ST HELENS ‘ECLECTICA’ FREE FESTIVAL SUPPORTS LMHR - WITH HEADLINERS ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN, LITTLE MAN TATE & JOHN POWER
- When: Saturday, August 11th, 2007
- St Helens, Merseyside
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN TO HEADLINE ECLECTICA MUSIC FESTIVAL
Echo and the Bunnymen, Little Man Tate and John Power (Cast/The La’s) have been announced as headline acts for this summer’s free Eclectica Music Festival in Victoria Square, St.Helens (midway between Liverpool and Manchester) on Saturday 11th August 2007. Offering a diverse combination of music genres, Eclectica is one of the North West’s most exciting, innovative, and up-and-coming summer music festivals.
In addition to Echo and the Bunnymen, Eclectica 2007 will feature a similar first-class mix of exciting established bands and flourishing new talent, all for FREE! The event is being run in association with St.Helens Council, Love Music Hate Racism and the Citadel Arts Centre.
For up-to-date information go to www.myspace.com/eclecticamusicfestival or go to www.visitsthelens.com or telephone 01744 755150.
Little Man Tate and John Power (ex The La’s and Cast) have been
announced as the main support acts to Echo & the Bunnymen for this
summer’s free Eclectica Music Festival in Victoria Square, St.Helens
on Saturday 11th August 2007.
Eclectica is one of the North West’s most exciting, innovative, and
up-and-coming summer music festivals. The event is being run by
St.Helens Council in association with The Citadel Arts Centre and Love
Music, Hate Racism.
As well as Echo & The Bunnymen, Little Man Tate and John Power,
Eclectica will also show off some of the finest young musical talent
including The Poems – a Glasgow-based folk rock band who are
impressing crowds throughout Scotland and further afield. Local bands
The Aclyrics, Giant Root Attack and The Lancashire Hotpots will
kick-off the event and will be sure to put on a memorable performance
for their hometown.
Little Man Tate have spent the last two years gaining international
recognition from the indie-pop underground scene and in 2006 they
confirmed themselves as the latest success story out of Yorkshire as
they signed a deal with V2 Records. Since then the band have been
tipped for big things by Rolling Stone magazine and Radio 1’s Zane
Lowe, “What? What You Got” hit top 40 and with their debut album on
the horizon, many music industry experts are predicting big things of
the lads from Sheffield.
Also announced is John Power, member of legendary Liverpool band The
La’s and Cast. The former band’s one album, a self-titled debut from
1990, sustains a fervent cult of admirers. In 1992 John Power went on
to take charge of Cast, a formidable live four-piece with whom he’d
sell huge amounts of records -1995’s All Change was famously the
biggest and fastest selling debut album in the history of the Polydor
label. Whether on the charts, on magazine covers or headlining at the
Glastonbury festival, John Power was a phenomenon within the music
industry. Now John has taken a new musical direction focusing his work
on folk / grassroots music with his new debut solo album “Willow She
Weeps”.
The Citadel Arts Centre will be hosting an Official Eclectica
Aftershow Party immediately after the gig and will feature a DJ set
from Echo and the Bunnymen’s very own Will Sergeant and showcase from
up and coming local acts “The Loungs” and “The Maybes” who both
recently performed at Knowsley Hall Music Festival. Tickets for this
event are selling fast and are available priced £8 For more
information contact The Citadel Box Office – 01744 735436 or online
www.citadel.org.uk.
Councillor Neil Taylor at St.Helens Council comments; “The free
Eclectica Music Festival promises to be a fantastic day of live music
in St.Helens. The location and accessibility of St.Helens midway
between Liverpool and Manchester, plus all the amenities of a great
town centre setting make the event a perfect free day out”.
For up-to-date information go to
www.myspace.com/eclecticamusicfestival or go to www.visitsthelens.com
or telephone 01744 755150.
