Chris Hawkins, F-10 & The Ferret present:
CHRIS HAWKINS AWESOME FRIENDS
ft fantastic up & coming acts:
congratulations, Martial Arts, Holly Head
+ guests TBA
Plus your host & DJ on the night: CHRIS HAWKINS (BBC 6 Music).
The Ferret, Preston
Fri 28th Feb 2025
7pm - late
To buy tickets for this event please visit our events page: Chris Hawkins Awesome Friends (BBC 6 Music) tickets from Skiddle .
Awesome Friends is curated and hosted by 6 Music's Chris Hawkins, championing the best new and breaking artists and bands at events and festivals across the country, including SXSW, Kendal Calling, and Band On The Wall in Manchester.
Chris Hawkins has a standout show on BBC 6 Music championing alternative anthems and fresh sounds. Chris was an early supporter of emerging acts Sam Fender, Wet Leg and The Lathums, now all headline performers. Awesome Friends serves as a platform for the same emerging, grassroots acts and those destined to be our future musical heavyweights.
Awesome Friends is a dynamic, vibrant live club night that features the most exhilarating up and coming acts and those next in line to dominate headline spots across the world. This could be the next Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall in 76, Glasgow’s King Tuts Wah Wah Hut in 93 or The Grapes Pub Sheffield in 03 and you will have the distinction of saying ‘you were there’.
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congratulations:
congratulations are four friends who found each other at the right time, fell into each other’s arms and started making music they liked; boasting an impressive array of different influences, unashamedly intertwined into their songs. Think girl/boy centred vocals and eccentric fuzzed guitars lying on a bed of break beats and thunderous bass.
Fiercely DIY, congratulations craft their songs with all four members meticulously involved in every aspect of the recording, production, and artwork. Then, donning their scrupulously prepared uniforms of green, blue, red and yellow, the band deliver blistering, frenetic live performances, dripping with the sweat from their growing audiences.
For fans of Pom Poko, Jockstrap and Sleigh Bells.
“It’s like a car boot sale of all great pop mashed together in a bricolage of boogie” - Louder Than War
https://www.facebook.com/congratulationstheband
https://www.instagram.com/congratulationstheband
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Martial Arts:
“Martial Arts are the best new band in Manchester. It isn’t up for debate. They now just need to conquer everywhere else.” - Aah Magazine
Their intense live performances quickly caught the eyes and ear of a key few. With shows for Akoustik Anarkhy, So Young Magazine, Speedy Wunderground, Now Wave & Beyond The Music Festival achieved through word of mouth alone, the 5 piece have emerged as a must see band from the Manchester underground.
https://www.facebook.com/martialartsband
https://www.instagram.com/martialartsband
https://linktr.ee/martialartsband
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Holly Head:
Committed and controversial, Manchester’s rising, kinetic, beat-powered punk four-piece, Holly Head, return for 2025 with their scuffed and confrontational, two-and-a-half-minute blast of incisive social commentary, Whatever Drags You Through It.
Taking notoriety as a signal of connected audience sympathies and riding on the right side of history, last year’s debut release of the band’s unrelenting debut, No Gain, rushed Holly Head to the front of a proactive, politically-motivated creative community. Written in a police cell following arrest due to Britain’s protest laws, the song provided the key to their first BBC 6 Music live session last November, with the performance used to further cementing their uncompromising conviction and use Holly Head’s music to profile urgent causes.
https://www.instagram.com/hollyhead.band/
BBC 6 MUSIC NEW MUSIC FIX SESSION
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00245b3
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PLUS GUESTS TBA!
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CHRIS HAWKINS AWESOME FRIENDS
The Ferret, Preston
Fri 28th Feb 2025
7pm - late
congratulations
Martial Arts
Holly Head
+ guests TBA
Tickets £10 advance.
Tickets: https://skiddle.com/e/40620384
Ages 14+ (under 18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult)
Accessible ground floor venue & facilities.
Dog-friendly venue.
