In a Band? Want to play mainstage at a festival? Well here’s your chance with Upton 2012 Band Auditions!!
Auditions will be held Thursday evenings, 8pm till 12pm, commencing APRIL 2012, @ subtone cheltenham, in front of a live club audience.
Auditions will be judged by a panel of three industry professionals, with the live audience invited to place an emphatic, ‘wild card’ vote for their favourite act on the night.
The winning band secures a place in the Final Auditions, with the results announced online via Upton 2012 and subtone websites.
ALL FINALISTS win a place performing at Upton 2012, as well as full, Upton 2012 Artist Hospitality inc. complimentary tkts.
The ultimate FINALS WINNER, receive a MAINSTAGE slot, £1000 cash prize, and full Artists Hospitality.
ENTRIES CLOSE, MARCH 20th 2012, successful applicants will be required to pay a £30 deposit,which will be refunded on arrival Audition night. All bands receive complimentary ‘bonus vote’ tickets for Audition Night.
The evolution of the Dub Pistols has been fascinating to watch since Barry Ashworth first bust out in 1996 as fully-formed party animals declaring ‘There’s Gonna Be A Riot’.
From their early singles for Concrete Records to their genre defying ‘Six Million Ways To Live’ lp, the Dub Pistols have always added a much needed Rock n Roll swagger to the UK’s dance scene. Chewing up hip-hop, dub, techno, ska & punk & spitting them out in a renegade futuristic skank they have consistently defied genres & exceeded the highest of expectations.
“shares the same swagger as Bruce Springsteen, Jesse Malin and Gaslight Anthem” The Fly
PASSION IS A WORD SADLY DEVALUED BY AD SLOGANS, YET DANNY & THE CHAMPS OFFER A PURE PASSION REVUE” - Q MAGAZINE
7pm – 11pm
Tickets only £8 available now from www.badlands.co.uk
…His performances are more similar to that of a full band as he builds each layer of his tracks live using a loop pedal to construct fully crafted songs before the amazed audience. They are taken on a journey of real time music production which builds up and delivers a full frequency spectrum of sound, from deep bass, to high pitched trumpets and multiple vocal harmonies – all made with his mouth!
His breathtaking abilities to create, and re-create sounds and arrangements encompassing many styles of music from hip-hop to drum & bass, jazz, house, garage and rock have established him as an explosive live performer. He has toured he has supported heavyweights like Grandmaster Flash, Will Smith, Pendulum, Mystery Jets, Grooverider, Tim Westwood and even The HumanLeague.
COME CHECK HIM OUT AT SUBTONE ON 7TH OCT
NUS FREE ENTRY ALL NIGHT!
FREE ENTRY B4 MIDNIGHT! HUGE DRINK PROMOS ALL NIGHT!
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FRI 26th AUGUST
Fresh from headlining the BBC Introducing stage at Wychwood festival Gloucester based Black Canvas are a pair of dub-reggae vocalists. Their debut album Rise has been described as an ambitious collection of dub, spoken word, ballads and drum ‘n’ bass.
Band Members MR MELODY, RIDER SHAFIQUE, JON MASTERS, NICK EAKETTS ALEX MCINTOSH
James Morton was born in Bristol in 1982. James has English, Russian and Polish heratidge and started learning saxophone age 9. He played his first gig at age 12 and grew up performing in groups in the South of England playing with established musicians on the scene. James often performed in venues where he was too young to enter and sometimes had to pretend to be a relative of a club owner or manager. James left school at age 16 to persue his career in music and at age 21 won a place on a Masters degree course at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama where he completed his masters degree in jazz one year later. James has developed his unique voice through direct influences from funk, soul, jazz, gospel, latin and urban music. He has the abilty to communicate to an audience through his saxophone and directly project deep emotion across to the listener in a lyrical style. James has two key mentors in the form of Andy Shepperd and Pee Wee Ellis which he continually works with in a variety of projects. Performances At age 16 James performed on the Jazz/World stage at Glastonbury festival and has continued to appear on large festival stages across Europe and as far as Texas U.S.A. James first played with Pee Wee Ellis age 17 and continues to draw inspiration and advice from Pee Wee. James is now a core member of Pee Wee Ellis’ Still Black Still Proud an African tribute to James Brown which has toured main stages at festivals all over Europe and has involved guest artists including: Fred Wesley, Cheik Lo, Martha High, Angelique Kidjo and Tony Allen to names a few. Andy Sheppard is also a mentor to James. This relationship has developed over the last few years after Andy saw James playing with his jazz qurtet in a club in Bristol. This quartet developed into James Morton and Lunatics and featured Andy in a number of gigs across the U.k. Andy also composed a suite of music “The Hotel Suite” for the group which knocked out crowds across the country. James is now an integral soloist in Andy Sheppards Sax Massive who opened the London Jazz Festival in 2007 and have also performed at Coutance Jazz festival. James appears on Pendulum’s platinum selling Drum ‘n’ Bass album SLAM and has also performed with Fred Wesley, Winton Marsailes, Billy Cobham, Jason Rubello, Abrham Wilson, Beth Rowley, Snowboy and Tomorrow’s Warriors to name a few. James was nominated for Serious music’s Take five award in 2007 and The PRS promoters choice award in 2008 James’s Latest creation Porkchop Ft. James Morton is comprised the impressive personel of Dan “Pinstipe” Moore (Hammond organ), Ian Mathews (drums) and Deny Illet (guitar). Influenced by funk, soul-jazz, soul and gospel. The concept behind “Porkchop” is to eliminate the introspective and self indulgent elements that some “jazz” music can often adhere to with the intent to bring the music back to the people.