Trentham Live returns for it's fourth year!

The Trentham Estate are delighted to announce the return and complete line-up to their 4-day event TRENTHAM LIVE taking place at the stunning surroundings at Trentham Gardens in Staffordshire taking place from Thursday 15th August through to Sunday 18th August 2024.

Over the 4 days at the historic gardens and lakeside location will see live music from the likes of Deacon Blue, Lightning Seeds and Hue & Cry performing on the first night of the event on Thursday 15^th August, pop idol Jess Glynne along Sam Tompkins and special guest Brit-nominated DJ/producer Nathan Dawe on Friday 16^th August.  Saturday 17^th August sees influential rock band the Manic Street Preachers headlining the stage with support from Public Service Broadcasting and The Anchoress and to complete the line-up on the final day sees pop legends Busted with support from Dadi Freyr and SOAP on Sunday 18^th August.

Kerrie Pope, Head of Events at Trentham said, “Following on from last year’s successful event, we are really excited about 2024!  It’s an incredible line up we have coming to Trentham consisting of different music genres and we know that people will really enjoy an exciting weekend of live music, fun and feasting in our unique historic setting at affordable prices.  There’s an electric atmosphere at Trentham Live and it’s amazing to see the festival get bigger and bigger each year as friends and families come together to party.  We are delighted to have confirmed the line-up that we starting off with Deacon Blue and to complete the weekend finishing off with Busted to complete the weekend in style”.

Senior Director Alastair Budd added, “ As Visit England’s 5th most visited visitor attraction, Trentham is a must-see venue, not only in Staffordshire and the Midlands, but nationally as well! We can’t wait to welcome thousands more visitors back again in 2024 and we have a range of hotel and transport packages this year to make it easier to do so!”

Tickets for the Trentham Live 2024 taking place this August are available from - https://trentham.co.uk/events/trentham-live/

15th August 

DEACON BLUE

Formed in 1985, thirty-six years after releasing their iconic debut album, Raintown, Deacon Blue, last year released ‘All The Old 45s’ – The Very Best of Deacon Blue together with a career-spanning anthology box set You Can Have It All – The Complete Albums Collection.

The band have always thrived onstage and are very much looking forward to this Summer’s outside events including their performance at The Trentham Estate in August where they look forward to performing their hits including Dignity, Loaded, Wages Day, Real Gone Kid, I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, Your Swaying Arms, Twist & Shout, Your Town, The Hipsters and City Of Love and many more.  Vocalist and songwriter Ricky Ross is raring to go on this celebration of Deacon Blue’s brilliant back catalogue with their loyal fans. “We can’t wait to get on stage at Trentham and play All The Old 45s in such a stunning location”.

It’s a lifetime, yet no time at all, since Deacon Blue first roared their gospel according to hope, work, dignity, and Scottish towns beset with rain. We’re still taking cover under their words. Everything and nothing’s changed. We still need their songs in our cities of love, in our hearts, in our homes, in these hurricane days.

Deacon Blue are Ricky Ross, co-vocalist Lorraine McIntosh, Dougie Vipond (drums), Jim Prime (keyboards), Gregor Philp (guitar) and Lewis Gordon (bass).

LIGHTNING SEEDS

In 1996, Euro ‘96 was set to be the first major football tournament to be held in England since they had won the World Cup on home soil in 1966. The English Football Association asked Ian if he would write a song for the England team. He had the idea of collaborating with two comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner, the hosts of popular TV show Fantasy Football. They then wrote and recorded the song 3 Lions ’96, which became a number one single on two occasions, selling over a million copies in the UK.  Another version of the song, 3 Lions ’98, also topped the chart two years later.

Ian’s Studio is now located in Liverpool on the roof of a warehouse, overlooking the river Mersey, in which he mixed the album “Don’t Forget Who You Are” which he had produced for Miles Kane in 2013. Broudie recently performed a solo concert, which included a collection of his songs and some of his favourite productions, with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Guest vocalists James Skelly, Terry Hall, Ian McCulloch and Miles Kane joined Broudie who was backed by guest musicians Sean Payne, Nick Power, Bill Ryder­ Jones, Martyn Campbell and Riley Broudie.

He is currently writing and recording the first Lightning Seeds album for many years.

HUE & CRY

Brothers Patrick and Gregory Kane formed Hue and Cry in 1984 and the duo made a huge impact with the release of their debut album ‘Seduced and Abandoned’ (1987) which featured their first top ten single ‘Labour of Love’. The follow up album ‘Remote’ continued the trend and produced the huge hits ‘Looking for Linda’ & ‘Violently’. Albums like ‘Stars Crash Down’, ‘Showtime’ and ‘Jazz Not Jazz’ ensured Hue and Cry’s continued successful run through the 90’s, whilst their 2005 appearances as finalists on ITV’s primetime show ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’, featuring their version of Beyonce’s ‘Crazy In Love’, thrust the band firmly back into the mainstream limelight.

A number of successful album releases and accompanying live appearances followed which included ‘Open Soul’ (2008), 'Xmasday' (2009), 'Bitter Suite Again' (2010), ‘Hot Wire’ (2012), ‘Remote: Major to Minor’ (2014), ‘September Songs’ (2015), ‘Pocketful of Stones’ (2017). To date Hue and Cry have sold more than two million records worldwide.

In 2019, Hue and Cry sold out their ‘Summer Nights at the Bandstand’ show at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove park within hours and finished the year by playing live all over the UK. With the global pandemic bringing live touring to a halt during 2020/21, Hue and Cry introduced their pioneering ‘Live from Lockdown’ streaming shows which were broadcast live from the band’s Glasgow based studio and viewed online by thousands of fans around the world. A collection of their favourite tracks from these shows was released as a ‘Best of Lockdown’ album (2022).

Hue and Cry have sold tens of thousands of concert tickets worldwide. As well as performing alongside some of the greatest artists in music history - appearing with U2, James Brown, Madonna, Al Green and Van Morrison to name but a few, the band have undertaken a multitude of their own headline tours and made numerous festival appearances. The band were recognised by their peers when they were presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Scottish Music Awards.

16th August

JESS GLYNNE

Jess Glynne is an English singer and songwriter and the first British female solo artist to have seven number one singles on the UK Singles Chart. She rose to prominence as a featured artist on singles such as ‘Rather Be’ by Clean Bandit, ‘My Love’ by Route 94 and more recently on Rudimental's ‘These Days’ with Macklemore. She was also considered one of the ‘Most Influential People Under 30’ by Forbes magazine in 2019.

 NATHAN DAWE

BRIT-nominated DJ/producer Nathan Dawe is one of the UK’s biggest breakout dance acts of the last five years. Buoyed by a huge fan base in Birmingham and the Midlands, Nathan’s regional transmits nationwide – as evidenced by a series of standout UK Top 10 singles.

From BRIT-nominated UK #3 single ‘Lighter’ ft. KSI to 2022’s UK #9 summer anthem ’21 Reasons’ ft. Ella Henderson, Nathan has established himself as a bonafide and definitive dance artist. Further collaborations with everyone from Little Mix to Anne-Marie to Joel Corry & Ella Henderson on 2023 summer smash, ‘O800 HEAVEN’, also continue to showcase his fluid and versatile approach to music-making.

If that wasn’t enough, Nathan has also earned a host of different accolades over the last three years. In January 2021, he was crowned MTV’s Push Artist for 2021 for example, holding off competition from the likes of Griff, Arlo Parks and Pa Salieu, and was later also made an official ambassador of Aston Villa FC’s Academy – the football team he’s supported since he was a boy.

Nathan also held down his debut residency at Ibiza Rocks in 2021 – he played his third consecutive residency slot this summer – and has appeared at some of the UK’s biggest dance festivals including Creamfields, We Are FSTVL, Pierjam, Bassfest and Boardmasters, as well as a host of bustling club dates across Europe all summer long.

 SAM TOMPKINS

British musician Sam Tompkins stands out with over four million monthly Spotify listeners and a social media following exceeding 2.2 million. In 2023, his career soared with sold-out tours selling out the legendary Hammersmith Apollo (UK) and The Troubador (US), his EP 'Who Do You Pray To?' secured a top 10 spot on the Official UK Charts, and he received a nomination for Rolling Stone UK’s Rising Star Award.

Sam's journey began with YouTube singing videos at age 11, catching the attention of Island Records in 2019. Viral TikTok success, notably with a cover of Bruno Mars' 'Talking To The Moon' in 2021, propelled him to global recognition.

Recognized for his emotive songwriter and cinematic pop style, Sam extends beyond music as a mental health advocate. His latest release, 'Someone Else,' reflects poignant themes. Sam's ability to captivate audiences, combined with his versatility, is evident in singles like 'Lose It All,' a love anthem resonating with a new generation.

Sam's music not only entertains but also serves as a platform to destigmatize mental health discussions. His success and influence extend beyond the music scene, showcasing a talent that connects with diverse audiences worldwide.

17th August

MANIC STREET PREACHERS

Manic Street Preachers are one of the most influential and iconic rock bands to have come out of Wales. Formed in Blackwood they have gone on to release 14 studio albums and have headlined countless festivals including Glastonbury, T in the Park, V Festival and Reading & Leeds. They have won eleven NME Awards, eight Q Awards and four BRIT Awards and were also nominated for the Mercury Prize and the MTV Europe Music Awards.

Their first album ‘Generation Terrorists’ released in February 1992 was a hugely ambitious debut, establishing them as unique artists, combining classic rock riffs with the attitude of pop and punk and lyrically setting themselves head and shoulders above their contemporaries. Throughout the years they have collected fans from all over the world, maturing and changing musically whilst always keeping the classic Manics sound. At their live shows early tracks such as ‘You Love Us’ and ‘Motorcycle Emptiness’ comfortably sit alongside huge chart hits such as the No. 1 single ‘If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next’ and other tracks such as  ‘You Stole The Sun From My Heart’ and ‘Design For Life’ alongside newer songs such as ‘Orwellian’ and ‘The Secret He Had Missed', both taken from their most recent album 'The Ultra Vivid Lament' which reached No. 1 in the UK Album Charts in September 2021.

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING

Public Service Broadcasting have been “teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future” for more than a decade now. 2013’s debut album Inform - Educate - Entertain used archival samples from the British Film Institute as audio-portals to the Battle Of Britain, the summit of Everest and beyond. Two years later, The Race For Space used similar methods to laud the superpowers’ rivalry and heroism in orbit and on the Moon. An indie DIY phenomenon the album has remarkably since achieved gold disc status having sold over 100,000 copies in the UK alone.  In 2017, joined by voices including Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield, Every Valley was a moving exploration of community and memory via the rise and fall of the British coal industry. 

Their most ambitious undertaking yet, their last studio album Bright Magic brought the listener to Europe’s heart and de facto capital, the cultural and political metropolis that is the ‘Hauptstadt’ of the Federal Republic of Germany – Berlin. Released in late 2021, and debuting at No 2 in the UK album chart, the band’s fourth album was described by Electronic Sound as “their most ambitious, leftfield and majestic work to date, their glorious creative peak, their magnum opus”, DIY said “it flourished at its most calm and erupted at its most fervent” and Clash said it “cemented PSB's reputation as a vital act right at the top of their game”. The album also featured multiple BBC Radio 6 Music A-Listed singles, including “People, Let’s Dance” [ft. EERA] and “Blue Heaven” [ft. Andreya Casablanca].

Most recently with a celebration of the power of radio written in recognition of the centenary of the BBC, This New Noise saw the band joining forces with the 88-piece BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jules Buckley. A standout performance at the Royal Albert Hall as part of the 2022 edition of the BBC Proms it received 5*s in The Telegraph who called it “a resonant, timely and ultimately touching show”. Founder member J. Willgoose, Esq. remixed the concert from scratch, bringing out even more depth and texture from a multi-layered performance and showing it in a new light and This New Noise was released as an album in Sept 2023.

It is the second time Public Service Broadcasting have been commissioned for the BBC Proms. In 2019 the band performed an orchestral arrangement of their 2015 studio album The Race for Space with The Multi-Story Orchestra to mark the 50th anniversary of the first manned mission to the moon.

THE ANCHORESS

Welsh producer and multi-instrumentalist The Anchoress (aka Catherine Anne Davies) has amassed an army of celebrity fans including the Manic Street Preachers, Elton John, Caitlin Moran, and The Cure’s Robert Smith.

Her live show mixes epic melancholic guitar anthems alongside her trademark “swaggering synth-pop” (Uncut) and “shining alt-pop from the artisan of darkness” (Record Collector).

Her second album The Art of Losing successfully transformed wall-to-wall critical plaudits into a Top 10 position in the UK physical album charts, as well as the #1 spot on iTunes. It was also named an album of the year by The Sunday Times, The Line of Best Fit, Mail on Sunday, Prog, and The Sun, and hailed as “one of my favourite records of the year” by Sir Elton John.

She has been twice nominated for the Welsh Music Prize and also found the time for collaborations with the Manics, Bernard Butler and Simple Minds.

Versions, her recent collection of imaginative re-workings of indie anthems, was named an album of the year by the Mail on Sunday and described by The Sunday Times as “beguiling and insightful”.  This covers collection of tracks by Radiohead, REM, Depeche Mode, Nirvana, the Cure was hailed as “spine tingling” by BBC 6 Music’s Chris Hawkins.

18th August

BUSTED

Having just celebrated their 20^th Anniversary Tour in September & October 2023, the original much-loved trio - James Bourne, Charlie Simpson and Matt Willis - played their hits and fan-favourites to a combined audience of 200,000 people over the course of 26 shows.

Busted’s many successes spread far beyond the singles charts. Three of their four studio albums also peaked at #2, with 4.5 million sales leading to eight Platinum certifications as well as a total of 25 weeks in the Top 10 and two 5x Platinum selling albums. They have won two BRIT Awards - Best Pop Act and Best British Breakthrough - while multiple sold-out arena tours have seen them sell more than 2 million tickets.

Busted’s 20th anniversary tour follows Charlie Simpson’s recent triumph as the winner of 2023’s ’The Masked Singer’, adding to his other projects which have included four solo albums and four albums with the rock band Fightstar. James Bourne is a renowned songwriter, with credits including McFly, The Jonas Brothers, 5 Seconds of Summer and The Vamps, as well as his band Son of Dork and two recent solo albums ‘Safe Journey Home’ (2020) and ‘Sugar Beach’ (2022). After releasing his debut solo album, Matt Willis famously won ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here’ leading to a successful television career as well as acting roles which have included the recent West End hit ‘2:22 A Ghost Story’.

DADI FREYR

Daði Freyr, the breakout star of last year’s Eurovision, is back – with an irresistible new song, another TikTok-ready dance routine and even more madcap ideas to get audiences behind the world’s biggest song contest and bring the trophy home to Iceland for the first time.

10 Years is as catchy as its predecessor Think About Things, a global, celebrity-backed smash streamed more than 100 million times worldwide, reaching almost 1 billion people via international radio airwaves as it climbed to #1 global Shazam Discovery chart, and was certified silver in Britain, despite 2020’s contest being cancelled.

SOAP

Originally named The Tyne, SOAP have been growing and developing their sound since 2019, during this time a mix of influences ranging from The Ramones, Waterparks, Weezer & Cage The Elephant has helped forge their sonic output. Cut to four years later with over one million cross-platform streams and 400k TikTok followers the band are ready to take on the world…

They released two EP’s through Slam Dunk Records ‘BORN ON THE INTERNET’ in 2022, followed by “COMPLAINING (BUT THERE IS MUSIC)’ in 2023, the latter of which included the track (NOT A) LOVE SONG, featuring NOAHFINNCE.

The band have captured fans across media and have been regularly championed by BBC Radio 1’s Future Alternative and BBC Introducing shows, Rock Sound, Upset Mag and Spotify lists including The Locker and The Punk List.

Fresh from finishing their BUSTED arena support to over 200k people and a headline tour of their own to round out a sublime 2023, armed with new music, a new member and a new name they plan to clean up in 2024! Since January, SOAP have already dropped 3 new singles, with loads more new music to follow this year.