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Posts Tagged ‘Los Campesinos’

Festival Review: Truck 2010

A wandering woolly monster, a vicar serving ale, and a line-up of singers and bands that define the term 'shit hot'; there is no other festival like Truck.

Written by Cari Steel


Darwin Deez at Truck Festival. Photograph by Sabrina Morrison

It was only a matter of time before Amelia's Magazine and Truck Festival became the firmest of friends. With circles overlapping so far and wide, we might as well be kith and kin, our relationship was cemented and documented by Amelia at the Climate Camp gathering in Glastonbury (understand that Truck is kind of a generic description - the creators of Truck - the brothers Joe and Robin Bennett also play in the utterly fab Danny and The Champions Of The World) in a memorable performance where Joe played part of the gig on his back. 'Cause that's how he rolls.



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Gig Review: Wichita 10th Anniversary Celebrations at The Highbury Garage

First Aid Kit, Peggy Sue and Meg Baird lead the celebrations, and treat our reviewer to a night of sublime and delicate harmonies

Written by Oliver Franklin

Peggy Sue Illustration by Emilie Lashmar
Wichita, the record label that has brought us Bloc Party, The Cribs, Los Campesinos! and Simian Mobile Disco (to name but a few) continued its …

Review: Dot-to-Dot Festival 2010, Nottingham

Britain's best regional city-centred venue festival, returning for another edition with some of today's best up-and-coming and established bands

Written by Ian Steadman

Another year, another bank holiday at the start of the summer, and another edition of the Dot-to-Dot Festival, a sprawling mess of bands and audience occupying venues and bars in …

Festival Preview: Truck

For those in the know, Truck has long been a highlight of the festival season, we take a look at what Truck 2010 has in store for us, and find more than enough reasons to book a ticket.

Written by Cari Steel

Turning our attention to the smaller independent festivals, we are thrilled to be featuring Truck, an event with an impeccable reputation and massive good will behind it. There are so …

Festival Preview: Dot-to-Dot

Regional cities showcase new bands, in annual festival across many venues

Written by Ian Steadman

Now in its sixth year, the annual Dot-to-Dot Festival has evolved from a small one-day festival similar to London’s Camden Crawl into a sprawling beast that takes over three British …

Sparky Deathcap – Interview

Quirky singer-songwriter Sparky Deathcap, a man as comfortable spinning folky yarns and knocking up a caricature

Written by Eleanor Whalley

Sparky Deathcap is a twenty-something musician and artist from Cheshire, whose wry tales of love and loss are in turns hilarious and heartwrenching. You may have caught him recently supporting …

Los Campesinos! at Koko, Feb 25th – Live Review

Cardiff septet's largest headline gig to date, a whirlwind success and jolly great fun

Written by Ian Steadman

Illustration courtesy of Zoë Barker
From outside, the Koko in Camden looks a bit like one of those Swiss clocks – the ones where a girl in lederhosen comes out on …

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Monday 20th October
No Age, Los Campesinos and Times New Viking – Shred Yr Face at Electric Ballroom, London
Mystery Jets – Cockpit, Leeds
Horse Feathers – The Fly, London
Kaiser Chiefs and Esser …

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Tuesday 14th October
The Aliens and Sisters Of Transistors – Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen, London
Beggars – 100 Club, London
Shred Yr Face – No Age, Los Campesinos and Times New Viking …