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The Undercover Hippy

Billy Rowan aka The Undercover Hippy has been performing at festivals since 2008, working his way up from being a solo singer-songwriter playing in small marquee stages, to now having a full band of incredible musicians and playing main-stages at some of the UK’s best independent festivals.

The band have been regulars at Glastonbury, Boomtown, Electric Picnic, Eden Festival in Scotland and Beautiful Days, plus many more around the UK and Europe. They also tour extensively in the UK twice a year, playing to packed venues from Edinburgh to Penzance. The music is best described as politically driven acoustic roots reggae folk-hop, with feel good vibes and a sly sense of humour.

The live show is high energy, interactive, and always leaves the crowd begging for more. Devoted fans travel the length of the UK for shows, audibly singing along with every chorus.
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Like the love-child of Steel Pulse, Kate Tempest, and The Sleaford Mods.
Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

A solemn reminder that even the most powerful are fallible. Record of The Week.
Camden New Journal

The band lit up the venue with their tongue-in-cheek yet poignant music.
ClunkMag Review

with fantastic local support

DJ Count Skylarkin with 25 years of reggae, soul, ska, dub and feel good vibes
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“A true unsung hero” David Rodigan, BBC Radio
“Probably Ireland’s best-kept secret” Zone Magazine
“One of the top DJ’s in the country… he mixes the records like a dance DJ… he’s super skilled at it, he really gets the place jumping” Earl Gateshead, Trojan Soundsystem

“A local institution, providing an essential education in all things ska, reggae and r&b… Club Night of the Week” The Guardian

Double Yellow Lines
A throbbing expulsion of mariachi rock, doom metal and Balkan Jazz - DYL is a teenage 5-piece hailing from the pits of Oxford, sweat-bonded by a pursuit for sensation and noise. DYL’s trashy soundscapes christened as “Iron Curtain Eclecticism” (Nightshift), is a junk shop window’s selection of unlikely instruments, inspirations and a violent clatter of pots and pans.

A DYL performance is a mosh-pit infused catalogue of ritual, disco and sweat with stage theatre akin to The Birthday Party Or Tom Waits. DYL’s upcoming EP, ‘What Is Further?’, set to release on Valentine’s day; a collection of surrealist ballads of underdog yearnings, tragedy and monks on motorbikes. doubleyellowlines.bandcamp.com

No Worries If Not
'No Worries If Not' are a new Oxford electronic dance music duo with undeniably catchy tongue-in-cheek lyrics and choreography. They play driving technopop spiced with absurd, deadpan humour. For fans of Confidence Man, Scissor Sisters, Sparks and Talking Heads. A trip to Berlin, a few late nights and a lot of French Disco inspired the project. "Big Baguette" is their debut single - a techno-electronica track built around catchy vocal samples, techno drums, disco-inspired bongos, and lyrics that may or may not be about bread. Their high-energy live performances involving matching oversized blazers, baguettes and gold bodysuits have made ‘No Worries If Not’ a distinct and memorable live act. Recent shows at Oxford's O2 Academy, The Bullingdon and Common Ground have gone down a storm. Be prepared for them to be your next favourite band.
https://noworriesifnot.bandcamp.com/

"Bringing choreographed shapes over sleek electro, this boulangerie banger of an opener sets the tone, being musically shiny and enticing, but also irreverently humorous. The tracks hark back to the turn-of-the-century camp club pop of Trouser Enthusiasts, and the vocals are delivered with deadpan exuberance, if that’s not a complete paradox. Pitched somewhere between Confidence Man and the Footlights revue, No Worries If Not will make you dance." - Nightshift magazine

“distinctly post-brat in their sound, stylish, synthy and irrepressibly silly” - Daily Info Oxford

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