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Belle and Sebastian

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Reverend and the Makers

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Jessie Reyez

An Evening with Phil Rosenthal – Somebody Feed Phil

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Spear of Destiny

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The Sweet

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Belle and Sebastian

James Bay

Nina Nesbitt

The Doors Alive

The Lancashire Hotpots – Top of the Pots

The Wonder Years

UK Foo Fighters

Absolute Bowie

Deaf Havana

Tedeschi Trucks Band

Rob Auton – The Crowd Show

Happy Mondays

Genesis Visible Touch – 40th Anniversary of The Duke

DMA’s

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Rina Sawayama

GZA

Samantha Fish

Go_A

Russell Dickerson

Neville Staple

Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls

Fleetwood Bac

Maximo Park

Anthrax

Limp Bizkit

Adore Delano – Party Your World Tour

Chris Young

Cloudbusting – Performing the Music of Kate Bush

Fat Freddy’s Drop

JP Saxe

Jimmy Eat World

St Vincent

The Beat

Blood Red Shoes

Dadi Freyr

Meshuggah

Kate Nash

Brian Fallon – and the Howling Weather

The Wandering Hearts

Stereo MC’s

Bad Boy Chiller Crew

Limehouse Lizzy – The Greatest Hits Of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy

Feeder

Metronomy

The Snuts

The Smiths Ltd

Mystery Jets

Steve Ignorant – Steve Ignorant Full Band Performing Crass Songs

James TW

Lewis Watson

Juno Birch – Attack of the Stunning

Madison Beer

Pulled Apart By Horses

The Psychedelic Furs

Everything Everything

The Undertones

Shed Seven

Eric Gales

Jade Bird

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The Fratellis

Will Downing

Angels and Airwaves

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Flyte

Hundred Reasons

Funeral for a Friend

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Jimeoin – Turn It Up

KSI

King King

Evil Blizzard

Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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Funeral for a Friend

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Myles Kennedy

Meshuggah

Libertines

The Lancashire Hotpots

The Southmartins

The Darkness

Electric Six

Pitchshifter

Sink The Pink

We Are Scientists

The Levellers

The Quireboys – A Bit Of What You Fancy 30th Anniversary Tour

The Doors Alive

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Sleaford Mods

Absolute Bowie

UK Foo Fighters

Nathan Dawe

Ezio

Stone Foundation

Arlo Parks

Genesis Visible Touch – 40th Anniversary of The Duke

Wednesday 13

HRVY

Skindred

The Amy Winehouse Experience – A.K.A. Lioness

Cloudbusting – Performing the Music of Kate Bush

Don Broco

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Submotion Orchestra

Bernie Marsden – Here I Go Again

The Virginmarys

Cock Sparrer

Pete & Bas – Lads on Tour

Orla Gartland

The Blow Monkeys

Skipinnish

Belinda Carlisle – The Decades Tour

Fontaines D.C.

Ane Brun

The Magic Numbers

Roger Taylor – Outsider Tour

Psychedelic Furs

Spear of Destiny

Fleetwood Bac

Flyte

Evil Blizzard

Roisin Murphy

The Blockheads

Rak-Su

The Vamps

The Wildhearts

Teenage Fanclub

Arab Strap

You Me At Six

Jimmy Eat World

Larkin Poe

The Cribs

Daniel Sloss – Hubris

Feeder

The Twang

You Me At Six

Secret Affair

Caribou

The Magic Numbers

Headie One – Edna Live – The Tour

Chameleons

Twisted Wheel

Limehouse Lizzy – The Greatest Hits Of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy

Geoff Norcott – I Blame The Parents

Lottery Winners

The Smiths Ltd

Mystery Jets

Soul II Soul

Teenage Fanclub

The Undertones

Samantha Fish

Stiff Little Fingers

Reckless Love

Jamie Webster

Arron Crascall

Ghostpoet

Cloudbusting – Performing the Music of Kate Bush

King King

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Roy Ayers – Ubiquity Tour

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Darcy Oake

Martin Stephenson and The Daintees

The Magic Numbers

Asking Alexandria

The Style Councillors – Cafe Bleu Tour

M Huncho

The Specials Ltd

Celine Dion – Courage – World Tour

Jimmy Eat World

Kesha

The Beat

Eric Gales

Pinked Floyd

65 Days of Static

The Undertones

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Lamb of God

Rak-Su

The Smiths Ltd

The Fratellis

King King

Mystery Jets

Hudson Taylor

Stiff Little Fingers

Cloudbusting – Performing the Music of Kate Bush

Ezio

Hayseed Dixie

The Subways – Young for Eternity

Twin Atlantic

Gabrielle Aplin

Ghetts

Sleater Kinney

Example

Sigala

While She Sleeps

The Springsteen Sessions

Francis Dunnery

Jah Wobble – & The Invaders of the Heart

Big Country

Aslan

Ghetts

Mark Lanegan

The Virginmarys

The Darkness

The Wedding Present

The Lancashire Hotpots

Bjorn Again

Band of Skulls

Midnight Beast

Sigrid

The Doors Alive

Queensryche

Battle Beast – No More Hollywood Endings Tour

The Southmartins

Lewis Capaldi

Sam Fender

Happy Mondays – Happy Mondays Greatest Hits Tour

Jake Bugg

Electric Six

Airbourne

Absolute Bowie

Orla Gartland

Mystery Jets

Billy Bragg – One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Billy Bragg – One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Metronomy

UK Foo Fighters

Dub Pistols

Palace

Loyle Carner

Dragonforce

Of Monsters and Men

Ben Philips – Ben Vs Elliot

Little Simz

Hot Chip

Reverend and the Makers

Martin Kemp – The Ultimate 80’s DJ Set

Bad Manners

Belinda Carlisle – Runaway Horses 30th Anniversary Tour

Zebrahead

New Hope Club

Fetty Wap

Kings X

Bodyposipanda

Paul Gilbert

Boyzlife

The Flaming Lips – Performing: The Soft Bulletin

Skunk Anansie

Hatebreed

Taking Back Sunday

Daniel Sloss – X

Massaoke – At the Musicals

Lower Than Atlantis

Chris Young

Boyce Avenue

Legends of Reggae

The Specials

Tom Walker

The Smiths Ltd

John Power

Dropkick Murphys

Papa Roach

Mott the Hoople – ’74

Fetty Wap

Nina Nesbitt

James TW

The Hunna

Maverick Sabre

Watsky

The Cinematic Orchestra

Cloudbusting – Performing the Music of Kate Bush

Fun Lovin’ Criminals

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Vintage Trouble

Stiff Little Fingers

Bob Mould

The Wailers

Sleaford Mods

Limehouse Lizzy – The Greatest Hits Of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy

Peter Bjorn and John

Blue Oyster Cult

King King

Steel Panther

Steel Panther

Enter Shikari

Rival Sons

Daniel Sloss – X

Francis Dunnery

Slade – It’s Christmas

Bjorn Again

The Lancashire Hotpots

All Saints

The Springsteen Sessions

Uli Jon Roth

The Doors Alive

Cypress Hill

TesseracT

The Virginmarys

The Southmartins

Miles Kane

Hudson Taylor

Anne-Marie – Speak Your Mind Tour

Electric Six

Pitchshifter

Absolute Bowie

Fleetwood Bac

Jessie J – R.O.S.E.

Greta van Fleet

Dashboard Confessional

Michael Schenker

Killing Joke

Teenage Fanclub

Hugh Cornwell – Hugh Cornwell Electric

The London African Gospel Choir – Paul Simon’s Graceland

London African Gospel Choir

Shinedown

Gaz Coombes

Jack Maynard

Saxon

Toots and the Maytals

Daughtry

Glenn Hughes

The Rezillos

Tom Hingley

Tom Grennan

Boyzlife

The Wedding Present

Saara Aalto

Xavier Rudd

Albert Hammond Jr

Janelle Monae

CeeLo Green

George Clinton – & Parliament Funkadelic

Eels

Doug Stanhope

God is an Astronaut

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