Sidney & Matilda may take the cake for the most stacked lineup of the fringe with over fifty acts playing across the three days (won’t somebody think of the soundguy!)
Friday’s lineup includes country inspired dream pop band Faint Paint. Charming lo-fi anti-folk group Adam Hopper and The Wimps. Local psych-rockers The Pearl River Band. And Mother’s Day, a duo inspired by the sounds of Sheffield who flip between tekno, IDM, noise, bassline, jungle and punk.
On Saturday you’ll find jazz, funk, latin and afrobeat from The Lemur Conspiracy, art rock from new Sheffield group Tellyeaters (check out their song ‘The Day Today’ about the art found on Sheffield’s bins - “And all the bins are saying now don’t litter in a funny, funny voice”), and new-wave electronica combined with general hilarity from Wet Man (think John Shuttleworth combined with Scott Walker).
Sunday features a performance from Freezer (no not the ones from Ecclesall Road co-op) the Sheffield
glam/psych/brit pop band from the 90s who could have made it big with their song Syd Barret’s Icelandic Girlfriend. Unfortunately the release was delayed by 26 years.
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