Isle of Wight Festival Special featuring The Crooks, The Cases and The Slates

Pack up your tent and hop of the ferry... we're heading to the Isle of Wight Festival.

Whether you are heading to the festival or not this special episode of Freshly Squeezed (the first of our festival specials) features some of the best up-and-coming talent playing the fezzie this year and you'll hear a couple of EXCLUSIVE first-play's too!

For this episode we focus on the This Feeling stage, which is normally where the best new music can be found and this year will be home to...

The Crooks: The Crooks are back... and it's very good news! The Chesterfield band are back with 90s-style swagger and some big indie rock anthems! Jack chats to Jim about the bands previous implosion and some big plans for the future.

The Slates: Energetic Yorkshire band The Slates are making their Isle of White debut and you won't want to miss them if you like bands like Catfish & The Bottlemen and The Reytons.

The Cases: Taking inspiration from Oasis stadium sized anthems and The Smiths soaring melodies Preston band The Cases are 100% one to watch for the future... plus you'll find out the bands curve ball fantasy festival line up!

Get stuck in, discover your next favourite band and subscribe to the podcast for more... Freshly Squeezed will be your essential audio guide to 2025 festival season.

Freshly Squeezed is written, researched and hosted by Jim Salveson. Additional sound design and production support from Ant McGinley. The show's theme tune 'Blue Blazer' is from Manchester's Spin Klass.