BURY is staging a Bank Holiday Monday musical bonanza with more than 100 rock acts and DJs performing at nine venues in the town.
The feast of entertainment is being provided to mark the fourth annual Glaston-Bury fundraising event which promises to be the biggest and best so far. Once again, money raised will go to Bury Hospice which has benefited to the tune of £16,000 from the past three events.
Bands and other musical acts will perform from noon and right through the remainder of the day. Music lovers from the borough and beyond are expected to descend on the town. Among those performing will be Tom Hingley (ex-Inspiral Carpets), Dave Sharp, formerly of The Alarm, The Rainband and Together.
Also appearing will be local favourites Drive There Now — previously the Rusholme Ruffians which included former Coronation Street actor Ben Thompson.
Venues featuring the live acts during Glaston-Bury are: Blind Tiger, Wyldes, Two Tubs, Molloy’s, Brambles, The Flying Shuttle, Verve and the Elizabethan Suite. DJ’s will be performing at Indigo.
Chris Buckley is one of the four Glaston-Bury organisers. He said: “This is by far the biggest event we’ve put together. It’s been hectic. We always want as many bands as possible from Bury and the surrounding area to take part. But bands are applying from all over.
“All this started because of a play of words involving ‘Glaston-Bury’ and we decided to put on our own mini-festival. It’s just grown from there. And right from the start, we chose Bury Hospice as the beneficiary.”
Wristbands costing £5, which allows entrance to all venues, can be bough from the door of any of the nine locations.
The full Glaston-Bury 2011 lline up is: Blind Tiger
Charlotte Berry & Cameron Bagnall
Rosewood
Malkis Museum
Lost Nomad
Ged Wilson
Lisa Marie Glover
Risa Hall
Mike Crook
Alex Hulme
Rick Kavanah
Busker One
Colour Blue
Barry (Banjo)Forbes
Spirit of Adventure
Dave Sharpe (HEADINER)
Wyld’es
Cougar Manoever
George White
For the Weekend
Modern Alarms
The Suns (HEADLINER)
Wired
The Deafcon Priests
The Gramotones
The Ruby’s
Fragile Audio
Two Tubs Of Rock
SDR
Arrested In Moscow
Adventures Of Salvador
Retrospex
The Sanity Clause
HUSH
UkePunk
Point Blank
Raised on Rock
Jealous
Badger
Molly Bloom (Headliner)
Molloy’s
The Foe
The Versions
The Vanity Project
Kingdom of the Blind
Siamsa
Bandersnatch
Jimmy Tweed and the Roaches
Shadow Riots
Vamika
Invisible Republic
Morphine Ghost
The Statements (Headliner)
Brambles
BIGFOOT
The Nowhere’s
Beat Fiction
Medicine for Madmen
The Disappeared
Selfish Lovers
Anti Star
New Age Addiction
Sarajevo
This City of Glass
Mancini Fires
Wheres Strutter?
The Flying Shuttle METAL VENUE
Motheres Ruin
Hope,Break,Legend
Demortius
Autuim Ruin
Aftermath Eternal
VICE
Fort Worth
Ten By Ten
Some Dark
Wolf Crusher
Afterdown
Spires
Babylon Fire
Verve
Heseltine
Bury’s Black Elvis
Call Me Diva
Loop Aznevour
Blasck Swan Rising
Pearl Scam
S.K.P
Bedlam Shake
Sharah Dixon
Origin
Idle Promise
Black Molasses (HEADLINER)
The Elizabethan Suite
Lie Ability
Tom Hingley
And Move And Fire
Espa Scout
Black Jackson
Rene
Turrentine Jones
Jupiter Sands
david R black
TOGETHER (Big letters )
The RAINBAND (Headliner)
The Jokers(Co Headliner ish lol)
MORE TBA INDIGO DJ’s
Coz
Dashman
DJ Scope
Sick Lips (Chow Down)
MC Ecko
Matty Jeffs
Dj Luke E
Conclusion Bass
Callum Hopkinson (Sound Master)
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