Hayden Thorpe: Last News

Caribou and Happy Mondays are set to be among the headliners of Bigfoot Festival 2022.The UK’s first craft beer music festival, which held its inaugural edition last year, is set to take place at Claydon Estate (near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire) from June 17-19.Caribou and Happy Monday have been announced this morning (February 8) as the first two headliners for Bigfoot 2022, with a third headliner set to be announced soon.The likes of Self Esteem, Shame, Working Men’s Club, Octo Octa, India Jordan, Erol Alkan and Hayden Thorpe have also been announced on the line-up for this year’s festival.You can see the line-up so far for Bigfoot Festival 2022 in the above poster, with more additions set to be announced soon.Bigfoot has also confirmed that the British breweries Braybrooke, DEYA, Gipsy Hill, Howling Hops, Purity, Signature Brew, Two Tribes, Verdant and Wild Beer will all provide drink at this year’s festival.General tickets for Bigfoot Festival 2022 will go on sale at 9am GMT this Friday (February 11) from here.

Hayden Thorpe has shared his latest single ‘Metafeeling’ – you can hear the new track below.The song is taken from the former Wild Beasts frontman’s upcoming new solo album ‘Moondust For My Diamond’, which is set for release on October 15 via Domino.Speaking about the accompanying Percy Dean-directed video for ‘Metafeeling’, which you can watch below, Thorpe explained: “Nan Shepherd wrote in The Living Mountain, ‘In the rarefied air of the plateau, and indeed anywhere in the mountain, for the air is clear everywhere, shadows are sharp and intense’.

Former Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe has announced that he will release his second solo album, ‘Moondust For My Diamond’, this autumn. Wanna know what he’s going for sound-wise this time? Well, he’s also released the album’s first single, ‘The Universe Is Always Right’.The album, he says, was inspired by “the meeting point between science and religion, the grand struggle for reality that shapes so much of our time.

Wild Beasts frontman Hayden Thorpe has revealed details of his second solo album, ‘Moondust For My Diamond’.The new record, which follows 2019 debut ‘Diviner’ and last year’s ‘Aerial Songs’ EP, will come out on October 15 via Domino, and is being previewed by a video for first single ‘The Universe Is Always Right’.According to Thorpe, the album concerns “the meeting point between science and religion, the grand struggle for reality that shapes so much of our time.”In a statement, he added: “What about nature? What about the cosmos? What about all these things that break through the tyranny of the self? Our sense organs bring the world inside of us after all, I just had to sing it back out.

Wild Beasts singer Hayden Thorpe has announced that he’ll release his latest EP, ‘Aerial Songs’, next month, as well as sharing the first song to arrive from the record.