Meet The Team

Mak – Founder/Host & Festival Director
Listens to:
Portishead, Cypress Hill, Bob Marley, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Damien Rice, Rage Against the Machine, Pixies, Wu Tang Clan, Pulp, Nirvana, Radiohead, Etta James, Tricky, U Roy, Eek A Mouse
Likes:
Maltesers, Vinyl, and Jack Daniels
Favourite Local Acts/Bands:
Life, Mr Beasley, Fonda 500, endoflevelbaddie ... The Holy Orders, The Talks, The Hubbards, Late Night Fiction, La Bete Blooms, Fire (T.U.F), Paris XY ... too many ace bands about to name all
Favourite Gig:
The Specials (St Austell 1981) Massive Attack & James Brown (V Festival 1999) Damien Rice (Dublin 2006) ... and any Festival with Darren Rogers.
Daniel Mawer – Sesh Booker & Artist Liaison
Listens to:
Pixies, Beach Boys
Likes:
Being antisocial
Favourite Local Acts/Bands:
Oedipus The King, Tom Skelly, Nightflowers
Favourite Gig:
The Cribs, Leeds
Dave Courtney – Venue Landlord
Listens to:
Everything through the unrelenting drone of Tinnitus
Likes:
Guinness & Cynicism
Favourite Local Acts/Bands:
Mother, Fine Young Cannibals
Favourite Gig:
The Dirty Dreamers @ Music Man (2005)
Darren Rogers – Artist & Photographer
Listens to:
The Prodigy, The Libertines, Radiohead, Blur and The Cribs
Likes:
Procrastination, Social mirrors and ferris wheel
Favourite Local Acts/Bands:
Endoflevelbaddie, The Paddingtons, The Hillbilly Troupe
Favourite Gig:
The Prodigy, Leeds Town and Country 1995
Mike Wilkinson – ITSL Head Honcho
Listens to:
Circles, Gentlemans Dub Club, Lucy Rose, Massive Attack, Northlane, Alter Bridge
Likes:
Average Coffee. KFC, Bird Watching and Music
Favourite Local Acts/Bands:
Shindigg
Favourite Gig:
Playing the NEC with Headwork, or Playing East Park Rocks with Shindigg
Ry KItching – Graphic Designer
Listens to:
Rock 'N'Roll, 60's Psych and Soul, Britpop
Likes:
Hull City, Designing Stuff, Dogs, Clothes and Beer
Favourite Local Acts/Bands:
The Black Delta Movement, Mother and La Bete Blooms
Favourite Gig:
Rolling Stones @ Glastonbury 2013
Ian Cooper – Web Designer
Listens to:
Rock, Indie, Prog, Goth, New Wave & 80s Synth
Likes:
Music, Art, Film, Photography, Southampton FC, Guinness & Black
Favourite Local Acts/Bands:
Black Delta Movement, Mother, La Bête Blooms, Copenhagen, Fire
Favourite Gig:
Crystal Palace Garden Party 1990 (The Cure, All About Eve, James, Lush), Pink Floyd (Various), Robbie Williams & Kula Shaker (Rivermead Leisure Centre)
Luke Hallett – Photographer
Listens to:
Beastie Boys, Slipknot, Drenge, Green Day, Daft Punk
Likes:
Drums, Cameras, Kevin Smith, Photoshopping Yu-Gi-Oh cards into peoples hands
Favourite Local Acts/Bands:
Audio Subscene, Streaming Lights, La Bête Blooms
Favourite Gig:
Drenge @ Welly, Die Antwoord @ Leeds Fesival 2014
Luke Chambers – Nineties Boy@Sesh Podcast Host
Listens to:
Nineties Boy
Likes:
Nineties Boy
Favourite Local Acts/Bands:
Nineties Boy
Favourite Gig:
Nineties Boy Single Launch @ Fruit
Josh Moore – Podcast Host & Editor
Listens to:
Noah & The Whale, JME, LIFE, Joe Duncan
Likes:
Photography, Making Films, Cameras
Favourite Local Acts/Bands:
LIFE, Joe Duncan, The Hubbards
Favourite Gig:
Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip in Manchester about 6 years ago

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