Happy Mondays star Bez to headline new indie music festival coming to Plymouth

Bez of the Happy Mondays performing at a festival in 2019
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Happy Mondays favourite Bez and rising stars The K’s will headline a new indie music festival coming to Plymouth this spring. Organisers say the first Sound Factory Festival will also shine a light on the city's music talent.

The daytime event at The Depo is being staged by city promoters Sound Factory. The line-up will also feature the likes of Cornish group The Velvet Hands, who recently sold out London's Omeara venue, festival favourites The Lilacs, The Crooks, The Entitled Sons and Lissy Taylor, who recently supported Miles Kane.

Plymouth’s own Fletcher Clift and The Rhodes are also on the bill along with Exeter indie-rock group Haytor and Falmouth’s COSM.

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John Cornfield, associate director of Sound Factory and a music producer who has worked on albums with the likes of Oasis, Stone Roses, The Verve and Supergrass said: “It’s great to see so many established and up and coming bands from across the country come to Plymouth for Sound Factory Festival. It’s shining a light on talent we have down here too which is sometimes overlooked."

Bez led the party from the front as part of the Happy Mondays, who came to define the "Madchester" movement. The festival will see him performing his much-loved rubber-limbed moves accompanied by DJ Arlo.

Rising stars The K's will arrive in Plymouth fresh from a UK tour that included headlining This Feeling By The Sea festival and the main stages at Reading and Leeds festivals as well as an appearance at Glastonbury. Their debut album I Wonder If the World Knows? reached number three in the UK album chart and its follow up Pretty On the Internet is set for release in June.

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The Depo owner Ryan Platts said: “I’m very happy that The Depo is hosting a day like this, giving a broader reach to what we already do for the culture in Plymouth. Hosting live music and bands such as these really progresses the music scene in our city.

"With such a legend of a DJ and a line up like this, it looks to be really, really exciting. Everyone at the club is very much looking forward to the first Sound Factory Festival.”

Sound Factory also delivers workshops, lessons and interventions across schools in Plymouth, with the aim of providing opportunities and skills for aspiring musicians and young people across the South West.

Sound Factory Festival will take place at The Depo on March 8. Early bird tickets are £32.40 and £29.16 for a student ticket. Find out more and buy online here.

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