That crate of Special VAT you bought to celebrate 10 years of Art Brut is clearly not enough, for in between discotheques Indietracks have announced the latest batch of bands for this years festival, and the list includes Helen Love, The Lovely Eggs, Alpaca Sports, The Wave Pictures, and Pale Spectres to name a few.
So double up on crates and get back to your discotheques and continue the
celebrations, and if we all dream that Tullycraft, Darren Hayman, Ballboy, The Bobby McGee's, Half
Man Half Biscuit, and any one of Eddie Argos' bands are announced with the next
lot of bands, maybe we'll have one of the greatest line-ups of all-time on our hands!
Here's the press release:
NEW BANDS ADDED
TO INDIETRACKS LINE-UP Helen Love, The Wave Pictures and The Lovely Eggs are among 26 bands added today to
the line-up for Indietracks, an indiepop festival held on July 26-28 at a
picturesque 1950s steam railway in Derbyshire.
Also joining the bill today are Haiku Salut, Monnone Alone,
Alpaca Sport (Sweden), Anaesthetics, Big Wave, The Brilliant Corners, Cars Can
Be Blue (USA), EXPENSIVE, The Fenestration, Finnmark!, Jupiter in Jars,
Lardpony, Making Marks (Norway), The
McTells, The Middle Ones, The Mini Skips, Northern Spies (Sweden), Pale
Spectres (France), Seabirds, The Soulboy Collective (Germany), Tunabunny (USA),
Without Feathers and Woog Riots (Germany). More
than 50 bands are due to play the festival, held at the Midland Steam Railway, including
Camera Obscura, The Pastels, Bis and Still Corners.
Helen Love’s bubblegum pop band formed in
Wales in 1992, and have a cult following in indie circles with songs including
"Long Live The UK Music Scene", "Shifty Disco Girl" and "Does
Your Heart Go Boom?". The band, who are signed to Elefant Records, have previously
recorded a session for John Peel and also had three songs in his Festive Fifty.
Their songs have been covered by numerous bands, including Ash and Tullycraft,
and they also composed the theme for fan Phill Jupitus’s Breakfast Show on BBC6
Music. Joey Ramone invited the band to play in New York and sang a duet with
Helen on the album version of the song “Punk Boy”. This is the first show Helen
Love has announced for over 10 years!
The Wave Pictures have been described by The
Guardian as writing “charming, witty pop songs shot through with Jonathan
Richman’s gawky glee and Suede’s doomed provincial romanticism.” Since forming
in Leicestershire in 1998 they have released 12 albums, including last year’s
Long Black Cars, on Moshi Moshi Records. They have collaborated with a number
of artists including Herman Dune, Darren Hayman, Daniel
Johnston and Jeffrey Lewis.
Lancaster
indie rock band The Lovely Eggs
consist of married couple Holly Ross (former Angelica singer) and David
Blackwell. They have released three albums and recorded sessions for BBC Radio
One, BBC 6 Music and XFM. Last year they were tipped as one of Huw Stephens’
“ones to watch”, and have worked closely with comedian John Shuttleworth. Their album Wildlife, released last year,
included the Gruff Rhys-produced single Allergies, which won the BBC 6 Music
Rebel Playlist and was also voted best single on Steve Lamacq’s 6 Music Round
Table. Tickets
for Indietracks 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.
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.
Tickets
are available by calling the railway direct on 01773 747 674 or visiting www.indietracks.co.uk/tickets.html
Art Brut Top of the Pops, Art Brut's epic 10 year journey from 'Emily Kane' to 'Axl Rose', with 'Sealand' and 'Arizona Bay' in between is available to stream for 7 days here. It includes brand new songs, rare b-sides, live versions, and is without any doubt the greatest 'best of' of all time.
Forget your plans for the next few days, grab a crate of Special VAT and make enemies in the kitchens of multiple house parties to the sweet sounds of Art Brut, with all the intention of waking up under a pile of stranger's coats. Alternatively just buy the album. Punk Rock Ist Nicht Tot!
