Over two days in January Icebreaker turns existing venues, situated along the thoroughfares of Elm Grove and Albert Road, into stages offering the freshest in new and unsigned music. It's a model used to great effect by both The Great Escape and the fondly remembered Southsea Fest and, since its inception, Icebreaker successfully applied it to become the South's largest unsigned metropolitan music festival.
In preparation for their next shindig the folks at Icebreaker Towers have been seeding their social media feeds with stage line-ups for next year's festival. The list is, obviously, reassuringly long so, in no particular order here are the acts playing Icebreaker 2019 [deep breath]...
Dutch Criminal Record, Radlouse, Tirana, Syrette, Total State Machine, Arid Wave, Tides, Fake Empire, Ciircus Street, Hallan, Thieves By The Code, Octopus, Sad Palace, Luna Blue, Foxer, The Wild Claims, Alexis Kings, Captain Trips, Wild Front, You're Smiling Now But We'll All Turn Into Demons, Number 9, HAEMA, Violet Mud, Alice Milburn Band, Heir of the Dog, Fugitive Orchestra, The Machete, Slick Minded Individuals, Crybaby Special, Prey Drive, The Collision, Brother Deep, The Purple Smoke, Hang Dai, Something Leather, Joe Burger, The Sweetchunks Band, Frankie Knight, Victus, Anthropophagite, The Dead Reds, Alexander McKay, Seething Akira, Me & The Moon, Hooli, Southerlies, Madeline, Bella Estelle, Horseflies, Heebie Jeebies, Toreador, The Day Of The Rabblement, Bearfist, The Diamond Age, Romances, Winchester, Broken Links, Deuxes, Sam Wilde, Pleasure Complex, Tokyo Taboo, Hometown Show, Yeehaa Granma, Georgia Fearn, Katy Hurt, Mischa & His Merry Men, Ellis Hudson, Matt English, Ryan McMurtry, Mystic Hipniks Picnic, Tom Pointer, Freja Frances, Sal Paradise, Djuno, The Bayonettes, Brutum Fulmen, Pure Assassins, JEPH, Sweetmates, The Hideaways, Light Brigade, 12 Hour Avenue, Our Propaganda, Hanowar, (Not) Queens of the Stone Age, Stray Bullets, Cybernetic Witch Cult, Harbinger, Ravenbreed, King Abyss, Bleed Again, Bad Llama, Escape December, Costellos, Calum Lintott, Girls With No Faces, Cora Pearl, Currls, Sweet Facility, Gloo, Curbwire, Igloo, These Septic Stars, Aren Drift, Marmalade Moonshine, Bird Shoes, Lobster Pot, Submariner, Minque, Persona, The Vitrines, Finding Kate, Percival Elliott, El Morgan & The Divers, Principal Partners, Make Them All Smile, Mystic Peach, Dad Hair, Burning House, Drusila, Manreads, SKiNNY MiLK, Scrubs, Lucid Rising, The Burning Trestle, Jackarack (DJ), CLT DRP, Birthday Card, Cassinii, Bel Esprit, Counterpoint, FLOWVERS, Sarpa Salpa, Lily Garland, Brother Zulu, The Ruffs, Skull Above The Cannon, Eyre Llew, Capital Fuzz, The FreeDub Press and Shoot The Duke
...all of whom will be playing stages, some of which are curated by the likes of BBC Introducing Solent, Taro Records, Mayfield Studios and Express FM's The Shout, across a variety of venues (some of which are 14+ friendly for the younger music lover).
Icebreaker 2019 takes place on Friday 25th and Saturday 26th January 2019, with both day and weekend tickets available online via Seetickets or, if you prefer a proper physical ticket, from The Wedgewood Rooms box office. And after all that I think that I really must get myself a ticket...
