Strawberry Fields Festival 2012

In few weeks, the Strawberry Fields Festival will "re-open" his doors for a 3rd edition. I've been able to be at this festival last year, but unfortunately (and because of the day job), only for the Saturday, that's why I didn't review what I saw there BUT it was a brilliant and great festival. I know that here, we hear more about Glastonbury, V Festival or Reading but there's a lot of other great festivals and Strawberry Fields Festival is one of them! This festival is becoming bigger each year and this year, it has an even more amzing line_up than last year. 

By reading this blog, you know how the Leicestershire is important in my life and this festival has become the little point where I can have fun and see all my "lovers" sharing the stages! Oh yeah, they need to become more and more and more important and I know that maybe not next year, but soon, they will be named as one of the "NOT TO BE MISSED FESTIVAL".

At this year festival, you'll be please to see SuperEvolver , Modern Faces, MovE, Danny Greet's new band The Vanishing Point (I'll write soon about that new band), The Great KAV, The amazing Bibelots, Red 'n ' Pink, Raptusound, but also The Dash, KAROVA , By The River, Martha Makes Mistakes, Marner Brown, Buster Shuffles, FC-20, Preacher and The Bear, Young Knives, The Carpels, Kyla La Grange and Of course the legendary The Charlatans and Labrinth.

Charlie and the Martyrs

Charlie & The Martyrs is one of the band I heard about during one of my 1st travel to Leicester. This band has been formed by the talented Charlie Jones, who's coming from Birmingham, and 4 of the best musicians who comes from Nottingham and Leicester. You can find: 

 

Charlie Jones for the vocal and guitar
Grahame Crewe at the Guitar
Mike Angrave at the  Lead Guitar
Will Bennett at the Bass
Dan Bent at the Drums

Charlie has been finalist, in 2008,of the BBC Radio 2 Singer/Songwriter of the Year.

In 2010, they played both Strawberry Fields festival (in Heather) and Summer Sunday fest in Leicester  and has been asked to support  Paul Heaton (Beautiful South/House Martins) on his UK Tour (Spring 2011).

This year, they used to play sold-out shows in their area and alos played twice at the Club Fandango in London.

They put their music in the Pop ' n ' Roll genre which is quite a good name. Charlie is usually playing her accoustic guitar in a pretty dress in the middle of those talented musicians dressed in suits. I've been able to finally saw them played in last October during the OXJAM festival in Leicester. They were playing on the outside stage. And despite of the wind and cold weather, they brilliantly played and had a great interaction with the public. 

I hope 2012 will be a great year for them and they'll be able to play in more cities and why not in my city... ;) 

You can buy their 4 EP on Itunes  .

You can find them on their Facebook Page , Myspace  , Twitter , Last.FM , ReverNation profile , Spotify Link and of course on their Official Website . 

Here, you can see the video I made at The Oxjam Festival in Leicester: