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August 2023 saw UK ragga-metal legends Skindred fight a closely contested chart race for the UK Number 1 Album spot with their colossal eighth album ‘Smile’ with the incredible support of the rock and metal community – including messages of support from Metallica, Rage Against The Machine and Disturbed as well as Kerrang!, NME and Metal Hammer – the band landed a career best of Number 2 in the UK Album chart. They also went to reach Number 1 in the Official UK Rock & Metal Charts , The Independent album charts , The Official Downloads chart & The Vinyl Charts outselling most of the UKs biggest and most established Rock artists.

All of this followed an incredible career-defining year for Skindred  from winning the Award as Best UK Live act at the Heavy music Awards to touring with Rock Legends Kiss as their special guests on their last ever UK tour. The band also graced the cover of Kerrang! magazine for the first time in their careers and performed their single Gimme That Boom on BBC 2’s  Later… with Jools Holland . Aside from this Singer Benji Webbe also appeared on Never Mind The Buzzcocks and the band also were featured as guests on BBC Breakfast,

Added to this the band’s 00s hit “Nobody” also saw an electrifying resurgence following a viral TikTok dance trend which saw the band having over 14 million hit the Skindred hashtag in a matter of weeks .(Even in the last few weeks of 2024 one person dancing to Skindred’s classic Nobody has amassed 32 million views on their Insta too).

Meanwhile the bands album ‘Smile’ attests to the enduring power of a band that delivers a good time, every time. “When I look out into the crowd, whether it’s in a small room or a festival crowd, the one thing I notice above all else is the smiles.” says Skindred’s formidable frontman Benji. For him and for Skindred – completed by guitarist Mikey Demus, bassist Daniel Pugsley, and drummer Arya Goggin – it’s about enduring and it’s about legacy. “In life, it’s about hearing that our music has encouraged people and got them through dark times. But even when we’re done and gone, people will still be listening to this music. That thought makes me smile.”

The band have just finished an extensive 16 date Sold Out UK & Ireland tour and followed it with a similarly extensive European tour where they also Sold Out almost every show too.

2024 looks to be a similarly exciting year for the band who look to celebrate their success with the bands biggest Headline London show to date at Wembleys’ OVO Arena on Friday 15th March with Support from San Diego Nu Metallers P.O.D. & the much talked about British Metal band As Everything Unfolds . The bands other UK headline shows at Manchester Academy March 14th & Birmingham Academy 16th are already both SOLD OUT. Meanwhile the band have also just been nominated as Best Alternative act at this years Mobo Awards . Skindred are as a result definitely looking forwards to celebrating their success with their biggest headline show to date at Wembley and have certainly got more than enough reasons to Smile.

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Fran Healy considers Travis’ inception, imagining a bay of little sailboats “with all the bands and artists sitting in them, waiting on that freak gust of wind to blow them to fame and fortune.” For some it never comes. For Travis, it would yield a run of hits including modern standards such as Sing, Why Does It Always Rain On Me, Driftwood, and lift them to unimaginable heights. At various points along the trajectory, Travis have sold millions of albums (The Man Who is 9x Platinum certified in the UK alone); secured multiple wins at the BRITs, Ivor Novello and Q Awards; and acclaim from the likes of Paul McCartney, Elton John and Graham Nash – also songwriters whose ability to divine a timeless melody out of thin air has sustained them through decades.

There’s something powerful about the fact that Travis is made up of the same four musicians who first came to prominence in 1996 with their debut EP ‘All I Want To Do Is Rock’. An unbroken line-up for an unbroken band – Fran Healy (vocals, guitar); Andy Dunlop (guitar); Dougie Payne (bass); and Neil Primrose (drums). By his own account, Travis’ new album, L.A. Times is Fran Healy’s most personal songwriting since ‘The Man Who’. Honouring the unique chemistry that first united the band in Glasgow, 5000 miles away from L.A., if you’ve heard the new single Gaslight, you’ll have been reminded that when the four members of Travis convene to make music, the resulting sound is impossible to mistake for any other band.

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The Wombats return with their most sophisticated and sonically adventurous album yet. Oh! The Ocean (out February 21st 2025) grooves with social anxiety, internal strife and the tribulations of LA life, where Murph lives. Once again they provide escapism from the mundane with songwriting that has profound meaning to audiences in turbulent times, packaged in the band’s deceptively cuddly and playful façade.

Oh! The Ocean marks a new era for the band, moving away from previous synthetic sounds to embrace a warmer-blooded approach. Taking 50 new songs into a studio in Echo Park, LA, in July 2024 for six weeks of sessions with new producer John Congleton (St Vincent, Wallows, Death Cab for Cutie), The Wombats shunned the AI studio techniques that have become prevalent in modern-day recording, in order to make a far more natural and human album.

Alongside familiar sounds they explore new genres from glistening tech rock to sci-fi pop, futuristic fuzz rock to bluesy rock’n’roll, with touches of disco and hip-hop-inflections.

Formed in Leeds in 2000, Kaiser Chiefs are one of the leading bands of their generation. Fronted by the charismatic Ricky Wilson with Simon Rix on bass, Andrew ‘Whitey’ White on guitar, Nick ‘Peanut’ Baines on keyboards and drummer Vijay Mistry, the band have had a string of anthemic hits such as ‘Oh My God’, ‘I Predict A Riot’, ‘Everyday I Love You Less and Less’,  ‘Never Miss A Beat’ and ‘Hole In My Soul’

The band have released 8 original studio albums which includes their Mercury nominated debut, ‘Employment’ which sold over 2 million copies, Its number 1 follow up, ‘Yours Truly, Angry Mob’, which went twice-platinum in the UK alone and ‘Education Education Education and War’ which entered the UK Album Charts at number 1.

They have achieved, top ten singles including the infamous number 1 hit ‘Ruby’, 3 Brit Awards, an Ivor Novello award for Album of the Year, toured with U2, Foo Fighters and Green Day and sold 8 million albums.

“We might never get to the point where we can sit in an armchair with our arms behind our heads and go: ‘lads, we’ve done it’. But at the same time, maybe that’s why, years later, Kaiser Chiefs are still here.”

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From serenading the dimly-lit corners of East London pubs to Courting interest from several major record labels, agents, promoters & publishers in a few short months, The Last Dinner Party have burst forth gloriously into the guitar music renaissance.

Conceived during a wine-stained evening in Brixton, the name embodies a musical and aesthetic ethos of decadence, mystery, spectacle and charm. Finding artistry in the intersection between the beautiful, sublime and grotesque, the band are guided by their favourite Romantic poets and Gothic novelists.

The preceding years of isolation and anxiety have only served to heighten The Last Dinner Party’s creative appeal as they usher in a new era of unashamed maximalism and untethered euphoria. They cast their net of inspiration across artists and genres, from Kate Bush and David Bowie, glam rock and new wave, to unexpected moments of twelve bar blues, classical overture and heavy synth breakdowns.

Singer Abigaille, guitarists Emily and Lizzie, keyboardist Aurora and bassist Georgia weave a fantasy of haunting melodies, explosive choruses, and lyrics that embrace tragedy and triumph in equal measure. At their shows, the band lead audiences through the soaring crescendos and pin-drop silences of the most debaucherous dinner parties, gathering a dedicated and growing company of attendees with every performance.

The band are currently based in London writing, recording, and preparing for their next spectacle.

You are cordially invited.


Fatboy Slims career spans 4 decades but he is best known as one of the worlds most loved DJ’s.

He loves it more now then he did 40 years ago and whilst things have certainly changed a thousand times or more what drives him and keeps his thirst for it is the power of the collective unity and community that a shared musical experience can have.

When he goes on stage he is no longer Norman Cook he is Fatboy Slim with the Hawaiian Shirt and the bare feet where he gives it his all as a performer and a showman and in his words a professional idiot!

What makes his sets so special apart from his craft of re editing songs and samples specifically for his sets is that the whole performance is peppered with his enduring hits…

Songs like, Right Here, Right Now, The Rockafella Skank, Weapon of Choice and Praise You (which has recently become an unofficial anthem for the NHS) are feel good songs and tracks that the whole world know and can come together to listen to, dance to, fall in love to and pretty much anything else to! Fatboy Slim is a grammy and Brit award winning artist who’s cutting edge videos are part of the fabric of British culture.