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I've got an exclusive for all you lovely Out Of Stepper's the final announcement for the 2000Trees Festival line up
The Brute Chorus will headline the 2000trees Festival’s Early Entry Evening, delighted organisers confirmed today (FRI).
Six Nation State, Lets Tea Party and Wojtek Godzisz (formerly songwriter of Symposium) are also among the seven acts set to kick off the opening night on Thursday, July 15.
Just 500 fans will get the chance to arrive unrushed, pick a prime camping spot and start the party early with bands performing at the Leaf Lounge marquee from 5pm onwards.
The full Early Entry Evening line-up is: The Brute Chorus, Six Nation State, Lets Tea Party, Wojtek Godzisz, Che, John Crampton and Howard James Kenny.
Many Early Entry Evening passes have already been sold and cost just £10, so the remainder are expected to disappear very quickly.
These acts are added to the full line up below, Rich and Ben are going and hopefully taking some Zines so if you see them go and say hello and grab a copy of the Zine!
A RECORD shop which has sold everything from reggae, ska and hip hop to generations of Brummies will close at the end of the month – ending more than 40 years of trading.
Tempest Records, in Bull Street, has become a mecca for music-lovers ever since it opened in Lozells Road in 1968 but will shut because of the growth in digital sales.
Almost 600 people have signed up to a Facebook page in honour of the independent business, begun by Keith Thornton and taken on by his son Marcus five years ago.
“It has obviously been quite a tough decision for the family, especially myself because ultimately it was my choice,” said 37-year-old Marcus.
“I was born with it and it was always in the family, so it has been quite a torrid time to come to the decision.
“My father’s seen the downturn in the industry as well and agrees. We’ve always tried to do things properly and this way we can walk away with our heads held high instead of running it for the sake of it.”
The shop, which moved to its present location about 25 years ago, employs nine people, has about 7,500 customers on a database and is currently breaking even. There were 16 staff at its peak, about ten years ago, when Marcus said every young lad in the city dreamed of being either a footballer or a DJ.
Stocked over three floors, its collection is half CD and half vinyl and has been imported and bought second-hand.
Marcus, whose family lives in Sutton, said: “It was a nice lifestyle to be around growing up. It was vibrant with music always in our lives and it probably got me a few extra friends at school. We’ve covered so many genres of music. Ska was obviously a very big movement in the late 70s, we’ve got through punk and we got quite heavily into the early hip hop scene and used to import a lot from America.
“We just followed the genres really and supplied people with what they wanted. It’s such a vast industry you can’t really know everything without listening to the customers.”
The closure follow’s that of high street chain Zavvi’s flagship store in the Pavilions last year.
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