The Doors Alive recreate the sound, look, presence and magic of a real 1960s Doors concert, perfectly and effortlessly transporting audiences back in time with classic hits such as Light My Fire, When The Music’s Over, Riders On The Storm, The End, and many more.

Frontman Mike Griffioen captures the look, attitude, and rich baritone voice of the late great Jim Morrison with ease while his compadres Barrington Meyer on guitar, Buzz Allan on drums, and Norbert Varga on keyboards showcase the musical chops of original Doors members Robby Krieger, John Densmore and Ray Manzarek with finesse and authenticity.

The band take pride in using the same vintage equipment to achieve an authentic Doors sound, including Rhodes piano bass, Gibson G101 organ, Gibson SG, and Ludwig Mod Orange drum kit.

Formed in 2005, The Doors Alive have now performed over 1000 shows. With authentic improvisations and a changing setlist, each show is unique. They have toured and performed worldwide, consistently attracting capacity crowds.

This will be an unmissable experience for any Doors fan.

“To call The Doors Alive merely a tribute act would be a huge disservice… They are high priests who allow us to worship at the altar of The Doors by continuing the word and gospel of Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger, and John Densmore.” ~ Pure Magazine Ireland

Please note, this is an all standing event.

Age guidance: 16+

Tzusan X Shogun – Lead Wetsuit Schematics Tour

Plus Support: Vitamin G + Safenath

Scotlands sharpest wordsmiths; Tzusan and Shogun have blades drawn, ready for battle in the form of their collaborative project; Lead Wetsuit Schematics. This woozy, choppy, unpredictable masterwork was forged between Barassie and Brighton making Brighton an essential stop, and at where else but Brightons most iconic venue, Green Door Store, on the 10th of August. With support from two of the cities greats Safenath and Vitamin G this is set up to be a night to remember.

Stereo Mc’s formed in mid 80’s, inspired by electronic music and early HipHop. They pressed up their first 12” vinyl and started an independent record label called G Street Records which released many UK hip hop artists and signed US acts such as Jungle Brothers . Shortly after they signed to Island/4th and Broadway records and released their first LP and and toured extensively as a live act , garnering a reputation on multi tours and festivals . Their 3rd LP connected released in 1992 became a world wide hit and the song connected became a classic tune.

Winding on some time, in 2015 tired of the major record label bubble ,and a love of dance music they decided to go back to their roots and embark on a new label project and the label connected was born, at first as a vehicle for themselves to release music also to release other artists music, encompassing Afro House ,Deep House and Techno and all variations of those genres. With distribution through Kompakt records in Cologne the label has grown extensively in the last few years and is now on its 40th release.

Apart from still touring as a live band , and with numerous releases (including collaborations with Adam Port ,Anja Schneider and Terranova amongst others) Rob Birch and Nick Hallam also continue with their love of DJ ‘ing which is an essential part of the connected label, and special connected nights are a regular occurrence also featuring a variety of acts who release on the label , including David Mayer, Florian Busse, Nandu , Aaaron, Re.You and more.

As Badly Drawn Boy, Damon Gough puts a fresh spin on the traditions of Nick Drake, Harry Nilsson, John Lennon, and other classic singer/songwriters. When he emerged in the late '90s, his intricate, lilting melodies, quirky but heartfelt lyrics, and offbeat production touches fit in with the experimental pop fringe of artists like Scott 4 and the Beta Band, but Gough soon defined himself as a remarkable talent with 2000's The Hour of Bewilderbeast, his Mercury Prize-winning debut album. He struck gold again with the 2002 soundtrack About a Boy, which polished the charm of his songwriting while avoiding sentimentality. Later, he embellished his sound with ornate production, as on 2002's Have You Fed the Fish? and 2006's Born in the U.K., then returned to the relatively stripped-down sound of his earlier work on 2010's It's What I'm Thinking, Pt. 1: Photographing Snowflakes. With 2020's Banana Skin Shoes, Gough returned from a lengthy hiatus with an even-handed mix of adventurous pop and poignant ballads.

While growing up in Bolton, Lancashire, England, Damon Gough was a young music fan and idolized Bruce Springsteen. He began recording after meeting the like-minded Andy Votel at a Manchester nightclub. The two created the Twisted Nerve label, and Gough debuted as Badly Drawn Boy with EP1 in September 1997. The acclaim for this five-song release, along with April 1998's EP2 and November's EP3 (his first work to be co-released by XL Recordings), was reflected in his appearance on 1998's celebrity-filled UNKLE album Psyence Fiction, which found him guesting alongside Thom Yorke, Richard Ashcroft, and Mike D. Praise for Badly Drawn Boy's music grew with March 1999's It Came from the Ground EP and that August's "Once Around the Block," which peaked on the U.K. Singles Chart at number 46.

In June 2000, Badly Drawn Boy's debut album The Hour of Bewilderbeast arrived to widespread acclaim for its literate songwriting and eclectic instrumentation. Along with reaching number 13 on the U.K. Albums chart and number 23 on Billboard's Independent Albums chart in the U.S., the album appeared on numerous album of the year lists and ultimately won Britain's vaunted Mercury Prize for Best Album. The Hour of Bewilderbeast also made a fan of author Nick Hornby, who asked the singer to score the film adaptation of his book About a Boy. Composed solely by Gough, About a Boy came out in April 2002. Once again, the album earned praise for its heartfelt songs and reached number six on the U.K. Albums chart and number 11 on the Billboard Soundtracks chart.

After recording during most of 2002, Gough emerged that November with Have You Fed the Fish? More polished and straightforward than his previous work, it boasted the Top Ten U.K. single "You Were Right," while the album peaked at number ten on the U.K. Albums chart and topped the Billboard Heatseekers chart. To make Badly Drawn Boy's next album, July 2004's more stripped-down One Plus One Is One, Gough drew inspiration from the deaths of a close friend and his grandfather, who died in the Battle of Normandy. It became Gough's first Top Ten album in the U.K. and made it to number 14 on the Heatseekers chart. Despite this chart success, Gough left XL Recordings after only one single, "Year of the Rat," was taken from the album. He moved to EMI for October 2006's Born in the U.K., an ornately orchestrated collection of songs inspired by his childhood and Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. Co-produced by Lemon Jelly's Nick Franglen, it peaked at number 17 on the U.K. Albums Chart.

Following Born in the U.K.'s release, Gough took a break from making music. He returned in 2009, when he was asked to write music for the film The Fattest Man in Britain. Those songs became that year's Is There Nothing We Could Do?, the debut release from his own BDB Records label. The following year, Gough issued his seventh studio album It's What I'm Thinking, Pt. 1: Photographing Snowflakes, which recalled the intimacy of The Hour of Bewilderbeast. The soundtrack for 2012's Being Flynn, an adaptation of author Nick Flynn's memoirs Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, found Gough reuniting with About a Boy director Paul Weitz. Apart from a 2015 tour to commemorate the 15th anniversary of The Hour of Bewilderbeast and a 2017 cameo on the British television series Cold Feet, little was heard from Gough until the May 2020 release of Badly Drawn Boy's eighth album Banana Skin Shoes. Recorded with co-producers including Gethin Pearson and Youth, it combined reflective lyrics with sounds spanning vintage Motown and pop-soul to alt-hip-hop collages.

+ Support from Chris Simmons

Legendary multi-vocalist, instrumentalist, live-looping pioneer and producer Beardyman is about embark on his most ambitious project yet.

Following the release of his last single in Autumn 2019, 6am (Ready to Write) featuring Joe Rogan with it’s award-winning video by revered director Ian Pons Jewell, Beardyman will be drowning out the insane developments of 2020 with Sheer Volume. Launching on Friday 7th February 2020, Sheer Volume will see Beardyman release 52 singles over the course of a year with accompanying videos, a weekly cross- platform live-stream and a monthly podcast. Pre-orders for the first single will go live on Friday 31st January for the stirring Liquid Drum

and Bass anthem that is “Every End Is A Beginning”

Whilst the idea of writing, recording, producing and releasing a single along with a video every single week sounds insane and would give most artists and labels the fear, Beardyman's realisation is it plays to his personal strengths. In one of his first recording sessions with Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), was trying to get Beardyman to perfect a line for a hook for a song they were working on, but every time he tried to re-voice the line, Beardyman came up with a new and different idea. Norman stopped and explained to Beardyman that he'd realised Beardyman is, in his words, "a Jazzer", constantly thinking of new options and bored of an idea once it had been realised.

In their next recording session together Norman played beat and Beardyman voiced the entire song in one take in one take. That one take became the global dance music phenomenon ‘Eat Sleep Rave Repeat’.

Beardyman explains "My own creativity is best fuelled by constant deadlines rather than one big looming one. As Leonardo Da Vinci wrote, "A piece of art is never finished, merely abandoned" and I find it difficult knowing when to stop and draw a line, especially in the absence of a deadline. The rabbit hole is not an option for me creatively and this level of publicly shared deadlines helps me find that sweet spot, before you start getting diminishing returns and hit mix version 86...or higher... I know this is the rate with Sheer Volume where I can produce the best stuff and work together with my jazz brain".

Beardyman toured the world with his One Album per Hour show, from sold out shows at Edinburgh Fringe, to Montreal’s Just For Laugh’s, to Sydney’s Royal Opera House. Each night he’d make a brand new album within an hour based on the audience creating new album titles. Having completed that game, Sheer Volume is another way for him to deal with his musical ADD, but all of the inspiration will be coming from within and whilst some may well be very funny, this is no joke.

Beardyman’s rise to success began with him winning the UK Beatbox Championships two years in a row in 2006 and 2007. Creatively shackled by technology and his vast musical ideas, he then went on to develop the world’s most advance live music production system known as BEARDYTRON_5000, allowing him to improvise studio quality cutting

edge dance music in real time. He unveiled the BEARDYTRON to a standing ovation at the annual global TED conference.

Since then he has evolved the BEARDYTRON’s capabilities further to allow him to realise his creative vision even better and faster. Beardyman explains that “As a creator, you’re only listening to the music that’s playing inside of you, but those ideas are only there for a moment. It’s about capturing them and the tech I’ve developed helps me do that, almost instantly”. Check out his sold out 2019 London show here to see and hear him in action.

Beardyman has toured the world consistently for over a decade headlining boutique festivals and performing on main stages and big tops ranging from Bestival to Coachella, Fuji Rocks to Glastonbury and everything in between. He was even asked to open the entire Glastonbury festival two years running which lead to him being credited by BBC Breakfast as the ‘King of Sound, Ruler of Beats’.

Beardyman has previously collaborated with artists as varied as Chase and Status, Imogen Heap, Groove Armada, Jack Black, Herbie Hancock, Jacob Collier, Reggie Watts and Tim Minchin.

He has just announced a Spring 2021 live tour where he will be bringing his widely acclaimed talents to a range of venues. The tour will see the mutli-vocalist and producer play 19 locations, throughout the UK and Europe.

TANGERINE DREAM are an electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese in Berlin. Their groundbreaking record Phaedra, released in 1974, reached gold status in the UK, and was the band‘s first success on the Virgin Records label to whom they had recently signed.

The recording became a milestone in electronic music. Over the last 53 years, Tangerine Dream released more than one hundred albums. Their early 'Pink Years‘ albums had a pivotal role in the development of Krautrock. Their 'Virgin Years' albums helped define what became known as the Berlin School of electronic music. These and later albums were influential in the development of electronic dance music.

Although the group released numerous studio and live recordings, a substantial number of their fans were introduced to Tangerine Dream by their film soundtracks, which total over sixty and include Sorcerer (William Friedkin), Thief (Michael Mann), Risky Business, The Keep, Firestarter, Legend (Ridley Scott), Near Dark, Shy People, and Miracle Mile. In 2013, Tangerine Dream composed the original score for Rockstar's video game Grand Theft Auto V.

After Edgar Froese's death in 2015, Tangerine Dream's line-up now consists of Thorsten Quaeschning (since 2005) as musical director, Hoshiko Yamane (since 2011), Ulrich Schnauss (since 2014) and Paul Frick (since June 2020). The band has now returned to the classic sequencer driven sound and Quantum Gate (2017) is their best-selling album since 1987.

Tangerine Dream recently played live concerts at Dekmantel Festival Amsterdam, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Barbican Hall in London. Every performance ends with a live session, a real-time composition that can last from 20 minutes to two hours.

The upcoming studio album will be released in 2021 and performed on their tour 'From Virgin to Quantum Years 2021'.

‘They are far away from any conventional music philosophy ...’ - David Bowie

‘...an organic, ever-shifting and evolving sonic structure...’ - The Guardian

‘After 51 years, and some changes of cosmic address, Tangerine Dream are still Tangerine Dreaming.’ - The Quietus

‘It left a lasting mark not only on John Peel and the UK album charts, but the direction of Western music in general. You can hear the beginnings of Italo disco, techno, ambient and, of course, synth music in ‘Phaedra‘, which carries an air of discovery and mystery to this day.’ - Resident Advisor

‘The collision of Prog-Krautrock noises by Thorsten Quaeschning’s synth is a throwback to the band’s 1970s heyday, while the futuristic blips of Ulrich Schnauss on sequencer and rhythms are interrupted by bursts of violinist Hoshiko Yamane...’ - Crack Magazine

The Doors Alive play a special concert to commemorate the albums, Morrison Hotel & Absolutely Live's 50th Anniversaries - don't miss out!

“To call The Doors Alive merely a tribute act would be a huge disservice to what is the closest thing possible to experiencing a Doors concert without the aid of a flux capacitor and 1.21 gigawatts. They are high priests who allow us to worship at the
altar of The Doors by continuing the word and gospels of Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robbie Krieger and John Densmore." - Pure Magazine, Ireland.

The band recreate the sound, look, presence and magic of a real 1960's Doors concert, perfectly and effortlessly transporting the audience back in time with classic hits such as "Light My Fire", "When The Music's Over", "Riders On The Storm", "The End" and many more. The Doors Alive have over 1,000 shows under their belt to date.

The Doors Alive formed in 2005. Since then there have been a few changes, but the current line up is the best it has ever been!

Frontman Mike Griffioen captures the look, attitude and rich baritone voice of the late great Jim Morrison with ease while his compadres Barrington Meyer on guitar, Buzz Allan on drums and Norbert Varga on keyboards showcase the musical chops of original Doors members Robby Krieger, John Densmore and Ray Manzarek with finesse and authenticity.

They take pride in using the exact same vintage equipment to achieve an authentic sound, including Rhodes Piano Bass, Gibson G101 organ, Gibson SG and Ludwig Mod Orange
drum kit. They are keen on making every single show unique by authentic improvisations and changing the set regularly so you will never see the same show twice!

The Doors Alive have left awestruck audiences in several countries around the world, including the UK, Ireland, Australia, Denmark, France, Belgium, The Netherlands,
Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovenia, Malta, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, UAE and Chile to name but a few. They repeatedly sell out some of the most well established venues in Europe. They have played at the legendary Isle of Wight Festival and played on the same bill with such legendary musicians as Status Quo, Canned Heat, Nazareth, Uriah Heep, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Eric Burdon and Kris Kristofferson. In Chile the band played an arena show to 4,500 Doors fans! In several countries including France and Lebanon the band have been featured on national television - don't miss out!