World Premiere of Live Under The Arches Stage
The Presets
The Presets are a Sydney-based electronic duo, They are widely recognised for their charismatic on-stage antics and in-your-face live presence and their latest album has been met with widespread critical acclaim www.myspace.com/thepresets
Dandi Wind
Physically and stylistically somewhere between Bjork, PJ Harvey and Peaches, enrapturing vocalist Dandilion Schlase dances, shrieks and flails, each performance an impassioned, cathartic labor of love
www.myspace.com/dandiwind http://dandiwind.com/images/press.htm
Highlighted by the NME as one of the bands at the centre of the scene currently spawning in the Midlands, The Ripps combine a mixture of cool pop, punk and ska www.myspace.com/theripps
The Inspiral Carpets
The Inspiral Carpets are one of those great English singles bands. Up there with Madness or the Kinks or The Buzzcocks those effortless purveyors of a machine gun rush of fine three minute statements. In the late eighties and early nineties The Inspiral Carpets hit the chart far more consistently than their fellow Madchester travellers the Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses www.inspiralcarpets.com
Kubichek!
Creators of this year’s best indie rock debut; make no mistake, Newcastle’s Kubichek! are a devoutly special band. As incendiary as the intentionally explosive exclamation mark that doorstops their moniker, like all the best bands, they come armed with a musical manifesto – a mission statement if you will – that encompasses their lust for uncompromising DIY punk jitter, noir tinged, New Wave tainted atmos, and feedback swamped melodic sass www.kubichek.co.uk
Mistys Big Adventure
A glorious 8 piece band from Birmingham in the UK, made up of brothers and sisters and twins and saxophones and trumpets and cute, weird dancers who produce the most uplifting, life affirming tunes you will hear since Louie Armstrong played with the Lovin Spoonful. www.mistysbigadventure.co.uk
Oneyesblue are a band at the fore-front of the Midlands music scene, spearheading the revival of grass roots Blues and Americana. The band who were recently described as ‘The Sweethearts of the Rodeo’, deliver a raw 1960s Basement Blues sound, with fuzzed out guitars, pounding drums and 3 harmonised vocal melody lines. www.myspace.com/oneyesblue
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Djs Scott Bleepz (Panic)
Bobby and Sam (Bigger than Barry)
