Dave Harvey 

Loves Saves the Day festival playlist

Love Saves The Day Festival takes place this weekend in Castle Park, Bristol. Here's their soundtrack for the start of the summer festival season
  
  


Everybody Dance – Chic

Chic and Nile Rodgers are absolutely massive. Rodgers has had a hand in some of the greatest moments in popular music. The Chic back catalogue is crammed full of classics and when you go beyond that and look at the rest of his work, it really is incredible. You can expect to hear a selection of Chic hits and more on Sunday. With Rodgers flying high on the Daft Punk hype wave at the moment, we expect this to be electric.

Cirrus - Bonobo

This is our Saturday night headliner and an old friend of the family. We've been booking Simon Green (aka Bonobo) for events in Bristol for years – the first time we put him on was at the Thekla, which has a capacity of about 450. He's back with another top drawer album, with this, the lead single, causing a bit of a stir.

Mirror Song – Kowtown/Bashmore

What can you say about Bashmore that hasn't already been said? He's shot to stardom and delivered a couple of the biggest tunes of the last two years, with Au Seve played everywhere last summer. He's a huge Bristol success story. Check out this track, where he links up with one of the city's more underground producers Joe Kowton.

Get a life – Soul II Soul

A massive part of the soundtrack to our youth, Soul II Soul were a real melting pot of styles and sounds. They turned a lot of us on to a whole bunch of music that we had no idea about before. Club Classics Vol 1 is such a brilliant and seminal album. It's really exciting to bring them back to Bristol, where they have a strong tie due to their link-ups with the Wild Bunch in the late 80s and early 90s. 

Tone Music – Eats Everything

Bang up to date and riding high on a wave of well-deserved hype, Dan Pearce (aka Eats Everything) is a seriously talented producer. But what really sets him apart are his incredible DJ sets, which are technically jaw dropping.

Stupid – Redlight

One of the Team Love family and a big part of Bristol's recent musical story, Redlight (Hugh Pescod) has played for us since we started doing festivals, always making an appearance at Glastonbury, and famously donating his fee for St Paul's Carnival to the cause. This is one of our faves from a few years back.

Repatriation – Jah Shaka

Jah Shaka is one of the UK's real dub legends, not a term we'd use lightly. Dub, reggae and roots are a huge part of the Bristol music scene, so it's a great to be able to have one of the top sounds in the country joining us on the Sunday. I remember getting taken to a Jah Shaka night at the Marcus Garvey Centre in Nottingham in the 90s, and it was heavy – the first time I'd heard bass like that outside a jungle rave! We're hoping for more of the same in Castle Park – and in the sunshine hopefully!

One Time – Jus Now

Creating soca-inspired bass music from Bristol via Glastonbury via Trinidad, Sam Interface has been around doing his thing in the city and beyond for years. His latest project, Jus Now, has been inspired by his new partnership with Trinidadian producer Laza Beam. This has been getting a lot of love on Die's new Gutterfunk label, just another part of Bristol's musical cross-pollination.

• Tickets are still available for Love Saves Sunday, £19.50, £25, £29.50 + booking fee at lovesavestheday.org

 

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