Next Big Thing Profiles

Murphy's Lore are one of the country’s most established independent folk rock bands and have played extensively across the UK and Europe over the last decade. Their material often strays across genres as diverse as folk, rockabilly, country, blues, and ska, but always retains the distinctive Murphy’s Lore feel and sound. Their energetic live performances inevitably produce colourful and highly spirited events that lift their audiences and leave them wanting more.

Dic York is a survivor from the Punk, New Wave, Mod Revival from the early 1980's.  He gave up the 'music business' for over 25 years and returned two years ago to write sing and perform with Sta Prest, in the UK, and The Crysis based in Germany.

He loves playing his own blend of power pop to anyone and everyone.          

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Tiny Hands are an acoustic, percussive, drum heavy, emotive angular folk-y duo from Norwich, with Tim Bolderstone doing guitars and vocals and James Gorman providing the layers of drums and percussive noises. We've been toying with various configurations since initially meeting, rather excellently, through a GCSE music project, but after a long hiatus we seem to have stuck with this direction, and it's allowing us to be more collaborative and creative than ever, with more and more of our own touches and embellishments developing the influences we each brought to the band.

 The Sharps are four 20-year-olds who got together in 2003. Originally from the Norfolk flatlands they’re now based in London. The Sharps combine driving rhythms, raunchy riffs, catchy tunes, melodic harmonies and a dynamic stage act.

The roots of Orchid Fixation were laid in Norwich just hours after Big Ben had rung in the start of 2005.  Having just left his old band, Steve Phipps began writing material for his next project.  Dan Sluckin, a former band mate who had also just found himself band-less, suggested the two of them jam through some of the songs.  After a few rehearsals as a duo, they asked Ian Griffiths to join on bass.  Just as momentum was starting to build though, the band was put on hold as the members moved their sepa

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