SAMA head to Wild Paths Festival with Cloth, Cowboy Hunters & GALLUS

SAMA are heading to Norwich to link up with our friends Wild Paths to present some acts!

Previous award winners Gallus make driving post-punk that blends the vitality of Sports Team, the wit of Yard Act, and introspection akin to Fontaines D.C. There'll be joining the Voodoo Daddy's line-up on the Saturday for an unmissable set!

Cloth are previous SAMA nominees - the Glaswegian twins make blissed-out, velvety guitar pop offset by crunchy synth sounds. Catch them headlining St Andrew's Brewhouse on Saturday 18th October.

And Edinburgh punks Cowboy Hunters who make visceral, screeching post-punk and are playing up and down the country this year. You'll also be able to catch them at Voodoo Daddy's on the Saturday of Wild Paths!

Wild Paths takes place 14-18 October across multiple venues in Norwich - tickets on sale now from £33.

Wild Paths Festival is a multi-venue music festival spread across Norwich showcasing the best emerging bands and artists in a variety of venues and pop-up stages, hosting discussions with key figures from the music industry and afterparty events featuring renowned DJs, live electronic acts and our late night jazz jam in a church!

Gilles Peterson at Wild Paths 2024. Photography credit: Andrew Gooding @gooding.photo

Wild Paths returns to Norwich this October, presenting 5 days of the hottest new bands and artists spread across 15 renowned venues and pop-up spaces in the city. With a ‘Best New Festival’ award under their belts the Wild Paths team are back at it, inviting globally-renowned artists to perform alongside the best and brightest local talent and pairing it all with industry panels, afterparties, pop-up bars and food trucks. Grab your festival pass from the box office at The Maids Head Hotel and set off across the city, dropping into venues to grab a drink and catch some stand-out live performances, spanning genres from indie, folk, neo-soul and jazz to psych, post-punk, disco and loads more. Venues this year include everything from record stores, basements and cafes to an Octagon Chapel, a micro-brewery, a secret cocktail den and a skate park in a church.

Spotlight events also include a very special screening of a full visual album accompanied by a live band in Cinema City (keep an eye on the socials for more info) and some intimate acoustic performances below street level - more news coming soon!

The festival conferences return again this year, spread over 2 days and providing a great opportunity to network with national booking agents, label reps and other music industry types - head to the Minstrel Rooms at The Maids Head Hotel on the Thursday and Friday from around 11am till late afternoon.

Run by a local collective of promoters, designers and musicians, Wild Paths embodies the fervent independent spirit of Norwich and its creative community. Now in its 6th year the festival has become a staple part of the regional (and national) festival calendar, perfect for discovering new talent and catching intimate sets from the Glastonbury headliners of tomorrow!