Live Music
“Live performance is where its now at, and entertainment. Bands used to go on tour to sell albums, now they sell albums to go on tour”.
As a member of the music loving public, free downloads and YouTube let you experience the acts you're going to choose to spend your hard earned cash on, and although albums and singles do still sell, mostly they're used to cover costs and expose an act to the world at large.
The excitement of live performance cannot be re-created electronically, from the moment you know you want to go to the gig, receiving the ticket, the journey there and back with like-minded people – the whole thing is a true experience.
You'll see ample evidence of all this in the many great live performances, from mostly local bands, on the stages and in the pubs throughout this weekend, proving the will to make good music, and support it, is alive and kicking in Faversham. Whether its well established acts like Stormy Monday, Get Carter, Hullabaloo, Cradle, Ivan's All-Stars, The Very Wonderful Long Teddies, Jam Sandwich or The Crossfire (to name a few), or relative newcomers including the innovative and highly entertaining Green Diesel, Underworld Heroes, I.R.I.S., Radlers, The Gang or Creek (again to name but a few), you are assured of top quality, live entertainment.
Click me for the Preston Street Masterbrew Stage ...
Click me for the Market Place Spitfire Stage ...
Click me for the Court Street Shepherd Neame Brewery Stage ...
Click me for the Fringe and listings from the pubs ...
Faversham as a town boasts some of the best music quizzes around thanks to a local resident whose career had him putting together top compilations for big record labels (click here for getsounds Music Quizzes on Facebook). Equipment for the stages in the town is provided by E-Street music (click for link), a local business with international reach and both a music school and new studio in East Street, and we have a professional recording studio in Doddington (click for SoundArt), a village just outside Faversham, with another run by guitarist Bernie Torme just up the road (click for Bernie's Barnroom Studio). You'll not need to dig deep to find residents with DJ careers that put them on the map. A rather famous sound engineer lives in town who put together one of the first ever live stereo stages in the world, and with specialist instrument maker and repairer Andy Perkins we've just about everything we need. Record producers, early rave party organisers, top sound engineers, the famous Faversham Folk Club and the Faversham Music Club (established in 1946) - all here.
Make sure you pop onto the Hop Festival web site regularly throughout the year and keep up with what's going on – we'd love you to come back, visit us and be part of the action.
STOP PRESS !! The ever popular mOare Music Festival, happening next weekend (Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September) has a few tickets left - if you'd like to go, pop down The Anchor Inn whilst visiting this weekend and secure yourself a ticket ...
