Wilco
Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, Camera Obscura, Four Tet, Grizzly Bear, Bon Iver, British Sea Power, Vetiver, Beach House, Noah & The Whale, Jarvis Cocker, Hawkwind, Gang Gang Dance, Dirty Three, Scott Matthews, Emmy the Great, The Amorphous Androgynous, Peter Broderick, The Aliens, James Yuill, Pivot, Wooden Shjips, Roky Erickson, Erol Alkan, Errors, Euros Childs, Rodriguez, Broken Records, Wave Machines, The Phantom Band, Magic Arm, The Strange Boys, Dent May, Golden Animals, Unicorn Kid, Andy Votel, 6 Day Riot, Dollboy, The Leisure Society, Blue Roses, Richard James, Idjut Boys, She Keeps Bees, Its A Buffalo, Diagonal, Nive Nielsen, Peggy sue, The Yellow Moon Band, Joe Gideon And The Shark, Swanton Bombs, Pagan Wanderer Lu, Mary Hampton, Nick Nicely, Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve, Cranium Pie, The Gentle Good, trembling bells, Player Piano, stornoway, Megson, Cate Le Bon, Emma Tricca, Beth Jeans Houghton, Sweet Baboo, Sibrydion, Richard Norris, Rozi Plain, Martin Carr, 9Bach, The Fence Collective, Mississippi Witch, love.stop.repeat, Pictish Trail, Zun Zun Egui, Bright Light Bright Light, Alisha Sufit, Le b, Gaz Cobain, Right Hand Left Hand, Jc Carroll, Bird Engine, Erland and the carnival, Sound Carriers, Ruby Samba, and No Thee No Ess
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- Artists:
- She Keeps Bees »
- Cranium Pie »
- The Gentle Good »
- trembling bells »
- Player Piano »
- stornoway »
- Megson »
- Cate Le Bon »
- Emma Tricca »
- Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve »
- Nick Nicely »
- Mary Hampton »
- Its A Buffalo »
- Diagonal »
- Nive Nielsen »
- Peggy sue »
- The Yellow Moon Band »
- Joe Gideon And The Shark »
- Swanton Bombs »
- Pagan Wanderer Lu »
- Beth Jeans Houghton »
- Sweet Baboo »
- Sibrydion »
- Le b »
- Gaz Cobain »
- Right Hand Left Hand »
- Jc Carroll »
- Bird Engine »
- Erland and the carnival »
- Sound Carriers »
- Ruby Samba »
- Alisha Sufit »
- Bright Light Bright Light »
- Zun Zun Egui »
- Richard Norris »
- Rozi Plain »
- Martin Carr »
- 9Bach »
- The Fence Collective »
- Mississippi Witch »
- love.stop.repeat »
- Pictish Trail »
- No Thee No Ess »
- Wilco »
- Hawkwind »
- Gang Gang Dance »
- Dirty Three »
- Scott Matthews »
- Emmy the Great »
- The Amorphous Androgynous »
- Peter Broderick »
- The Aliens »
- Jarvis Cocker »
- Noah & The Whale »
- Beach House »
- Andrew Bird »
- Animal Collective »
- Camera Obscura »
- Four Tet »
- Grizzly Bear »
- Bon Iver »
- British Sea Power »
- Vetiver »
- James Yuill »
- Pivot »
- Wooden Shjips »
- Golden Animals »
- Unicorn Kid »
- Andy Votel »
- 6 Day Riot »
- Dollboy »
- The Leisure Society »
- Blue Roses »
- Richard James »
- Dent May »
- The Strange Boys »
- Magic Arm »
- Roky Erickson »
- Erol Alkan »
- Errors »
- Euros Childs »
- Rodriguez »
- Broken Records »
- Wave Machines »
- The Phantom Band »
- Idjut Boys »
- Venue:
- Glanusk Park, Glanusk »
About the venue
About the artists
Andrew Bird
Andrew Bird is a classically trained violinist who cut his teeth playing for swing revivalists The Squirrel Nut Zippers, before releasing three wildly varied albums with Andrew Bird's Bowl of Fire.
With the release of 2004's Weather Systems however, Bird began his solo career. With a voice like a matinee idol and a looping pedal, he creates vast and incomparable music, aglow and haunting. He met with huge critical acclaim with Andrew Bird & The Mysterious Production of Eggs in 2005 and when not guesting on a variety of releases (including My Morning Jacket's Z and Dosh's The Lost Take) is currently working on Armchair Apocrypha, due Spring 2007.»
Animal Collective
A free-form psych-folk band made up of four members - Avey Tare, Panda Bear, Deacon and Geologist.
»Camera Obscura
Band members names - role in the band:
Tracyanne Campbell: Vocals & guitar
John Henderson: Vocals & percussion
Gavin Dunbar: Bass
Kenny McKeeve: Guitar
Lee Thomson: Drums
Carey Lander: Keyboards
Brief Band History:
Park & Ride (Single) March 1998
Your Sound (Single) Decemebr 1998
Rare UK Bird (Mini-album) December 1999 (Japan)
Eighties Fan (Single) June 2001
Biggest Bluest Hi Fi (album)
Favourite Albums:
Tracyanne: Blondie - Parallel Lines
Belle and Sebastian - Tigermilk
John: The Smiths - The Smiths
Felt - Ignite the Seven Cannons
Gavin: New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies
The Pastels - Mobile Safari
Kenny: The Beatles - White Album
Eric Mathews - It's Heavy in Here
Lee: Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Lou Reed - Transformer
Lindsay: Subway Sect - We Oppose All Rock and Roll
Dusty Springfield - In Memphis
Contact Details:
cameraobscura@hotmail.com
Future plans:
We have our second album coming out in the spring, it will be preceded by
a single, we shall be doing a UK tour when the album comes out and some
european dates as well.
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.»
Grizzly Bear
Grizzly Bear are four handsome New York gents making world-weary and wailing folk rock with healthy dashes of psychedelia, rock and motown. »
British Sea Power
British Sea Power are a band like no other. They make spell-binding, angular music and write peerless songs about obscure Czech novelists, nuclear power stations and 'benign nationalism'. Their reference points range from Dostoyevsky to Charles Lindberg.
Live, they wear army fatigues and submarine uniforms. They cover the stage with foliage and plastic animals. Their sets usually end in a riot of sonic and visceral chaos akin more to performance art than rock music.
Where does their inspiration come from? The group's history provides a few clues. Brothers Yan, the singer, and Hamilton, the bassist, are the sons of an unpublished writer and along with Wood, the drummer, they were brought up in the remote wilderness of England's lake district. Yan met guitarist Noble while studying psychology at Reading University. The four teamed up, and British Sea Power were born. The quintet was completed when bass-drummer and keyboard player Eamon later joined the band.
Seeking a more inspirational base with better venues, the group headed south and landed in the cosmopolitan seaside city of Brighton, where they established Club Sea Power, a night at the Lift and Freebutt clubs, where they DJ'ed, played live and provided a platform for other unusual performers, such as the Copper Family, a 200-year-old Sussex folk troupe.
Following the release of their first single, Fear of Drowning, on their own label, Golden Chariot, and some ecstatic reviews of their live shows, the group signed to Rough Trade records. For a while, during 2001 and 2002, the band were continually touted as the 'next big thing' but the delay in releasing their first album meant that the fickle British music press quickly lost interest.
However, a succession of brilliant singles followed - and the band's breathtaking live shows meant they were steadily building a devoted fan base. Their extensive touring schedule has recently taken them around Europe where they have been supporting avant garde New Yorkers Interpol. Their last UK tour took in venues from Aberdeen to the Scilly Isles.
The latter concert was arranged in association with Operation Lighthouse Keeper, an organisation that campaigns for the reinstatement of manned lighthouses. Prior to the start of the tour, the launch gig for their new album, much to the bemusement of the invited guests, was held in a village pub deep in rural Sussex.
All this may seem like mildly eccentric posturing by an up-and-coming band seeking media attention. But BSP's leisure interests are about as far removed from the traditonal rock'n'roll lifestyle as you could get - ornithology, rambling, Ordnance Survey maps, the flora and fauna of the English countryside and forgotten coastal villages all hold an attraction. They would rather be heading off to the woods with rucksacks on their backs than throwing televisions out of hotel windows.
The group's fondness for pastoral pursuits, coupled with a shy off-stage persona, might lead a casual observer to assume their music would be lacking in energy and passion. In fact, they are one of the most exciting live acts in the country.
The shows inevitably end with the band ad-libbing in a manner that is as infectious as it is chaotic. Yan and his cohorts turn their performances into theatres of the absurd. Tree branches are thrown into the audience; Yan shrieks his lyrics while swallowing the microphone; Eamon marches through the audience banging his drum; Noble climbs onto the speakers and plays the guitar with his teeth; Hamilton, wearing a crown of leaves, makes owl impressions and performs some kind of pagan dance ritual...
Such antics could be used to compensate for the quality of the material. But in the three years since BSP formed, they have created an entrancing collection of songs, from emotive ballads such as new single Carrion and The Lonely (written about the band's late friend, musician Geoff Goddard), to the jerky, psychedlic cacophony of tracks like Favours in the Beetroot Fields and Apologies to Insect Life, and searing rift-driven epics such as Remember Me.
There are echoes of Joy Division (who the group acknowledge as an influence), the Fall, Echo and the Bunnymen and even XTC. But in truth they are really not like any of these.
Whether the group's eclectism and 'English ecccentricity' will inhibit their appeal in an era of manufactured bands and bland indie pop, has yet to be seen. But we do not have too long to wait to find out. Their debut album, The Decline of British Sea Power (released on June 2), should establish them in the heart of the masses. And don't be surprised if NME and Q suddenly decide they are flavour of the month. Let's hope that in all the attention the band are about to receive that they continue making the music they want to make in the way they want to make it.
Into the breach, dear friends - grab it with both hands, you deserve it...
Written by Kevo from Brilliantine Mortality website (linked below)»
Beach House
Beach House are Baltimore boy-girl duo Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally. Together they have forged a uniquely beguiling sound, drawing you into a world of hazy beauty and melancholy remembrances of summers past, with music that manages to be both understated and lush…
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Noah & The Whale
Heartbreaking folk anthems, mostly about death and the like.
Noah & The Whale is Charlie, Doug, Urby and Tom.
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Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker, innit. he who was once in Pulp. But now he's all solo. Nice, nice. MySpace.»
Emmy the Great
Emmy The Great used to be in a band. Then one day the band stopped showing up to rehearsals. And when she bumped into the band at college or at Sainsburys, her band would go 'Look! Frank Sinatra!' and scarper. So Emmy took the hint and started playing by herself.
Sometimes she plays with a mysterious man with a violin bow. Sometimes she also plays in groups.»
The Amorphous Androgynous
Amorphous Androgynous are...
- Gary Cobain - keyboards
- Brian Dougans - keyboards
James Yuill
Bittersweet English folk-pop»
Wooden Shjips
Wooden Shjips is a vital and refreshingly inspired quartet playing loud rock ‘n’ roll in a style heavily influenced by the experimentalism of psychedelia, classical minimalism and garage rock excess. Started as an experiment in rhythmic primitivism and group improvisation, the current lineup brings a more structured rock approach to its performances, utilizing a traditional lineup of drums (Omar Ahsanuddin), bass (Dusty Jermier), organ (Nash Whalen), guitar (Erik “Ripley” Johnson) and vocals.
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Euros Childs
Frontman of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, occasional solo artist and very welsh.»
Broken Records
Jamie - vocals, guitar, mandolin
Ian - guitar, piano, glockenspiel, melodica
Rory - violin, accordion, mandolin
Arne - cello
Dave - piano, trumpet, harmonium
Gill - bass, guitar
Andy - drums
Much-championed by DiS, Broken Records are an emerging group from north of the border who have kicked up one heck of an industry buzz. And rightly so, too. For once. For fans of: Murder By Death, Dirty Three, Arcade Fire, Bruce Springsteen, Cursive, Guillemots.
Photo: Neil Thomas Douglas
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Wave Machines
- Carl Brown
- Tim Bruzon
- James Walsh
- Vidar Norheim
Wave Machines is an alternative pop group formed in Liverpool in 2007. Labelled 'toy shop pop' (NME) and likened to 'Hot Chip dipped in Hot Chocolate' (The Guardian), the band's debut album, Wave If You're Really There, is out on Neapolitan Records on June 15.
Bands Wave Machines have played with include: James Yuill, Lo-Fi-Fnk, I Am Kloot, and - at the Royal Albert Hall for the launch of single 'The Greatest Escape We Ever Made' - Micachu & The Shapes. Together with Liverpool art group Mercy, they've also been responsible for bringing We Have Band, Post War Years, Cats In Paris and Slow Club to the Liverpool music-loving audience.
Other notches on band's sonic bedpost include: SXSW 2009 with Mumford & Sons, and appearing at Tate Gallery and London Word Festival for a music / poetry mash-up with Mercy writer-in-residence Nathan Jones. They've also chalked up sessions with Jon Kennedy and John Hillcock on XFM, Marc Riley, Tom Robinson and Nemone on 6 Music, and Rob da Bank on R1."
Links:
MySpace
Facebook
Twitter
Official site
The Phantom Band
The Phantom Band are: Duncan De Cornell - Guitars & Fast Cars, Gerrard "Hartbreak" Harvard - Bass & Big Business, Andrew T Oxford - Keyboards & Cheeseboards, "Richard The Turd" Princeton - Harmonies & Libraries, Damien Duke Stanford - Drums & The Law, Greg Yale - Pedals, Gold Medals, Banjos & ASBO's »
Richard James
'The Seven Sleepers Den’ is an extract from ‘The good-morrow’, a poem from Jacobean metaphysical poet, John Donne. It’s also the title of the debut solo album from Richard James, a founding member of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
With Gorky's currently on a hiatus, Richard James has had a lot of time to write, record and perform his own songs. With friends and fellow Cardiff based musicians Andy Fung, Cate Timothy, Rhydian Jones and Sion Glyn, he recorded the album in Summer Brooke Farm in Llanteg, South Pembrokeshire. It was produced by Iwan Morgan, the man responsible for the early Zabrinski records.
Love, Friends, Good Times and the Important Things in Life are all themes on 'The Seven Sleepers Den'. It draws from personal experience to create a beautiful, laid back piece of work. The songs ebb and flow in creating an overall sense of happiness and wellbeing. Music for the soul.
Listen at his myspace
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Joe Gideon And The Shark
Gideon plucks six strings, dreams stories and sings. Kid sister Viva Shark plonks, stomps and honks. They made two albums as Bikini Atoll released on Bella Union.
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Pagan Wanderer Lu
Pagan Wanderer Lu is a master craftsman of melodic electronic indie filled with pop 'öhrwürm' hooks, whip-smart turns of phrase and a political message rendered in effectively satirical terms rather than preaching ones.
"Bearing an encyclopedic grounding in influences that range from Bright Eyes to Aphex Twin and a healthy dose of wit and wisdom, PWL performs solo with guitar, groovebox, keyboard and a deadpan confidence born of five years' gigging experience. Having played throughout England and Wales, often stealing the thunder of his headlining acts, he has left a trail of avid converts in his wake and won praise from the likes of Martin Carr (bravecaptain/Boo Radleys). "Anyone who hears a live performance of the articulate chaos of 'Our New Hospital Sucks', the sweet-with-a-bite charm of 'Keep the Weather Out' or veritable tour de force 'Memorial Hall', with its downbeat synth prologue turning into an uplifting electro-disco anthem, will know why. "A glance at his back catalogue of self-produced EPs and albums confirms just how prolific and versatile this artist is, always balancing his will to experiment with his matchless ear for a tune. It not only demonstrates his dedication to his art but highlights Pagan Wanderer Lu as an artist of dazzling promise." - Bootleg Betsy.»
Sweet Baboo
Shambolic Cardiff anti-folk troupe.»
Mississippi Witch
Oli Walker (guitar/vocals)
Dan Danby (drums)»
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