Mercury Prize Nominees British Sea Power to Play at the Highest Pub in the British Isles

Mercury Prize Nominees British Sea Power to Play at the Highest Pub in the British Isles

LONDON, August 27/PRNewswire/ --

- British Sea Power to Host Festival - Sing Ye From The Hillside! at Legendary Tan Hill Inn This Weekend.

British Sea Power, recently short listed for a prestigious Nationwide Mercury Music Award, are about to fill the Yorkshire Dales with song, hosting a three day rock festival August 29-31 at the highest pub in the British Isles.

The band, who are Sony/ATV Music Publishing signed songwriters and Rough Trade recording artists, hold their inaugural Sing Ye From The Hillside! festival at The Tan Hill Inn in North Yorkshire this weekend.

Their current album entitled "Do You Like Rock Music?" is a Mercury Prize album of the year nominee this year. The awards are to be held September 9th in London.

Known for finding more unusual places to play, BSP recently played London's Natural History Museum. Tan Hill is renowned for its breathtakingly remote setting, high up in the Yorkshire Dales. The Tan Hill Inn is the pub of dreams. At 1,732 feet above sea level, it is the the highest pub in the land. Now, these cherishable heights will host a whole weekend of rock music, featuring British Sea Power's own beer on tap at the pub.

This three-day, two-night festival will feature three separate and different BSP sets by members Yan and Hamilton Wilkinson, Matthew Wood and Martin Noble. There will be a full supporting musical programme, plus all the other attractions you will only get at Tan Hill - husky racing, duck-herding, a pub quiz, tug 'o war and an attempt to record the loudest ever human voice. This is the right place for the latter - the Tan Hill barman has featured in Guinness World Records in this very category.

To top it all at the pub at the top of the world, British Sea Power have been invited by local brewers the Dent Brewery to create their own BSP beer, which will be on tap throughout the weekend. Tan Hill will be donating all profits from the BSP beer to charity. Those attending will also be able to buy the beer in bottled form.

BSP guitarist Noble says: "Where else in the world can you get to play to a few ducks and a sheep? The last time we played Tan Hill it was unforgettable. This time we're there for three days. God knows what will happen."

About Sony/ATV Music Publishing (http://www.sonyatv.com)

Sony/ATV Music Publishing was established in 1995 as a joint venture between Sony and trusts formed by Michael Jackson. Sony/ATV Music Publishing owns or administers over 600,000 copyrights by such artists as The Beatles, Beck, Brooks & Dunn, Leonard Cohen, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, The Everly Brothers, Fall Out Boy, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Mann, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, Willie Nelson, Roy Orbison, Richie Sambora, Stephen Stills, KT Tunstall and Diane Warren, among others. Sony/ATV recently acquired both the Leiber Stoller and Famous catalogues. It is not part of the Sony BMG Music Entertainment venture.

          Contact:     Janice Brock for Sony/ATV Music Publishing janice.brock@sonyatv.com     Sam Willis, Rough Trade Records: +44(0)208-960-9888     samwillis@roughtraderecords.com      http://www.britishseapower.co.uk     http://www.sonyatv.com     http://www.roughtraderecords.com  

Source: Sony/ATV Music Publishing

Contact: Janice Brock for Sony/ATV Music Publishing janice.brock@sonyatv.com, Sam Willis, Rough Trade Records: +44(0)208-960-9888, samwillis@roughtraderecords.com

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