Act Day Time Venue Genre For fans of: Recommendation A Sudden Burst

Of Colour Sun 17:00 Gullivers Energetic, ambient rock Minus the Bear, Tycho Vasa

AKDK Sat 23:25 Texture Two drum kits attacking

some synths

Battles, Kraftwerk, Holy Fuck, Add N to

(X), Devo Speak Galactic

Aldous RH Sun 16:00 Gullivers Smooth music Todd Rundgren, Prince The Chap

Alimony Hustle Sat 18:15 Gullivers Reverse racist cult Hop Along, Joyce Manor, 1D Personal Best

Alpha Male Tea

Party Sat 14:30 Mint Lounge

Uplifting, aggressive,

positive, horrible Brontide, You Slut!, Tera Melos Cleft & Axes

Alright The

Captain Sun 14:15 Soup Kitchen Math/post rock Tera Melos, Piglet, ASIWYFA

Bearded Youth

Quest

Annabel Allum Sun 15:55 Cord Dreamy, intricate Daughter, London Grammar, PJ Harvey Hannah Lou Clark

ARMS Sun 13:50 Aatma Intricate pop; punk; pop Owls, Joan of Arc, Pinback, xtc Silent Sleep

Axes Sat 19:15 Night & Day Hyper party rock Deerhoof, R Kelly, Andrew WK Every band is lush!

Azores Sun 18:45 Texture Polyrhythmic joyfulness Goat, Liquid Liquid, Golden ZOZO

Baby Brave Sat 15:50 Soup Kitchen Noise, pop, riffs Talking Heads, Rilo Kiley Mechanical Owl

Bad Meds Sun 22:30 Aatma Punk Punk Commiserations

Barringtone Sat 19:25 Texture Unbridled, textured,

sturdy Rundgren, Sparks, Deerhoof Noxious Foxes

Bastardgeist Sat 22:00 Cord Sad muppet gospel Theme from Rugrats, ASMR Mat Riviere

Bearded Youth

Quest Sat 21:15 Aatma

Adventure rock: effects

pedal spooging & riffs

Fang Island, ASIWYFA, Adebisi Shank,

Weezer, Rush, Gentle Giant Vasa

Bellow Below Sun 19:35 Aatma Alternative math Tera Melos, Fang Island, Delta Sleep Alright The Captain

Best Friends Sat 20:00 Soup Kitchen Garage/pop/surf/fun Cloud Nothings, Black Lips, Bob Marley The Hipshakes

Blood Sport Sun 22:30 Mint Lounge Jagged rhythmic

contortions Factory Floor, This Heat Jim Ghedi

Bloody

Mammals Sun 13:15 Soup Kitchen

Twisted frantic post-

hardcore These Arms Are Snakes, Bear vs. Shark DELTA SLEEP! <3

Blooms Sun 19:30 Mint Lounge Manc-miserablism + cali-

surf Real Estate, Horse Beach, Deerhunter The Orielles

Boat To Row Sat 17:15 Gullivers Mardy-Folk The Decemberists, Midlake Trembling Bells

bozchestra Sun 15:30 Mint Lounge Film music, instrumental John Barry, Calexico, Morricone Lucy & Virginia

Butcher The

Bar Sat 18:40 Mint Lounge Fuzzy power pop

Teenage Fanclub, Tom Petty, Yo La

Tengo Groves

Campfires. Sun 17:40 Aatma Dead pretty, bit hectic Tangled Hair, TTNG, Delta Sleep Piles of Clothes

Cassels Sun 20:30 Night & Day Your favourite genre Whoever your favourite band is The Spills

Cecille Grey Sun 17:30 Mint Lounge Progressive alt folk! Laura Marling, Björk, This Is The Kit Boat To Row

Charlie Barnes Sun 23:30 Castle Big Morbid Death Pop Oceansize, Jeff Buckley, Mew Piles of Clothes

Cheap Jazz Sat 15:10 Aatma Mathy jazz rock Faraquet, Don Caballero Vasa

Chrissy

Barnacle Sun 14:00 Cord Fingerpicky storytelling Joanna Newsom, Anais Mitchell Finn Lemarinel <3

Chuman Sat 21:20 Texture Electronic/punk/funk The Smiths, Run DMC Cheap Jazz

Cleft Sat 18:15 Night & Day Mathy riffy jizz Faraquet, Oceansize, Slayer AMTP & Axes

Commiserations Sun 21:15 Castle Clattering post-punk Truman’s Water, Pifco Pifco

Counts Sun 15:45 Aatma Aesthetic math Maps & Atlases, Owls, Death Grips Emperor Yes

Crows-An-Wra Sat 23:10 Aatma Progressive punk ASIWYFA, Gospel, At The Drive-In Steve Strong

Crushed Beaks Sun 20:15 Soup Kitchen Rainbow reverb whirlwind MBV, DIIV, Beach Boys Best Friends

Cult Party Sun 15:30 Castle Transcendental love-folk Birds on a lake, wild blackberries,

dawn Aldous RH

Daudi Matsiko Sat 15:40 Cord Warm & deep indie folk Cinematic Orchestra, Sufjan Stevens Eyre Llew

Dear Pariah Sat 15:15 Texture Ethereal folk n roll PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Joni Mitchell The Tuts

Delta Sleep Sun 22:30 Night & Day Mathy jazzy emo punk Faraquet, TTNG, Toe Natalie Evans

Desmadrados

Soldados De

Ventura

Sat 17:30 Mint Lounge Psychedelic free-rock Flower-Corsano Duo, Sunburned Hand

of the Man, Dead C Trembling Bells

Doctrines Sun 19:30 Night & Day Pre-post-punk Shouting The Spills

Act Day Time Venue Genre For fans of: Recommendation

Easy Kill Sun 17:45 Texture Doom-pop/alt-rock Grizzly Bear, Deerhunter, The

Maccabees Talons

Effra Sat 15:00 Gullivers Contemporary folk Blowzabella, The Old Dance School //

Embers Sat 17:00 Soup Kitchen Cathartic epic soundscapes Arcade Fire, Muse, Radiohead False Advertising

Emma Kupa Sat 13:30 Castle Alt country-folk Courtney Barnett Haiku Salut

Emperor Yes Sun 22:30 Night & Day The happiest apocalypse Flaming Lips, MGMT, Phoenix Joey Fourr

Eyre Llew Sun 19:00 Gullivers Ambient, alternative, rock Bon Iver, Sigur Ros, The National Daudi Matsiko

False Advertising Sun 20:30 Mint Lounge Grungy noise-pop Smashing Pumpkins, Kagoule, Pixies The Hyena Kill

False Nines Sun 21:30 Mint Lounge Angular guitar pop Field Music, Wilco, White Denim Kiran Leonard

Finn LeMarinel Sun 17:45 Cord Acoustic Kaki King, Joanna Newsom,

JonGomm VASA

Finnmark! Sun 14:30 Castle Melancholic jangly indie-

pop The Field Mice, The Magnetic Fields The Spook School

Fuzzy Jones Sun 16:50 Cord Junk Shop Folk David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez LIINES

Gaunt Story Sun 22:10 Texture Woeful singer-songwriter Sun Kil Moon, Elliott Smith Piles of Clothes

Get Inuit Sat 22:15 Night & Day Dirty cheerful guitar pop Weezer, Blondie, Fidlar, Wavves

Góða Tungl Sat 14:30 Castle Math/indie rock Everything Everything, Bloc Party Joey Fourr

Godzilla Black Sat 18:05 Aatma Heavy sax big noise Roxy Music, Melvins, Boredoms Let's Talk Daggers

Groves Sat 15:30 Mint Lounge Psychological thriller ॐ The Piccadilly Rats

Haiku Salut Sat 18:25 Aatma Dream-pop-post-folk-neo-

everything múm, Tunng, Yann Tiersen Emma Kupa

Hannah Lou

Clark Sat 18:00 Soup Kitchen Grunge-dunked dream pop Mark Lanegan, Beth Gibbons, Nirvana Lazy Day

Hindsights Sat 21:15 Night & Day Loud & emotional rock Futures, Brand New, The Promise

Ring Talons

Hot Shorts Sat 22:30 Texture Timid grunge Weezer, Nirvana, Chris de Burgh Mat Riviere

Howie Reeve Sat 20:05 Cord Avantpostpunkacousticbass bIG fLAME, Richard Dawson Nick Jonah Davis

ILL Sun Carefree fury The Fall, Doris Day LIINES

In Gowan Ring Sat 13:50 Gullivers Symbolist folk music Nick Drake, Incredible String Band Trembling Bells

Iran Iran Sat 22:15 Aatma Aggro math-pop You Slut!, Adebisi Shank, ATDI Noxious Foxes

JaJa OK Sun 22:30 Soup Kitchen Schizophrenic pop soup +

sweet mangoes on the side Deerhoof, Pavement, Weezer

Ashtray

Navigations

James Leonard

Hewitson Sat 18:30 Castle Pop/Americana Adam Green, Roxy Music Kiran Leonard

Jess Bryant Sat 13:00 Gullivers Dark folk My Brightest Diamond, Sparklehorse Gaunt Story

Jim Ghedi Sun 20:15 Cord Solo acoustic guitar John Fahey, Jack Rose Blood Sport

Joey Fourr Sat 19:00 Soup Kitchen WONK POP Jarvis Cocker, Connan Mockasin ILL

JOHN Sat 16:05 Aatma Numerous flailing limbs Picasso, Duchamp, Broodthaers Godzilla Black

Johnny Sly Sun 23:15 Gullivers Groovy soulful alt-folk Radiohead, Syd Arthur, Jeff Buckley Politburo

Jurassic Pop Sun 15:30 Night & Day Lo-fi indie pop melodies as

sharp as a raptor’s claw

Jeff Goldblum Chaos Explosion,

Treacherous Nedry and the Bastards Get Inuit

Kagoule Sun 18:15 Soup Kitchen Guitar bass drums Smashing Pumpkins, Fugazi, Pixies Nick Jonah Davis

Kamikaze Girls Sun 18:30 Night & Day 2-piece riot grrrl grunge

pop from Brighton

Lemuria, Pretty Girls Make Graves,

Slaves Cassels

Kiran Leonard Sat 20:40 Mint Lounge

The soundtrack to a

made-for-tv break-up car

chase

Deerhoof, Shellac, Karate, Minutemen

Desmadrados

Soldados De

Ventura

Lake Of Snakes Sat 14:50 Soup Kitchen Free Jazz - Noise Rock Zu, Noxagt, The Jesus Lizard School House

Lazy Day Sat 14:10 Aatma Dreamy! Grungy! Hello! Beach House! Yeah Yeah Yeahs! The Hundredth

Anniversary

Let It Die Sat 00:00 Aatma Metallic hardcore Homewrecker, Full Of Hell Crows-An-Wra

Let's Talk

Daggers Sun 21:30 Aatma Chaotic, mathy, punk-rock Fall of Troy, &U&I, At The Drive-In Cleft

LIINES Sun 20:15 Texture Alternative post-punk Sleater-Kinney, Joy Division ILL

Limbs Sun 14:45 Aatma Linky plonky surreal pop Tom Waits, Radiohead Barringtone

Act Day Time Venue Genre For fans of: Recommendation

Lord Adonis Sat 23:00 Cord Dreamworld synthpop Galaxians, Miami Vice Barringtone

Luckless Sat 17:25 Cord Indie-folk meets alt-rock PJ Harvey, Warpaint, Daughter Effra

Lucy & Virginia Sun 16:30 Mint Lounge Country, folky, acoustic The Carter Family, First Aid Kit Violent Femmes MCR

Mammoth Penguins Sat 16:25 Texture Fuzzy indie-pop Standard Fare The Tuts

Marsicans Sun 19:15 Soup Kitchen Upbeat indie + dirty pop Foals, Circa Waves, Gengahr Get Inuit

Mat Riviere Sat 20:05 Cord Bleak loops Elena Ferrante Bastardgeist

Mayors of Miyazaki Sat 21:45 Gullivers Angular hardcore/merkel Devo, Q & Not U, Fucking

Champs Sam Grace Edwards

Mechanical Owl Sun 16:15 Soup Kitchen Melodic indie-rock DCFC, Grandaddy, Radiohead Baby Brave

meinmysmallcorner Sun 13:00 Mint Lounge Ambient Mr Eno Mat Riviere

Merz Sat 20:30 Gullivers Electronica, noise, cassette,

singing

Atlas Sound, Panda Bear,

Vessel Ashtray Navigations

Merz Sun 13:45 Gullivers Ambient guitar, rhodes,

cassette, psychedelic singing

Mark Hollis, Arthur Russell,

Robert Wyatt Trembling Bells

Midfield Workhorse Sun 17:30 Night & Day Waitrose essential Math Hell Is For Jetplane Clyro Natalie Evans

Mind Mountain Sun 22:00 Gullivers Interstellar wave of heavy

amplification & extrapolation

Black Sabbath, Hawkwind,

Zombi Bad Meds

Moon > Sun Sat 22:30 Castle Experimental/oddball pop Four Tet, Animal Collective Zach Roddis

Mowbird Sun 17:15 Soup Kitchen Fisher Price surf-punk Clinic, Pixies, Pavement Desmadrados

Soldados De Ventura

My Autumn Empire Sat 18:15 Cord Lo-fi experimental folk Bibio, Papa M, Epic45 Trembling Bells

Napoleon IIIrd Sat 23:30 Castle Dream jazz/drone pop Swans, Scott Walker, Talk Talk Bastardgeist

Natalie Evans Sun 18:40 Cord Intricate, finger-picked,

singer-songwriter

Joanna Newsom, Owen

(anything Kinsella) Delta Sleep

Nick Jonah Davis Sat 14:45 Cord Solo acoustic guitar James Blackshaw, Jack Rose Toby Hay

Noxious Foxes Sun 16:45 Aatma Lively, dense, loopy Battles, Hella Cleft

Nude Sun 17:30 Castle Renaissance pop Jeff Buckley, James Brown,

Abba & Korn The Salsa Boys

Okinawa Picture

Show Sun 15:15 Soup Kitchen

Vegan pop-punk from

Birmingham and Bath

Martha, ONSIND, Ace Bushy

Striptease The Spook School

Os Drongos Sat 16:30 Castle Grungy slacker psych-rock Nirvana, The Flaming Lips Slushy guts!

Personal Best Sat 19:15 Gullivers Shredding power-pop Superchunk, Sugar, Joan Jett Alimony Hustle

Pifco Sun 20:25 Castle Post-punk clatter Trumans Water,Commiserations Commiserations

Piles Of Clothes Sun 15:05 Cord Past-tense acoustic grime Kevin Devine, Front Bottoms Campfires <3

PLAZA Sun 18:35 Aatma Alt-rock, ambience Foals, WU LYF Emperor Yes

Politburo Sun 20:00 Gullivers Magic-garage-psy-folk-pop Julian Cope, The Beatles Richard Lomax

Quadrilles Sat 17:25 Texture Helicopter pop Colour, Joan of Arc, TTNG Delta Sleep

Red Hippo Sat 16:00 Gullivers Folk, world and jazz Varldens Band, Bellowhead //

Repo-Man Sat 17:00 Aatma Swingin 'n' clangin' pop

declamation... visceral The Fall, Sonic Youth, Swans Mayors Of Miyazaki

Richard Lomax &

The Tontine Sun 18:30 Castle Folk-surf-pop-noir David Bowie, The White Stripes Lucy & Virginia

Sales Sat 13:10 Aatma Intimate dream pop made

by your best friends

The XX, Beach House, Simon

and Garfunkel Alimony Hustle

Samantha Grace

Edwards Sat 19:10 Cord Soundtrack. Drone. Fennesz, Grouper, Whitesnake Mayors of Miyazaki

Schoolhouse Sat 13:50 Soup Kitchen Electronic, experimental Oren Ambarchi, Jandek Azores

Shields Sun 21:15 Soup Kitchen Loud fuzzy guitars,

shimmering synths, big beats

Everything Everything, Foals,

Tame Impala Kagoule

Signals. Sun 18:00 Gullivers Math-pop TTNG, Tubelord, Colour Joey Fourr

Silent Sleep Sun 16:45 Texture Alt.-folk/Americana/alt.

country

John Grant, Beirut, Sufjan

Stevens, The National ARMS

Simmer Sun 16:30 Night & Day Ambient-punk Whirr, Nothing, Title Fight Doctrines

Slushy Guts Sat 15:30 Castle Warbly, melodic, jarring Smog, The Fall, Silver Jews Joey Fourr

SNOWDROP Sun 13:30 Castle Electro pop Chvrches, Purity Ring Shields

Speak Galactic Sat 20:25 Texture Psychedelic, ambient pop Connan Mockasin, Deerhunter AK/DK

DJ sets from: Day Time Venue Bio

Violent Femmes MCR Sat 00:00 Texture Expect alternative tunes from the 80s, 90s, and noughties with a dose of TLC.

Carefully Planned DJs Sat 01:00 Texture We like all your favourite bands and know exactly what we are doing.

Stereo Sanctity Sat 02:00 Texture

SS is Laurie Hulme & Adam Thomson, who met through a shared love of

Guided By Voices, and run an occasional night focussing on 80s & 90s US

indie/alt rock.

Dutch Uncles Sun 00:00 Soup Kitchen Manchester’s odd-pop legends will take you on a journey of genres, playing

everything from Devo to Django Django.

SSHR Records Sun 01:00 Soup Kitchen Playing all the hits that have ever been made, maybe even a bit of Weezer.

Delighted to be headlining the festival.

Information provided by the acts themselves – thanks to everyone for answering our mini-quiz!

Act Day Time Venue Genre For fans of: Recommendation

Steve Strong Sun 23:30 Aatma Post/math rock/ambient Toe, Four Tet, El Ten Eleven Vasa

tacetmusic Sat 20:00 Aatma Neo-classical electronica Nils Frahm, Boards of Canada Young Mountains

Talons Sat 23:15 Night & Day Orchestral industrial gaze Swans, GY!BE, MBV Delta Sleep

The Chap Sun 23:30 Soup Kitchen Avant Marxist Pop Pavement. Wendy Carlos

Santana Alright The Captain

The Crooked

Hooks Sun 21:00 Gullivers

3-piece garage psych spiked

pub-rock folk from Brum

Beefheart, Blockheads,

Blacklace As many as possible!

The Gentle Good Sat 16:30 Cord Folk guitar virtuoso with a

dose of Welsh melancholia

Bert Jansch, John Renbourn,

Nick Drake Toby Hay

The Great

Albatross Sat 14:15 Texture Transatlantic indie-folk

Matt Pond PA, Sufjan Stevens,

Attack in Black Finn LeMarinel

The Hipshakes Sun 18:30 Mint Lounge Catchy & enthusiastic trash Black Tambourines, Swell Maps,

Ramones Joey Fourr

The Hundredth

Anniversary Sat 17:30 Castle Running far, evenings Shipping News, Lower Dens

Okinawa Picture

Show

The Hyena Kill Sat 16:30 Mint Lounge Filth, noise, groove Helmet, Deftones, QOTSA AMTP

The Jelas Sat 20:30 Castle Like the Cotswolds Paul Simon, Deerhoof, The

Knife Commiserations

The Orielles Sun 21:10 Texture Surf, psych, scuzz Pixies, Bleached, Sonic Youth Best Friends

The Salsa Boys Sat 13:00 Soup Kitchen Not a band Kisses, dads, spooning, lunch The Salsa Boys

The Sisters Sun 16:30 Castle Indie-rock, poetic lyrics, fiery

guitar

Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes,

The Smiths Nude

The Spills Sat 20:15 Night & Day Noisy indie-rock songs Weezer, Titus Andronicus DOCTRINES!!!!!!!

The Spook School Sat 22:45 Gullivers Queer. Trans. Punx. Martha, Joanna Gruesome The Tuts

The Stay Aways Sat 19:30 Castle Daisy punk The Breeders The Hipshakes

The Tuts Sat 23:45 Gullivers

Infectious guitar pop: fiery

drums, sharp tongues &

splendid harmonies

The Libertines, X-ray Spex, Kate

Nash, Colour Me Wednesday Mammoth Penguins!

These Men Sun 13:00 Gullivers Acapella indie SFA, The Shirelles ILL

Toby Hay Sun 19:40 Cord Instrumental guitar Robbie Basho, John Fahey Jim Ghedi

Trembling Bells Sun 14:00 Mint Lounge Giving a poetic voice to self-

destruction

Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Billy the

Kid, Billy Shakespeare Howie Reeve

TVAM Sun 15:00 Gullivers Motivational VHS Slime Tobacco, Thee Oh Sees,

Suicide The Hipshakes

Vasa Sun 20:30 Aatma Instrumental rock ASIWYFA, Adebisi Shank, Battles Bearded Youth

Quest

Walton Hesse Sat 19:40 Mint Lounge Alt-country, psych, rock Wilco, Spacemen 3 Butcher The Bar

Witching Waves Sat 21:30 Castle Garage pop Beat Happening, The Smiths Joey Fourr!

worriedaboutsatan Sat 21:10 Soup Kitchen Dark, deep, electronic Mogwai, Burial, Andy Stott Hannah Lou Clark

Young Mountains Sat 19:00 Aatma Indie math-pop TTNG, At The Drive-In, Field

Music tacetmusic

Zach Roddis Sun 19:35 Texture Spoken word Steve Roggenbuck, alt poetry The Spook School

Zozo Sun 22:25 Castle Doomsday party Zun Zun Egui, Battles Azores