A JERSEY band will be performing on the coveted main stage at the Weekender festival.
Von Cassidy – Joshua Venton (vocals and guitar), Jordan Rondel (bass), Chris Nutter (drums), Hannah Campbell (vocals), Jenny Winspear (vocals) and Tom Quenault (keyboards) – will be playing at the two-day event this weekend ahead of big-name acts including indie rock band James and DJ Tom Loud, aka Hot Dub Time Machine.
‘We are going to be playing the main stage at 6pm on Sunday,’ said Mr Venton.
‘The festival organisers contacted us and asked us to play, and, of course, we immediately said yes.
‘We have worked pretty hard over the last couple of years to build up some local momentum and this is recognition of that. It feels like a really great opportunity for us.’
The group will be performing tracks from their debut album, The Coming of Age and the World Around, which was released in 2021, and which was mastered in the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London.
‘Our Weekender set will mostly consist of tracks from the record but we’ll be playing a few new songs as well,’ said Mr Venton. ‘We probably won’t be playing much of the slow stuff, though.
‘The set is only about 40 minutes, which is quite a tight amount of time to squeeze everything in, and so it’s going to be a very fast-paced, upbeat set-list from us.’
When they formed in 2019, Von Cassidy were a four-piece outfit, both on stage and in the studio. The group have since expanded, however, with female singers added to the official line-up. They will expanding yet again for Sunday’s concert, with Chordz founder and Crosstown Restaurant owner Charlie Northedge joining them on the Weekender main stage.
‘There is going to be a whole bunch of us up there,’ said Mr Venton. ‘It’s very exciting. Charlie is a really great guitarist.’
Among the other music artists and bands performing at the Weekender festival this weekend will be The Voice UK semi-finalist Becky Hill, former Spice Girl Melanie C, r’n’b outfit Shalamar and TV fashion consultant-turned-DJ Gok Wan.
‘We’re all really looking forward to seeing James, who are headlining on Sunday,’ said Mr Venton. ‘If we can perhaps catch them backstage for a beer afterwards, that would be awesome. We’ll all be behaving ourselves, of course.’
