AS thousands ready their tents, waterproofs and constitution for the final festival flings of the summer one Sheffield venue is staging its own indoor gathering to help them overcome the end of the outdoor antics.
Owners of The Harley, across from West Street on Glossop Road, are describing their three-day musical feast - The 2Poor2Pitch Festival – as "the perfect antidote to the summer's depressing, recessing news".
The weekend opens – the week after Leeds
Festival – on Friday, August 29, when Sheffield recording studio-cum-secret venue Club 60 plays hosts, starting with the Club60 band. Headliners for the night will be hotly tipped local boys The Skeletons, born out of the ashes of thisGIRL, supported by Arctic Monkeys management mates Detroit Social Club. The live music will be followed at midnight by the Club60Soundsystem, comprising DJ Risco, Lemon Tear Gas and the Paddy Orange Project.
The 2Poor2pitch media sponsors, website / record label Drowned In Sound, take over the Saturday evening with Future Of The Left supported by Working For A Nuclear Free City.
Saturday daytime will feature some of Sheffield's better known up and coming bands and persistent triers, including Vegas Child, Alvarez Kings and The Tudors. Consoul - the venue's new club night - will be hosting the after hours shenanigans.
Sunday will be given over to the hardhouse folk vibe of Where Spaceships Go but the all-dayer will climax with live music from Pulled Apart By Horses supported by Mexican Kids At Home.
More than 30 bands will feature during the weekend as does a "boutique acoustic stage" in the Harley Beer Garden.
And for those who don't want to miss a thing there are hotel rooms available upstairs.
The cost of this 36 hours of music is £14.
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