Turns out Mr McCulloch will be making a guest appearance tomorrow night...
Corsa presents Bandstand rolls into Liverpool this weekend. Mark Ronson and The Version Players headline the party – in what could be one of the last opportunities to catch this emerging global megastar play such an intimate gig. To make Saturday night even more special, it’s just been announced that music legend Ian McCulloch, lead singer of Echo and The Bunnymen and one of Liverpool’s favourite sons will be performing live with Mark Ronson. This is a one-off unique collaboration and could well be one of this summer’s festival moments!
Ian McCulloch comments: “I am really looking forward to performing with Mark Ronson - I love the way he works, and he seems a cool dude. It's a pity, with a name like that, we're not doing a cover of ‘Light My Fire’.”
Grammy and Brits winner, Mark Ronson’s top billing at Bandstand is a unique opportunity to experience not only Ronson’s critically acclaimed live show but also his lauded DJing skills. Although Ronson is London born, his Mum is from Southport in Merseyside, and with aunties, uncles and cousins in the area, Liverpool is a city very close to his heart. It promises to be a very special night.
Joining Ronson at the Bandstand will be the main man, Mr Bandstand himself Rob da Bank, The Cuban Brothers, who have been a fun element of Sunday Best’s events for the last ten years, and Sunday Best’s resident DJ’s Sombrero Sound System.
The Bandstand party will transform the Carling Academy in Liverpool. The European Capital of Culture will party to the sounds of DJ Kissy Sell Out, and live sets from Liverpool’s very own hotly tipped newcomers The Troubadours and Sunday Best’s teenage rockabilly siblings Kitty, Daisy and Lewis. Bandstand is set to reverberate to one of the first festival soundtracks around.
Rob’s better half, Josie da Bank is the creative director of Bandstand and she brings the same extraordinary level of production ingenuity and attention to detail that has made Bestival so special. The venue is to be transformed in the most unbelievable of ways to help make Bandstand a totally unique experience. In the Bandstand main stage arena, live acts and DJs perform in a traditional Bandstand setting surrounded by park benches, eccentric look-a-likes and paths leading off to different areas. Bandstand is bringing the outdoor experience indoors, so expect the unexpected. In the Time Machine Disco, a small and intimate party space with a DJ booth created from a time machine, DJs will make unannounced appearances, transporting you with nostalgic tunes. This is a room to keep your eye on, you never know what you may miss, what you may hear and who might pop in!
Corsa presents Bandstand steered by Sunday Best is an eccentric, eclectic indoor festival, with much dressing up and letting down of hair. Centred around the sound and imagination of Sunday Best, one of the UK’s leading independent record labels and party organisers, Bandstand is truly individual, totally different and a celebration of British musical exuberance and fun the weather can’t spoil.
Rob da Bank comments: “Liverpool seemed the obvious choice to throw our other Bandstand party of 2008 – I’ve spent many a night living it up at Liverpool bashes from Cream and Creamfields to Chibuku and Magnet to seeing bands at the Academy. Throw in the fact that Liverpool is also a European Capital of Culture in 2008 and I’d have been daft to have done it elsewhere. Bring it on!”
Mark Ronson comments: “I’m honoured to be asked to do the first ever Bandstand shows. I am a huge fan of all things Rob da Bank and Sunday Best, and if this indoor festival is a fraction as good as Bestival, it should be amazing."
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