Reading’s Are You Listening? Festival has announced its final batch of acts for 2018.
36 new names are joining the bill for the event, which has raised over £45,000 for Reading Mencap since launching in 2013.
Leading the new announcement are The Lovely Eggs. Described as “England’s hardest working gonzo rockers”, the recently dropped their latest full-length, ‘This Is Eggland’, produced by Dave Dridmann (Flaming Lips, Tame Impala).
They’re joined by indie supergroup The Surfing Magazines, built from two-thirds of The Wave Pictures and one-half of Slow Club. There’s also The Bulmershe Ensemble, UK Beatboxing champ Grace Savage, Field Music collaborator Slug, Ben Marwood, Valeras, She Makes War and more.
They join a bill already incluing Idles, Field Music, Yonaka, Vinyl Staircase, Her’s and tonnes more.
Festival organizer Dave Maul says: “We can’t wait for Saturday 28th April to come around and are delighted to have added the likes of The Lovely Eggs, Beatboxing champion/singer Grace Savage, The Last Dinosaur who made a beautiful album last year in ‘The Nothing’. Of course, not forgotten all of the amazing local talent including local choir The Bulmershe Ensemble.”
Tickets to Are You Listening? are on sale now, priced £22.50, or £25 on the day. You can grab them here.
Check out the full line-up in the poster below.
36 new names are joining the bill for the event, which has raised over £45,000 for Reading Mencap since launching in 2013.
Leading the new announcement are The Lovely Eggs. Described as “England’s hardest working gonzo rockers”, the recently dropped their latest full-length, ‘This Is Eggland’, produced by Dave Dridmann (Flaming Lips, Tame Impala).
They’re joined by indie supergroup The Surfing Magazines, built from two-thirds of The Wave Pictures and one-half of Slow Club. There’s also The Bulmershe Ensemble, UK Beatboxing champ Grace Savage, Field Music collaborator Slug, Ben Marwood, Valeras, She Makes War and more.
They join a bill already incluing Idles, Field Music, Yonaka, Vinyl Staircase, Her’s and tonnes more.
Festival organizer Dave Maul says: “We can’t wait for Saturday 28th April to come around and are delighted to have added the likes of The Lovely Eggs, Beatboxing champion/singer Grace Savage, The Last Dinosaur who made a beautiful album last year in ‘The Nothing’. Of course, not forgotten all of the amazing local talent including local choir The Bulmershe Ensemble.”
Tickets to Are You Listening? are on sale now, priced £22.50, or £25 on the day. You can grab them here.
Check out the full line-up in the poster below.
