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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 Slow Club 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’, Veronica Falls

Saturday

The Primitives, Love is All, , Ballboy, , White Town, , , , , The Just Joans, Burning Hearts, La La Love You, The Callas, Betty and the Werewolves, This Many Boyfriends, , , The Felt Tips, Foxes!, The Hillfields, Urbantramper, , , , Lime Chalks

Sunday

, The Pooh Sticks, Pale Sunday, Slow Club, Springfactory, , Shrag, Secret Shine, , The Cannanes, , The Sunny Street, , , The Millipedes, The Loves, Onward Chariots, , , , Be Like Pablo, The Specific Heats, Mexican Kids at Home, 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.

The Loves – Sweet Sister Delia

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I’ve never really got into , but that’s largely down to a silly mistake on my part.  A few years ago, they played a gig rather locally to me (which I promptly didn’t attend) and for some reason from that point I had it in my head that they were a completely different band altogether.  I’m not entirely sure why, but for some reason I had the impression that were some kind of shitty art band that wouldn’t be even remotely appealing to me.  So it’s with a large amount of humble pie that I correct this rather embarrassing mistake.  I thought something was odd when members started popping up in The School.  By the time they put out a free EP on the lovely Fortuna Pop, it was quite clear the level of my mistake in judging them.  The grand irony in this of course is that the band, after (I believe) four albums, is now going to call it a day.  Oh well.  Myspace.

MP3 The Loves – Sweet Sister Delia

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, Pale Sunday, , The Hillfields, , , Springfactory, Urbantramper.

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