Bristol ready for Love Saves The Day
Posted on: 24 May 2017The jewel in the crown of the Bristol summer festival calendar is back this weekend and bigger than ever. Make sure you’re in Eastville Park this weekend or endure months of chronic FOMO.
Though it might be slightly short-sighted to say that ‘love is all you need’ (with food, oxygen and football attesting to the contrary), it is definitely important to join together and celebrate that four-letter word – particularly in times like these.
Orchestrated by Bristol-based party-throwers Team Love, Love Saves The Day is the two-day music festival which boasts a strong cohort of musical names and perpetuates an ethos of inclusivity. While the entertainment is headed up by the likes of Little Dragon and Fat Freddy’s Drop, away from the music you can while away the day in various vehicles of giddy hedonism.
To the musos though, the line-up represents something of a wet dream.
Saturday, as it tends to, sees a glut of soul-infused pop music combined with some quality cuts of deep house. NAO (above), Mura Masa, Crazy P and Fatima Yamaha will play the main stage on Saturday, prior to Swedish headliners Little Dragon. Elsewhere prime examples of electronic music will be served up by a motley crew of quality DJs and producers like Hunee, Bicep, Ricardo Villalobos, Palms Trax and Call Super.
Those hoping for a bit of hush to rest a heavy head will find little respite on the Sunday, with the festival taking its traditional turn towards the jungly, the grimy and the dubby. One of grime’s elder statesmen Kano headlines the Cloud 9 (this time put on by The Blast) ahead of D Double E, and bass-heavy bursts from My Nu Leng and TQD, while Novelist reps it further below BadBadNotGood on Crack Magazine’s Paradiso stint. Local legends Sherwood and Pinch will bring some dubstep to Brouhaha late on, closing out the festival like only they can.
Appearing below Fat Freddy’s Drop on the main stage are poet Kate Tempest (below), boisterous producer Shy FX and hotly-tipped grime upstart AJ Tracey.
For more information and a full line-up, head over to Love Saves The Day's website.
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An ardent Geordie minus the accent, Sam seemingly strove to get as far away from the Toon as possible, as soon as university beckoned. Three undergraduate years at UoB were more than ample time for Bristol (as it inevitably does) to get under his skin, and so here he remains: reporting, as Assistant Editor, on the cultural happenings which so infatuated him with the city. Catch him at sam@365bristol.com.
