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CAMERA OBSCURA AND BIS TO HEADLINE INDIETRACKS FESTIVAL 2013

Scottish indiepop favourites Camera Obscura and Bis are among the headliners for this year’s Indietracks Festival, held on July 26-28 at a picturesque 1950s steam railway in Derbyshire.

Tickets are now available at an early bird discount price of £65 (weekend) and £35 (day). These cheaper prices are available until 5pm on Saturday 11 May. After this date, prices will be £72 (weekend) and £38 (day). Weekend tickets for children aged 5-15 are £10, or £6 for a day ticket. Children under 5 get in free.
Camera Obscura are bringing their refined cinematic indiepop to Indietracks, marking the release of their forthcoming album, Desire Lines in June 2013. The Glasgow band released the albums Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi (2001) and Underachievers Please Try Harder (2003) before enlisting Swedish producer Jari Haapalainen in 2006. The resulting album, Let’s Get Out Of This Country, featured entrancing pop gems such as "Lloyd, I’m Ready To Be Heartbroken" alongside more downbeat yet melodic offerings. The band signed to the legendary 4AD label in 2009, and their fourth album My Maudlin Career again showcased the band’s sophisticated pop, including "French Navy" and "Honey In The Sun". 2010 saw the band tour Europe, USA, New Zealand, Australia, Japan and Indonesia.

Bis are a Scottish indiepop band composed of John Disco, Manda Rin and Sci-fi Steven. In 1996, they famously appeared on BBC’s Top of the Pops, performing "Kandy Pop", and also released a series of EPs, three of which entered the UK Singles Chart. Bis quickly won fans with The Delgados and The Beastie Boys, who signed them to the Chemikal Underground and Grand Royal labels respectively. They released three studio albums; The New Transistor Heroes (1997), Social Dancing (1999) and Return to Central (2001), gradually moving from frenetic punk pop towards a more electropop sound. The band reformed in 2010 to play at the Primavera festival, and will perform on the Friday night at this year’s Indietracks.

Also playing Indietracks this year will be The Ballet (Canada), Flowers (UK), Martha (UK), The Understudies (UK), Fever Dream (UK) and American band The Secret History, who will be visiting the UK for the first time.

Around 50 indiepop bands from across the globe will be playing across four stages: the outdoor stage; the indoor stage, the church and on the steam trains themselves. The festival will also host a range of art and craft workshops and a selection of discos after the bands finish.

This is the seventh annual Indietracks festival, which takes place at the Midland Railway in Ripley, in the heart of the Derbyshire countryside. The site houses a whole range of lovingly restored steam diesels and locomotives. Festival goers are able to have unlimited rides on the steam railway over the weekend and full access to other railway attractions and museums.

Previous headliners at Indietracks have included Teenage Fanclub, Edwyn Collins, Allo Darlin’, The Hidden Cameras, The Wedding Present, Los Campesinos!, Summer Camp and The Vaselines.

Fuck me, next thing you'll be telling me that Shellac and Bradford Cox at playing Primavera.

My Bloody Valentine, Jens Lekman, Blondes and Deerhunter are playing OFF.

but it's the same weekend as Fluff Fest.

The next few bands to play Indietracks 2013 are: The Pastels, Still Corners, David Leach, Fear of Men, The Fireworks, The French Defence, Frozy, The Magic Theatre, Milky Wimpshake, The Tuts & When Nalda Became Punk.

The next bands to play Indietracks 2013 are: Helen Love, Alpaca Sports, anaesthetics, The Brilliant Corners, Cars Can Be Blue, EXPENSIVE, The Fenestration, Finnmark!, Haiku Salut, Jupiter In Jars, Lardpony, The Lovely Eggs, Making Marks, The McTells, The Middle Ones, The Mini Skips, Monnone Alone, Northern Spies, Pale Spectres, Seabirds, The Soulboy Collective, Tunabunny, The Wave Pictures, Without Feathers & Woog Riots. More tba soon!

so excited for this. Helen Love, The Pastels, Martha, The Middle Ones. best people at the best festival <3333

because I love going to Indietracks with all my friends but seriously in the discos they NEED TO PLAY SOME VARIETY OF MUSIC. By the end of the day I am done with twee, indie pop. Yes I know one of the discos plays Northern Soul but something with just a slight edge would be much appreciated.