There aren’t many records you can honestly describe as life-changing. The Universe Is Loading is precisely that. The product of a period of momentous personal upheaval, Wyldest’s fourth album examines the world on a macro and micro level, pairing existential probing with intensely intimate reflections, and revealing an artist born anew. 

The truth is, we’ve never really known Zoë Mead – the woman behind Wyldest – until now. Ever since her debut, 2019’s Dream Chaos, the London-based singer-songwriter has largely let her music speak for itself, generously leaving space for listeners to imbue with their own meaning. On 2021’s self-produced follow-up Monthly Friend, she discussed the physicality of womanhood against a sonic backdrop of tender dream-pop. For 2022’s cinematic Feed The Flowers Nightmares, she explored the idea of losing yourself and starting over, while switching up her creative process, collaborating with Luciano Rossi (Idlewild, Dama Scout) and taking influence from the compositional work of Mica Levi, Jon Brion and Jonny Greenwood. 

Looking back on her journey so far, Mead admits that lingering insecurities had led her to shrink her true identity and conceal her background. “It wasn’t out of shame,” she clarifies. “It’s more that I felt like an outsider, thinking that who I was and where I was from wasn’t valid. I just really wanted to fit in.” 

Though based in Hackney now, Mead grew up in a working class household in Swindon, the youngest of three children. A self-proclaimed “late starter”, she began writing songs around the age of 16, inspired by her idols Cat Power, Joni Mitchell, Laura Veirs, Laura Marling and Sharon Van Etten. She cut her teeth gigging locally, before moving to Bournemouth for university, and then to London to pursue music. 

An autodidact, Mead credits her parents’ formidable work ethic as the root of her own industrious approach, teaching herself production and audio mixing. She shrugs, “Whether you’re from a privileged background or not, there’s nothing that can really replace the hard work that needs to go into your art. It’s like, you either sit there and play for hours until your fingers bleed, or you don’t.” 

Mead founded Wyldest in 2016, bringing in two musician friends to help her maintain the façade of the project as a band. Looking back, she puts this concealment down to imposter syndrome and feeling isolated amidst a wave of hyped, female-fronted outfits. The truth is, Wyldest is – and always has been – a solo endeavour, and when she made that official circa Monthly Friend, a weight was lifted artistically.

Co-produced once more with Rossi, The Universe Is Loading signals another pivotal shift in Mead’s approach as she lets down her guard and confronts difficult experiences head-on. Powered by motorik beats, chiming guitar and synths, self-proclaimed “ode to endometriosis” ‘After The Ending’ confronts a health scare that caused her to temporarily pause production on the album. Forced to contemplate the terrifying prospect of a life-threatening illness, and then sit with her eventual diagnosis of a chronic disease, Mead emerged from the period with first-hand experience of the fragility of life – a realisation painfully reflected in world events and ongoing

There aren’t many records you can honestly describe as life-changing. The Universe Is Loading is precisely that. The product of a period of momentous personal upheaval, Wyldest’s fourth album examines the world on a macro and micro level, pairing existential probing with intensely intimate reflections, and revealing an artist born anew. 

The truth is, we’ve never really known Zoë Mead – the woman behind Wyldest – until now. Ever since her debut, 2019’s Dream Chaos, the London-based singer-songwriter has largely let her music speak for itself, generously leaving space for listeners to imbue with their own meaning. On 2021’s self-produced follow-up Monthly Friend, she discussed the physicality of womanhood against a sonic backdrop of tender dream-pop. For 2022’s cinematic Feed The Flowers Nightmares, she explored the idea of losing yourself and starting over, while switching up her creative process, collaborating with Luciano Rossi (Idlewild, Dama Scout) and taking influence from the compositional work of Mica Levi, Jon Brion and Jonny Greenwood. 

Looking back on her journey so far, Mead admits that lingering insecurities had led her to shrink her true identity and conceal her background. “It wasn’t out of shame,” she clarifies. “It’s more that I felt like an outsider, thinking that who I was and where I was from wasn’t valid. I just really wanted to fit in.” 

Though based in Hackney now, Mead grew up in a working class household in Swindon, the youngest of three children. A self-proclaimed “late starter”, she began writing songs around the age of 16, inspired by her idols Cat Power, Joni Mitchell, Laura Veirs, Laura Marling and Sharon Van Etten. She cut her teeth gigging locally, before moving to Bournemouth for university, and then to London to pursue music. 

An autodidact, Mead credits her parents’ formidable work ethic as the root of her own industrious approach, teaching herself production and audio mixing. She shrugs, “Whether you’re from a privileged background or not, there’s nothing that can really replace the hard work that needs to go into your art. It’s like, you either sit there and play for hours until your fingers bleed, or you don’t.” 

Mead founded Wyldest in 2016, bringing in two musician friends to help her maintain the façade of the project as a band. Looking back, she puts this concealment down to imposter syndrome and feeling isolated amidst a wave of hyped, female-fronted outfits. The truth is, Wyldest is – and always has been – a solo endeavour, and when she made that official circa Monthly Friend, a weight was lifted artistically.

Co-produced once more with Rossi, The Universe Is Loading signals another pivotal shift in Mead’s approach as she lets down her guard and confronts difficult experiences head-on. Powered by motorik beats, chiming guitar and synths, self-proclaimed “ode to endometriosis” ‘After The Ending’ confronts a health scare that caused her to temporarily pause production on the album. Forced to contemplate the terrifying prospect of a life-threatening illness, and then sit with her eventual diagnosis of a chronic disease, Mead emerged from the period with first-hand experience of the fragility of life – a realisation painfully reflected in world events and ongoing

The UK’s BEST Stone Roses Tribute return to the stage! If you love I Am The Resurrection, Made Of Stone, Fools Gold, Waterfall, She Bangs The Drums and many more then do not miss this exclusive opportunity to hear your favourite Stone Roses anthems performed live by the UK’s finest tribute!

Support comes from Oaysis, one of the UK’s best Oasis tribute bands performing a hits packed set that’s guaranteed to be BIBLICAL!  

Flat Moon is a vibrant, six-piece funk-rock band from Leeds, known for their high-energy, genre-bending live shows, blending funk, psych-rock, jazz-fusion, and punk with intricate grooves, powerful sax, and infectious hooks. They explore themes like escapism, anxiety, and neurodivergence through their eclectic sound, recently releasing their debut album, “Cookin’ Up a Groove,” which showcases their unique blend of danceable grooves and thoughtful lyrics.

Funky, punky, good-times-are-a-myth debunky music is about to be served on a silver platter across the UK in 2026 as we set off on our first nationwide headline tour to celebrate the release of our debut album, ‘Cookin’ Up A Groove’.

Off the back of their sold-out headline at Leeds’ Brudenell Social Club, they are taking the show on the road.

It is the bands first ever UK headline tour, and they’ve organised it entirely independently, they’ve got some great support acts joining them for the Scunthorpe show: Healer and Kefler.

Scunthorpe is one of their members hometowns, he’s got fond memories of watching Soft Play (formerly Slaves) and Arcade Fire in the town.

For fans of: Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Frank Zappa, Parliament/Funkadelic, Black Midi, High Fade, James Brown, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Rage Against the Machine.

Getdown Services is Josh Law and Ben Sadler. They met at school in Minehead, Somerset and make music together at home in Bristol. Their highly lauded debut album Crisps was released in November 2023 via Breakfast Records presenting eclectic, danceable grooves and astute, hilarious put-downs of modern Britain. They are steadily carving out a name for themselves and building momentum over the past

18 months, with balls-to-the-wall live performances and prestigious shows with Pip Blom, FatDog, The Bug Club, Donny Benet, and Antony Szmierek – among many others. The band completed their biggest ever sold out headline UK tour in autumn 2024 after their vastly praised new EP release “Your Medal’s In The Post”, out on November 14th 2024, followed closely by their first ever sold out EU tour in January 2025.

Off the back of extensive BBC 6Music support from the likes of Craig Charles, HuwStephens, and Cerys Matthews, and armed with an arsenal of red-hot hits, Getdown Services look set to gobble the world up, one crumb at a time.