Discovery Festival Saturday & Sunday

Performers

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  OMD

  Our new studio album Bauhaus Staircase is out now. http://BauhausStaircase.com

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  Level 42

  Internationally popular Brit-funk quartet best known in the UK for their hits 'Lessons in Love', 'Something About You' and 'The Sun Goes Down (Living It Up)'. Level 42 started life on the Isle Of Wight, Though their membership has fluctuated throughout the years, the original and perhaps best-known lineup consisted of Mark "Thunderthumbs" King (vocals & bass), Mike Lindup (vocals & keyboards) and brothers Boon Gould (guitar) and Phil Gould (drums). After the success of the Running In The Family album, Phil & Boon left the band, citing musical differences & nervous exhaustion as their respective reasons. They were replaced by Gary Husband on drums and former Go West & Kate Bush guitarist, Alan Murphy.
  
  At the end of the 80s, Mark King was recognized as one of the best bass players in the world having pioneered the 'slap and pull' technique, treating the bass as a percussion instrument. His style and virtuosity still are hugely influential, considering he also sang while he played very difficult basslines.
  
  King and Lindup continued under the Level 42 name, picking up new musicians along the way (including Gary Husband and the late Alan Murphy, who passed away after suffering from an AIDS related illness in October 1989) from the late 1980s through to 1994, when Forever Now became their last commercially-released album.
  
  King continued to perform with an new lineup under the Level 42 name until recently. He and Lindup again joined forces in the autumn of 2006 to release their first album in over a decade called Retroglide.

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  Kim Wilde

  2024 - The Kim Wilde European Tour

  France - Belgium - Holland - Sweden - Denmark - Portugal - Slovakia and more...

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  Nik Kershaw

  Nik Kershaw is a singer/songwriter hailing from Bristol, England who was born on March 1st, 1958 Since debuting as a teen idol in the early 80's, he has released eight studio albums and spent more weeks on the singles charts than any other British solo artist of the 1980's.

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  Johnny Hates Jazz

  Johnny Hates Jazz is the British duo of Clark Datchler and Mike Nocito. They rose to international success in the late 1980s with a string of hit singles, including Shattered Dreams, I Don’t Want To Be A Hero, Turn Back The Clock (featuring Kim Wilde on backing vocals), Heart of Gold, and Don’t Say It’s Love. Released in 1987, Shattered Dreams became a worldwide Top 5 hit, reaching No. 2 in both the US and Japan. Their debut album, Turn Back The Clock, topped the UK Albums Chart in 1988, sold more than four million copies worldwide, and achieved triple-platinum status. Shattered Dreams has since been played almost four million times on US radio alone. The band split at the height of their success before reuniting in 2010. Since then, they have released the albums Magnetized (2013) and Wide Awake (2020), along with a 30th Anniversary Edition of Turn Back The Clock in 2018, featuring newly recorded acoustic versions of every track. In 2021, they toured the UK with Level 42, and in 2024 welcomed guitarist Nic Keeble into the band’s live and creative line-up before completing a sold-out world tour. Since reforming, Johnny Hates Jazz have performed extensively around the world. They are currently writing and recording new music for release in Summer 2026 and will be touring throughout 2026. Clark Datchler also writes for Mike + The Mechanics and many others.
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