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Music 2012

For 2012 our music line-up has expanded somewhat. With Friday, Saturday and Sunday headliners plus a new stage on an island in the middle of our lake we're pretty excited about the whole affair to be honest. As always contemporary, quality and variety is the mantra.

Friday Main Stage

  • To be announced
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Friday In The Dock Stage

  • Dutch Uncles
  • To be announced
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Friday Lake Stage

  • Tupelo
  • The Glendale Family
  • To be announced

Saturday Main Stage

  • Villagers
  • To be announced
  • Beth Jeans Houghton
    & The Hooves Of Destiny
  • To be announced
  • Treetop Flyers
  • To be announced

Saturday In The Dock Stage

  • To be announced
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Saturday Lake Stage

  • To be announced
  • Rachel Sermanni
  • To be announced
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Sunday Main Stage

  • Cherry Ghost
  • To be announced
  • We Were Evergreen
  • To be announced

Sunday Big Top

  • To be announced
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After Hours Lounge Bar

  • The Glendale Family
  • To be announced
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Villagers

Our Main Stage Saturday night headliner, Villagers. 2010 saw their debut album released on Domino Records - a Mercury Prize nomination and Ivor Novello awards quickly followed. To say that their second album (due for a summer release) is hotly anticipated is a big understatement. With very few live appearances scheduled for 2012 what better place to hear the new album than at Deer Shed Festival? On both occasions we've seen them live the band have been absolutely cooking despite the fragile nature of the record. Not to be missed.

Track 1: Becoming A Jackal   PLAY  STOP
Track 2: The Pact - I'll Be Your Fever   PLAY  STOP
Villagers

 

Cherry Ghost

Cherry Ghost began in 2005, first as an alias for Simon Aldred as a solo artist, before morphing into a full band. Simon's voice is outstanding. 'People Help The People' makes our top 20 songs ever, it won an Ivor Novello award, just listen to it below. Just listen to it!!! We can't think of a better way to close the festival than Cherry Ghost on our Main Stage on Sunday afternoon. Part of the same Manchester scene that brought us Elbow, Doves and of course I Am Kloot. We'll get round to them all eventually just you see if we don't.

Track 1: People Help The People   PLAY  STOP
Track 2: We Sleep On Stones   PLAY  STOP
Cherry Ghost

 

Beth Jeans Houghton
& The Hooves Of Destiny

We introduce one of the most self-assured new artists of the year. Utterly unlike anything else you're likely to hear in 2012, an original one-off 'on the fast track to glory', one of The Independent's top ten acts likely to make it big. You get the idea. Effortlessly mixing folk with glam pop (glamp?) we're not quite sure how she does it. Beth and her band take our main stage on Saturday afternoon and they'll be dressed to impress.

Track 1: Dodecahedron   PLAY  STOP
Track 2: I Will Return I Promise   PLAY  STOP
Dutch Uncles

 

Dutch Uncles

When we went to see these guys recently we couldn't take our eyes off their singer Duncan Wallis such was his intensity on stage. We love this band, taking much in terms of influences from many of our favourites including Adrian Belew era King Crimson, Steve Reich and XTC. Such clever minimalist guitar noodling makes for a compelling live show and before all you girls run off it's also pop and it's fun despite most songs having 'prime numbers above three' beats per bar. Our Friday night In The Dock Stage headliner.

Track 1: Cadenza   PLAY  STOP
Track 2: Fragrant   PLAY  STOP
Dutch Uncles

 

Treetop Flyers

Winners of the Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition in 2011 before the toilets ran out. The Treetop Flyers are a finely tuned festival machine - their music is a blend of folk and rock which mixes so well with beer and sunshine on a Saturday early afternoon Main Stage. But there is much more to this band than just winning the ultimate battle of the festivals bands. They beautifully capture the sound of 1970s America. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young or the Fleet Foxes, take your pick.

Track 1: It's About Time   PLAY  STOP
Track 2: Mountain Song   PLAY  STOP
Treetop Flyers

 

We Were Evergreen

Providing the perfect sound track to Sunday morning cake baking dressed head to toe in Cath Kidston we present We Were Evergreen. Echoing Belle And Sebastian this handsome Parisian trio have a playground Joie De Vivre with songs about penguins, moonboots and K.I.S.S.I.N.G. in trees. Lovely boy-girl harmonies, ukuleles, a dash of electro, an expresso and Sunday paper. Perfect.

Track 1: Penguins & Moonboots   PLAY  STOP
Track 2: Vintage Car   PLAY  STOP
We Were Evergreen

 

The Glendale Family

I think we can now say The Glendales are our house band, returning for a third year. They are the purveyors of good vibes and the perfect accompaniment to some late beers in our lounge bar. We love them. We love them because they are well and truely up for it and are likely to be the last men and women standing after everyone else has turned in.

Track 1: Daisy Chains   PLAY  STOP
Track 2: Fitzcarraldo   PLAY  STOP
The Glendale Family

 

Rachel Sermanni

Rachel is an immensely talented Scottish singer. One to watch in 2012 she has already collaborated with Mumford & Sons and supported Michael Kiwanuka. As we type the Scottish leg of her tour is completely sold out, not a bad start at the tender age of 19. A beautiful voice, a dextrous picker and music that evokes the Scottish countryside and as we all know, North trumps South.

Track 1: Black Current   PLAY  STOP
Track 2: Song To A Fox   PLAY  STOP
Rachel Sermanni

 

Tupelo

Tupelo are five young men who take the essence of deep south, dixie-style, fiddle-led acoustic and combine it with gutsy Irish-folk in the vein of that country's great balladeers. Their music is a flurry of roots, rockabilly, bluegrass, country, folk and rock 'n' roll… often displayed all in the same song. The band's front man and songwriter James Cramer delivers a tough, honest take on bad times and good times, struggles and triumphs, high spirits and solemn hopes - all in his own untainted accent, all in his own untainted words.

Track 1: Railroad   PLAY  STOP
Track 2: Ten Miles Round   PLAY  STOP
Tupelo