Vintage By Hemingway

"Vintage is a voyage of discovery, a journey into the archives and workings of timeless creativity. To find out more about the acts, that have been carefully selected by the curatorial team to perform at Vintage, click on the names and be prepared to expand your mind!"

SATURDAY

MAIN STAGE - THANK GOD IT’S SATURDAY; A SOUL EXTRAVAGZA
Head to the dancefloor, it’s handbag central! The funk and flirtation starts here with anthems, soul legends, disco icons and soul voices to tingle any spine. Work is over; it’s party hearty time… and then some!

CHIC ft NILE RODGERS
Legendary disco and RnB outfit who brought us ‘Le Freak’ and ‘Good Times’. Nile Rodgers is one of the great producers of all time expect outings for David Bowie's Let's Dance and Madonna's Like a Virgin, as well We are Family and Upside Down ..some of the hundreds of dance classics that Nile is responsible for... 

CAMEO
The ‘Word Up’ group’s first UK visit for ten years will be a typically wild affair as the suitably-attired Larry Blackmon dips into the band’s string of hits from ‘She’s Strange’ ‘Candy’, ‘Single Life’, ‘Back And Forth’ and ‘Skin I’m In’. Mid ‘80s dancefloor funk at its headiest.

BETTY WRIGHT
The Soul legend whose recent album with The Roots was critically acclaimed and gathered many a five star review is in fine voice. She’ll be dipping back to her sassy roots as the ‘Clean Up Woman’ through dancefloor faves like ‘Shoorah Shoorah’ and ‘Tonight’s the Night’

ALICE RUSSELL
Inspired by Gospel and soul from Aretha to Stevie Wonder and blessed with a powerful and simply beautiful vocal range, Alice Russell is the UK’s premier soul voice. Her new album featuring Quantic gained great reviews and tonight she’ll be playing with her own seven piece band

DANNY RAMPLING
Celebrating Shoom’s 25th anniversary

NORMAN JAY
Classic Shake & Fingerpop Warehouse set

GRAEME PARK & WINSTON HAZEL
Revisiting their Sheffield Leadmill days

HORSE MEAT DISCO
Back to the disco

IAN LEVINE
Classic Heaven set

TOTAL FASHION VICTIM with MARK MORRIS, PRINCESS JULIA & JEFFREY HINTON

Evening 

IAN LEVINE & COLIN CURTIS
The original ‘70s pairing, from one of Britain’s most influential clubs Blackpool Mecca, join forces for the first time in many a year and spin sounds from that golden era.  Blackpool Mecca spanned the golden years of northern soul, disco and jazz funk . This will be a night to remember in The Soul Casino

Daytime 

Curated by DON LETTS

JUNIOR MURVIN performs ‘Police & Thieves’
The Jamaican singer and inspiration for The Clash revisits his classic ‘70s album

HOLLIE COOK
Smooth reggae sounds from the daughter of The Sex Pistols’ Paul Cook

THE PHOENIX ALL STARS with DAVE BARKER
The hits of Two Tone delivered in the style of original JA label Studio One with Dave Barker of Dave & Ansell Collins

Plus DJs:
DON LETTS
SEAN FLOWERDEW (Rocker’s Revolt)
EARL GATESHEAD (Trojan Sound System)

Early

THE SCORCHER CLUB
Original ‘60s soul and reggae from this touring skinhead club

The DELFONT STARLIGHT HOME aka GOD'S DEPARTURE LOUNGE curated by COUNT INDIGO

Late 

INDIGO INTERNATIONAL CLUB NIGHT
COUNT INDIGO with SOFT TMEPO, MARTIN GREEN and HOOP LA LA

Evening

BUDDIE GRECO
‘60s icon with a blue-eyed soul sound and a blazing Hammond organ

MISS HOPE SPRINGS
Down on her luck showgirl dubbed Nat Queen Cole at the piano with band

RORY MORE
Hammond-handed swirls of sound from this virtuoso keyboard player

'STAY A GIRL'
1968 posture classes led by LORRAINE BOWEN

THE ACTIONETTES
All girl ‘60s glittery dance troupe

JONNY TRUNK'S ACTION PAINTING
Live audience participation and action painting set to music.

Plus DJ MARTIN GREEN

ONDREJ HAVELKA & HIS MELODY MAKERS
Returning after their jaw dropping debut at Vintage last year, this Czech 15-piece will play three different sets over the weekend

THE SHIRT TAIL STOMPERS
"Righteously retro, but youthful, trad jazzers dive back to prohibition-era speakeasies for inspiration." Time Out

BENOIT VIELLEFON & HIS ORCHESTRA
"Swinging, fast, an authentic wall of sound, romantic and distinctly Parisian." Jeanie Barton - London Jazz

Plus DJs:
JEFF TWO - TONE BOOGIE
VOODOO DOLL

Late 

ANDY SMITH'S JAM UP TWIST with AARON FLETCHER & DAVE CROZIERA wild mix of suitably rare rockabilly, jump, soul and RnB from Andy, The Bees’ Aaron Fletcher and renowned collector Dave Crozier

Evening 

Curated by JAY STRONGMAN

LAZY LESTER
Original 1950s harmonica-toting Louisiana bluesman with a gritty voice and some aching life lessons who has recently been inducted into The Rock n Roll Hall Of Fame. One of the few living legends of American blues history that still has the rasp and rattle of authenticity

THE POLECATS
Swaggering mid ‘70s rockabilly from this be-quiffed quartet whose hits included rockified versions of both Bowie and Bolan. Lauded by Jarvis Cocker and with enough swagger to shake the foundations of Boughton estate, expect a wild and hair raising time

Plus DJs:
JAY STRONGMAN
STEVE MONTGOMERY ROSS

Afternoon 

The Vintage Rock ‘n’ Roll Party with...

THE STARGAZERS
England's rockingest, rollingest, swing-jive combo

FEVER
Rockabilly and rock ‘n’ roll from this double bass humping outfit