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Indietracks lineup takes shape

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Video: Indietracks 2009 in 7 Minutes by LastNightFromGlasgow

The Indietracks lineup seems to be pretty much complete now (though a few more bands are still to come) with Everybody Was In The French Resistance… Now and both being added to the bill.  Perhaps more excitingly though, the day by day breakdowns have now been announced, giving us a festival that looks something like this:

Friday

Everybody Was In The French Resistance…Now, Allo Darlin’,

Saturday

The Primitives, Love is All, David Tattersall, Ballboy, Stars in Coma, , , Boy Genius, , , , Burning Hearts, , The Callas, Betty and the Werewolves, This Many Boyfriends, Linda Guilala, The Give It Ups, The Felt Tips, , The Hillfields, , , , Jam On Bread, Lime Chalks

Sunday

, The Pooh Sticks, Pale Sunday, Slow Club, Springfactory, Stars of Aviation, , , , , Internet Forever, The Sunny Street, Printed Circuit, , The Millipedes, , , Winston Echo, Standard Fare, , Be Like Pablo, The Specific Heats, Mexican Kids at Home, The Middle Ones, Yokoko, Clint Play People

Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good.  On a personal level, the lineup is quite nice for me with a decent split across the days of the bands that I like, though it looks like Sunday has the possibility of being clash central.  Not that it matters too much at Indietracks though.  I had great fun last year watching bands I hadn’t even heard of even if I didn’t get to see all of the ones I would have liked to.

Indietracks takes place between 23-25 July at the Midland Railway Centre in Swanwick, located a little way off of the M1 north of Nottingham.  Bands play across four stages, one of which is located in a moving steam train.  Various workshops and discos happen around the site, and it’s quite simply the nicest place you’ll ever go.  Tickets cost £60 for all three days or £32.50 per day, and can be purchased here.

First band announcements for Indietracks 2010

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Indietracks 2009

Now that London Popfest is out of the way, it’s time to turn our attention to this year’s Indietracks festival, which will take place 23-25 July at the lovely Midland Railway Centre in Derbyshire.  Last year we covered the event quite extensively, and this year will be no different.  Previews of the bands in the run up to the event, followed by reports and a shit ton of photos of the weekend itself.  I’m not exaggerating when I call Indietracks the highlight of my musical year.  Where else can you get a non-stop indiepop while surrounded by (and sometimes on!) steam trains?

Rather excitingly, the first band announcements are now out, giving us our first 24 bands that will be playing the festival:

Highlights for myself amongst that lot include Allo Darlin’, Ballboy and Standard Fare, but there’s a lot there already that I’m looking forward to.  A number that I’m not familiar with that I look forward to getting acquainted with too.  No word on any headliners just yet, but announcements seem to be coming thick and fast now, so hopefully we’ll have more soon.

Update: Of course, mere hours after I post this, 8 new additions have revealed: Internet Forever, , Burning Hearts, , La La Love You, , , .

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AFoR Advent: Foxes!

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2 years ago
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Foxes!

Bloody hell. From the numbers over the past three days I should just post Christmas songs all year round.

Today’s Christmas song is, er, Christmas Songs by I wrote about the band back in August as being another part of current lo-fi indiepop trend of the moment, and Christmas Songs slots right into that genre. On the most part, it doesn’t feel particularly festive, although it does feature my favourite line in a while (“I’m jolly glad you found me at the jolliest time of the year”) that manages to make two uses of the word jolly completely earnest. I like the implication of Santa essentially running a sweatshop with elves that have nowhere else to go too. With a bit of wordplay and some backwards imagery, have actually come up with a rather unique spin on the festive song. It’s short and to the point, and a refrain of “I hope you’ll be okay” suggests things might not be as grim as initial listens suggest.

This is one song from a five track EP released by Foxes! last year. You can download the rest of it for free from their Last.fm.

Foxes! are another musical casualty of Unfortunate Exclamation Mark Syndrome

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Foxes!

are an indie pop band formed in Oxford, who are now seemingly from Brighton. Which makes sense I suppose as Brighton has one hell of a music scene; Oxford not so much. They also seem to be another band on the exclamation! mark! trip! which is starting to get just a little annoying. It doesn’t even make them any easier to find on search engines. Hype Machine still kept giving me tons and tons of poxy Fleet Foxes tracks.

Musically, the band take the lo-fi pop route. Handclaps, casiotones and sweet vocals are the order of the day here. From listening to these songs, I think the artwork has had more refining than the songs, but that’s part of what makes it so utterly charming. In fact, if you close your eyes and let your mind wander a little, the whole thing even has a touch of the about it.

Apples to Apples is from the band’s very first release back in 2006 from what I can tell, but I couldn’t find any free downloads more recent than that. Not that this doesn’t kick ass in itself.

Foxes! will be releasing a new single, entitled Who Killed Rob? on May 4 via CatCutter Records

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