Bingley Music Live 2013 Preview

England is littered with music festivals every summer (QRO U.K. Festival Guide), but bang for your buck, you can’t do much better than West Yorkshire’s Bingley Music Live, happening Friday to Sunday, August 30th to September 1st:

FRIDAY, AUGUST 30th

Mainstage The Human League “Don’t / Don’t you want me?” With those words Sheffield’s Human League shot to the top of the charts & the New Wave scene in the early eighties. And yes, you still want Philip Oakley & The League.

The Neville Staples Band Skank it up with Neville Staples, singer from the legendary two-tone Specials, who comes to Bingley Music Live with his own band.

Kat Men Stray Cats drummer Slim Jim Phantom teamed up with Imelda May (QRO photos at a festival) guitarist Darrel Higham to form the rockabilly Kat Men, who released their second record, The Kat Men Cometh, earlier this year.

Nina Nesbitt Just back in April, Nina Nesbitt broke through with her single “Stay Awake” – so catch her at Bingley while you can!

Frankie & The Heartstrings Sunderland’s Frankie & The Heartstrings (QRO photos at a festival) charted in 2011 in the U.K. with debut Hunger – and this year hit #1 at home with The Days Run Away.

Second Stage The Dunwells Joseph & David Dunwell lead Leeds’ folk-rock outfit, The Dunwells (QRO photos at a festival).

Dave McPherson While he plies alternative metal fronting InMe, solo Dave McPherson goes towards the folk.

Also: The Dirty Rivers Warme Small Words

SATURDAY, AUGUST 31st

Mainstage Primal Scream It’s going on thirty years now for Glasgow’s Primal Scream (QRO photos). After Bobby Gillespie left his drumming duties in The Jesus & Mary Chain to take up lead vocals full-time in Primal Scream, the band helped build the British indie-pop scene in the eighties, before breaking through to the mainstream with 1991’s Screamadelica. They come to Bingley Music Live behind this year’s new More Light.

The Fratellis Scotland’s Fratellis broke through with 2006 debut Costello Music and 2008 follow-up Here We Stand, before taking a break up until last year’s reunion/end of hiatus. October will see the release of We Need Medicine, so expect new songs to go with the old at Bingley.

Tinchy Stryder Kwasi Danquah III wears many hats, including A&R man, CEO of Takeover Roc Nation, and performer – as Tinchy Stryder.

Wilko Johnson Wilko Johnson crafted an impressive legacy as guitarist for the seventies blues outfit Dr. Feelgood – and has just kept on going. Unfortunately, that comes to an end as a recent diagnosis of terminal cancer has forced Johnson to stop playing live – Bingley will be the last ever performance by Wilko Johnson.

Summer Camp Though they hail from England, Summer Camp (QRO photos at an English festival) channel the eighties of a suburb of Los Angeles on this year’s self-titled release, their follow-up to 2011’s strong Welcome to Condale (QRO review).

Also: The Virginmarys Loveable Rogues The Temperance Movement Down Radio

Second Stage Chris Helme After the demise of The Seahorses (with The Stone Roses’ John Squire), Chris Helme abandoned rock and returned to his folk roots, most recently with last year’s solo album The Rookery.

The Electric Swing Circus Combining today’s love of the electric with nineties swing, The Electric Swing Circus come to Bingley behind their self-titled debut, which they released earlier this year thanks to a CrowdFunder online campaign.

Also: The Struts The Lake Poets Natasha Haws Blackbeard’s Tea Party By Toutatis Jade Helliwell

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st

Mainstage Chic featuring Nile Rodgers Nile Rodgers formed Chic back in the disco heyday of the seventies, and had such discoball classics “Le Freak”. And as disco has seriously come back around – Rodger recently contributed to Daft Punk’s mammoth Random Access Memories (QRO review) – so has Chic featuring Nile Rodgers (QRO photos at a festival).

The Cribs Come play the expectations game with The Cribs (QRO live review)! Brothers Gary, Ryan, and Ross Jarman got notice in their native U.K. early on with songs like “Hey Scenesters!”, but it was their team-up with Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth (QRO live review) on 2007’s Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever (QRO review) that got them attention stateside – even if it wasn’t a great album. Then they recruited none other than Johnny Marr (QRO live review with Marr) of The Smiths – stealing from his gig in Modest Mouse (QRO album review) – for 2009’s Ignore the Ignorant (QRO review), which was a better record, but still not up to the quality of their latest legendary collaborator. 2011 saw the band – now back just to the brothers Jarman – improve once again with In the Belly of the Brazen Bull (QRO review), and this year they’ve released their first greatest hits collection, Payola. So look for all sides of The Cribs (QRO live review in U.K.) at Bingley.

Katy B After getting a slew of nominations but no wins in 2011, burgeoning electro-pop star Katy B finally racked up a W last year at the NME Awards with ‘Best Dancefloor Anthem’, “Broken Record”.

The Wonderstuff From out in the Black Country of the West Midlands comes alt-rock outfit The Wonderstuff.

Also: Theme Park China Rats – QRO photos at a festival Sons and Lovers St Somebody

Second Stage Lucy Spraggan Though she had to leave X Factor early due to illness, Lucy Spraggan has bounced back, signing with Columbia and putting out Join the Club in October.

Also: JJ Rosa Rose & The Howling North Man Can’t Fly Holy Moly & The Crackers Dolomite Minor Born Thief Issimo