Shannon Lay’s latest album, Geist feels like a window - or a mirror - into possibilities of the self and beyond. Geist is tender intensity, placeless and ethereal. It exists in the chasms of the present -- a world populated by shadow selves, spiritual awakenings, déjà vu, and past lives. As a whole, Geist is both esoteric and accessible.

Initially forming in 2016, Cambridge quartet Lemondaze have become one of the finest emerging talents in Britain’s burgeoning alternative music scene thanks to their transcendental brand of shoegaze. Their debut EP Celestial Bodies is a testament to this- featuring swirling guitars and hypnotic drums that form to create an ethereal experience that enables the band to convey their varying expressions of cis and non-cisgenders and sexualities.

A brand new hour of comedy from the hilariously funny, aggressively nerdy and down right adorable Sasha Ellen. Sasha asks the big questions. Is it hard to find love in this here modern world? Does size matter? How have Dick and Dom got away with it all this time?

"Honest, hilarious and horrifying... the comedy future looks good for Ellen” Canal-St.

“Smart, self-possessed and with great heart… comedy done well” ★★★★ TheStudent

“This is a comedian you need to keep an eye out for” ★★★★ Phoenix Remix.

Nominated for Best New Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2022.

Material heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra

Esther has always been told “Anger is not a good quality in a woman” and therefore has tried so very hard to keep a lid on it. Sadly, she failed and has decided to embrace her rage. How on earth can anyone be a woman, and a mother, and not continuously have their patience tested? She is fed up of every feeling being labelled hormonal, she is sick of being considered dead at 40, she is sick of online comments loaded with misogyny but most of all she is so sick of her coat rack which has way too many coats on it, its mocking her in it’s encapsulation of the perfect metaphor.

Come join Esther for a show of rage celebration, ladies we aint crazy, we are seething, and it feels great.

Seen on

Live at the Apollo

ITV stand up sketch show

Dave Hypothetical

4OD The prank podcast show

Heard on

Radio 4 News Quiz

Radio 4 Mark Watson What is life

**** The Standard

**** Three Weeks

**** The List

**** Funny Women

**** The Voice

**** One4review

**** Why Now

After fixing all the World’s problems last year, living legend and national treasure in waiting, Nick Helm returns to the stage with a WIP that promises to be every bit as awe inspiring, good looking and humble as the last one. Content in development.

Join award-winning double act Low Effort Sketches (Andy Bucks and Alice Wickersham) for an hour of silly sketch comedy! Andy and Alice have a problem: they want to be respected for their witty sketches and punchy one-liners, but their best material just consists of singing a popular Disney song at an extremely high pitch. This show charts their mission to write a sketch funnier than their terrible vocals. They will explore increasingly desperate sketch premises, including a reimagining of the UK Singles Chart, an alternative explanation for how World War 2 started, and a vicar working in a bureau de change. For fans of Mitchell and Webb or Armstrong and Miller.

Winners of Leicester Square Theatre Sketch Off 2022

“Unfollowable. Hilarious” - Chortle

As heard on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire

Photo Credit: Andy Hollingworth

Marked as 'One to Watch' by the Independent, Elliot Steel (co-host of hit podcast Btec Philosophers) is a rising talent on the UK's comedy circuit.

Receiving critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his show Merked in 2019, you won't want to miss this brand-new work in progress show. As seen on Comedy Central's Roast Battle and Live from the Comedy Store, and as heard on BBC Radio 1's Comedy Lounge and BBC Radio 4. Best Debut Show Nominee at Leicester Comedy Festival 2015.

Confident, accomplished and very clever… it is worth noting that he is a rising star. A talented comedian with much to say and one to be watched. If he’s on a bill, go and see him.’ FringeReview

‘Astute quips which leave us all in tears from laughing’ ★★★★1/2 - Short Com

‘His millennial pearls of wisdom definitely deserve bigger crowds’ ★★★★ - The List

Double Edinburgh Comedy Award ‘Best Show’ nominee Ahir Shah is one of the fastest-rising comedians of his generation. Shah’s sharp, intellectual brand of stand-up features a blend of philosophical inquiry, political vigour, and sweet gags.

Ahir has performed internationally at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, the Adelaide Fringe and Just for Laughs Montreal, and has toured in continental Europe and India.

He has performed stand-up on Live At The Apollo (BBC 2), The Now Show (Radio 4) and Stand Up Central (Comedy Central). Outside of stand up, Ahir has also been seen on shows including Have I Got News For You (BBC1), FrankieBoyle’s New World Order (BBC 2), Catastrophe (Channel 4), and Campus (Channel 4).

He has also performed and regularly writes on The Mash Report (BBC 2) and has written and starred in the short films Ahir Shah’s Summer (Sky) and Ahir Shah’s Life Lessons (BBC Three) and has developed two sitcom pilots for Channel 4.

Can smoking crack ever be as relatable as finding true love at Christmas? Lulu argues yes.

An hour of brilliant stand-up about the much loved/hated rom-com Love Actually (delete as appropriate) and how it's secretly all about drug addiction/ sunburn/ The Daily Mail (delete as appropriate).

'A simply hilarious and thoughtful comedian. Sharp, witty and cleverly constructed' - Varsity

‘Lucky me’ is Ali Warwood’s 2nd solo show. Ali is returning with a new show, not because she wants to, but because she feels she should. People keep telling Ali how lucky she is, which felt good the first 25 times but now her sense of agency is slipping away and what better time to write a comedy show than in the middle of an existential crisis?

Ali is a Cambridge local and runs Commoners’ Comedy Club.

Trigger warning: this show contains a scary amount of musical comedy.

Recommended age: 14+

The LMHR Collective is a true representation of the Love Music Hate Racism campaign. A revolving door for musicians and artists who believe in music as a force for good from different many different backgrounds. On this special evening we will feature a performance with music of vocal virtuoso and soulstres Kianja, award-winning-jazz-saxophonist and musical titan Camila George, as well as one of London’s most talented emcees, Consensus. We can’t wait to share this experience with Sound and Vision Festival in Cambridge.

SOUND + VISION and Cambridge Junction presents: The FIVER

The FIVER is a longstanding Cambridge Junction tradition that sees five local bands take to the J1 stage. Support new music in Cambridge!

• Max Headroom

• Dissent

• The Daze

• 4Fit

• QUEEN DOGS

SOUND + VISION Music Industry Day:

10:00 - Building and sustaining a career in Music

11:00 - Music Publishing - The Definitive Guide

12:00 - Show Me The Money - How to source funding for artists and music projects

14:00 - The Sync Panel - composing and licensing music to film, TV, video games and ads

15:00 - Band On The Road: Gigs and Touring for emerging artists and the current state of the live sector

16:00 - Fireside Chat - John Robb - The History of Goth

Cambridge local comedian Ali Warwood has curated and hosts a line up of LGBTQ+ comedians.

Featuring:

Ania Magliano:

Ania is a 22 year old comedian and writer based in London.

She has written for Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC2), Newsjack (BBC R4), The Now Show (BBC R4) and is one of the 4 regular writers on the Have I Got News For You Twitter account.

Her previous shows received 5 stars from Diva Magazine, and have been recommended by Comedy Central as a ‘show not to miss’. She was a Funny Women Finalist 2020, 2Northdown New Act of the Year Finalist 2019 and Chortle Student Comedy Award Finalist 2018.

She is a former member of the Cambridge Footlights as one of the first Access Officers, and a founder of Stockings Comedy, a comedy collective for female and non-binary comedy performers.

Sam Williams:

Your Mum's favourite bleach-haired bisexual comedian, Sam Williams takes every day subject matters and twists them in "inventive" and "vivid" ways with "a relaxed and assured presence" (Chortle).

2021 Chortle Student Comedy Award Runner Up/2022 Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Finalist.

This show is suitable for 16+, there might be some swearing but it will generally be lovely and joyful. We'd love you to come along and also BRING EVERYONE!

Cambridge Footlights member (and owl lookalike) Andy Bucks has ruined his sleep schedule to bring you a very silly debut hour of stand-up comedy. The later it gets, his brain functions more worsely. What you’re about to witness is a series of increasingly severe brain farts.

This will be a hoot!!!!!!!!! lmao

"A classy writer, able to make a fantastic running joke” - Chortle

"Excellent material, great stage presence and confident going off script. A worthy runner up in a strong field" (South East New Comedian of the Year 2018 judges)

Alison loves to do star jumps in the water. She also likes to watch people fight in chip shops. Her two worlds collide as a fight breaks out in aqua-aerobics and she’s never felt so alive.

When the foam settles, Alison realises she’s an outwardly nice person who lives for confrontation.

Host of BBC Sounds Wheel of Misfortune, The Guilty Feminist podcast and writer for Have I Got News For You.

“A kind of genius” **** The Irish Times

“A master class in stand-up comedy” MEG.IE

Ania is a 22 year old comedian and writer based in London.

She has written for Frankie Boyle’s New World Order (BBC2), Newsjack (BBC R4), The Now Show (BBC R4) and is one of the 4 regular writers on the Have I Got News For You Twitter account.

Her previous shows received 5 stars from Diva Magazine, and have been recommended by Comedy Central as a ‘show not to miss’. She was a Funny Women Finalist 2020, 2Northdown New Act of the Year Finalist 2019 and Chortle Student Comedy Award Finalist 2018.

She is a former member of the Cambridge Footlights as one of the first Access Officers, and a founder of Stockings Comedy, a comedy collective for female and non-binary comedy performers.

Adele’s 3rd hour long show. Standup combining one liners and anecdotes. All about knowledge and whether it’s good to know everything or to leave some things unknown.

Four arms, four legs, two heads, wood, metal and plastic. A band of two Johns from Crystal Palace, London, UK.

Norwich’s finest singer-songwriter Maya Law is quickly becoming a rising star. Transforming difficult experiences into challenging but brilliant songs, her music captures a range of emotions.

Influential songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kristin Hersh, leader of the indie rock band Throwing Muses and the noise rock power trio 50 Foot Wave, is back on the road with her highly acclaimed Throwing Muses release, "Sun Racket".

Expect a powerful horn section, ultra-tight musicianship and heavy afro-jazz grooves as Nubiyan Twist bring their incendiary show to The Junction on 22nd April 2022.

Freedom Fables was released in February 2021 to widespread acclaim, including a MOBO nomination for Best Jazz Act. four 6Music & Jazz FM playlisted singles, an appearance on Jools Holland and a festival season which included Green Man, We Out Here & South Facing.

Five years ago, Aaron gained a nickname based solely on being in a wheelchair. This upset him as there is much more to him than his disability, but annoyingly, it’s a really cool nickname. Discover the positive side of being disabled, from having a blue badge to sex in disabled toilets and everything in between. 

Amused Moose Best Show Finalist (2019) As seen on The Russell Howard Hour (Sky 1), ‘The Stand-Up Sketch Show’ (ITV2), ‘Guessable’ (Comedy Central) and ‘Undeniable’ (Comedy Central) 

“EASY TO SEE WHY HE’S AN AWARD WINNER” ★★★★ Scotsman 

“HAS THE AUDIENCE IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND” ★★★★ Broadway World 

★★★ Metro 

"Amiable, likeable, and a commanding presence on stage, Aaron Simmonds is an exciting talent”

– ★★★★ Broadway Baby

Fed up with being told how to look and behave since she was a teenager, Harriet is taking a long hard squint at the beauty industry through her two remaining false eye lashes. 

As seen on Live at the Apollo, 8 Out of 10 Cats does Countdown, Hypothetical, Roast Battle, Guessable, As Yet Untitled, Comedy Central at The Comedy Store & Bobby & Harriet Get Married. 

'At the dawn of her TV career.' (Radio Times) 'Packs in high calibre jokes' (Guardian) 'A masterful hour' (Skinny) ★★★★ (Guardian) ★★★★ (Scotsman) ★★★★ (List) ★★★★ (Fest Mag).

This show is free to attend but please book to help us manage demand. A bucket collection will be taken at the end of the show with all proceeds going to the performer.

Helen is basic, well basic-plus because she is self-aware with it.  Last year’s Best Newcomer nominee returns with an hour about self-confidence, self-esteem and self-care. It’s the year of ‘self’. Taking care of yourself has never been more ‘in’. Inspirational quotes and facemasks are a big industry and, like all her friends, Helen is trying to ‘be the change she wants to see’. From BBC One, Dave, ITV2, Comedy Central and Radio 4. “A personality that will fill a stadium… This girl will not be performing in small venues for much longer” ***** Sunday Express

A work in progress show, an hour of stand up all about the self!

Cetera (pronounced set-er-a) is an Artist Development and Management company powered by Access Creative College.

Ceteras role is to work with ACC students and alumni to help launch their careers and help move them along to the next stage of their development journey.

Showcases like the one for Sound and Vision are just one of the ways that Cetera and Access associated acts get to play in front of industry tastemakers. Cetera/Access acts also get to play at Latitude Festival, Wild Paths Festival, Soho Music Month, Mostly Jazz, Funk and Soul,Moseley Folk Festival, Wide Skies Festival and many others.

Acts playing the Cetera x Access showcase at Sound and Vision include the haunting sounds of Oliver Say, the local boom bap hip hop champions Sleeps Cousin, the rap/hyperpop of the multi talented producer Sebbuku, the crunchy power trio that is Archy and The Astronauts and East Anglia's next big thing Gabby Rivers.