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