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Fairey set for latest acid trip...

On the back of a very successful Whit Friday, Fairey are getting ready to take a slightly different trip or two...

Acid Brass
 

On the back of a highly successful weekend in a sun baked Saddleworth, where they picked up a hefty haul of prize money and silverware before providing a packed audience at Uppermill Civic Hall with a thoroughly entertaining concert, the Fairey Band are now set to go on one of their latest acid trips....

Slightly different

This weekend the band will be delighting audiences with slightly different musical tastes at Macclesfield’s Barnaby Festival, alongside outstanding acts from jazz, opera, pop and rock, before heading to the Southbank Centre, London, as part of Jeremy Lavelle’s renowned ‘Meltdown’ Series, which attracts thousands of people to the free event.

the band is also putting the final touches to their preparation for their appearance at the famous Foreign Affairs Festival in Berlin4BR

Berlin

Meanwhile, the band is also putting the final touches to their preparation for their appearance at the famous Foreign Affairs Festival in Berlin, as well as high profile wedding reception on the Euston Estate in Suffolk.

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