendar.  Resulting in Liverpool Music Week becoming the UK’s biggest indoor winter music festival, a musical showcase that features big name acts and gives a performance platform for fresh emerging talent, a number of which have gone on to reach nationwide success.  Last years event attracted a record breaking 65,000 people to the city and is a combination of free and ticketed shows.   The winning format returns in 2010 to stage over 80 events and play host to over 400 live bands. 

 

 

 

 

LMW Director and founder Mike Deane said: “As we head into our 8th festival, there have been several landmark announcements, but in particular it’s been a serious long-term ambition for me to see Leftfield on the line-up for Liverpool Music Week. We’re also really pleased to have persuaded Efterklang to make their Liverpool debut. They will be flying in especially to play the festival. These are just the first of several exciting announcements for Liverpool Music Week 2010.”

 

 
 

DATES ANNOUNCED SO FAR:-

 

 

 

Leftfield

 

Thursday 25th November
Liverpool University (Mountford Hall)
£24+BF / Age: 14+ / Doors: 7.00pm
 

 

 

 

Chase & Status

 

Saturday 13th November
02 Academy Liverpool (Main Room)
£14+BF / Age: 14+ / Doors: 7.30pm
 
 

Efterklang

 

Sunday 7th November
02 Academy Liverpool (Main Room)
£10.00+BF  / Age: 14+ / Doors: 8.00pm
 

 

 

 

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip

 

Wednesday 3rd November
02 Academy Liverpool (Main Room)
£14.50+BF  / Age: 14+ / Doors: 7.30pm
 
 

Beardyman

 

Friday 29th October
Liverpool University (Stanley Theatre)
£10.00+BF / Age:  14+ / Doors:  7.30pm
 

 

 

 

Hadouken

 

Saturday 30th October
Liverpool University (Stanley Theatre)
£12.50+BF / Age:  14+ / Doors:  7.30pm
 
 

K’naan

 

Saturday 13th November
Liverpool University (Stanley Theatre)
£12.50+BF / Age:  14+ / Doors:  7.30pm
 
Tickets available from www.ticketline.co.uk / Tel: 0844 888 4401.  More acts to be announced over the coming months.  

Interview with Lee Denny from LeeFest

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SFG: When did you decide you wanted to run your own festival?
Lee: A big group of us were sitting in my garden in the summer of 2006 feeling pretty bored. My parents had gone away and said ‘no house parties’. When someone made a joke about running a festival in the back garden instead, we went for it! Haven’t looked back since.

SFG: What inspired you to start this festival and how did you go about starting Lee Fest?
Lee: The area we live in is real suburbia and there really isn’t much going on for kids around here. I guess we combined that boredom with our love for live music and came up with the perfect solution! In terms of starting it all we needed were a few local bands, lots of crates of beer, and a (very unsteady) wooden stage!
 

SFG: What was the very first act to play the first Lee Fest?
Lee: Tough to remember the first act of the first day, but i remember who played last – it was a band called Isobel which was a few of my mates – sadly they have split up now but that is a good lasting memory!!
 

SFG: Lee Fest a non-profit festival, what is your chosen charity and why?
Lee: For the last two years we have chosen to work with Kids Company. LeeFest is all about young people and the work they do with under privileged children in London is absolutely fantastic. When we first met with them it really clicked and they have been so supportive ever since.
 

SFG: What type of crowd can be expected at Lee Fest?
Lee: Our capacity this year is 2000 so let’s hope it’s a sell out! We’ve only got enough room for 500 campers though so make sure you get a ticket fast if you’re keen to camp.
 

SFG: From the lineup for 2010 who are you most looking forward to seeing and why?
Lee: I’m overwhelmed by our line-up this year, the two boys booking the bands have done such a great job. Obviously The Futureheads are a huge band so i can’t wait to see them on our stage. At the moment i’m listening to Johnny Foreigner a lot – they’ll be headlining in our live tent, and also Marcel Legane, who is one of our local acts and played a fantastic set last year.
 

SFG: Who is your dream headliner for future Lee Fests?
Lee: As a Beckenham boy himself, and a rock icon, it has to be David Bowie. Someone told me recently that he set up his own festival here when he was young – let’s hope he hears about leefest and comes along one day!
 

SFG: What do you enjoy most about Lee Fest?
Lee: Every year there is about a minute when I stop running around frantically during the headline act and just watch. That is the climax of so much hard work and it’s an incredible rush. To see a huge band entertaining hundereds of people on our own stage makes it all worth it.
 

SFG: What is the funniest thing you have seen at Lee Fest?
Lee: Last year a group of guys bought a blow up beer pong table! It went down very well – you have to spit table tennis tables into big beer glasses for points!
 

SFG: What is the worst thing you have seen / experienced at Lee Fest?
Lee: Luckily we’ve avoided any real disasters! Last year the hoplloways dressing room (which was in fact just a small gazebo, managed to fly away in the wind! That was pretty embarassing – at least they were all dressed!)
 

SFG: What would be your advice to up and coming events / festival promoters?
Lee: If you are driven to achieve something it will happen. Make sure you have a committed team working with you though, trying to do this on my own would not be possible!

And for good measure we threw in a couple of random questions!

SFG: What do you do when your not busy organising Lee Fest?
Lee: Somehow i managed to get a physics degree! And theatre, i love acting in and going to the theatre.

SFG: What is your favourite drink?
Lee: In the summer? Pimms.
 

SFG: What other festivals will you be heading to this year?
Lee: Lots hopefully! Secret garden party & green man are two i’m really looking forward to.
 

SFG: Sum up the BP Oil Leak in one word?
Lee: Slippery

Lee from LeeFest

Lee Denny from Lee Fest

See the lineup below for LeeFest 2010

LeeFest 2010 Lineup