The Wombats

Ever since Murph, bassist Tord Øverland Knudsen and drummer Dan Haggis – who met and formed The Wombats at the Liverpool Institute Of Performing Arts in 2003 - emerged in 2006 and swiftly became chart-quashing champions of the noughties guitar pop explosion with hits including ‘Moving To New York’, ‘Kill The Director’ and ‘Let’s Dance To Joy Division’, they’ve barely looked back.

The euphoric tales of romantic misadventures in cinemas, forests, weddings and rock clubs that filled their platinum-selling 2007 debut album ‘A Guide To Love, Loss & Desperation’ garnered them a strong and dedicated fanbase in thrall to Murph’s amalgam of irrepressible hooks and downbeat tragi-comic lyricism and with such bare-hearted emotional depth to their ditties, The Wombats resolutely refuse to be a flash in the pan.

Cherryholt are an indie-pop outfit coming out of the East Midlands, bursting onto the scene by combining energetic youth, with a mature nostalgic feel throughout their catalogue. Compared to the likes of The Kooks and The Strokes – Cherryholt is fronted by the captivating Reuben Baskerville, alongside Dylan Austwick on drums, Daniel Goldspink on keyboard, and twins Harvey and Ben Walsh on lead guitar and bass respectively.