Lucy Rose

"Lyrics are the bane of my life sometimes"

Chris Wood

“I’m trying to articulate something closer to the truth than the spin we are fed”

The Icicle Works

“I’m proud that I’ve lasted so long and I'm still getting better”

The Wombats

"I don't think any of us knew that Let's Dance to Joy Division would still be the last song of our set seven years on!"

The Picturebooks

"We got lost in the desert and built choppers, went skating, hung out with rad people, or we rode on our bikes."

Scratch Perverts

"It was quite a surprise to find out the dude with a ponytail from Soul Jazz was an animal on the decks!"

Public Image Ltd

"I’m a wide awake kind of fella!"

LoneLady

"I spend a lot of time in my head."

Barrence Whitfield

"I always wanted to emulate James Brown but I didn’t have the footwork going!"

MC Devvo

"If you weren’t MC Devvo, what would you be doing? Probably working down the mines"

Flogging Molly

“It’s great playing small venues or pubs when you can jump down from the stage after and share a drink with people”

DJ Format

"I maybe have about 5,000 records, but that’s just a rough estimate"

Matt Abbott

"Poetry and spoken word is in many ways the same as song lyrics, including rap"

Badly Drawn Boy

"I want everything I do to be relevant in 100 years time like Beethoven and Mozart"

Roni Size

"There were some people along the way who I said no to, which I regret now, like Madonna."

Prawn

"Your beer and food is great. I don’t know; we just love the UK."

Jane Weaver

"I’m used to playing to up to 50 people and then all of a sudden to sell out a headline show!"

Gengahr

“Gengahr is our favourite Pokemon. We didn’t really think it through.”

Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

“Ya Mama was easy... no pun intended. Ha ha!”

Biohazard

"Get off the computer, play the drums and work your balls off!"

Wolfgang Flür

"We had synthesisers which gave up on stage and burnt with a black smoke"

tUnE-yArDs

"What’s interesting to me is music that tells the truth"

You Me At Six

"We’ve learnt how to wind each other up, but also how to look after each other"

Trevor Nelson

"I would say my favourite dance tune is Crystal Waters’ Gypsy Woman"

Tony Visconti

"Heartbreak Hotel stole my heart and I had to learn the guitar after that"

Slamboree

THE festival band

Sleaford Mods

"People that call themselves poets are usually far f*cking from it."

Rudimental

"Nervous? I should have been wearing nappies!"

Huw Stephens

I was in a band called PicNic and I was the rapper. I don't want to talk about it.

Ella Eyre

If it comes from the heart it goes to the heart; that’s what I live by

East India Youth

Django Django

"We tried to keep it upbeat and positive…like a party at a warehouse at 2 in the morning."

Dan Tombs

"It went through several stages, took a few months, and one blown up Amiga!"

Beans on Toast

"I consider myself a drunk with a guitar."

Swervedriver

Classic shoe gaze band coming to NAC soon

DJ Jazzy Jeff

“I have about 70,000 records”

The Skints

"No one likes a band full of dicks."

Therapy?

"I don’t listen to smooth jazz when I read the newspaper; I haven’t mellowed at all!"

The Four Owls

“I see High Focus as a big brain and everyone’s a different part.”

Lower than Atlantis

"We don’t want to slow down; we’d rather speed up!"