The Slow Readers Club are a Manchester based four piece who specialise in indie electro doom pop. In 2016 the band drew huge crowds at summer festival appearances including Tramlines, Kendal Calling, Victorious Festival (2 stages) Ramsbottom Festival and Castlepalooza Festival. In November 2106 they played 3 SOLD OUT headline shows at o2 Ritz Manchester, Whelans Dublin and Oslo Hackney.

In May and December 2016, The Slow Readers Club supported James on the 'Girl at the End of the World' tour with dates 15 dates including London 02 Forum, Brixton Academy, Manchester Arena and Liverpool Echo Arena with The Charlatans. Their singles have enjoyed airplay on BBC 6 Music and XFM (featured twice as XFMs shock of the new) the latest single ‘Plant The Seed’ has been playlisted on TXFM Dublin.

"Alongside the likes of Cabbage and Blossoms, The Slow Readers Club are currently one of the most exciting sounds coming out of our fair city"
Manchester Evening News

"The Slow Readers Club are quite simply too glorious to be kept a secret; see them, be seduced and then pass the pleasure on."
Louderthanwar

"Think New Order and Depeche Mode with all the catchiness of a cool indie band, and this gives you some idea to what they’re about. Definitely one of THE bands of the moment!"
Sonic Bandwagon

"The Slow Readers Club are without doubt on the cusp of something spectacular and if you haven't immersed yourself in their indie electro sounds by now, then it's high time you paid attention"
Louise Dodgson - CityLife Extra

"We are extremely excited about these guys here at XFM and Forever In Your Debt is always playing on our big indie jukebox"
One of XFM's Top 5 Songs Of The Week

alt-J are Joe Newman, Gus Unger-Hamilton and Thom Green. They returned in 2022 with their latest album, The Dream.  

alt-J are one of the most successful British bands of the millennium. Their 2012 Mercury Prize and Ivor Novello Award-winning debut An Awesome Wave, was followed two years later by their number one, GRAMMY and BRIT Award-nominated album This Is All Yours. Released in 2017, RELAXER flew straight into the top 10 of the UK album chart ahead of a summer of major international shows - including a headline show at London’s O2 Arena and headline performances at numerous festivals - and became their second album to be nominated for the Mercury Prize.

THE CON take thier sound from the best rock n roll, 60s sounds, punk and indie. Fronted by the Withers brothers The Con deliver tunes for the times we're living in!

" Against the back drop of an economy in free fall, & anyone under 25 feeling neglected , unemployed and angry will connect with these snarling straight talking tunes! "
 " confident excitable swagger that's not to be unheard"    
                                                   Jackson Cooper, Rivera FM                                                                                                                                                                       

"The Con, a great mix of punk & indie rock, and hailing from Kingsbridge Devon, they bring the sound of The Jam & Oasis to the 2000's, making it sound fresh and new, with joint vocals from brothers Adam & Dan, and great songs like Riot Kids & Sorrow Sweet, this is a band to watch in 2012"
 Antony Evershed (South Devon Sound Radio)
 

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