Thank you for watching Balcony. Please consider making a donation to The Music Venue Trust’s #saveourvenues campaign by clicking here.Find out more about the campaign and the excellent work that they are doing to keep more than 550 independent venues afloat during the lockdown on their website. Approximate Stage Times:
This Saturday 23 May sees the 5th Balcony Festival – this time in aid of The Music Venue Trust‘s #saveourvenues campaign. The show will be free to view via a number of established independent UK blogs who have collaborated to create this event – including right here, LOUD WOMEN! We’ve partnered up with the best damn venue in the UK for the event, the awesome Le Pub in Newport, and we’ve got an exclusive lockdown set from the amazing drummer Eilis Frawley this Saturday.
Viewers are encouraged to make a donation to the charity if they can afford to do so.
Thank you for watching Balcony. Please consider making a donation to The Trussell Trust by clicking here. Find out more about the charity and the excellent work that they do supporting foodbanks around the UK on their website. Approximate Stage Times:
Balcony Online Festival Announces #4 Raising funds for Trussell Trust Saturday May 9, 1-5pm
Following the success of the ongoing Balcony Festival series, we bring you the you Balcony Festival #4. Named in tribute to the Italian musicians who sang from their windows during the early days of lockdown.
This week, May 9 announces the fresh wave of artists expect the beautiful dream-noise pop hue of Hurtling, to the electro industrial sounds of Lara Smiles, while Nadia Sheikh brings a splash of Spanish Indie rock of a quirky variety. Plus the infectious indie-pop sound of Foundlings, Nuha Ruby Ra, Keel Her, Berries, DSM IV and more to be announced.
The festival has been set-up by a collaboration of online outlets and promoters to raise funds for various charities over lockdown and is the perfect antidote to lockdown, giving gig-goers an opportunity to discover the latest in up and coming music talent. The festival series which saw exclusive sessions recorded by artists in lockdown has so far raised more than £3,500 for NHS Charities Together, Musicians Against Homelessness and Refuge.
May 9 will see raising funds for The Trussell Trust, who support over 1,200 food bank centres across the UK providing emergency food and support to people who are locked into poverty, while campaigning for change to end the need for food banks. They provide emergency food to people in crisis and aim to bring together communities to challenge the structural economic issues that lock people into poverty, as they campaign for change.
Balcony Festival is presented by Louise Schofield and brought to you from an association of online magazines and promoters: Joyzine, Louder Than War, GIITTV, LOUD WOMEN, GigSlutz, The Zine UK, Benumu, Crocroland, Sonic Tonic, The Bechedel Sound Test, Quarantini Virtual Bar.
The show will be free to view via this networked collaboration of online blogs who have teamed-up to bring you this online festival – streamed straight to your backyard.
We kick-off with Lara Smiles at 1pm this Saturday, May 9th
Thank you for watching Balcony. Please consider making a donation to Refuge by clicking here. Find out more about the charity and the excellent work that they do supporting victims of domestic abuse on their website. Approximate Stage Times:
So exciting to see Balcony Fest taking off – looking forward to another belter this Saturday!
Following the success of our first two online festivals, which saw exclusive sessions recorded by artists in lockdown raise more than £2,500 for NHS Charities Together and Musicians Against Homelessness, we’re delighted to announce the line-up for our third event which will stream on Joyzine and our partner blogs from 1pm on Saturday 25th April.
This time the festival will be raising money for Refuge, the UK’s largest single provider of specialist accommodation and support to women and children escaping domestic violence and other forms of violence and abuse. The show will be free to view via Joyzine and a number of established independent UK blogs who have collaborated to create this event. Viewers are encouraged to make a donation to the charity if they can afford to do so.
Keep up to date with Balcony news & stage times here.
The Line-Up
LILITH AI on The Loud Women Stage Lilith Ai is a guitarist, who writes and performs poignant tales of modern life. Hailing from nowhere special, Lilith began releasing lo-fi bedroom recordings in 2016. Her first EP RIOT is full of underground anthems popular with Riot grrrls word wide. Her second EP Native Tongue chronicles her teen years, spent living on the streets of Queens New York. 2019 saw the release of 3rd EP Bare Radical with evolving sounds. Lilith’s artfully delivered songs fit somewhere between indie pop and anti-folk. Lilith will be releasing a new song every month in 2020. musicglue.com/lilithai / facebook.com/lilithaimusic / lilithai.bandcamp.com
ALESSI’S ARK on The Gigslutz Stage Alessi’s Ark is a London based musical project by Alessi Laurent-Marke and Jason Santos. Alongside their music, the pair also create carpentry and paintings. musicglue.com/alessisark / facebook.com/Alessisarkmusic
SALVATION JAYNE on The Benumu Stage Having exploded onto the scene in 2017, Salvation Jayne have carved themselves a reputation for their white-hot, hook-laden explosive fuzzy riffs and glossy dream pop undertones. The bands self-released singles have received support from the likes of BBC Introducing, Kerrang Radio, Amazing Radio and dozens more stations in the UK and abroad. salvationjayne.co.uk / facebook.com/salvationjayne
THE SEAMONSTERS on The Bechdel Sound Test Stage An indie pop band from Sheffield, driven by ethereal vocals and 80s inspired synths. Inspired by the likes of Pulp, Altered Images and Orange Juice. musicglue.com/the-seamonsters / facebook.com/TheSeamonsters
BUGEYE on The CroCroLand STage Bugeye are an electrical storm of buzz saw guitar, disco beats and 80s synths – music activist that create tunes laced with hooks and beats to make you dance. They are a regulars on Radio X, Amazing Radio, BBC 6 Music, and stations across the globe. bugeyeband.co.uk / facebook.com/bugeyemusic / bugeye.bandcamp.com
PINEY GIR on The Joyzine Stage Transatlantic pop chameleon Piney Gir released her sixth album, ‘You Are Here’ last year – an intoxicating mix of swirling psych and bitter-sweet dream pop. pineygir.com / facebook.com/pineyg / pineygir.bandcamp.com
THE NOVUS on The Zine UK Stage Art-Punk band – The Novus are their own breed of excitement. The 3 lads, henchmen: Guardians of their own music. Hard hitting drums pave the way for the revolution as they push against the walls with their guitars, making 2 sound like 12 in the smallest of rooms or the greatest of stadiums – creating a wall of encapsulating sound. Fronted by ringleader, Connor, who has the ability to to captivate any audience, forcing them to explode with his infectious energy. When he isn’t jumping round like a maniac he’s holding his haunting gaze over the crowd, almost indoctrinating them, spitting his lyrics like the gospel. facebook.com/thenovusband / thenovus.co.uk
SHATTERCONES Drawing from the same waters as Hildur Guðnadóttir, Nadine Shah, Ennio Morricone, Scott Walker, Tindersticks, Suicide, Philip Glass, Dirty Three and John Coltrane, the band bring a unique and occasionally unhinged presence to any venue. facebook.com/shattercones / shattercones.com
LITTLE BIG NOISE Nick Torry was born and bred in South-East London. He has been part of the New Cross based punk scene since his early teens, playing drums in ska punk outfit Colonel Mustard and guitars in the melodic hardcore band Junior Asthma Club. On moving to Manchester in 2005 he embarked on this exciting acoustic solo project, which attempts to fuse the best bits of his eclectic plethora of musical influences. He was joined at the beginning of 2008 by a small group of accompanying musicians to play some top shows around the Manchester scene but has now carried his Little Big Noise back to London where he is at present running solo. facebook.com/LittleBigNoise / littlebignoise.bandcamp.com
Following the success of our first two online festivals, which saw exclusive sessions recorded by artists in lockdown raise more than £2,500 for NHS Charities Together and Musicians Against Homelessness, we’re delighted to announce the line-up for our third event which will stream on Joyzine and our partner blogs from 1pm on Saturday 25th April.
This time the festival will be raising money for Refuge, the UK’s largest single provider of specialist accommodation and support to women and children escaping domestic violence and other forms of violence and abuse. The show will be free to view via Joyzine and a number of established independent UK blogs who have collaborated to create this event. Viewers are encouraged to make a donation to the charity if they can afford to do so.
Named for the Italian musicians who sang from their windows during the early days of the lockdown, Balcony will…
Balcony is an online music festival in aid of NHS Charities Together, supporting nhs.uk staff and volunteers caring for COVID-19 patients. The show will be free to view via a number of established independent UK blogs who have collaborated to create this event. Viewers are encouraged to make a donation to the charity if they can afford to do so. You can donate on this link:
Missing live music? Timeline full of dudes playing RHCP covers in their mum’s kitchen? We got ya back.
LOUD WOMEN online gigs start tonight, 9.30pm, with Helen McCookerybook, and continue tomorrow with MIRI, as part of the Balcony Festival, in aid of Musicians Against Homelessness.
Helen McCookerybook is hugely inspiring singer-songwriter – formerly of English psychedelia-punk band The Chefs, these days playing regularly across the land as a solo artist.
Catch Helen on the LOUD WOMEN Facebook page (NB, the page, not one of the groups … yeah yeah, it confuses all of us, you’re right!) This link here, anyway:
Then Saturday afternoon, LOUD WOMEN is honoured to be hosting a virtual stage on the awesome Balcony Festival – MIRI will be performing at the festival, which will be raising money for Musicians Against Homelessness, teaming up with our bloggy friends at Joyzine, Louderthanwar, God is in the TV, Cro Cro Land, TheZineUK and more.
