The National

Final Fantasy, Wire, Spiritualized, El Perro del Mar, The Thermals, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Frightened Rabbit, These New Puritans, Maria Peszek, Marissa Nadler, The Field, Olafur Arnalds, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Handsome Furs, HEALTH, Fucked Up, Mark Kozelek, Komety, Crystal Stilts, The Car Is on Fire, Armia, Cool Kids of Death, Pustki, Gabriela Kulka, Dictaphone, Wooden Shjips, Micachu, Muzyka Ko?ca Lata, Lucky Dragons, Errors, Karl Blau, Crystal Antlers, George Dorn Screams, Jeremy Jay, Tiny Vipers, Lech Janerka, Rolo Tomassi, The Week That Was, Psychocukier, Mahjongg, Hatifnats, Loco Star, Skinny Patrini, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Pawilon, Iowa Super Soccer, Kumka Olik, Monotonix, Von Zeit, Mi?o??, The Black Tapes, KOT, Biff, Disasteradio, Ballady i romanse, SenSorry, Woody Alien, Paristetris, The Complainer & The Complainers, LeeDVD, Andy Band, Muariolanza, Ben Butler And Mouse Pad, and Siupa

Venue:
S?upna Park, Mys?owice »

Lineup: The National, Final Fantasy, Wire, Spiritualized, El Perro del Mar, The Thermals, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Frightened Rabbit, These New Puritans, Maria Peszek, Marissa Nadler, The Field, Olafur Arnalds, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Handsome Furs, HEALTH, Fucked Up, Mark Kozelek, Komety, Crystal Stilts, The Car Is on Fire, Armia, Cool Kids of Death, Pustki, Gabriela Kulka, Dictaphone, Wooden Shjips, Micachu, Muzyka Ko?ca Lata, Lucky Dragons, Errors, Karl Blau, Crystal Antlers, George Dorn Screams, Jeremy Jay, Tiny Vipers, Lech Janerka, Rolo Tomassi, The Week That Was, Psychocukier, Mahjongg, Hatifnats, Loco Star, Skinny Patrini, Wildbirds & Peacedrums, Pawilon, Iowa Super Soccer, Kumka Olik, Monotonix, Von Zeit, Mi?o??, The Black Tapes, KOT, Biff, Disasteradio, Ballady i romanse, SenSorry, Woody Alien, Paristetris, The Complainer & The Complainers, LeeDVD, Andy Band, Muariolanza, Ben Butler And Mouse Pad, Siupa

Date: 06/08/2009

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About the venue

S?upna Park

About the artists

The National

The National are five displaced Ohioans living in New York: Scott and Bryan Devendorf (guitar & drums); Aaron and Bryce Dessner (guitar & bass); and Matt Berninger (vocals) - two sets of brothers and one best friend.

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. »

Wire

Wire were...

Colin Newman - Vocals
Bruce Gilbert - Vocals, Guitar
Graham Lewis - Vocals, Bass
Robert Gotobed - Drums

4 Art students with a fascination for the emerging punk scene formed Wire in 1976, and as required by all good punk bands, none knew how to play their instruments. The approached music as an experiment in art, resulting in short avant-pop songs. Their career appeared to be short when they disbanded in 1979, claiming they had exhausted their ideas. The next 6 years were filled with live material and solo project releases, and in 1986 they reformed. But by the early 90's all that remained for wire was a small cult following, and Gotobed left in 1991, fed up with his bandmates technological experimentation. In 1995 Elastica sampled Wire's "Three Girl Rhumba" in "Connection" and Newman went on to collaborate with Elastica's Justine Frischmann on a one-off project in 1997. This year Wire return, making an appearence at the Shellac curated All Tomorrows Parties 2002.»

Spiritualized

Spiritualized are...

Jason Pierce - vocals, guitar
Doggen - guitar
John Coxon - bass
Tim Lewis - keyboards
Tom Edwards - percussion
Kevin Bales - drums
Raymond M Dickaty - brass
Martin Shallards - bass
Mark Refoy - guitar
Kate Radley - keyboards
Sean Cook - bass
Willie B Carruthers - bass
Jon Mattock - drums
Damon Reece - drums

Formed by ex-member of Spaceman 3, Jason Pierce, Spiritualized have released several critically aclaimed studio albums drawing influences from Velvet Underground, Captain Beefheart, Dr John, Miles Davis and a whole host of others to create a fusion of psychedelic-rock-gospel.

El Perro del Mar

MySpace

The Thermals

The Thermals are:

Hutch Harris - vocals/guitar
Kathy Foster - bass
Lorin Coleman - drums
Jordan Hudson - drums (left 2005)

Casiotone For The Painfully Alone

One-man electro-indie-folk sounds, full of anguish and soul-ablaze emoting.

Casiotone... is, basically, Owen Ashworth. His fourth album, Etiquette, is released through Tomlab in March 2006.

Tomlab website.

Frightened Rabbit

MYSPACE »

These New Puritans

George Barnett: DRUMS etc
Thomas Hein: SAMPLER BASS MIDI
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson: KEYBOARDS
Jack Barnett: SINGING LAPTOP GUITAR etc

Downbeat Essex indie, like Dr Feelgood meeting Can and Joy Division.

Their debut EP Zum Cult Film was released via Angular Records, and their debut album Beat Pyramid comes your way in January 2008 via the same label, with Domino handling worldwide matters.

MySpace
Photo: Dean Chalkey

Maria Peszek

Marissa Nadler

Songwriter based in New York.
http://www.marissanadler.com/»

The Field

MySpace »

Olafur Arnalds

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Alex (bass)
Kip (guitar/vocals)
Kurt (drums)
Peggy (keys/vocals)

MYSPACE
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Handsome Furs

Handsome Furs is Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade) with his fiancee Alexei Perry, a poet and writer of short fiction.

Dan describes Handsome Furs as: "Me and Alexei and a beat box, some keyboards and some guitars. It kind of sounds like the first Jesus And Mary Chain record... It's basically Wolf Parade without the guy that everyone likes, and no real instruments."

The duo formed in 2006, and have been summarised as dark and minimal, while also noisy and earnest.

MySpace

HEALTH

HEALTH are Jake, John, Jupiter, and BJ. Experimental noise. Sound akin to a Tyrannosaurus Rex battling a Stegosaurus.

Albums to date:

Health (2007)

Photograph from the band's MySpace page, here.

Fucked Up

Fucked Up transcend "the boundaries of punk with melody, aggression, expansive structures and enigmatic diatribes".

Nobody in the band owns a mobile phone, since you asked. "They exist within a culture of confusion," says their own manager.

Pink Eyes - vocals
Concentration Camp - guitar
Mr. Jo - drums
Mustard Gas - bass
10,000 Marbles - guitar

Mark Kozelek

Gloomy frontman of Red House Painters and Sun Kil Moon, and solo artist.»

Komety

Crystal Stilts

Blissful Brooklyn psychedelic punks.

MYSPACE »

The Car Is on Fire

Armia

Cool Kids of Death

Pustki

Gabriela Kulka

Dictaphone

Wooden Shjips

MySpace

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.

Micachu

Muzyka Ko?ca Lata

Lucky Dragons

Errors

Glasgow-based electro-rockin' quartet.

James Hamilton
Stephen Livingstone
Greg Paterson
Simon Ward

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Karl Blau

Crystal Antlers

George Dorn Screams

Jeremy Jay

Tiny Vipers

Lech Janerka

Rolo Tomassi

A veritable smorgasbord of styles, these female-helmed discotech thrashers specialise in adrenaline-soaked, keyboard-laden art-punk that jerks, jolts and jigs with an ultra-camp temperamentality.

The band's debut self-titled EP was released in late 2006 via Holy Roar and subsequently sold out; a re-pressing featuring bonus tracks is available now.

Edward Dutton - drums
Joe Nicholson - guitar
Eva Spence - vocals
James Spence - keyboards
Joseph Thorpe - bass

MySpace