Beauty Sleep
Beauty Sleep’s particular larger-than-life brand serve up a maximalist blend of bewitching synth-pop and guitar-driven indie rock that’s sure to set your heart racing. The Derry duo's lavish soundscapes and dizzying songwriting have drawn comparisons to New Order, St Vincent and Japanese Breakfast, so far achieving over a million streams and performing at festivals including SXSW, Electric Picnic and Other Voices.
The two partners in crime released their mighty debut album Be Kind in 2019, shortlisted for Best Album at the Northern Irish Music Prize, with the much anticipated second album ‘The Whole Damn Cake’ due for release with Alcopop! Records in October, with singles such as anthem against toxic masculinity 'BIG + BAD' and the theme tune to accepting yourself and fighting for joy 'Radical Happiness' igniting a surge of new fandom for the band in 2025.
To date, the band have seen sustained buzz from music press tastemakers in Ireland and the UK including Hot Press, CLASH, The Belfast Telegraph, Irish News, Nialler9, Chordblossom, The Last Mixed Tape, Get In Her Ears, and many others, plus radio plays from Phil Taggart (BBC R1), Amy Lamé (BBC 6music), Stephen McCauley (BBC Radio
Ulster/BBC Radio Foyle), and Dan Hegarty (RTE2fm).
As official editorial playlist support from Spotify’s Discover Weekly, New Music Friday, Pop Hits, and more continues to build with each release, the next 12 months are sure to see Beauty Sleep continue on their skyrocketing trajectory.
Steady Habits
A flair for alt-country sounds, melodic pop-hooks, and a voice that can blast it to the back of the room, Steady Habits is centred around the lyrical narrative of New-England native, Sean C. Duggan. Holding a place in "the youthful side of Americana" [ Country Queer], Duggan's songwriting is poignant, with a sensitivity and grit that is reminiscent of artists like Jason Isbell, Dawes & BJ Barnham [American Aquarium].
Pinned as one of the UK's 'Best of UK Country & Americana' [Holler], Steady Habits has performed across the UK & Internationally, supporting artists such as The Hanging Stars, Our Man in the Field, Morganway & Demi Marriner and have performed at a number of of high-profile festivals such as The AMA UK Conference, Black Deer, Truck Festival & the Long Road Festival . Sean was featured as a finalist for Holler's song writing competition for 'Deviate', a joyful and semi-autobiographical song about his upbringing as a young queer kid in the US.
Charlie Austen
Charlie Austen is a one-woman tour-de-force, crafting songs on the folk-soul-rock spectrum. Airy, yet powerful blues-infused vocals, intricate guitar parts and bare feet that keep the beat, courtesy of her unique suitcase drum-kit invention. Get ready to be taken on a journey to outer space and back, through life & death, happiness & heartbreak, with a bit of queer history thrown in along the way.
Charlie has featured on national radio and toured the UK extensively, with some high-profile dates in Europe and beyond.