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The Line Of Best Fit announces 2016 Five Day Forecast residency

By | Published on Friday 27 November 2015

The Line Of Best Fit

The Line Of Best Fit has announced that it is bringing back its Five Day Forecast residency at The Lexington in London this January. As with the first outing of the event this year, it will showcase live performances by a number of bands being tipped by the website in the year ahead.

Among the bands on the line-up for the shows, which run from 11-15 Jan, are Pumarosa, Haelos, Diet Cig, Pleasure Beach, and Inheaven.

“The Five Day Forecast definitely all started out as an experiment”, TLOBF founder Rich Thane told CMU. “With Best Fit as an entity approaching ten years now, we try and constantly find ways to evolve, yet at the same time never veer away from why we do what we do. Which is champion new music. We’ve always done a lot of shows; whether it be our own, or indeed partnering with festivals such as The Great Escape, Field Day, End Of The Road or Iceland Airwaves. The Forecast originally was quite a selfish idea, in that I really, really hate January and wanted to organise something fun and have something to look forward to!”

Driving home just how rubbish January usually is, he went on: “It’s cold, dark and everyone is broke after Christmas, but at the same time inundated with lists and articles on who you should be listening to or who is going to be the next big thing. So I just took that mentality of people wanting to discover something new, and having something to look forward to, and coupled it with a really low ticket price. What better way to spend a dismal week in January that in the best small venue in London watching fifteen amazing new bands? For a new music fan, I don’t think you can really beat it”.

“The inaugural 2015 run of shows really took me by surprise with how busy they all were”, he added. “The majority of the acts playing were all relatively unknown at the time and it was touching to see people take a punt on something new and exciting. So much so that all five nights sold out in advance! With the 2016 edition, I really wanted it to be a cross-section of everything that we’ve supported over the past twelve months and, indeed, what we intend to champion in the coming months and years. Looking at the bill, with the likes of Pumarosa, Inheaven, Haelos, Natali Felicia, Diet Cig… They’re all responsible for some of my favourite songs of the year and it’s so exciting to have them all under one roof”.

Tickets for each of Monday to Thursday’s shows will cost £6, with Friday’s charged at £9. Or you can buy a pass for all five for £25. Full details here.



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