THE WAKE
GREEN MAN FOUNDERS NEW EVENT ANNOUNCES
FULL INAUGURAL FESTIVAL LINE UP
18 ACTS PERFORMING OVER THREE STAGES
ON 27th JULY 2024 IN WEST SUSSEX
Click here for The Wake website – In the wake of what’s gone before …
Jo Bartlett and Danny Hagan are delighted to announce that, with the addition of a talk from Oasis’ former PR man Johnny Hopkins, the first ever line up for their new festival The Wake is now complete.
Joining headliner Gruff Rhys will be 17 other acts (listed below) across 3 stages at the intimate one-day event featuring music, literature, street food, award winning craft beer and Pimms in West Sussex on Saturday 27th July 2024.
Jo & Danny who are probably best known as The Green Man Festival founders and curators, said “We have been looking for the perfect site where we can once again do what we love – sharing great music and great times. We have at last found it, near Billingshurst in Sussex. We are thrilled to host The Wake and over the moon that Gruff Rhys will headline the very first one.”
Appearing at The Wake 2024 are:
The Woodland Stage
Gruff Rhys
One True Pairing
Emma Tricca
HOO
Kodiak Island
The Gymkhana
Roselynd
Baggio
Talks and Acoustic Stage
Hosted by John Andrews
Richard Norris in conversation about his ‘Strange Things Are Happening’ book
Daniel Rachel in conversation about his ‘Too Much Too Young – The Story of 2 Tone’ book
Dominie Hooper – acoustic set
Johnny Hopkins in conversation about Creation Records
Mat Flint – acoustic set
The Bar / DJ Tent
Billy Campbell
Daniel Rachel
Jo & Danny
Richard Norris
Emma Tricca (above) will play The Woodland Stage
In addition to Gruff Rhys, Domino’s One True Pairing (Tom Fleming from Wild Beasts), Bella Union artist Emma Tricca, with her echoes of 70’s acid folk rock, a very rare live appearance from Mat Flint (Heavenly Social, Revolver, Death In Vegas), psychedelic shoegaze act HOO (featuring Mojave 3’s Ian McCutcheon) and three piece pastoral folk collective Gymkhana (featuring Patch from The Sundays and Jason from Bennet) will all be performing.
“When we released the 2005 Green Man film a couple of months ago, a chap called Ned dropped me a line. He was surprised to see himself in the film as had attended the festival as a 9-year-old boy. He was so blown away after that festival, he started to learn to play guitar and now has a band, the South London Silver Jews influenced alt-country collective Baggio, who we are delighted to have open our new event” says festival curator Jo Bartlett.
Jo’s own five-piece pysch folk band Kodiak Island, who will be performing their ‘The Amber Road’ album in full for the first time, the enigmatic and haunting Roselynd and the freak folk sound-world of Dominie Hooper, whose latest single was produced by This Is The Kit’s Kate Stable and described as “excellent” by 6Music’s Gideon Coe will all be playing live.
The DJs will be performing inside the bar tent. DJ sets are confirmed from Richard Norris (The Grid) and Billy Campbell (Names Records), whilst Richard Norris will also be reading from his forthcoming White Rabbit published autobiography, ‘Strange Things Are Happening’, on the Talks Stage.
John Andrews (Caught By The River) will be hosting the Talks Stage, where, joining Richard Norris we are very pleased to announce Daniel Rachel, who will be talking about his book ‘Too Much Too Young’ the story of 2 Tone, published by White Rabbit. Daniel will also be playing a 2 Tone DJ set.
‘Ever wondered how crazy it must have been when Oasis exploded from being an indie band into being a world-wide phenomenon? We are thrilled to add a man to our Talks Stage who knows just how that was. Johnny Hopkins was the press officer for Oasis from when they signed to Creation Records in 1993, through the glory years, up until 2000.
Johnny has a wealth of experience, and we are so looking forward to hearing him talk to John Andrews (who also worked at Creation Records). There will also be a Q&A, so if you have any questions you’d like to ask – see you on 27 July!’ says Jo Bartlett
Hosts of The Wake, Jo & Danny will also be attempting to squeeze in as many of the independent records that they love and that have inspired them since the early 1980’s to present day in their own DJ set.
At around 6pm The Toast will take place. John Andrews will invite everyone to raise a glass ‘to absent friends’ the music will stop for one minute while the toast is made after which Richard Norris will start his DJ set.
Children’s entertainment is now also being added which will take place in The Children’s Tent.
Richard Norris (above) will DJ after The Toast
While they ran Green Man, Jo & Danny booked Bon Iver, The National, Robert Plant, Four Tet, Laura Marling, Jarvis Cocker, Fleet Foxes, Bonnie Prince Billy and many more. Always in bands at the same time as promoting gigs, the pair started putting on gigs when they ran The Buzz Club at The West End Centre in Aldershot. The artists they booked reads like a ‘who’s who’ of the indie scene – The Stone Roses, Blur, The Manic Street Preachers, Happy Mondays, Suede, The Charlatans, Elastica and Spiritualized to name a few.
Tickets for The Wake are just £30. Free to children 13 and under also with free onsite parking.
Tickets https://thewake.uk/
Event information and travel details – https://thewake.uk/information/
About – https://thewake.uk/about/
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