Stay at home for a weekend festival

TOO poor for Glastonbury? Or too disorganised to register? Don’t look any further than Sheffield this month.

This weekend The Harley runs its third 2 Poor 2 Pitch event, which features national bands and a selection of Sheffield’s most idiosyncratic soundsmiths, such as The Legend of the 7 Black Tentacles.

The Sheffield group have been fine-tuning their hip-hop jazz and metal for some years and have stumbled upon the winning formula: “We used to have different tracks that nodded to different sounds but we are getting better at creating tracks that encorporate the various genres in one song,” says Ben Eckersley (cello).

“We have eight people in the band and that’s helped to mark us out. We all come from different musical backgrounds.”

The group’s instruments range from cello to a Kaos Pad – which creates unusual effects.

The band’s moniker is not without meaning, either, says Ben. “There is a story, a ‘legend’ behind the name but you need all the band members to be present in order to tell it. The idea is is that our songs each tell a bit of the legend.”

The eight-piece will share a bill with the Liverpudlian post punkers Clinic, who support Radiohead later this year.

Other acts include Johnny Foreigner, Sky Larkin, who will be playing material from latest LP Kaleide, Cats in Paris, Grammatics and Cardiff experimentalists Islet.

The festival runs from tomorrow, Friday to Sunday at The Harley, Glossop Road.

Original Source: Sheffield Telegraph