THE Winchester district will be home to yet another music festival. Mucky Weekender, a 3,000 capacity event, will be held at Vicarage Farm in Woodmancott later this year after a licensing application being approved by the city council. Curated by Dub Pistols’ frontman Barry Ashworth, this is the festival s second year. It is named after one of Dub Pistols’ biggest selling singles,
Mucky Weekend. The band decided to create and host their own festival in 2019, using it as a way to connect with their fans and showcase both established and new musical artists over the two days. Barry Ashworth said: Everyone’s a star at Mucky Weekender. I’m a strong believer that the crowd are just as important as the performers. Everyone has a smile on their face and are full of love.
Dallas Tamaira’s (
Fat
Freddy’s Drop) rebirth as a solo artist with its
release in the second half of 2020 .
The brand new
single Spider’
represents the peaceful, slower pace of life Tamaira fell in
love with during his confinement at home. Spider’ has
late-night summer vibes, dark guitar and heavy bass
contrasted with large sweeping layers of vocals, all brought
together with soulful piano flourishes. The result is
smooth, lush, low-fi “slow soul”, delivered by arguably
one of the world’s most gifted soul
vocalists.
“The underlying message in the lyrics
is that life can be hard sometimes and that’s ok. For some