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Born in Czech Paradise, Eva Eden grew up with a fondness of artefacts from forgotten times, the weird & wonderful world of tall tales & rhymes and she started to make music from an early age. She is at the vanguard of London’s popular music scene, Patrick Wolf’s single ‘Accident and Emergency’ features a cover of her track ‘Underworld’ as a B-side. She’s also taken the stage at London’s Scala, ICA and Luminaire, Tate Britain, Islington Academy and the radio waves, care of Steve Lamacq (Radio One). www.myspace.com/evaeden

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Adam Donen is a young songwriter, folk musician and poet who has drawn flattering comparisons with Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan among others. His debut album, Immortality, was released on the independent Walker & Orfing label on 1st March. It was engineered by Grammy nominated Robert Harder (Brian Eno, Herbie Hancock). “Sounds like Leonard Cohen jamming with Tinderstick down Pete Doherty’s blood-spattered hovel” “Comes with a spiritually informed belief that suggests a British, more literary contemporary to Josh Pearson… the album delivers in spades” – Simon Tyers, The Line of Best Fit http://www.adamdonen.com/ http://www.myspace.com/adamdonen

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Madam is the project of singer/songwriter/producer Sukie Smith, Her abum ‘In Case of Emergency’, out on Reveal Records in 2008, featured cameo appearances from fifteen other musicians including former Rockingbird Sean Reed and received outstanding reviews from the national press. Last year she took the stage of the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Black Box Recorder and this year supported Nancy Elizabeth at the White Chapel Gallery. ‘Sukie Smith, better known as Madam, has a rare ability to combine the smoky, nocturnal atmospherics conjured by PJ Harvey or Portishead or the Velvet Underground with a pop sensibility’ – The Independent, One to Watch http://www.madam.org.uk/ http://www.myspace.com/madammusic

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Vultures started as a discussion that led to a noise making venture which has taken on it's own life and is carrying us with it. The musicians involved come from industrial, jazz, improv, rock, classical, and various goth style backgrounds. We never know where Vultures is going to take us, but we are unbelievably excited to see how various combinations of these influences will manifest themselves into new, exciting sounds with which we hope we can entertain and inspire others to do the same!.. Vultures has been honoured to have a track included on Mrs. Vee Record's latest noise compilation entitled Manifesto. The track is a remix of one or our recordings made at the Tower of Music by Scott Robinson and it features the Tiple playing of Jade Dante, Columbian composer and electronic and traditional music artist. www.myspace.com/justvultures

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Singer songwriter from Chatham Lupen Crook is one of the most exciting artists to have surfaced in the indie-folk scene in the recents years. His music is easy to like but difficult to understand, a mix of mainstream styles, vivid imagination and experimentation. After the success of last summer appearances at festivals such as Latitude, Wireless and Beautiful Days, Lupen will be playing a solo set presenting old and new material from his recently released album 'The Pros & Cons Of eating Out’ (out on 4 October). “... who knows what really lurks behind Lupen Crook utterly compelling” – NME “Medway-based songwriter Lupen Crook is a the stomach for it” – Uncut “... like a more jaundiced Ray Davies as the song travels punctuation... this is original and highly concentrated stuff” – Mojo www.lupencrook.com

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Rude Mechanicals are a Pan-dimensional Creature manifesting itself in your reality as an Absurd Rock/Jazz/Punk Band consisting of Miss Roberts and her symbiotic slaves. If anyone can tell us what type of band we are we would appreciate it - Post Punk Alt Funk Jazz Art Rock...maybe? Dancing, lessons in Toe Sucking, body fluid meditation and other complimentary therapies included. Come, come now to my dark dark dark dark pit of...darkness, and wallow in your decadent moistness.... 'One of the most exciting bands in outsider music. ...a delicous cacophony of trumpets, drums and guitars, led by a screeching singer who looks like Patsy from Absolutely Fabulous as styled by Elizabeth McGrath and sent out to steal childrens souls. Sublime.' Bizarre Magazine - FEB '09 *Rude Mechanicals are going to appear as a trio on this occasion.* www.rudemechanicals.co.uk

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Naevus was formed in London in 1998 by Lloyd James and Joanne Owen. With their first two albums (Truffles of Love in 1999 and Soil in 2001), Naevus found themselves welcomed into the heart of the burgeoning post-industrial scene, while their third album, Behaviour (2002), marked a turning point in the band’s sound and paved the way for the classic albums which followed it (2004’s Perfection is a Process and 2007’s Silent Life). The group’s most recent album, Relatively Close to the Sea, was released by Hau Ruck! In 2008. The group’s sound has been described as “the Wire of the dark folk scene” and “what Swans would sound like if they were English”, but there is much more to the group than this; their distinctive lyrics and modernist approach set Naevus clearly apart from their contemporaries. www.myspace.com/naevus