Maidstone & Mid-Kent Mind

Event Has Passed

Last Show: Friday 19 th August 2016

PizzaExpress Live (Maidstone)

This special, charity event, organised by local music and arts group Factotum Promotions, features live contemporary folk from Brighton based band Twenty-one Crows’ and Tin Foil Astronaut, plus supporting artists and performance poetry. Maidstone & Mid-Kent Mind work in the community to promote social inclusion for people who experience mental health problems, striving to tackle stigma and discrimination through a number of projects that promote a better understanding of mental health.

Hastings based contemporary folk act Twenty-one Crows’ almost pastoral retreat of an album throws the band into a small wooden shed, backlit by a single oil lamp, the sound of the swamp all around, giving a sonic warning to a world that just won’t listen.


Tin Foil Astronaut started as a bedroom project, a vehicle for Max Taylor's whims and obsessions. For fans of Tame Impala, Pink Floyd and Mac de Marco. Max Taylor explains: "The idea for the song just popped into my head one evening. It was about a time, when I was feeling stuck and at a dead end. It is sad, but at the same time uplifting and hopeful".