First Announcement For Simple Things | The Quietus

First Announcement For Simple Things

Battles, Wire, Factory Floor, Grumbling Fur and many more feature in first wave of name for this year's Simple Things in Bristol

The first set of acts have been confirmed for this year’s edition of Simple Things in Bristol and a very strong initial announcement it is too. This year’s festival will start with an opening concert from Godspeed You! Black Emperor followed by two days of live music and DJs.

Leading the live acts for this year’s Simple Things are Battles, Penguin Cafe, Wire and Factory Floor. Completing the first announcement on the live side of things are Dean Blunt, Lone, Grumbling Fur, DJ Funk, Danny L Harle, Liturgy, Speedy Ortiz, Romare, Lower Dens, Nicole Willis & The Soul, Investigators, Chastity Belt, Long Arm and Loyle Carner. DJ sets will come from Ron Trent, Objekt, Mike Skinner, Hunee, Barnt, Helena Hauff, nd_baumecker, Avalon Emerson and Discodromo. More acts are set to follow for this year’s Simple Things which takes place on 23-24 October across a number of venues in Bristol. For more details and to get your hands on tickets, click here.

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