DAVID THOMAS BROUGHTON

Yorkshire-born Broughton has been silencing audiences for years with his unpredictable, breathtaking live performances. Boomkat describes him as ‘coaxing melodies and oddly gorgeous vocals from a shuffling music box of acoustic guitars, looping pedals and bargain-bin drum machines’.

www.myspace.com/davidthomasbroughton

   

VINNY PECULIAR

Salford’s ‘Tony Hancock of pop' was recently described as ‘a lo-fi Luke Haines on a Ziggy Stardust trip’ by the Independent. Here, Vinny takes a break from his band (featuring Mike Joyce of The Smiths) to play a rare solo acoustic show.

www.vinnypeculiar.com

LAST HARBOUR

Last Harbour are a Manchester-based collective playing rustic, cinematic songs that rattle and loom, at once epic and intimate. The seven-piece use traditional instrumentation to create dark music in the vein of Tindersticks and Nick Cave.

http://www.lastharbour.co.uk/

 THE DECLINING WINTER

The Declining Winter is the solo project from Richard Vincent Adams of Hood (Domino Records). Think rustic, lopsided pop music with spectral atmospheres anchored to pastoral roots via abstract hiphop, shoegaze, dub and post-rock explorations. Along the way there's also rain-drenched pop and globally warmed electronic folk. Live they have expanded to a five-piece featuring, among others, violinist Elaine Reynolds (the Boats, Palo Alto).

http://www.myspace.com/thedecliningwinter

THE BOTTOMFEEDERS

Manchester's sealife-obsessed Bottomfeeders give what the MEN described recently as 'oddball comedy-performance type affairs'. They feature musical saw, cello and trombone and play 'gothic-pop melodrama - sort of like Kate Bush meets Anthony And The Johnsons'. A performance not to be missed. 

http://www.myspace.com/thebottomfeeeders

PLANET EARTH

Formed by Sam Lewis, Planet Earth play laid-back pop songs influenced by the likes of Jeffrey Lewis and Herman Dune. Their growing reputation has won them support slots with Noah and the Whale, Slow Club and Sunset Rubdown.