subject: Music Festival Comes To Morecambe [print this page] ONE OF THE UK'S BEST and most original independent music festivals has teamed up with students from Lancaster and Morecambe College to bring a night full of great live acts to Morecambe this April.
The final year music students from Lancaster and Morecambe College were approached by the organisers of Rough Beats Festival, with an idea to organise a local warm up gig for the festival.
The gig will take place on Friday the 20th April at More Music's Hothouse in Morecambe and includes a sensational line up with acts such as Dark Con of Man, Idol Minds (fresh off the back of a support slot on McFly's UK tour) and Phoenix Down. With tickets priced at just 3 it's guaranteed to be a sell out gig. The gig will also offer music fans the opportunity to buy tickets for the Rough Beats Festival at a discount price.
Rough Beats, an independent music festival founded in 2003 which takes place every year in Clapham, North Yorkshire It hosts a variety of musical styles, ranging from dance and electro, to indie and rock and everything in between. This year's line up for the festival will feature acts such as Gruff Rhys from Super Furry Animals and Azealia Banks.
This is hopefully the first of many collaborations between the Lancaster and Morecambe College music students and Rough Beats Festival. Louis Davy, tutor on the Music Performance and Technology course commented This is the start of a great partnership between the Rough Beats Festival and Lancaster and Morecambe College's Music department we offer a number of opportunities for students to perform live throughout the courses and we are currently speaking to Rough Beats about giving our degree level students a chance to perform at the Festival next year.'
This comes not long after Lancaster and Morecambe College unveiled brand new recording facilities. Performing at the launch of the facilities were talented individuals who study at the college including Phoenix Down who played a selection of covers including Stevie Wonder's Superstition' and The Red Hot Chili Peppers Give it Away'.
Tom Cross, lead singer of Phoenix Down, commented on how useful the new facilities are to the students and how they have contributed to the bands' success;
"The new studio gives us practical experience in a working environment and helps us to better understand, because there's only so much that theory can teach."
