New Festival Celebrating Kent’s Music Scene Lands This February
Live music is alive and kicking in East Kent, and to prove this nine Kent based music promoters have clubbed together to create a new live music festival, You Are Here.
You Are Here is a new, wildly eclectic, three-day independent music festival in East Kent. Grassroots music promoters from across East Kent take over every space in the Gulbenkian Arts Centre presenting artists from a huge range of genres. Whether you’re into West African griot mixed with Belgian punk (Avalanche Kaito), flamboyantly absurd disco (Chewy She), hard-hitting post-punk (Shelf Lives) or retro-future electro-shambles (Paddy Steer) you’ll find something exciting here.
Hosted by Gulbenkian Art Centre at the University of Kent, You Are Here is brought to you by Free Range, Smugglers, The Hot Tin, Daylight Music, The Crash of Moons Club, Coastal Electronauts, Deep Listen, The Rockstar Experience & Big Cheese Arts.
One of the organisers, Sam Bailey from Free Range explains: “The unique thing about You Are Here is the collaboration between nine Kent-based promoters and the communities they represent. Grassroots music promoters are improbable magicians, creating joyful communal gatherings at a time when this is both very hard to do and much needed.
Our region has such a diverse cultural life but without a major metropolitan hub our creative scenes often exist in isolation. You Are Here aims to bring these scenes together, joining the dots between the constellations and celebrating the full extent of what we have here in East Kent.”
Friday 27 February
Liam Magill – 6pm, Colyer-Fergusson Hall
Mop Collective – 7pm, Gulbenkian Theatre
Rage Against the Tagine – 8pm, Colyer-Fergusson Hall
Shelf Lives – 9pm, Gulbenkian Theatre
Chewy She – 10pm, Colyer-Fergusson Hall
Saturday 28 February
Youth Stage – 12.30pm, The Platform
Discovery Stage – 3.30pm, The Platform
Deep Listen – 4pm, Colyer-Fergusson Hall
Coastal Electronauts – 5pm, Gulbenkian Theatre
Discovery Stage – 5.30pm, The Platform
Q&A – 7pm, The Platform
Josh Magill – 7pm, Colyer-Fergusson Hall
Paddy Steer – 8pm, Gulbenkian Theatre
Masiba – 9pm, Colyer-Fergusson Hall
TBC – 10pm, Gulbenkian Theatre
Avalanche Kaito – 11pm, Colyer-Fergusson Hall
Sunday 1 March
Daylight Music – 2-4pm, Colyer-Fergusson Hall
The festival runs from Friday 27 February to Sunday 1 March, with tickets available for individual days (£10-£25) or for the full weekend (£40). Tickets from thegulbenkian.co.uk.
