Baxter Dury / Royal Republic

BAXTER DURY
Baxter Dury celebrated 20 years in the music business in 2021. 20 years of dodgy, caustic music, London night snapshots, sweaty, sexy, flippant bass lines and downtempo disco, driven by a sense of desolation but also by a deep affection for humanity. These 20 years have seen the release of 'Mr Maserati', a compilation of the best tracks from his six albums to date, as well as a new song, D.O.A., co-written with his son Kosmo. Baxter Dury is back in 2023 with an 8th full-length: I THOUGHT I WAS BETTER THAN YOU. Produced by Paul White and Danny Brown, the album was co-written with British singers Eska and JGrrey as well as Madeleine Hart.

Classy keyboards, addictive bass, driving drum machines, disillusioned spoken word vocals, female backing vocals and R&B inspirations: packed with humour and self-mockery, the son of the famous Ian Dury has been developing a rich discography over the last twenty years, as changeable as the British sky.

ROYAL REPUBLIC
Since meeting at the Malmö Academy of Music in 2007 - before making their first waves worldwide with hits Tommy Gun and Full Steam Spacemachine - Swedish rock band Royal Republic have cultivated an 'anything goes' spirit that defies genre labels. No boundaries, no limits.

They give you sweet disco one minute, and rip your face off with a brutal thrash assault the next. Backstage, their collective DJ sets mix the Beatles, Cannibal Corpse, Steely Dan and the Backstreet Boys without batting an eyelid. You'll also be treated to Bob Dylan and Eminem. But also Motörhead. Their debut album in 2010, We Are The Royal, is a potty rock style (see Underwear). It was with their second album, Save The Nation, released in 2012, that they began to make a name for themselves, thanks in particular to the single Everybody Wants To Be An Astronaut.

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