Stone Club comes to Moseley Folk and Arts Festival

Includes Boss Morris, Bunnyman Will Sergeant, and films from Jeremy Deller and Gwenno.

Friday 1 to Sunday 3 September 2023, Birmingham

With Birmingham’s Moseley Folk and Arts Festival 2023 just a few weeks away, the line-up for the woods area of the festival has now been unveiled in full.

Curated by (and named after) Stone Club, the programme promises an eclectic and intriguing series of screenings, conversations, ideas and more.

Highlights across the weekend include a screening of Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller’s ground-breaking documentary, Everybody In The Place: An Incomplete History Of Britain 1984- 1992, which maps the development of rave and acid house culture (Friday 1 September), and an appearance from Echo and The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant (Saturday 2 September), who will be recounting the Bunnymen’s whirlwind rise to stardom to coincide with the publication of his new memoir, Echoes.

Sunday (3 September) sees a must-see display from Boss Morris, the female morris dancing team who joined Wet Leg for an incendiary appearance at the BRIT Awards 2023 . Bringing ancient folk dance to new audiences and reshaping predefined customs, Boss Morris aim to reclaim the narrative around our culture and past, and how we feel about ‘England’ and ‘Englishness’.

Famed DJ/producer and writer Justin Robertson also joins the Sunday line-up to discuss his transdimensional debut novel, The Tangle, and forthcoming multi-media project with Stone Club, while Gwenno follows her main stage appearance on Friday with a screening of Tresor – the dream-like film she has written, directed and produced which reflects her growing interest in the intersection of music and visual elements.

Discussing their collaboration with the festival, Stone Club said: “We are delighted and excited to be bringing a selection of talks, films and conversations to Moseley Folk and Arts festival this year for the first time.

“From running our regular night at The Social in London, to appearing at Glastonbury, Green Man and Sea Change, we realised how much we love bringing Stone Club to new audiences and in Moseley we found the perfect partners to work with – a well established independent festival with exceptional music, an enthusiastic, knowledgeable and passionate team making really great things happen.

“We can’t wait to be on site!”

The annual Moseley Folk and Arts Festival takes place in a picturesque hidden park space in urban Moseley, Birmingham. Among the headline acts appearing this year are Squeeze, Graham Nash, Blindboy and Gwenno (Friday); The Saw Doctors, The Mary Wallopers, Lou Sanders and Rozi Plain (Saturday); and Wilco, The Proclaimers, Stornoway and Josh Pugh (Sunday). For tickets and more information, see: moseleyfolk.co.uk

About Stone Club

Recreating prehistory since 2021. Founded by artists Lally MacBeth and Matthew Shaw, Stone Club was set up as a place for stone enthusiasts to congregate, to muse and most importantly to stomp to stones. Stone Club believes the journey is as important as the destination and encourages people to pause and think about place in new ways; connecting ancient sites through community and conversation Stone Club aims to bring new perspectives to prehistory in a collaborative and inclusive way. https://stoneclub.rocks/