Post-punk legends Dry Cleaning have been announced as one of the headliners for this year's Bright The Corners festival, alongside acts like Lime Garden, DEADLETTER, and Gruff Rhys, who will also perform throughout the weekend. The festival is scheduled to take place in various venues around Ipswich on June 13th and 14th and will feature a lineup of exciting new artists including The NONE, The Orchestra (For Now), and W H Lung. The event will be spread across five stages in the city, including The Smokehouse, The Baths, St Stephen’s Church, the Corn Exchange, and the Cornhill.
Festival programmer Marcus Neal expressed his excitement, saying, "We are thrilled to announce the initial lineup for our 2025 event, featuring Dry Cleaning as our first headliners, whom we've been trying to bring to Ipswich since their debut single in 2019. The lineup continues our tradition of highlighting a diverse array of emerging artists from various genres, from indie to folk and electronic jazz to noise-rock. We look forward to revealing more acts, including our second headliner, in the coming weeks."
The complete list of artists confirmed in this first announcement includes: Dry Cleaning, Bobby Lee, Caleb Kunle, corto.alto, Daudi Matsiko, DEADLETTER, deary, Gruff Rhys, James Alexander Bright, JD Cliffe, Lime Garden, Marla Kether, Mermaid Chunky, Miss Tiny, Monster Florence, oreglo, Piglet, Rich(ard) Dawson, SHOLTO, Sons Of Sevilla, THE NONE, The Orchestra (For Now), TTSSFU, Van Houten, W. H. Lung, Y, and Yuuf.
Tickets for the 2025 edition of Bright The Corners are available now; check out highlights from last year's event below.
When presented with such a grand display, it seems secure.
A warm, sunlit tribute to the small joys of life, Ziggy Alberts' "I'm With You" is a whimsical, uplifting folk-pop track brimming with warmth and affection, solidifying the Australian singer/songwriter's position as a distinctive and genuine presence in the current music scene.
A compilation of singer-songwriter music with dance influences, featuring an underlying tension that is hard to grasp.
This marks the second collaboration between the duo on a record, after their 2016 song 'Beautiful People'.
The Ipswich multi-venue event for this year is scheduled for the 13th and 14th of June.