Headline Artists 2011

ED HARCOURT www.edharcourt.com
One of the most consistently creative musical talents in London and certainly one of the most productive, Ed Harcourt has released five studio albums, two EPs, and thirteen singles. His debut album, Here Be Monsters, was nominated for the 2001 Mercury Prize. His music is influenced by Tom Waits, Nick Cave,
and Jeff Buckley, among others. Live, Harcourt has opened for many artists over the years including R.E.M., Snow Patrol, Wilco, Beth Orton, The Divine Comedy, Supergrass, Norah Jones Brian Jonestown Massacre.
Ed Harcourt's fifth studio album Lustre was released on 14 June 2010, the first on Ed's own record label Piano Wolf Recordings. According to Ed: "It's got horns, violins, howling, mellophones, the Langley sisters, barks, whistles, hell I even sung down by a creek in the middle of the night.”


THE POPES http://www.thepopesofficialsite.com/
Formerly led by Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, The Popes’ blend of rock, and Irish folk, became known as Paddy Beat. ‘Shane MacGowan and the Popes’ released two studio and one live album in the
1990s. Post-MacGowan, The Popes are led by Paul ‘Mad Dog Mcguiness. Their comeback album ‘Outlaw Heaven’ was released to rave reviews in 2008.
..."Rouses like only the very best of Irish Folk can..." Nick Duerden - Q Magazine
"The Popes' excellent Outlaw Heaven album is what The Waterboys would have sounded like had Mike Scott sipped from the streams of whiskey. A true rough diamond." Dave Simpson - The Guardian

LEWIS FLOYD HENRY www.lewisfloydhenry.com/
For the past few years, like a Mississippi bluesman in the early 20th century, Lewis has pitched up on street corners around London, at Brick Lane, Borough Market and the South Bank, every time trousering a pocket full of loose change, but also gradually spreading the knowledge of his extraordinary genius.
Unlike those Delta entertainers, he arrives armed with a trolley carrying a battery-operated amplifier and diddy custom-made drumkit – hence the title of his mind-blowing debut album, ‘One Man & His 30w Pram’. Even less like them, he has accrued 100,000 hits for a YouTube clip, where he blasts out a blockrockin’ take on The Wu-Tang Clan’s ‘Protect Ya Neck’ outside Tottenham Court Road tube station. Elsewhere on the site, you can see him busting out a Prokofiev tune with his teeth. As one comment thereabouts imaginatively puts it, “When Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix and Ol’ Dirty Bastard died, this guy was born.”

Joana And The Wolf are a London four piece fronted by Lithuanian singer-songwriter Joana Glaza. Theirsound escapes categories. You can hear many things in it, but what would be the name for it? Maybe itdoesn’t even exist yet. They are exotic without trying to be exotic. A girl with natural influences of Russianfolk and Maria Callas comes to London, falls in love with rock - her forbidden fruit, the music that wasbanned in the East - embraces it with the passion of first love, finds people who listened in their cradles tothe Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin instead of lullabies and together they create this strange child...thischild is dark epic poetic unique but it definitely has the balls of Rock n Roll. It doesn’t like small rooms, itexplodes them. And in the end you stop caring about names and categories, you just admire it.

THE HOMOSEXUALS http://www.myspace.com/thehomosexuals
With a subversive name that didn't lend itself well to printed handbills, an art school D.I.Y. ethic, and a deconstructionist approach to music, cult '70s British punk rockers the Homosexuals were highly influential to those lucky enough to have heard them. Formed in South London from the ashes of The Rejects who played at the Roxy alongside the Jam, the Damned, and Wire the band changed their name to the Homosexuals in 1978 as a move to break away from the punk scene and its limiting three-chord formula. By 1985, the band officially disbanded and various side projects ensued, including Sara Goes Pop, L. Voag, Amos & Sara, George Harassment, and Nancy Sesay & the Melodaires, and it seemed that
the Homosexuals themselves were all but a fading memory. Fortunately, in 2004, Bruno and Anton were united, and, with the help of Vida and Morphius Records,