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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, , Ballboy, Stars in Coma, White Town, The Orchids, Boy Genius, Cineplexx, The Smittens, The Just Joans, Burning Hearts, La La Love You, The Callas, , , Linda Guilala, The Give It Ups, The Felt Tips, Foxes!, , Urbantramper, Paisley and Charlie, Micktravis, Jam On Bread, Lime Chalks

Sunday

, , , Slow Club, Springfactory, Stars of Aviation, Shrag, , , The Cannanes, , , , , , , , Winston Echo, Standard Fare, MJ Hibbett and the Validators, , The Specific Heats, , The Middle Ones, Yokoko,

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.

Onward Chariots – Seven Miles Away

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Around this time of year, as the Indietracks announcements start to come out, I tend to start listening to the bands playing the festival that I’m not familiar with.  managed to jump the queue by sending me a nice email, and I’m very happy that they did.  Formerly known as Chariots of Tuna (an excellent name in itself), the band is now on a renewed push for indiepop superstardom.  The pace that the slightly hushed harmonies propel the song along almost masks just how complex the arrangements on these songs are.  Seven Miles Away even has time to rock out just a bit at the end too.  It’s all very reminiscent of the dearly missed Beulah.  Not exactly the same musically, but this is the closest a band has come to evoking the same kind of feeling to me..  Myspace.

MP3 Onward Chariots – Seven Miles Away

You can download both of Onward Chariots’ singles for free from Tweefort Records.  Onward Chariots will also be playing at the Indietracks festival in July.  They’d also like some UK bookings around that time, so if you can help ‘em out, give a shout

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: , , , The Hillfields, La La Love You, Stars in Coma, , .

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