Futureheads Announced As First Summer Ball Headliner

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Futureheads announced as first Summer Ball headliner

By Harry Gallivan, Managing Director (2013/14) Wednesday 15 May 2013

The Futureheads

YUSU have announced post-punk band The Futureheads as the first leading act for the 2013 Summer Ball at York Racecourse. Kallum Taylor, YUSU President, confirmed the act this afternoon.

The Sunderland-born band has performed at prestigious venues such as Glastonbury in 2005 and the biggest open-air festival in Europe, Woodstock, with 300,000 people attending in 2009.

Their latest 2012 album, Rant, marked a radical departure for the band. Featuring no musical instruments at all, it consisted entirely of a cappella covers, including covers of Black Eye Peas’ ‘Meet me Halfway’ and Kelis’ ‘Acapella’.

In a 2011 interview, lead singer Barry Hyde said; “We were partly inspired by [80s a cappella group] The Flying Pickets. They were great singers but their tracks were a bit asexual sounding. We want this to be more rough.”

The album was nominated for Artrocker’s ‘Album of the Year’ award in 2012, and was rated 8/10 by NME.

In 2005, their cover of Kate Bush’s song, ‘Hounds of Love’, reached number 8 in the charts and was named best single by NME. The band has also accompanied The Foo Fighters and Snow Patrol during their stage sets.

More announcements. including the biggest act of the night, will be announced in the coming weeks.

The 2013 ball is expected to be an exciting event following on from last year’s headline acts, Feeder and Stooshe. It is scheduled to take place on Wednesday 19th June 2013, with tickets now available to purchase at www.yusu.org/shop.

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3 comments

Steve Brookstein 15 May ’13 at 4:03 pm

Heh, “post-punk” indeed.

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Frank 15 May ’13 at 10:41 pm

if this is post punk then maximo park are post rock

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SHA 16 May ’13 at 1:17 pm

“The album is consisted *entirely* of covers, including covers of Black Eye Peas’ ‘Meet me Halfway’ and Kelis’ ‘Acapella’.”

There are also a few acapella versions of their own songs, do you count these as covers?

Anyway, decent act, look forward to seeing who else.

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