Join the Club Yeyo Saturday daytime session on the Dance Stage with original Club Yeyo/XXX Posse DJ Chris Cross and VegfestUK presenter Karin Ridgers for a fun filled afternoon of music, interviews, special guests and novelty acts alongside some eclectic old school house cuts, a punk half hour and other genres, a live performance at 2pm from One Man and His Beard, and capped with a headline performance at 6pm from Ibiza legend Judge Jules. Full line up and times TBC shortly

A mixture of Dance/Punk music,wrote the Vegfest anthem "Come On Down To Vegfest "in 2015 ( https://soundcloud.com/onemanandhisbeard/come-on-down-to-vegfest ) and played Brighton Vegfest in 2015 and 2016. In 2015 I was featured on Radio 1 Newsbeat playing "Dont Close BBC3 On TV" outside BBC Broadcasting House and in 2016 was played on BBC2  Victoria Derbyshire show playing "Let Us Be Frack Free" during a Fracking documentary. These followed earlier campaigns to save 6 music in 2010, with another song and protest outside Broadcasting House; and Libraries, still ongoing, since 2011. You can see the We Need Libraries video here:

In last 4 years I have written four anti-Badger cull songs including "We Are The Badger Army": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgAI9RDhkG4&t=1s

2018 looks like it's going to be an interesting year with many animal campaigns gathering pace and a new double A side single will be released in June with no doubt more videos to come!

So who is Karin Ridgers?

Karin Ridgers gave up her private banking career to promote vegan living full time. A scary move that has meant she has worked flat out with ups and downs running her own business for 13 years.

Karin was very excited to come third in the VegfestUK Awards for Best Individual Achievement of the Decade. Sir Paul McCartney came first and extreme marathon runner and animal sanctuary owner Fiona came second – so tough competition!

Karin is the founder of VeggieVision TV – the internet TV station that addresses the fact that in the UK there are no vegan friendly TV programmes.

Showing short film clips of cookery, information, experts, celebrities, comedy and now with real people presenters as well as professional presenters in the UK Hollywood, Paris, Hawaii, Thailand and more.

Karin has recently filmed with and interviewed Brian May, Virginia McKenna, Martin Clunes, Anthea Turner, Lorraine Chase, Matthew Wright, Wendy Turner Webster, Laura Hamilton, Peter Eagan, Rick Wakeman, Helen Chamberlain she has also interviewed Sean Hughes and Joanna Lumley.

She is also friends with and knows some high profile vegans including Peter Egan, Wendy Turner Webster, Jasmine Harman, Tim Shieff, Victoria Pearce and the K 9 Angels, Rick Hay and Rose Elliot.

She has worked with Heather Mills and through her work with Veganuary Karin spoke to Uri Gellar and Jasmine Harman on a regular basis about the benefits of being vegan and they are still vegan.

Karin also coaches media and celebrities to be vegan.

Karin now has her own weekly radio show again broadcasting on 98fm over Essex and online via http://www.phoenixfm.com/author/karin

Karin is thrilled to work closely with VegfestUK the biggest vegan festivals in Europe.

She is the VegfestUK ‘MC’. She gains VegfestUK and veganism a lot of media coverage and she encourages and arranges for media to attend the festivals too.

Karin was consulted to write about hidden vegetarian ingredients for the Mailonline and the feature was also written about all over Europe, the UK and even in China!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-3086256/No-bananas-vegetarian-foods-think-meat-free-actually-contain-SECRET-animal-products.html

She has written for Leona Lewis’s blog as well as for the Ocado blog and is the vegan advisor to Centre Parcs.

Karin also runs MAD-Promotions an ethical PR company that focuses on businesses that are making the world a better place.

She can reach all of the media in the world through the very best professional PR technologies.

MAD-Promotions and VeggieVision TV have worked with more than 20 vegan events in the UK bringing them more publicity in mainstream media too.

She also works with many vegans and vegan products too – constantly getting the positive vegan-friendly message into mainstream media.

Karin has gained clients £100,00’s over the years in free editorial coverage – resulting in profiles of clients being raised, clients gaining their own regular columns, running competitions, having products reviewed and more.

Karin helps as many Pro bono clients as possible – Her work saved a local animal sanctuary from being closed down and has helped raise more than £40,000 for animals - this meant that 2,000 UK based animal sanctuaries animals did not have to be put down – saving the lives of over 300 animals.

Karin has taken part in more than 200 radio interviews – all promoting how easy, fun, healthy and kinder it is to lead a vegan life.

When the Managing Editor of BBC Essex met Karin he recommended her to be a ‘Loud Woman’ – a small team of women who regularly appear on Sadie Nines award winning show. One of Karin’s blasts was so popular it was turned into an advert for the show and helped win 2 BBC Gold awards.

Karin was asked to be the voice for vegetarians in the UK and appeared on Sky News live addressing the horse meat scandal. 

http://www.veggievision.tv/karin-ridgers-veggievision-tv-the-vegetarian-voice-during-horsemeat-scandal-2

She also was asked to film for the BBC about her views on the UK’s first vegetarian sweet shop.

Karin is the main live presenter at VegfestUK. She introduces the top acts, she presents the awards and is the moderator for the debates which are filmed in front on a live audience as well as streamed live worldwide.

Some videos are here: http://www.karinridgers.tv/videos.html

Karin has been asked to write for other publications in connection with veggie and vegan living and has recently written for various trade publications on how and why they must cater for vegans.

She meets with hotel and restaurant owners and managers and with the power of VeggieVision TV behind her they listen to how and why to cater for vegans.

Karin has liaised with the managers of Centre Parcs, Butlins through to the best restaurants and hotels in the UK – 5 Red Star Chewton Glen and Roux at the Landau.

Still a favourite quote if from the much loved Joanna Lumley OBE said of Karin:

“And well done Karin who was like a dear black clad bottle of bubbly.”

Karin has also won awards from Viva! and SMTV for her work in spreading the veggie word.

www.karinridgers.tv www.veggievision.tv www.mad-promotions.com

Karin on The VegfestUK Stage Bristol 2016

Liberation Drummer (A.K.A Josh) is a unique performer who delivers a clear animal liberation message through relatable pop music. Having being a street activist for over a year Josh decided to use his musical background to push the vegan movement. His songs describe modern farming in an emotive way. Having only started the project in February 2018 his debut album is due to be released October 2018 containing nine tracks related to the vegan message and ending animal exploitation.

He will be touring the album throughout Europe in the near future and is happy to perform at any venue, from living rooms to stadiums!

So who is Karin Ridgers?

Karin Ridgers gave up her private banking career to promote vegan living full time. A scary move that has meant she has worked flat out with ups and downs running her own business for 13 years.

Karin was very excited to come third in the VegfestUK Awards for Best Individual Achievement of the Decade. Sir Paul McCartney came first and extreme marathon runner and animal sanctuary owner Fiona came second – so tough competition!

Karin is the founder of VeggieVision TV – the internet TV station that addresses the fact that in the UK there are no vegan friendly TV programmes.

Showing short film clips of cookery, information, experts, celebrities, comedy and now with real people presenters as well as professional presenters in the UK Hollywood, Paris, Hawaii, Thailand and more.

Karin has recently filmed with and interviewed Brian May, Virginia McKenna, Martin Clunes, Anthea Turner, Lorraine Chase, Matthew Wright, Wendy Turner Webster, Laura Hamilton, Peter Eagan, Rick Wakeman, Helen Chamberlain she has also interviewed Sean Hughes and Joanna Lumley.

She is also friends with and knows some high profile vegans including Peter Egan, Wendy Turner Webster, Jasmine Harman, Tim Shieff, Victoria Pearce and the K 9 Angels, Rick Hay and Rose Elliot.

She has worked with Heather Mills and through her work with Veganuary Karin spoke to Uri Gellar and Jasmine Harman on a regular basis about the benefits of being vegan and they are still vegan.

Karin also coaches media and celebrities to be vegan.

Karin now has her own weekly radio show again broadcasting on 98fm over Essex and online via http://www.phoenixfm.com/author/karin

Karin is thrilled to work closely with VegfestUK the biggest vegan festivals in Europe.

She is the VegfestUK ‘MC’. She gains VegfestUK and veganism a lot of media coverage and she encourages and arranges for media to attend the festivals too.

Karin was consulted to write about hidden vegetarian ingredients for the Mailonline and the feature was also written about all over Europe, the UK and even in China!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-3086256/No-bananas-vegetarian-foods-think-meat-free-actually-contain-SECRET-animal-products.html

She has written for Leona Lewis’s blog as well as for the Ocado blog and is the vegan advisor to Centre Parcs.

Karin also runs MAD-Promotions an ethical PR company that focuses on businesses that are making the world a better place.

She can reach all of the media in the world through the very best professional PR technologies.

MAD-Promotions and VeggieVision TV have worked with more than 20 vegan events in the UK bringing them more publicity in mainstream media too.

She also works with many vegans and vegan products too – constantly getting the positive vegan-friendly message into mainstream media.

Karin has gained clients £100,00’s over the years in free editorial coverage – resulting in profiles of clients being raised, clients gaining their own regular columns, running competitions, having products reviewed and more.

Karin helps as many Pro bono clients as possible – Her work saved a local animal sanctuary from being closed down and has helped raise more than £40,000 for animals - this meant that 2,000 UK based animal sanctuaries animals did not have to be put down – saving the lives of over 300 animals.

Karin has taken part in more than 200 radio interviews – all promoting how easy, fun, healthy and kinder it is to lead a vegan life.

When the Managing Editor of BBC Essex met Karin he recommended her to be a ‘Loud Woman’ – a small team of women who regularly appear on Sadie Nines award winning show. One of Karin’s blasts was so popular it was turned into an advert for the show and helped win 2 BBC Gold awards.

Karin was asked to be the voice for vegetarians in the UK and appeared on Sky News live addressing the horse meat scandal. 

http://www.veggievision.tv/karin-ridgers-veggievision-tv-the-vegetarian-voice-during-horsemeat-scandal-2

She also was asked to film for the BBC about her views on the UK’s first vegetarian sweet shop.

Karin is the main live presenter at VegfestUK. She introduces the top acts, she presents the awards and is the moderator for the debates which are filmed in front on a live audience as well as streamed live worldwide.

Some videos are here: http://www.karinridgers.tv/videos.html

Karin has been asked to write for other publications in connection with veggie and vegan living and has recently written for various trade publications on how and why they must cater for vegans.

She meets with hotel and restaurant owners and managers and with the power of VeggieVision TV behind her they listen to how and why to cater for vegans.

Karin has liaised with the managers of Centre Parcs, Butlins through to the best restaurants and hotels in the UK – 5 Red Star Chewton Glen and Roux at the Landau.

Still a favourite quote if from the much loved Joanna Lumley OBE said of Karin:

“And well done Karin who was like a dear black clad bottle of bubbly.”

Karin has also won awards from Viva! and SMTV for her work in spreading the veggie word.

www.karinridgers.tv www.veggievision.tv www.mad-promotions.com

Karin on The VegfestUK Stage Bristol 2016

He’s one DJ that has been there, done that and done it all again, and for almost three decades Judge Jules has led the way in the world of dance music. Since hitting the decks in 1987, Judge Jules has influenced an entire generation on Kiss FM and Radio 1 and continues to be on the playlists of millions with his weekly radio show The Global Warm Up, which notches up 750,000 downloads every single week via his podcast and is broadcast on over 80 stations around the world.

As a pioneer of the club scene, passion and persona behind the decks coupled with crowd connection and unrivalled mixing has earned Judge Jules unforgettable sets at the world’s most iconic clubs and festivals including Gatecrasher, Ministry of Sound, Global Gathering and Creamfields.

In the studio, Judge Jules has released over 100 tracks of which ten have reached the top 40 in the UK national charts with countless more gracing the upper reaches of the dance charts. He’s mixed compilations for Ministry of Sound, Universal and Warner Bros, which have racked up over 3 million sales, and he’s currently in the studio gearing up to drop a whole host of new beats for 2017.

Earning his place amongst DJ legends, Judge Jules has received accolades such as #1 DJ (Mixmag), Best International DJ (Dancestar Awards), Best Radio DJ (Smirnoff’s Dancestars), and has consistently featured in the DJ Mag Top 100 poll, peaking at #3 in the world, alongside the industry’s greatest.

Jules’ presence and reputation in Ibiza is legendary, and his famous brand, Judgement Fridays (formerly Judgement Sundays) is the longest standing DJ residency in Ibiza history.  The night continues to pack out its Balearic home week in, week out over the summer season, totting up 16 years of events on the island.

Judge Jules is not planning on slowing down. Instead, he’s continuing to innovate and lead as he always has done taking the ‘Judgement’ brand to the next level in the form of a record label, and UK tour to influence a whole new generation of dance music lovers.

Having spent plenty of time locked away in the studio, 2016 saw a serious return to form in terms of productions with the launch of his own ‘Judgement Recordings’ and releases on Coldharbour Recordings, Sirup Music and more. With tracks like ‘Turn On The Lights’, ‘Burn In The Sun’, ‘With A Song’ and ‘Te Quiero’ all gaining high profile support and on chart placements on Beatport, Jules is still very much at the top of his game both behind the decks and in the studio.

With his early ambitions earning him the name Judge Jules, the legal world has become something of a backbone throughout his entire career and having re-trained whilst on tour, during part of the week, in addition to his DJ travels, Jules is a music lawyer with Sheridans, advising labels, DJs, artists and a wide range of other music industry folk. Jules has also lent his expertise in the legal field to a regular ‘Industry Insiders’ column in Mixmag  offering advice to up and coming DJs and artists."Phases come and go, genres are born and laid to rest in the blink of an eye, but one thing is for certain… Judge Jules is here to stay.

Starting out as a series of regular club nights in the South West of England, Soul Train Radio went on air in 2017, broadcasting online and on DAB radio soul music & all sub-genres.

http://www.soultrainradio.co.uk/

Starting out as a series of regular club nights in the South West of England, Soul Train Radio went on air in 2017, broadcasting online and on DAB radio soul music & all sub-genres.

http://www.soultrainradio.co.uk/

Mark Devlin is a UK-based club and radio DJ, music journalist and author, specialising in R&B, soul, hip hop and other forms of black music.

His big radio break was on Galaxy 101 in Bristol in 1996, where he presented the Friday night urban show, The Swing Shift. His current radio venture is the The Sound Of Now on First Radio in Oxford, (which streams live Saturdays 6-8pm GMT at www.firstfm.uk)

Club-wise, Mark has played internationally, spinning in around 40 countries, from the USA and South Africa, to Japan and Australia.

In 2013, he started his conscious music podcast called The Sound of Freedom, showcasing non-corporate, meaningful message music from artists old and new. He has since become an author, publishing the two volumes of his book ‘Musical Truth’ in 2016 and 2018 respectively.

He has been a vegetarian for the past 30 years, and a vegan for the past five.

The full Sound of Freedom podcast archive can be found at:

https://www.spreaker.com/show/the-sound-of-freedom

On-line mixes and radio shows can be found at:

https://www.mixcloud.com/djmarkdevlin/

Paul was one of the founders of Soultrain who’s origins can be traced as far back to 1992 when Paul got together for a one off re-union with 70s Soul Jazz Funk Bristol Dj’s and clubbers from back in the day.

From a one off Re-Union which was full to capacity by 11pm the rest they say is history : we haven't stopped since . Launching Soultrain was a milestone and landmark that has resulted in Bristol's favourite Soul Institution and probably the longest running club night in the country. Let's face it how many clubnights have been running for 25 years+ and are still going strong? with roots and origins tracing back to the early 70's when Paul , Adrian & Steve were importing funk 45’s . Quoted by Massive Attack as ‘ early influencers on The Bristol Sound ‘ . (For additional source of reference see Author Chris Brown book Suited & Booted growing up in Bristol and the music scene in the 70’s and BBC Radio6 Documentary ) In 2001 Soultrain brought US funksters the Fatback Band to Bristol for the first time in 25 years, playing all their hits live at Soultrain. Hits like I found Loving,Wicky Wacky, Bus Stop, Backstroking and Spanish Hustle. This night lives long in the memory. Soultrain are still in direct contact with the Fatback band leader Bill Curtis, with whom we have become very friendly and once acted as tour managers to the band.

In the summer of 2004 Soultrain were invited to host the Dance Tent at the Glastonbury festival. In front of 10,000 funksters Soultrain held it down with the Fatback Band, Sister Sledge, Rose Royce’s Gwen Dickey and Jazzy B's Soul to Soul. Soultrain collective have hosted stages at Glastonbury and Love Saves The Day Festival as well as appearing at London’s famous Ronnie Scott’s.

Soultrain have worked with/ hosted Alexander O'Neal, Shalamar , Roy Ayers, Omar , Loose Ends , Light of the World , Nile Rodgers , Womack & Womack , Mica Paris , Beverley Knight , Shaggy , Heatwave , Cymande , Average White Band , Edwin Starr, Gil Scot Heron, The Real Thing , Blackstreet , Keith Sweat , Norman Jay, Odyssey , Martine Girault , Pee Wee Ellis, Maceo Parker ,Brand New Heavies , Rick Clarke , Don E, Craig Charles etc .

Soultrain have been awarded by The Soul Survivor Magazine As The Top Soul Night outside of London past & present and runners up in 2014. Also voted by The Guardian as the Top Club night out in The West.

Paul Alexander likes his rare groove soul and jazz funk ,retaining all of his original vinyl record collection from the 70's he has been an avid collector ever since, as well as catching US touring artiste when in the UK . He has seen Freddie Jackson, Luther Vandross, Lonnie Liston, The Blackbyrds, Roy Ayers, Al Green, Maceo Parker, Manu Dibango, Herbie Hancock, George Benson , Cameo , Leroy Hutson and Maze as well as many of the original Tamla Motown acts. One of his favourite all time records is William Devaughan's crem' de la crème.

In January 2017 Paul was instrumental in setting up Soultrain Radio DAB with Ricky Reid Bristol’s newest and only independent DAB Radio Station playing soul music 24 hours a day 7 days a week .

Paul’s last event was headlining Craig Charles Funk & Soul NYE Event which attracted 2,000 funksters to Celebrate The New Year at The Colston Hall.

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Mark Stewart has been performing as Elton John since 2010. Capturing Elton’s epic showmanship, powerful vocals and stomping piano-playing, Mark brings you all the greatest hits of this pop music icon, with classics such as ‘Rocket Man’, ‘Crocodile Rock’ and ‘Candle in the Wind’, plus many more you never knew you knew! Transcending generations, Elton’s songs are sure to get you singing, dancing and swaying along; delivered by Mark with true conviction and gusto, as well as plenty of light-hearted banter in between. More than just a tribute act, The Elton John Experience is an homage to one of the most unique and enduring forces in entertainment; high-energy, nostalgic and fun for all the family!

Every Step You Take Is A Migration! Juha began as a hip hop crew in Hawaii, and is now a London-based sonic stewpot… Or “The sound of Prince and Manu Chao kissing on a dance floor,” as they say.  While song topics range from the refugee crisis to mental health to the lives of other animals on this planet, Juha always manages to add good ol’ fashioned sleaze into the mix.  And the Juha mission is that when you’ve exited the show, you’re a little bit more in Love with yourself than when ya' came in.

With “rockets burning fuel so fast”, The Supanauts, with authentic renditions of all the great tracks from the first 6 albums bring the power and the glory of the original heavy rock band, Black Sabbath.

The Midlands in the 70’s was an industrial powerhouse but poverty and deprivation blighted the lives of the new generation and they turned to music to vent their frustration over the hopelessness and injustice of war, spawning the iconic giants of heavy rock, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath.

The Supanauts bring all their experience from years of treading the boards with bands such as The Groundhogs, at festivals such as Glastonbury and Edinburgh in the UK, Roadburn in Holland, the Classic Legends of Rock Tour with Wishbone Ash and Focus to recording with illuminati such as Steve Vai, to bring you a totally faithful and powerful tribute to the fathers of Heavy Rock and Metal, Black Sabbath.

They “want to reach out, and touch the sky, reach out and touch the sun but they don’t need to fly to climb the Mountains of the Moon” *

Classic four piece, bass, drums, guitar and vocals

§ - Into The Void – Black Sabbath from ‘Masters of Reality’

* - Supernaut – Black Sabbath ‘Vol 4’

Starting out as a series of regular club nights in the South West of England, Soul Train Radio went on air in 2017, broadcasting online and on DAB radio soul music & all sub-genres.

http://www.soultrainradio.co.uk/

Mobo award winner and dance sensation Baby D is one of the UK & Europe’s Biggest dance success, with more than a million single sales worldwide and a chart topping #4 debut album ‘Deliverance’, 4 top hit singles “I need your loving ( Everybody’s gotta learn sometime )” , ‘So Pure’ , ‘Take me to heaven’ and the no.1 hit ‘Let me be your fantasy’

‘Let me be your fantasy’  stayed in the national charts for over 2 years and sold over in excess of 400,000 copies in its 1st week of release alone and peaked at the no.1 national chart position for 2 weeks on 24th Nov 1994.

The name Baby D originated from Dee herself, She is very tiny at around 5ft1 hence BabyDee to the abbreviated ‘Baby D’. Baby D has constantly been playing live since the band was formed at the beginning of the 90's and appear live all over the UK, Europe and Middle East including Spain, Poland, Cyprus, Germany, Greek islands and Dubai.

Performing live for events such as Global Gathering, Raveology, Kisstory, Dance island, Raindance, Epidemik, Earthquake, Radio 1 Live, MTV’s Most Wanted and Moondance naming just a few.

Baby D has been involved with many other artists including ‘The Prodigy’ and featured on their ‘Music for a jilted generation’ album on the track ‘Break & Enter’; this track used a sample from Baby D’s “Casanova” track.

The Prodigy then remixed this track in their own unique style and was released on the Casanova cd single as the 'Prodigy pump action' Remix and the limited edition 2CD ‘Deliverance’ album. Other artists Baby D has been involved with include The Ratpack, The Chemical Brothers and Goldie.

In 2011 Baby D Collaborated with 'Emalkay' on the Dubstep track, '”On and On”.

She has received unprecedented support from her fans both newcomers and original and remains music industry gold.