The Waterboys set to head festival line-up


Folk rock stars The Waterboys will be one of the headline acts at this year’s Looe Music Festival, the event’s organisers have revealed.


The 2018 festival will take place from Friday, September 21, to Sunday, September 23, and The Waterboys will lead the Saturday night roster on the main stage, the festival team say in their first announcements of acts.


‘With iconic singles such as The Whole Of The Moon, Fisherman’s Blues and This Is The Sea, we can’t help thinking they’re in exactly the right place, on Looe beach,’ said a festival spokesman.


More than 9,000 visitors each day help generate an estimated £2.5m of consumer spending to the town during festival week.


Also joining the line-up will be 1970s rock ’n’ roll revisionists The Quireboys, songstress PP Arnold, rock-pop band Interceptors, Berkshire- based singer-songwriter Cecil, Glasgow-based rock singer- songwriter Crawford Mack, folk-


rock stars Sam Kelly and the Lost Boys, and the London African Gospel Choir, who will perform Paul Simon’s Graceland.


Other new names for 2018 include Trad Attack from Tallinn, Estonia; the Joli Blon Cajun Band; blues guitarist and singer John Alexander; roots duo Honey and The Bear; Hannah Sanders and Ben Sav- age; pop eccentric John Otway; blues and American roots musicians Martin Harley and Daniel Kimbro; Welsh indie- rock band Himalayas; singer- songwriter Rhys Lewis; Irish performance poet Stephen James Smith; BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winn-ers The Young Uns; and party purveyors Molotov Jukebox.


Favourites


Looe favourites Oompah Brass and The Normals will be back by popular demand, as will be The Eskies, Mad Dog Mcrea, The Correspondents, Bez of the Happy Mondays with a DJ set, Uncle Frank, Gaz Brookfield and


Folk rock stars The Waterboys are to headline on the Saturday night at the Looe Music Festival


the Company of Thieves, and Wille and the Bandits. Finnish country band Steve ’n’ Seagulls will take to the main stage on the Friday night, marrying folk instruments to AC/DC.


Performers ‘new to Looe’ this year will include Los Pacaminos, featuring Paul Young, Cornish language singer Gwenno, The Viewers, Baka Beyond, Simon James and the Deep River


Pilots, Jill Jackson, Emily Capell, Tokyo Taboo, and Coco and the Butterfields.


For details see www.looe music.co.uk


Festival organisers have announced that The Stranglers will be headlining on the Sunday, and that Isle of Skye band the Peatbog Faeries had also joined the line-up.


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