New multi-venue music fest 'On Margate Sounds' line-up revealed
Where Else?, Olby’s Creative Hub & The Crab Museum to collaborate on all-dayer
Spread out across Margate venues Where Else?, Olby's Creative Hub and The Crab Museum, the inaugural ‘On Margate Sounds’ all-dayer features some much loved heavy hitters and some of underground music’s most recent and intriguing new artists to have emerged.
Legendary jazz keyboardist Hailu Mergia blesses the Isle with his presence once more with a headline set at the Olby’s Creative Hub Stage. A rare opportunity to see one of the most influential African artists of our generation, bringing his famed blend of jazz-funk rhythms to an intimate setting.
Headlining the Where Else? Stage are hook laden and fuzzed up Dutch indie gang Pip Blom who will be trading in a brand new LP which will be freshly released via Heavenly Recordings the day before they touch down in Margate.
Tipped by Rebecca Taylor of Self Esteem and growing an adoring fan base for all of the right reasons are Nottingham's grunge tinged country outfit, Divorce.
Then we have the mysteriously named O. This duo have been keeping busy honing their baritone saxophone and jazz drum freak outs to a danceable effect on the UK's festival circuit these past two summers and now are bracing their Margate debut.
Split across London and Margate, Wicketkeeper create a shonky primitive indie punk that’s been likened to Pavement, Sebadoh and Guided By Voices by Clash magazine. A jangly upbeat racket comprised of loose drums and crunchy guitars with nods to Teenage Fanclub and Ultimate Painting.
New and notable as an offering worth getting up early for is Oscar Browne; the multi-instrumentalist and songwriter is a founding member of renowned London folk collective Broadside Hacks and has been cultivating a live show to be reckoned with.
Late night revellers of the all-dayer can expect everything from the ridiculous to the sublime as Margate's Crab Museum take over the Where Else? basement for an after party to celebrate the much loved museum’s second birthday in a style that is bound to be out of the ordinary.
Founders of Margate’s grassroots music venue Where Else?, Awkwardness Happening (FKA Art’s Cool), are organising the all dayer: “On Margate Sounds, we connect people with music, ideas and one another at our multi-venue all-dayer where your feet can do the wandering between venues just as your ears do the hair prickling wondering between notes.”
Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Af84cdecee29
