Situated in the beautiful historic town of Richmond in North Yorkshire, a town of unique character that has changed little through the centuries with its historic buildings, castle and calming streams flowing through the town, Richmond Live has been bringing unforgettable live music experiences to the town, with its unique setting, thriving community spirit, and talented local musicians.
Since its small beginnings in 1998, Richmond Live has been run as a non-profit event by a team of dedicated music fans, with the aim of covering its costs and putting on an amazing spectacle.
Friday’s headlining act will be Oh My God! It’s The Church. This band will have you dancing till you drop and arguably there is no other band like this in the world. Dressed as American Baptist preachers accompanied by dancing sinners, they bring their church of dance for the congregation. Performing a variety of upbeat covers and originals with fusions of church organ and preaching, it is transfixing, colourful and hilarious madness.
The Saturday headline act will be the fantastic Lightning Seeds, know best for their number one song and every English football fans favourite anthem, ‘Three Lions’. Their most successful album to date was ‘Jollification’ (the one with a big strawberry on the cover) which featured chart-topping singles such as ‘Lucky You’, ‘Marvellous’ and ‘Perfect’. They are a band that you will have heard throughout your life on the radio and television without even knowing it and are the perfect act to end the festival.
Over the course of the two-day event, there will be a vast amount of brilliant local and out-of-town support acts too such as Ceiling Demons, Pablos Dogs, John Stainthorp Band, No Fit State, The Messengers, Spirit Levellers, Dark Passengers, Rory Hoy, Vs Page 45, Beard Of Destiny, Urban Commandos, Jayhazy, The Thieves, Purest Green, The doubtful Bottle, The Paul Rodgers Story, 13 Cities, Heart Shaped Rebellion, Mike Harper, 1Two3Four, The Voluntears, Bob and Jess, Bosko Green, Steve Wade and Friends, Bubamara, Jack Hedges, Moon Shine Grove, Carrie Martin, Eye Bleach and more.
Richmond Live has been well received by the community and has always had positive feedback from the event-goers which has always been the driving force to make it better every year.
Richmond Live takes place on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd August. Tickets, priced at £15.00 for adults and £8.00 for those aged 12-17, are available from richmondlive.org.
