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The open-air Devorgilla Stage is to be host to some of the greatest underground bands of the last 20 years from Celtic, Roots, Tango, Reggae, Klezmer, Samba, Afrobeat, Folk, Balkan, Gypsy and Ska. The stage itself will be as impressive as the line-up it provides.
Levellers
The Levellers have been the voice of Alternative music, laden with lyrical relevance since 1988, and are still regarded as one of the best acts to ever headline Glastonbury, smashing crowd records for the festivals main stage. Strongly interested and outspoken about green anarchism issues the band have built up a strong and devoted fanbase, despite being nearly universally ignored by mainstream critics. They continue to tour extensively around Britain and Europe and show crowds just why they landed more gold and platinum selling albums in the 1990s than any other UK band in that decade.
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Finley Quaye
Former Best Artist at The Brit Awards, multi platinum selling artist and unquestionably one of the most prolific songwriters and performers of the last decade.
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System 7
System 7 is the dancefloor project of Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy.
Their style hovers between trance, techno and progressive house - with a unique spacey character that is deeply psychedelic without being typical psy-trance - and the added element of Steve's highly specialised techno guitar.
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Eatstatic
Whilst essentially a sci-fi influenced, trance/techno outfit, they have also incorporated drum and bass, breakbeat, latin, garage and ambient styles into their sound at various stages. In the past few years the band have become heavily involved with the psy-trance scene, playing parties and festivals the world over and releasing numerous tracks on trance compilations. Merv has also recently collaborated with the likes of Steve Jolliffe (Tangerine Dream), Will White (Propellerheads) and Simon Posford (Hallucinogen).
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Banco de Gaia
Toby Marks the creative force behind Banco De Gaia is a free thinker. He is also one of the worlds leading exponents of globally inspired eclectic electronica. Mixing electronic and accoustic instruments and voices his work defies genre classification.
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Shooglenifty
Shooglenifty's sound marries traditionally based tunes - primarily Scottish in style, but featuring a wealth of other world-music flavours - with the rhythmic energy, inventiveness and sophistication of contemporary dance music. Such a description, though, hardly begins to capture the dazzling multi-layered intricacy, exquisitely jewelled lyricism and intoxicating, coruscating grooves that are Shooglenifty's hallmarks.
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Nucleus Roots
Nucleus Roots have a massive stage presence and produce a contagiously danceable, uplifting roots sound. This live line up sees another chapter in the band’s colourful history. The vibe will hark back to the 80’s ‘digitalised’’ sound which P. Lush loves so much as well as looking forward to a positive musical future.
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Bombskare
The best description of the band (though not necessarily accurate) was "they are like the Blues Brothers on speed crossed with Madness on prozac".
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Orkestra del Sol
Inspired by the great brass band traditions of Eastern Europe, Orkestra del Sol’s music exudes energy and spirit: the swagger of a Balkan wedding band, the vibrancy of a Caribbean festival and the flair of a Latin ballroom. Welcome to the irresistible world of Orkestra Del Sol, brass troubadours with an uncanny ability to win over audiences with their captivating presence, slapstick antics and infectious energy. Globally inspired, but distilled in Scotland.
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The Destroyers
The Destroyers are 15 piece festival favourites who take Balkan and Klezmir music as their starting point for a searing live musical journey that has captured audiences around the country, sweeping them into a frenzy of uninhibited dancing and call and response. With massed ranks of fiddles, brass, vocals and much more besides, their blazing passion onstage creates a swirling spectacle of sensation and sound which in the last few years they have brought to a series of festivals and gigs around the country including Glastonbury, Bestival, Larmer Tree, and London's Barbican centre.
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The Baghdaddies
Fusion of rhythms and melodies plucked from around the world are guaranteed to raise your spirits! Festival favourites, The Baghdaddies play Balkan gypsy with Middle Eastern flavours, shades of klezmer and tango, jazz and reggae plus a touch of ska - all laced with funky dance grooves and blistering eastern brass harmonies.
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Zuba Bassa Beat
Jerry Boweh ( EUJAY) founded Zuba in 1997 and is the current JTP African best album 2006 Award winner. He comes from a cast of musicians in Liberia's Grand Bassa county, where his grand-uncle is still a legend of Liberia's music scene. Jerry passionate and fully involve in the Rehabilitation of the Liberian Youth since the end of the Long Civil war, using music, sport, arts, drama and film-making, as an avenue for the young people to express themselves and to rebuilt their lives.
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Diddley Squat
When Diddley Squat came together it was like the collision of fat and sugar in a cake, infused with a symphony of delicious flayvas and baked to perfection . They have been banging out the heavyest dub and the maddist ska Northumberland has ever felt the likes of. Sweeping crowds into psycedelicious euphoria with their joy filled reggae grooves.
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Black Cat
One fine Samhuinn, some like-mided rakija drinkers pondered...
"Wonder whether playing in a Balkan/Klezmer/Gypsy band is all it's cracked up to be?"
Thus Black Cat was born! This crack ensemble, with talent drawn from the distant lands of Bosnia, New Zealand, Australia, France and Italy (and some token Brits) has but one mission:
CONVINCING THE WORLD ONE GIG AT A TIME THAT THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO ROLL... BALKAN!
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The Shakes
Since forming in June 2005 The Shake's have become an essential band to see on the ever growing live scene in Glasgow. A fine summer in 2006 was brought to a close with The Shakes been crowned 'best unsigned live act in Britain' after winning Carling's Undiscovered Live 06' at the prestigious Islington Carling Academy, hosted by Colin Murray, who has since quoted "The Shakes have definite top ten potential."
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Pikey Beatz
Pikey Beatz started out by jamming as a group of mates any where they could find the space; fields, corridors, festivals or train stations! They still are a group of mates and they still jam whenever and wherever the feeling takes them. That's how music is supposed to be and that’s how Pikey Beatz are brewed.
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The Dambuskers
They are a band with 'attitude', fronted by Steve Ruffe The Wild Man of Folk who - as well as writing great songs that get audiences singing - is on lead vocals and plays guitar, harmonica and percussion.
Chloe Watson is a an amazing folk fiddler; her classical training gives her a freedom and edge that keep her afloat above the wild things that go on around her.
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Spartan Tartan
From the bowels of the Gallowa' hills springs the Spartan Tartan ensemble, like a gazelle scolding its bare bottom on a red hot campfire, and as ferocious as a heavily built mother of 3 trying to scare a cow out of her veg patch. They are made up of young-uns to older yins and everything in between. They look like a family, they jam together like they’re family, they sound like they’re family, they probably even are family….. this is Gallowa' after all.
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