Mogwai
Four Tet, Mystery Jets, Final Fantasy, The Horrors, Little Boots, Fennesz, Skream, Audion, Malcolm Middleton, Juana Molina, Jon Hopkins, Fanfarlo, Wild Beasts, Rusko, Erol Alkan, Fake Blood, Errors, Toumani Diabate, Santigold, Aeroplane, Woodpigeon, First Aid Kit, The Big Pink, Delphic, The Invisible, Mumford And Sons, The XX, Micachu and the Shapes, The Thing, Temper Trap, S.C.U.M, Wet Paint, King Charles, Wild Geese, and Devil Made Me Do It
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- First Aid Kit »
- The Big Pink »
- Delphic »
- The Invisible »
- Mumford And Sons »
- The XX »
- Micachu and the Shapes »
- The Thing »
- Temper Trap »
- S.C.U.M »
- Wet Paint »
- King Charles »
- Wild Geese »
- Toumani Diabate »
- Errors »
- Four Tet »
- Mystery Jets »
- Final Fantasy »
- The Horrors »
- Little Boots »
- Fennesz »
- Skream »
- Audion »
- Malcolm Middleton »
- Juana Molina »
- Jon Hopkins »
- Fanfarlo »
- Wild Beasts »
- Rusko »
- Erol Alkan »
- Fake Blood »
- Devil Made Me Do It »
- Venue:
- Victoria Park, Poplar »
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Mogwai
Mogwai are...
- Stuart Braithwaite - vocals, guitar
- John Cummings - guitar
- Dominic Aitchison - bass
- Barry Burns - keyboards
- Martin Bulloch - drums
- Brendan O'Hare - keyboards (left 1998)
Drawing influences from a whole range of remarkably similar post-rock bands, Mogwai have slowly become one of the biggest underground bands of the last ten years. Critically adored, they manage geniunely heart achingly beautiful songs and also have the ability to make ears bleed (often at the same time).
Album discography:
Young Team (1997)
Come On Die Young (1999)
Rock Action (2001)
Happy Songs For Happy People (2003)
Mr Beast (2006)
Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait (soundtrack, 2006)
Mogwai have also released a number of extended-play singles and a BBC sessions compilation.
Watch 'Travel Is Dangerous' from Mr Beast:
Watch 'Friend of the Night' from Mr Beast
Watch 'Hunted By A Freak' from Happy Songs...
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Four Tet
Kieran Hebden has been making music since his mid-teens. He formed the band Fridge with Adem Ilhan and Sam Jeffers while they were attending the same school in Putney, South West London. A chance meeting in a record shop with Luke Hannam (now of JBO signings Gramme) in 1996 led to a tape of Fridge's music being passed to Trevor Jackson (aka The Underdog, and now Playgroup on Source Records), who signed them to his Output Recordings label.
In a frenetic burst of recording and release activity between 1997-1999, Fridge put out three albums (Ceefax and Semaphore on Output, then Eph on Go!Beat) as well as several singles and EPs (compiled on the Sevens & Twelves double CD). They toured with Godspeed You Black Emperor! and To Rococo Rot, confounding audiences with their remarkably diverse musical reach. Rock? Jazz? Ambient? Electronica? Fridge say there are no boundaries - only the limitations of your imagination. Props from dudes like Gilles Peterson (including a DJ session for Radio 1 Worldwide), Ross Allen and John Kennedy and press hubbub helped build up a remarkable following for the band.
In 1997, Kieran began releasing solo material under the name Four Tet. His first two Four Tet singles, 'Thirtysixtwentyfive' and 'Misnomer', were both awarded NME Single of the Week, while Dialogue (on Output in 1999) - released when he was just 21 - confirmed Hebden's emergence as a significant new talent, managing to both baffle and beguile the most cynical of music fans: the album is Output's best selling release to date.
Fridge spent summer 2000 incognito, touring the UK, Europe and Japan as Badly Drawn Boy's live band, while Fridge's sole live appearance under their own steam was at Arthur Baker's Elbow Room in November. A long time fan of the band, Arthur Baker requested Fridge to play sessions on Johnny Marr & Bernard Sumner's last Electronic album, and have also worked on Baker's forthcoming all-star collaboration album featuring jazz legend Pharoah Sanders amongst many others. They have also provided music for photographer Nick Knight and graphic designer Peter Saville's new visual arts website, showstudio.com.
While Kieran's name regularly appeared on tasty DJ bills, where anything from UK garage, US bling-hop to dirty guitar punk was blasted out of venues as diverse as Fabric to East End dives, the only Four Tet release of 2000 was the acclaimed Pole v Four Tet split EP on The Leaf Label. Following previous commissions to remix tracks by Aphex Twin, David Holmes and The Cinematic Orchestra, Kieran's production work has continued with some startling mixes surfacing, including 2 Banks of Four's 'Street Lullaby' (Sirkus), a forthcoming track for the Slag Boom Van Loon compilation (a collaboration between Speedy J and µ-zik on Planet Mu) and His Name Is Alive (4AD), while Fridge quietly completed work on their fourth album in December.
Kieran spent the twilight of summer 2000, post-festival touring mayhem, deliberating over Four Tet ideas and tunes. A trip to Toronto, where he spent time with fellow producer Dan 'Manitoba' Snaith. It gave him the all-consuming rush to complete the Four Tet album on his return home. Ain't nuthin' like a bit of creative rivalry to get the best out of yourself.
In 2001, Kieran will launch his own label, Text Records. The first release will be a 7" in the spring by Toronto-based producer, Koushik, called 'Battle Rhymes For Battle Times'. The label's second release in the autumn will be the fourth Fridge album, Happiness.»
Mystery Jets
- Blaine Harrison - vocals, percussion, keys
- Will Rees - guitar, keys, backing vocals
- Henry Harrison - guitar, keys, mellotron, backing vocals
- Kai Fish - bass, backing vocals
- Kapil Trivedi - drums
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy is the moniker of Toronto's Owen Pallett, formerly a member of The Hidden Cameras, Les Mouches, and Arcade Fire. A self sampling violinist with a video game obsession, Pallett released his debut album Has A Good Home in 2005 followed by two EPs and a second album titled He Poos Clouds in 2006. »
The Horrors
The Horrors are Southend-spawned but London-based goth-y-punks: a little Eighties Matchbox, a little Cramps. You get the deal, aye.
They are known as:
FARIS BADWAN - VOCALS
TOMETHY FURSE - DANELECTRO LONGHORN BASS
JOSHUA VON GRIMM - FENDER JAGUAR
COFFIN JOE - BANGS THE DRUMS
SPIDER WEBB - VOX CONTINENTAL ORGAN
Those aren't names!
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Malcolm Middleton
Formerly of Arab Strap, Malcolm Middleton has, to date, released three solo albums of misery-tinged folk-pop with electro overtones.
»Juana Molina
Argentinian solo artist Juana Molina is known for looping many different instruments over one another.
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Fanfarlo
- Simon Aurell - vocals, guitar
- Mark West - guitar
- Leon - trumpet, piano
- Justin - bass
- Cathy - violin, keys
- Amos - drums
"They sit alongside Semifinalists as one of a crop of new British(ish) bands mapping and defining those dark pastoral territories most recently explored by the likes of Mercury Rev and Grandaddy." - Playlouder
Photograph by Ellie Atkins
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Wild Beasts
Hayden - guitar/vocals
Benny - guitar
Tom - bass/vocals
Bert - percussion/vocals
Wild Beasts being of the modern, being of the renaissance, being baggy pantsed, being tight pantsed, being in a scene and being in a place.
So we bent our backs and leaned hard into our chores, like an old slugger working the ring, the furious fist of fate swung his swing and we took the lot - full on the sweet spot.
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Mumford And Sons
Musically Mumford And Sons keep close to the roots of folk and bluegrass, but cleverly translate the songs into a wider world of the popular. Not in the throw away sense of the word, in the true sense of the word.
The band formed at the tail end of 2007, when Marcus Mumford met banjo player Winston Marshall at the infamous West London folkster hangout Bosun’s Locker on King’s Road. The pair discovered a shared joy of bluegrass and country music, and quickly added Ben Lovett and Ted Dwane into the cocktails that brings to life the lyrics Mumford had been penning.
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