More acts and events added to Sea Change Festival in Totnes over August bank holiday weekend

Also new for the festival which take place in venues across the town on August 25-26 are PIXX ("riveting, cliche-free electropop joy" 5* - The Guardian) to play on Saturday with more live music being announced from Seahawks, Lux Harmonium and Brazen Head.

A series of showings at the restored Totnes Cinema twill include 'Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present' (with Q&A from producer Paul

Williams), Stop Making Sense (!!) and Monterey Pop.

Limited day tickets are on sale now for Fri and Sat

Falmouth based noise merchants Tinned Fruit fought off tough opposition to win a place in the line-up of the prestigious Sea Change Festival.

The 3-piece garage rock/fuzz pop band from Falmouth made up of Dan Ledley (bass and vox), Danny Withers (guitar and vox) and Alex Smith (drums and vox). With a love for Marc Bolan and Ty Segall their songwriting and live shows are energetic, loud and drenched in a thick blanket of fuzz.

They join Temples, Jane Weaver, Julie Byrne, Ryley Walker, Nadia Reid, Blanck Mass, Daniel Brandt, Amber Arcades, Aldous Harding, Trembling Bells and many others at the prestigious festival which takes place in Totnes over the August Bank Holiday weekend on August 25-26.

Bert Jansch’s 1797 ornithology-themed LP, ‘Avocet’, will be celebrated by an exclusive live performance by Trembling Bells and Modern Studies. The Sea Change event coincides with the release by London’s Earth Recordings label of new EP ‘Avocet Revisited’, featuring both Trembling Bells and Modern Studies.

Between them, music writers and journalists Laura Barton and Laura Snapes encompass the likes of The Guardian, Pitchfork, Mojo, Q and NME. At Sea Change they will lead talks and discussions; the former discussing her BBC Radio 4 series, Notes From A Musical Island, in which she travelled all over the country tracking down the music attached to all sorts of landscapes; the latter will share her observations of life as a music obsessive and also chair a panel discussion about feminism and opportunities in music journalism.

Cocteau Twins member and head of Bella Union records, Simon Raymonde and Erased Tapes label founder, Robert Raths, will be at the centre of Q&A sessions celebrating significant milestones - Bella Union turns 20 this year and Erased Tapes is a sprightly ten years old.

Temples, new latest album Volcano, shows a significant broadening of the band’s sound while psychedelically melodic Jane Weaver's new album Modern Kosmology is already being declared as one of 2017s albums of the year and subject of rave reviews. Blanck Mass's engrossing electronic music will be joined by the swooping jingle-jangle of Amber Arcades and gripping vocal chameleon and New Zealand folk artist, Aldous Harding whose recent appearance on Later was a game changer.

Founded by Totnes’s innovative and much loved record shop, Drift Records, Sea Change will find its way into the beautiful Barrel House Ballroom overlooking the High Street and Totnes Castle; the self-proclaimed ‘home of live music in South Devon’, Unit 23; the 1960s Civic Hall; the 17th-century Birdwood House (home of the Babbage family before the birth of computer pioneer Charles); and perhaps most impressively, the 15th-century St Mary’s Church.

The beautifully restored Totnes Cinema (originally the Victorian Temperance Hall) will screen exclusive films and programmes selected by guest curators; DJs will find a spectacular home in the walled garden in the shadow of Totnes Castle.

FESTIVAL INFORMATION

Sea Change Festival, High Street, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5SN. Dates: 25 & 26 August 25-26, 2017.

Tickets: Weekend tickets on sale now at seachangefestival.co.uk or wegottickets.com/seachange or in

person at The Drift Record Shop in Totnes. Weekend tickets are priced at £55 and give access to all

venues and shows.

Children under 12 do not require tickets but do need to be accompanied by an adult at all times.

Further information: seachangefestival.co.uk or Twitter: @driftseachange

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