Indie rock icons Maxïmo Park celebrate 20 years since the release of their Mercury Prize-nominated breakthrough debut album “A Certain Trigger” with a special one-off show at the Cheese and Grain. The Mercury Prize-nominated record, produced by Paul Epworth and released on Warp, arrived with a trio of iconic singles in ‘Apply Some Pressure’, ‘Graffiti’, […]
An evening of Parisian-flavoured music at Rook Lane Chapel, Frome, with quartet Swing from Paris. Swing from Paris are an all-string jazz quartet of violin, guitars and double bass, inspired by the music of the 1930s, ’40s and ’50s: from the cafés and cabarets of Montmartre to Artie Shaw, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and the […]
Professor Slug is an eccentric expert on invertebrates who helps bugs out with their buggy problems – and you can too! Get as strong as an ant! Teach a bee how to buzz! And help a dung beetle make a pooey perfume for its big date… This interactive show is packed full of colourful puppets, […]
Joshua Burnside is an experimental folk songwriter, singer and producer. He takes influence from alternative electronica trad, and Irish folk, chopping and blending them with a mixture of found sounds, world music and unorthodox production methods Joshua’s critically acclaimed “Teeth of Time” released earlier this year, was nominated for RTE 1 Folk Awards, and received glowing support from the […]
Jim Ghedi hails from Sheffield, South Yorkshire and although clearly well versed in the history of folk music, he stands out as a potential torch bearer for a new generation of respectful yet experimental performers. As his music develops away from his previous records ‘A Hymn for Ancient Land’ (2018) & ‘In the Furrows of […]
Danger! Danger! Detroit disco-rock legends, Electric 6 are coming to Frome! Electric Six, the Detroit-based renegades, mix garage rock, disco, punk, new wave, and metal into cleverly dumb, in-your-face songs celebrating hedonism in multiple forms. They found international success through a relentless touring and recording schedule and an unerring commitment to their over-the-top style, delivering […]
Multi-platinum selling, billion-streamed pop-rock superstars Scouting For Girls bring their catalogue of generation-defining anthems to Frome for a special one-off headline show this summer. Scouting For Girls – Roy Stride, Greg Churchouse, and Peter Ellard are one of the UK’s most successful pop bands of the past two decades. With over 2 million records sold, […]
Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri will be performing a very special intimate live show on Friday 3rd July at Rook Lane Chapel. The show will be among other opening events […]
Highly influential post-punk/indie band, The Monochrome Set are to play in Frome, at the Tree House. Loved by artists such as The Smiths, Franz Ferdinand and Blur and covered by […]
The Frome Independent is an award winning, destination street market. We reclaim Frome’s high street once a month to showcase the best independent craftspeople, designers, makers, food producers and vintage traders in the South West. The market takes place on the first Sunday of the month from March to December and strives to be ‘more […]
Born of the voices of past lives and baptized in the dust bowl dirt, the Gothic Americana music of the Heathen Apostles harkens back to a bygone chapter of American history. Using contrasting influences such as Bauhaus, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and The Pogues along with Howlin’ Wolf, Loretta Lynn (the band covers […]
Buena Bristol Social Club is a collaboration of top-notch Cuban and Bristol-based musicians in the Latin music scene. Cuban musician, Michel Padron has carefully crafted a band that faithfully preserves […]
