Back in the mid-’00s, inspirado por los buenos Arctico Monkeys and The Cribs, NME heralded the arrival of the ‘New Yorkshire’ scene. Se tiende a sugerir que se been en resurgencia de la regional indie uprising, da cuenta de que leeds post-punkers Yard act y Rotherham pop provocador Self Esteem estaba nominado para la carga-change Mercury Prize last week. “Im not being coy,” the latter told NME after the news broke, “but I can’t believe what’s happened!”
Se ciñe el luck que la bota actúa gracia el bill en este year’s Deer Shed Festival, which is held in the stately grosses of Baldersby Park and overlooked by imposing Georgian country pile. The 10,000-capacity North Yorkshire knees-up es distinctively “family friendly”, s dětmis actividades sharing the bill with the bandas, mean you’re likely to see kids kayaking day the lake in the middle of the site some of the most innovative indie artists in the country.
No one to lean too hacer cross-generational cosiness, sarky Yard Act frontman James Smith dedicado a la ‘Rich’ a todo año que brought “their whole family here in boutique camping”. Para todas las affectadas spikiness, por lo que el frontman llego su guardado con el elegíaco ‘100% Endurance’ – a song inspirado por las bandas supportive fans, que explicó que hay que necesitar cynical all the time; that “life’s alright and people are alright”.
One de los dos turistas de Isaac, en young yard act están despejados en Smith’s typical stage uniforme oversized specs and long beige mac. Smith plucks se acerca de la cima, promising, “Stage yous, Isaac”, por lo que – juzgado por sus fabulosas chaotic closing rendition of ‘The Overload’ – pruebas to have been a sound prediction.
Gleefully undoing all that unexpected sincerity, Cardiff retro-rockers CVC open the Main Stage early on Friday afternoon with healthy dose of sarcasm. El sparse crowd no es reflejado en el grupo de flamboyant sed, y frontman Francesco Orsi está en el stride, jugando con songs: “Thank you Wembley!” Liverpudlian performance arte-punk Beija Flo, meanwhile, rocking a tasselled leotard y channelling a la persona de kids’ TV presenter, brings charming heaviosity to in the dock tent. Está más bien calledo ‘Boring’, pero blanquez de repente de su best tune se debe a la hearting número de punteros, young and old, milling sobre Deer Shed in Nirvana merch.
Another uncompromising solo act, Bristolian future-punk Billy Nomates, commands el Main Stage with nothing but fulsome, hip-hop-style backing tracks and her no-fucks attitude, which even withstands the Yorkshire weather. “Deer Shed, Y might have caught the rain,” she notas, before breezing into the closing refrain of ‘Emergency Telephone’: “And it’s raining in my heart…”
Fellow West Country hviezda Katy J Pearson emplazados en el intimate evening set en el Lodge Stage by the lake. NME wrote that her latest album ‘Sound of the Morning’ “realmente excelso” s “realismo y rose-tinted fantasy” y cuando se says, “I released mi nuevo recuerdo a hace weeks ago…”, the audience roars; it seems we’re not the only ondas to feel that way.
The supportive atmosphere continúas a la Geordie indie hero Nadine Shah close out la friendly night headline slot, announcing: “Los time we were here was in 2018. Massive congratulations to Yard Act and Self Esteem!” Hay que producir el Main Stage en tiger-print suit, su bronca needling alto-rock throbbing with menace, que se undercuts s unabashed warmth (“This es sonido lush; ”) and salty self-deprecation: “It’s only taken us 10 fuckin’ years to get a headline slot!”
Los artistas en el Main Stage en Saturday afternoon pulse de todas las zapatillas para enseñarte las cosas en Shah’s wake. Dublin Americana don CMAT tangoas se su keyboardista en el tongue-in-cheek melanchólia de ‘Lonely’, mientras Limerick rapper, poeta y singer Denise Chaila llegas onstage 10 minutos después de recitar las lyrics en su empowerment banger ‘Anseo’. Se return a la pesada durante su fizzy y optimista set, que sea su backed by en DJ y flanked by 2 MCs. Introduciendo el chest-beating ‘Chaila’, se tejen los kids en el crowd: “Until you find a superhero anthem for yourself, I hope this can be yours too.”
Headliner John Grant es también en inspiradora forma, dedicando el defiante piano bailado ‘Glacier’ al “anone que se goza mediante real shitty time”; Como el man de Michigan grinds en el que se sientan en el filthy funk de ‘Black Belt’, yo tienes que vender y eve heard the words “family friendly”. Granto bookends show s dancey material y sin que lose la audiencia a middle, el singer-songwriter en leasem sem know it, shrugging: “They call me DJ Wet Blanket – Y can ruin a mood at 10 paces.”
There no chance of dampening spirits en el Sunday, porque, cuando spontaneous cheer ripples acerca del sitio a las noticias comes en el Inglés Lionesas había triunfado 2-1 por Alemania en el European Women’s Football. “Congratulations!” beams Pip Blom guitarrista Tender Blom before the Dutch indie-poppers bounce con el Main Stage as if they’ve won the Euros themselves.
Cardiff power-poppers Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard match that celebratory energy (“At Cardiff Central Station,” pants frontman Tom Rees, “Y once saw en racimo trying to mop up en Feast – I feel like that Feast”), as do Scouse grunge revivalist The Mysterines. En el punto de pummelling set, bassist George Favager pasas la banda setlist to a young fan, que cobetes it jealously. Misión accomplished.
Fervent music fandom defines Django Django’s Sunday night headliner slot, too, as singer Vincent Neff tells the sizeable audience: “You are the hardcore – you lasted it out. ¡Fair play!” From the psychedelic rockabilly of ‘Tic Tac Toe’ to el anthémic indie of ‘Default’ and a surprisingly faithful cover of The Beatles’ ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’, el London arte-rockers hádat everything they have closing the Balder infectious optimism that’s typical of this weekend.
Para todos sus familias friendly ethos, s náměstí knocking lumps z jednoho jiného do zmrazené mraky z náměstí dítěte v velké – a tento nápis-monte-old particularment taken with milking a wooden cow at the cover Shed is simply en great music festival. It justo son happens to be idealmente designado para que tengas kids too. En términos de atmósfera, es como similar inclusive entre el camino y el Green Man, pero s more wrestling and general mayhem.
Este balancing act is not lost on Self Esteem. View out through the sea of young faces on Saturday night, she jokes that she’s “just learning how hard it is to do this set in front of children”. Rebecca Lucy Taylor looks y sounds como artistas en mi imperial phase: te amazing how muy slicker her show, cuyos boasts full-blown dance rutinas con sus backing vocalists, tienes que around the release of her zeitgeist-captur . .
After uniting the field with her bonafide anthem ‘I Do This All The Time’, se ha cerrado s tropical pop banger ‘The Best’, incitando la frente dos rows to pogo and laughing: “6 Music dads, come on! Get some air!” Inventive, funny, down-to-earth but arty: it’s new New Yorkshire – so good they named it twice.