My Nu Leng, Elderbrook, Mabel and Biig Piig will be joining us for our seventh edition.
Fresh off the back of their huge sell out warehouse show, Bassline heavyweights and Bristol boys My Nu Leng will be headlining the Lonely Hearts Stage hosted by The Blast. Defected regular Elderbrook is added to The Main Stage on Saturday as well as rising star Mabel who will be appearing on Sunday. Joining the Paradiso stage hosted by Crack Magazine will be London based songstress Biig Piig.
St Pauls Carnival To Return For 50th Anniversary
After a hiatus of 2 years Bristol institution St. Pauls carnival will be returning for 2018. The return of the colour, the soundsystems, the food and the street parties could not have come at better time with 2018 marking the 50th anniversary of the of the first carnival. The carnival will be receiving essential funding from the Arts Council and Bristol City Council’s Imagination Fund.
The iconic album by Fatboy Slim, which featured tracks such as ‘Right Here, Right Now’, ‘The Rockafeller Skank’ and ‘Praise You’, turned 20 earlier this year. Despite the significant milestone, Norman Cook is still going strong 20 years on, and is of course headlining on the Saturday at Love Saves The Day.
As part of the occasion, he’ll be re-releasing the album, including a special limited edition “Meal Deal” release which is a version that’ll arrive in a pizza box.
Run, Jackmaster, Lost Gardens, Just Jack and Teachings In Dub line-ups released this week!
Following our 1st wave of acts announced back in January, we’ve been working hard to put the finishing touches on this years line-up. Coming this week, we’ll be announcing the full list of acts to appear on the Centre Stage (hosted by Jackmaster and Run on Saturday and Sunday respectively), as well as The Lost Gardens (hosted by Artwork and Horse Meat Disco), Just Jacks Caravan Club and the Teachings In Dub area. We’ve also got a few extra names to add onto some of the stages already announced!
Keep your eyes peeled this week, we’ll be announcing very soon…
Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th each cost £25, Weekend tickets £45
These tickets will go up in price and are likely to sell out before the show so don’t sleep on these. It is a few months off yet but we cannot wait to see you in the sunny* month of May at Eastville park. *Sun is not confirmed but has been requested.
The new rental bicycle scheme in Bristol ‘YoBike’ has unsurprisingly been a huge success; YoBikes have stated that the demand is double what they predicted. YoBike’s UK CEO Michael Qian has said “with more than 7000 downloads and 4700 active users, Bristolians have exceeded our wildest expectations.” Bristol, the pioneering city that it is, is the first city in the UK to welcome this initiative.
So if you think you can brave the infamous hills of Bristol and that you’ll be safe riding to Eastville Park for Love Saves the Day in the more summery month of May next year, why not get your quads burning and release some pre-party endorphins.
Which marks a key event in Bristol’s rich music culture and a historic music venue has successfully raised its target of funding to repair original architecture. At Love Saves the Day, we are so excited that there is still funding being awarded that will allow venues to continue bringing world-class artists to the city and provide more opportunities for Bristol’s diverse communities to experience music. Bristol Music Trust chief executive Louise Mitchell said: “Together we are committed to leading and delivering an inspiring, wide-ranging music programme that brings benefits to every person in the city.”
The final track of the LP is titled Aura, the self-proclaimed lead track in which the Bicep boys flex their Irish muscles and surface a nostalgic electronic sound, which develops into a punchy but melancholic flow. Matt describes the duo’s preferred time to play at the Panorama Bar, the space above Berlin’s notorious techno powerhouse, Berghain:
“Our favourite time to play is Sunday afternoon into evening. The light’s creeping through, people are warming into their Sunday, and you can take it a bit more eclectic and emotive.”
Just take a listen to ‘Ayr’ and you can hear that the Irish boys have infused this feeling of the time of day into this track. The fuzzy distortion and atmospheric vocals of ‘Vale’, leads the LP into a progressive ending which is more techy and lamenting than the first handful of tracks.
With the same birthday as Love Saves the Day, Simple Things continues to test boundaries and push musical horizons with locally brewed sound and global music heavyweights sharing the stage.