6 – 2017 Archive

2017 Theme and Activities

So like every great festival we have come up with a theme and would love you to dress up on the Saturday night.

Be as creative as you like!

As Up in the Clouds is on wooded sand dunes, surrounded by wildlife and magic, cover yourself in fairy dust and turn yourself into a:

Mythical Woodland Creature

Things to do

Yoga at Up in the Clouds…

Steph is a registered Hatha yoga teacher based in Bristol, with over 300 hours of training and 3 years of teaching experience, and a particular interest in mindful yoga for stress and anxiety. She aims to make yoga accessible to all, regardless of your perceived ‘ability’. The emphasis will be on releasing tension rather than forcing yourself into a prescribed shape. So whether you’re a seasoned yogi or simply yoga-curious, come and explore the joy of therapeutic movement and breath to enhance your festival experience!

Fri & Sat (10am)

Uplifting Hatha Flow

Get the festival off to a good start with an energising, warming sequence. Explore your strength, flexibility, and balance. Forget about the ‘perfect’ pose, get to know what feels right for you and simply enjoy moving on your mat.

Sunday (11am)

Unhurried Yin / Restorative yoga

Our Sunday session will focus on returning the nervous system to its natural state of rest and relaxation. Release common areas of tension such as the neck, jaw and shoulders, and allow space for your breath and mind to settle. Restore physical, emotional and mental wellbeing and nurture a deep inner peace.

Yoga essentials:
Please pack your yoga mat if you have one. There will be some available to borrow, along with blankets, belts and blocks. Wear warm layers too!

For more information see www.stephcheesmanyoga.co.uk

Drag Queen Workshop

Yes you read that right, get your high heels on and your best singing voice and learn how to strut your stuff, Drag style.

Marcia D’Arc, will show you how to dress and how to sing like never before!

This will be fun for all the family and there will be a selection of dress and wigs for people to transform themselves. Of course, if  you do have your very own drag queen dress please feel free to bring it along!

Kids Workshop and Story Telling

Xeena and Jenny will also be designing and delivering the Children’s Work and Play workshops at the festival. If you’ve got tiddlers (big and small) make sure you find them. You can make masks to transform yourself into a Mythical Woodland Creature, make a banner for a procession through the woods, find a new world behind your own Fairy Doors and much more at Up in the Clouds Festival!

Up in the Clouds kid’s workshop will be on Saturday from 10am till 12:30pm, so you can relax for a bit whilst they are busy creating magical things.

Friday evening we will also be telling bedtime stories; either by the pirate ship around an open fire or in one of our magical yurts – all depending on the weather.

Xeena Cooper

I am an illustrator, printmaker and an experienced community  arts project leader.

 I utilise the arts to bring communities together; working with schools, families, young people and elders. I also run workshops within health and therapeutic settings as well as at festivals and community events.

You can see some of the amazing work that I have helped people to create over the past seven years by visiting the ‘Workshops’ section of this website.

I also have experience in consulting with groups and designing projects to suit people’s needs as well as fundraising for specific projects.

http://www.xeenacooper.co.uk/

Thanks to Xeena we have our amazing logo:

Watch this space as more activities get announced…

2017 Bands

Here at Up in the Clouds head quarters we are working hard to get the best bands. Up in the clouds is for everyone so our music will be eclectic; sometimes chilled, sometimes rocking  and plenty to get you on your feet and dancing.

Derdniks

We are really excited to have these guys rockin’ up our evening with their swinging grooves that will have you singing as well as dancing.

‘Four slick hepcats gammin straight outta the west with the swinginest rocknrollinest righteous riffs a Jumpin’ Jack or Jill can jive to. No jibber jabber here, just straight up ice cold jams!’

https://www.facebook.com/derdniks/?fref=ts

BeatDen

This band will have you on your feet and jumping with their funk, soul and hip hop beats: you won’t be able to stop yourself!

The ‘BeatDen band’ formed in November 2011. Their diverse background has led to them dabbling in many forms of music such as poetry, reggae, hip hop, soul, funk and many others, as well as the members of BeatDen playing extensively around Bristol and the south west.

The heart of the band derives from Oisin RS, a multi-instrumentalist who’s background has been heavily influenced by the likes of dub, reggae and funk, also Vgo a Hip Hop poet who brings his conjuration of internal rhythms, spilling over from performances onto unsuspecting audiences!

BeatDen brings a new angle of sound and creativity with positivity at the centre of it, resulting in a show that will keep you hooked from start to finish.

https://www.facebook.com/BeatDenMusic/?fref=ts

War Against Sleep

So happy to announce that War Against Sleep will be playing and its hard to explain what its all about but just read the write up below.

War Against Sleep: “Duncan Fleming is a genius of a songwriter walking a razor sharp tightrope between deranged humour and classic pop music. War Against Sleep is his ongoing battle against the absurd waking dream that passes for life, in which he plunders the hidden treasures of a thousand charity shop records, writing songs that tingle the spine, move the soul and lift the spirit.

“Sexy psychedelia” NME

“Gloriously ridiculous stuff” The Wire

“Classic songwriting” Record Collector

“He performs complete wonders” The Big Issue

Free album downloads from: www.waragainstsleep.co.uk

FFI: https://www.facebook.com/warVsleep/

The Twelve Hour Foundation

The Twelve Hour Foundation is a Bristol-based duo: Polly Hulse (analogue synth/rhythms) and Jez Butler (analogue synth/concrète sequences). Using found sounds and vintage analogue synths, they create a largely upbeat sound, reminiscent of – amongst others – the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Raymond Scott and the electronic side of ‘60s / ’70s library music

Their first album The Lighter Side of Concrete received great reviews and airplay by the likes of Stuart Maconie (The Freak Zone) and Pete Wiggs (The Séance / Saint Etienne), Belbury Parish Magazine (Ghost Box Records) and the Project Moonbase podcast. It also featured as a Ghost Box ‘guest’ release.

Having created jingles for Project Moonbase and Glasgow’s pop-up art station Radiophrenia, The Twelve Hour Foundation released Macaroni Cheese – a Paddy Kingsland inspired 7″ EP –  in 2015.

Live shows have included Supernormal Festival 2015, The Delaware Road, Reading, slots with Go Kart Mozart, Happy Meals and The Lovely Eggs,  in addition to a tour of Scotland supporting screenings of the film Dummy Jim, to which the band contributed incidental music.

http://www.twelvehourfoundation.co.uk/

Will Newsome

Will Newsome is a kora playing, boat dwelling, rainbow snatching musician from Bristol. The kora is an ancient West African harp with 21 strings. Will’s done some study in West Africa but he doesn’t play traditional songs, focusing instead on creating music with a range of influences and an eclectic mix of rhythms, melodies and harmonies.

Ian Anderson of fRoots magazine writes of him: “We are mesmerised. He launches into song, a meandering and unconventional structure pushed along by cascades of kora notes and an attractive voice that sits in style somewhere between Robin Williamson and Nancy Wallace.”

 

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/willnewsome

Website :       http://somenewwill.blogspot.com
Twitter:           @somenewwill

Facebook:     http://facebook.com/somenewwill

http://facebook.com/somenewwill

The Woodlice

play folk pop in the wood rot.

Jet McDonald lead vocalist and songwriter with The Woodlice emerged from the Cleaner Collective of folkish Bristol musicians that included Kate Stables (This is the Kit Brassland),  Rozi Plain (Fence) and Rachael Dadd (Broken Music).  Jet and the band have toured nationally including The Home Game and End of the Road festival and had airtime on BBC 6 Music Gideon Coe and Tom Robinson. They are now part of Bristol “Undergrowth” collective alongside “Snails” (Jarvis Cocker and Pastels favourites) and “Andy Skellam” (This is the Kit support)

www.thewoodlice.com

WADE and CRAIG

UK House and Techno Producer Wade Bennett is fast becoming a face of the Uk underground dance music scene.

A sound described as ambient dub techno with influences of progressive, tech house, tribal and minimal.

Gaining international support from some of his favorite Artists and Peers. Wade’s productions have also received accolades from some of the biggest names In the dance music industry including the likes of Martin Gore of Depeche Mode, Sasha, Hernan Cattaneo, Laurent Garnier, Nick Warren, Dubfire, Guy J , Stephan Bodzin, Dave seaman, Marco V, sander van Doorn, Oliver Klein, Bookashade, Steve Mac, Alan Fitzpatrick. Cid inc. among many others.

Wade is currently working on his first solo album & gesturally interactive audio visual live set, Accompanied by numerous creative collaborations with various session musicians up and coming electronic Artists and labels from the world over.

Paul Andrews 

London based vocalist and dreamer, Paul Andrews, will be bringing his latest project to ‘Up in the Clouds’, with fellow DIVEBELL band member Glenn Harvey. We expect to hear a set of atmospheric songs full of ethereal, electronic soundscapes woven with Paul’s looping vocals.  Make sure you catch their unique sound.  

“With ethereal landscapes, driving beats and haunting vocals, Divebell are like listening to a soundtrack of a life well lived.”
UK Indie Touring

Calista & Brendan Wedding

https://soundcloud.com/paulandrews1979

2017 Food and Drink

Here at Up in the Clouds we thought that during the festival you might be a little hungry.

And then we thought: ‘Well it’s a festival and cooking can be a lot of hassle!’

So we are excited to announce that Two Trees Catering are going to be serving up some culinary delights.

Two Trees Catering are veggie and vegan caterers based just south of Bristol. They’ve cooked in various different settings; from festivals to community events to protest camps in fields to private events with 4 course dinners, and enjoy regional, seasonal, and foraged ingredients, and delicious home cooking.

They’ve also authored a cookbook, now on its 3rd edition (‘Another Dinner is Possible’ http://amzn.to/2jmuGho and available in its 3rd edition (now hardback) at http://www.activedistributionshop.org/shop/books/4098-another-dinner-is-possible-hardback-version.html).

They’ll be offering snacks, hot drinks, soft drinks, full meals and little bites throughout. 

Breakfast will include cooked breakfasts, smoothies, crumpets, or granola with fruit and yoghurt.

Lunches will vary daily with soups and salads, a wrap or a tapas plate, plus for example aubergine and mango soba noodles served with spring roll and slaw, or burrito with beans, brown rice, guacamole and salsa served with nachos and salad.

The dinner menu will include bangers, mash and cider sauce served with red cabbage casserole and broccoli, or Smoky aubergine and chickpea curry served with dal, brown rice, nan or chapati, pickles and raita.

There’ll be gluten free and many vegan options.

Sample prices: £6 for full cooked breakfast, £4 for soup and a roll, £3.50 for a salad plate, and £5 for a veggie burger and salad to £8 for a full meal.