We're delighted to announce that Los Campesinos! will be the Sunday night headliners for this year's Indietracks festival. Los Campesinos! have received widespread acclaim for their joyful pop brilliance since their first shows in Cardiff in 2006. By January 2007, they'd been snapped up by Wichita Recordings, and went on to release a string of exhilarating singles, including the modern classic You! Me! Dancing! . Their debut album, Hold On Now, Youngster… was [...]
Hello everyone, Just a little note to let you know that we'll be officially announcing the Sunday night Indietracks headliners at midday on Monday (May 12), on both the official Indietracks website and here too. Don't forget to keep checking the blog for the latest news - we've got lots coming up in the next few weeks, including articles from MJ Hibbett and Pete Green, and interviews with Darren Hayman and The Wave Pictures!
We're delighted to say that the Sunday headliners for this year's Indietracks festival will be officially announced at midday on Monday 12 May! Please do pop back and visit us then! To receive email updates about the festival, please visit the Indietracks website and fill in the newsletter box. And to receive the latest press releases, please visit the Indietracks press page and leave your email address.
Appearing at Indietracks by popular demand, we're delighted to introduce Liverpudlian power-punk-pop heros Town Bike . The four-piece recently became deserving winners of a recent Anorak forum vote to play at the festival, charming internet indiepoppers with their simple philosophy of 'having fun'! Their single single 'When Good Kids Go Bad' was released on Keith Records in 2007 and during this year they were played by Steve Lamacq on his Radio One show. Here's Sarah, Jane, Morgan and Charlie to answer a few questions. Hi [...]
Indietracks faves Darren Hayman and The Wave Pictures are both releasing long-awaited albums this week, and over at Indietracks Towers we can't wait to get our greasy mitts on them! The musicians are long-standing friends who often collaborate and play gigs together, so it seems only natural that they're releasing records in the same week. Darren's album is from his new bluegrass band, Hayman, Watkins, Trout and Lee , which features - who else - Dave Tattersall from The Wave Pictures. The self-titled record, released on Fortuna Pop tomorrow (May 6th), includes covers of songs by [...]
Today we're celebrating the one-year anniversary of the first-ever Indietracks event! On April 28 2007, indiepop kids from far-flung locations were transported back in time to the innocence of the 1950s, where trains chuff along on steam, girls dance about in flouncy swing skirts and boys grease their hair back with Brylcream. There were bands playing on the platform, discos in the train carriages, a fleet of merry mini-buses and much dithering between judiciously sipping hot chocolate and merrily glugging cider. [...]
Barely a year since forming in Leicester, and already The Mai 68s have wowed crowds across the country with their pop-filled noise, stand-up-drums and sugar-coated chaos. And all this without owning a working stereo between them! We're joined by their guitarist Jon to find out about ninja hair straightening, 13th century churches and how to get a free lift to the festival... Hiya Jon, please tell us a little bit about The Mai 68s? We've only been around for about a year as a band, but so far it's [...]
Just a quick reminder that our competition to win one of five copies of The Kabeedies' fantastic Woman EP closes at midnight on Friday 25 April. To enter, please answer the following question: "What is the name of the indie record label which The Kabeedies are on?" Answers should be sent to indietrackspress@gmail.com and we'll be announcing the winners next week. Thanks very much for all the entries we've received so far!
Next in the indiepop veteran line-up is Tortoise Shout! , who are named after a DH Lawrence poem. They began life in the eighties. playing melancholic, moody and melodic sounds mixed with an upbeat girl-pop style. They built up a devoted following, but university education led to a split which lasted until 2006, when their unfulfilled desire to show off and downright refusal to grow up led to a reformation. Determined to reclaim their past glories, original members singer/songwriter Dawn, [...]
Sam Metcalf, writer of Nottingham-based fanzine A Layer Of Chips and lifelong indiepopper, gives us his thoughts on indiepop and the recent explosion of new bands: One of the greatest things about the new indiepop explosion is hearing a new record or song for the first time. I write this is as the amazing debut release from Northern Portrait plays in the background. It's been a few years since I felt as excited about music as I am right now. Living in the provinces of England, it's never been easy to [...]
Now, Indietracks may well be chocca full of young pop whippersnappers eager to show off their latest pop melodies, but don't forget that there's also going to be a whole bunch of indiepop veterans to show them how it's done. Forged in the late eighties in the North East of England, Strawberry Story play a delicious, heady mix of fuzzed out guitars, dense bass lines and joyously girly singing. They were loved by John Peel and - for the Pop Fact collectors among you - they were even pronounced 'Single of the Week' by NME for "The Man with the [...]
Next up in our whistlestop chatathon with the faces of Indietracks 2008, are Anna and Grace, frequently known as The Middle Ones . This girl duo have been spending their days in Norwich gathering up enthusiastic friends, strange instruments, dance trios and themed costumes, all in the name of super-harmonised folky-pop. If you're very quick, you may even be in time to join the vote on their Myspace to help decide their future costume choices! Anna writes the songs, [...]
Hey indiepop poppers, would you believe it - rising Indietracks stars The Kabeedies have only gone and become bloomin' hot contenders for this year's Road to V competition - wow! Now, ordinarily, we'd be cocking a snook at the festival with scary watchtowers, but we do love The Kabeedies and we wish them all the best of luck, not that they need it of course. They're fiery, fun and fantabulous and you should all vote for them now . We know for a FACT that you [...]
Having wowed the crowds with sassy summer pop songs and drum machine beats at the first Indietracks event in April 2007, Slow Down Tallahassee will be making a welcome return for the festival this July. They met behind the bar of a seedy nightclub, serving endless drinks as Motown hits and disco classics stopped their hearts from giving in. Taking their inspiration from the paintings of Henry Darger, the writings of Dorothy Parker and Pablo Neruda, girl groups, playground gangs, paperback romances, tear-jerking pop and the burning ambition to write an album [...]
Hello everyone, Just a note to let you know that the results of the Anorak forum vote for the final two additions to the Indietracks line-up have now been announced. And the winners are.......(dramatic drum roll)...... A Classic Education and Town Bike - hooray! A Classic Education are an enigmatic Italian trio who describe themselves as producing music which is "a dense orchestral liberation of their souls", whilst loveable Liverpudlians Town Bike say their one rule for life is to "have fun and to make stuff which makes people sing and dance" - sounds great! [...]
How can we follow up our crazy interview with the simply fantastic Bobby McGees? With a chat to the bloomin' marvellous Brontosaurus Chorus - that's how! The 'Brontos (what we're calling them round these parts) are a charmingly shambolic lot, an eight piece indiepop combo made up of boys and girls from London who describe themselves as "sonically close as you can get to an actual choir of made-up dinosaurs", woo! Their first single, The Myth of Love, was released in October last year on highly covetable [...]
From fighting in cages to designing dresses for the stars, via Lego-percussion and candle-lit concerts, The Bobby McGees have always entertained and intrigued in equal measure. Their debut EP 'Yes Please!" was a masterpiece of charming, twee brilliance and last November's follow up EP 'S'Amuser Com des Fous' reached new heights in twisted ukelele pop. They've been described as "'Domestic Violence with Ukuleles' by Totally Bored and 'Dostoyevsky doing Lonnie Donnigan' by Everett True. [...]
Hey there, here's your chance to pick the last two bands to be given slots at the Indietracks festival. ( The Church Stage. Photo: Lostmusic ) Stuart's received literally hundreds of applications from bands to play this year, and has thrown it open to readers of the Anorak forum to select their favourites from a shortlist. All of these bands are charming and [...]
Hello again indiepop fans! Hope you're enjoying our new blog, aiming to bring you all the latest news and gossip from this year's Indietracks Festival . As you may or may not know, Indietracks is organised by Stuart Mackay, who once restored trains for the Midland Railway Centre where the festival is held. Having worked there for five years, he hit upon the idea of organising a festival after visiting several indiepop club nights in London. The centre had already hosted other music events, and it was while working behind the bar at one of [...]
Hello everyone and welcome to the blog for the 2008 Indietracks Festival ! We're an indiepop festival, only in our second year, held in the grounds of the Midland Railway in Ripley, Derbyshire on July 26-27, 2008. This year the festival is being headlined by the Wedding Present and Darren Hayman (formerly of Hefner). Around 50 bands have been announced so far, including newer bands such as [...]
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