Michael Head And The Red Elastic Band
Photo: John JohnsonA warm welcome back to a big favourite of everyone at Caught by the River, a previous headliner from 2017.
Michael Head has been one of the country’s most consistently brilliant songwriters since the 1980s , when he fronted The Pale Fountains and then Shack.
His new album Dear Scott, produced by Bill Ryder-Jones and out in May, is another career best in a career of bests.
Group Listening
Group Listening are Stephen ‘Sweet Baboo’ Black and Paul Jones.
Their debut album Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works Vol.1 was a collection of ambient works — from the likes of Brian Eno, Arthur Russell, Euros Childs and Robert Wyatt — arranged for clarinet and piano.
The just-released Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works Vol.2 follows up with reimaginings of songs by Neu!, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Robbie Basho and Laraaji.
DJ Kath McDermott
Photo: Tom Quaye33 years DJing in every den of inequity Manchester has to offer and still hasn't got a proper bio...
Kath was a resident at queer jamboree Flesh at the Hacienda for 5 years, then on to Paradise Factory. After a while she was the first resident at a new night called Homoelectric. ("It'll never last" they said).
She played regularly at lots of other places- Vague, Garlands, Trash, Ministry of Sound.
She still plays occasionally when it’s a good do because she is a terrible show-off, but most of the time when she is near bass bins she would rather be dancing like a loon than having to concentrate on putting on records.
She makes exceptions for special nights run by special people who really care about clubbers having fun like Social Service, Homolectric, Bollox, Kiss Me Again, Homobloc and the lovely Heavenly crew.
Kath is proud to be a co-founder of the annual fundraiser for women’s charities and one of the best nights she has ever played at - Suffragette City.
H. Hawkline
Hawkline — Huw Evans to his mates — will be performing with his full band, playing long-promised new music.
Multi-talented Huw is also an accomplished designer, having recently put together album covers for Aldous Harding, Cate Le Bon, Gwenno and Katy J Pearson.
Cherry Ghost
The Ivor Novello award winning songwriter Simon Aldred makes a very rare solo live appearance at Camp Good Life 2022.
Celebrating the fifteenth anniversary of his peerless debut album Thirst for Romance, Simon will be performing his favourite songs from that album and the other two Cherry Ghost records released on Heavenly.
Band Pres Llareggub
Photo: Kristina BanholzerNorth Wales’ very finest brass band ensemble, Band Pres Llareggub’s music invokes the sumptuous flavours of New Orleans marching bands thrown in a tumble dryer with Bronx-inspired hip hop and Welsh language pop music.
DJ Pete Fowler
The Monsterist himself, artist/Seahawk and our favourite party DJ Pete Fowler has been providing music to blame the next day’s hangover on at more Caught by the River events than we can remember.
Laura Groves
Photo: Suzie HowellAn artist and producer born in West Yorkshire and based in South London, Laura Groves is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter who explores themes of inner worlds, healing, connection, imagined environments and real-life surroundings.
Her music mixes traditional songwriting with experimental synthesised sounds and textural electronic layering.
Now signed to Bella Union, she has previously released killer records on XL and DEEK Records, created with long-time collaborator Bullion.
Fran Lobo
Fran is a singer, songwriter, producer, choral composer and sound artist from London.
Her work is centred around the importance of having a voice and enabling others to do the same through her creative and facilitation endeavours. Described by Dazed as ‘one of a kind… she is currently carving out a niche of her own, creating music that all at once manages to be ethereal, empowering and perfect for a sing-along’.
Perfect for Friday night then.
Molly Linen
Molly is a songwriter and guitarist from the West Midlands.
Making records for the greatest bothy-based label in the world (Lost Map), she creates atmospheric, captivating and personal songs, led by melodic guitar lines and lulling yet hypnotic vocals.
For fans of This Is The Kit, Cat Power, Anne Briggs and Nick Drake.
Praise for Molly Linen’s recent EP ‘Days Awake’, out on Lost Map Records:
“Remarkable...a delicate, hugely emotional return”
“Gorgeous and precise, ‘Days Awake’ is a masterful piece of work that takes Linen’s signature serene sound and elevates it with varied instrumentation and ambient-inspired elements.”
“Beautiful”
“...Molly Linen returns with six majestically realised new songs that feel as natural as breathing, as hopeful as the beam from a lighthouse.”
Cerys Hafana
Cerys’ music was brought to our attention by Heavenly Recordings artist Gwenno.
She is a triple harpist, pianist and composer from Mid Wales.
Her music is inspired by anything from nursery rhymes to the sound of the rain and she uses techniques and effects on the triple harp to evoke the sound of both the language and weather of Wales.
She is also a contributor to Welsh Plural: Essays on Future of Wales, from which she will read later in the weekend.
Heavenly Jukebox DJs
The DJ arm of the legendary Heavenly Recordings.
What do you want to hear?
Soul, hip hop, disco & boogie classics, house, fresh edits, new electronic records, rock n roll, balearic, afro, party jams? It’s all in the Heavenly Jukebox.
Playing only the finest records and tearing up the dance floors of festivals, clubs, basements or wherever since 1990, this is sure to be an all-encompassing lesson in the rich tapestry of music, what else would you expect from the DJ arm of the legendary Heavenly Recordings?