The Machete
Icebreaker Festival 2018
The Wine Vaults
Albert Road
Feb 3, 2018
10:00 PM UTC
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Promising to be our best yet, next year’s Icebreaker Festival takes place over two days! After nearly 900 applications for 2017’s event, we learnt that we needed to add additional slots to the venues we currently work with, adding Friday evening was a perfect solution. Next year, we will host over 150 acts over 7 venues on Friday 2nd February and 11 on Saturday 3rd February, Our venues for this year are The Wedgewood Rooms, Edge of the Wedge, Royal Albert, Acapulco, Wine Vaults (Saturday only) The Loft, The Fat Fox, The Atrium (Saturday only) One Eyed Dog, The Deco, The Honest Poli (Saturday only) Wristbands are priced at Friday - £8, Saturday - £12 or a weekend ticket at just £15! Our Headliners for 2018 are; Richard Morris, Is Bliss, The Collision, Bel Esprit, The Paul Dillon Band, Archie Langley, Foxer, Eyes to the Skies, The Machete, Temples of Youth, Coax, Mint Gun Club, Fainites, Horseflies, Roy Peplow, Minque, Arcade Hearts, Sleepwalker, Morass of Molasses and Noyo Mathis.
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The Machete Biography
Innovative, explosive, and highly entertaining, The Machete makes instrumental music you have
definitely not heard before. It is a supercharged mix of global influences including pop, folk,
Latin, reggae, and more performed with a high-energy approach that will move any crowd in the
world. Formed out of necessity by two non-singing musicians, the current four-man lineup of
rhythm guitarist Matt Hallett, lead guitarist Dominic Vermeulen-Smith, bassist John Deacon, and
drummer Sam Brawn has become a force of nature in the best possible way and does its level
best to inspire furious dancing everywhere it goes.
The Machete’s gypsy-esque live vibe. This is a band that demands to be experienced in person but the record gives listeners
a taste of what they caN expect at a gig.
The Machete is vibrant, bold, and well-suited for any environment that needs passionate and
talented musicians to bring it to life. This is instrumental music for the people, not the ivory
tower, and it shows a complete disregard for the tyranny of labels and genres. Fans of
high-flying live music need to get The Machete on their emerging artist radar screen quickly.
Read Moredefinitely not heard before. It is a supercharged mix of global influences including pop, folk,
Latin, reggae, and more performed with a high-energy approach that will move any crowd in the
world. Formed out of necessity by two non-singing musicians, the current four-man lineup of
rhythm guitarist Matt Hallett, lead guitarist Dominic Vermeulen-Smith, bassist John Deacon, and
drummer Sam Brawn has become a force of nature in the best possible way and does its level
best to inspire furious dancing everywhere it goes.
The Machete’s gypsy-esque live vibe. This is a band that demands to be experienced in person but the record gives listeners
a taste of what they caN expect at a gig.
The Machete is vibrant, bold, and well-suited for any environment that needs passionate and
talented musicians to bring it to life. This is instrumental music for the people, not the ivory
tower, and it shows a complete disregard for the tyranny of labels and genres. Fans of
high-flying live music need to get The Machete on their emerging artist radar screen quickly.
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