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MUSIC INDUSTRY EXPERTS ANNOUNCED AS WELSH MUSIC PRIZE JUDGES

MUSIC INDUSTRY EXPERTS ANNOUNCED AS WELSH MUSIC PRIZE JUDGES

We're pleased to announce the judges for this year's inaugural Welsh Music Prize - the award which celebrates Welsh music across a wide variety of genres.

 

Huw Stephens, Radio 1 DJ and co-founder of the Welsh Music Prize, said: "The judges for the Welsh Music Prize this year have been approached because of their active and important roles in the world of music promotion, management, nurturing and supporting. Each judge brings an expertise and a credibility to the Prize, and each judge will be asked to pick their favourite album from the shortlist. The judges are as varied as the albums nominated, and we look forward to the outcome on October 21st."

 

Without further ado, we can excitedly reveal the following judges who form this year's panel:

 

Ashli Todd - Co-owner of Spillers Records.

Bethan Elfyn - Presenter and DJ for BBC Radio Wales.

Dai Davies - Music Industry Developer, member of the Arts Council of Wales and a Governor at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.

David Exley - Booking agent at Coda Music Agency, whose roster includes WILD BEASTS, CHAPEL CLUB and THE XX.

Jude Rogers - A journalist for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Word, New Statesman and the BBC, Jude has also been a judge on the Mercury Music Prize panel since 2007.

Mike Williams - Deputy Editor of NME.

Neil Pengelly - Head Booker for Reading and Leeds festivals.

Stephen Bass - Co-founder of Moshi Moshi Records, whose roster includes THE RAKES, BLOC PARTY and HOT CHIP.

Tom Baker - Founder of music promotions company Eat Your Own Ears

Yvonne Matsell - Co-founder of NXNE Music Festival in Canada.

Also, just as a reminder, here is this year's shortlist of albums:

 

Al Lewis - In The Wake [ALM]

Colorama - Box [See Monkey Do Monkey Records]

Funeral For A Friend - Welcome Home Armageddon [Distiller Records]

Gruff Rhys - Hotel Shampoo [Ovni/Turnstile Music]

Lleuwen - Tan [Gwymon]

Manic Street Preachers - Postcards from a Young Man [Sony]

Stagga - The Warm Air Room [Rag and Bone Records]

Sweet Baboo - I’m a Dancer/Songs About Sleepin’ [Shape Records]

The Blackout - Hope [Cooking Vinyl]

The Gentle Good - Tethered for the Storm [Gwymon]

The Joy Formidable - Big Roar [Atlantic Records]

Y Niwl - Y Niwl [Aderyn Papur]

 

The winner of the first ever Welsh Music Prize will be announced at an exclusive ceremony during this year's Swn Festival on Friday 21 October 2011 at the Kuku Club, Cardiff.

 

For more information on the inaugural Welsh Music Prize, go to: http://welshmusicprize.com

SWN FESTIVAL 2011 and DIRTY POP present IAN WATKINS DJ SET

SWN FESTIVAL 2011 and DIRTY POP present

IAN WATKINS (LOSTPROPHETS) DJ SET
aka L'Amour La Morgue

plus the DIRTY POP DJ residents

Friday 21st October
The Box, Tiger Tiger - Entry on Greyfriars Place
£5 adv MOTD
10.30pm - 3am

Tickets from swnpresents.com / ticketlineuk.com / seetickets.com

IAN WATKINS will play a DJ Set at The Box, Tiger Tiger as part of SWN FESTIVAL 2011. We are releasing a limited number of tickets for this show only, priced £5, for people who want to go to this show only and not to any of the other shows at the festival that day. If you buy a SWN Festival Wristband for either the whole festival (£49.50) or the Friday only (£16) then you'll get access to this show in the usual way by arriving as early or as close to doors as possible and you'll be given free priority entry, subject to capacity.

SWN presents GIRLS

SWN presents GIRLS

Tues 8th Nov 2011

The Globe, Albany Road, Cardiff

£8 adv

Tickets onsale at

SWNpresents
We Got Tickets
SEE Tickets
Cardiff Box Office
Spillers
Ticketline
Bristol Ticket Shop
Turnstile Music
The Globe
Gigantic

Remember SWN FESTIVAL in 2009? In Y Fwuch Goch we bought you the incredible sounds of GIRLS. The show was completely rammed out - one of *the* buzz gigs of that year's festival. Even we couldn't get in to see it.

So we're delighted that we'll be hosting the first night of GIRLS' short run of UK dates in support of their new album 'FATHER, SON, HOLY GHOST'.

For the uninitiated, here's GIRLS' 'Lust for Life'

 

and the awesome HELLHOLE RATRACE

 

 

SWN presents MALE BONDING w/ THE HISTORY OF APPLE PIE and KUTOSIS

SWN presents

MALE BONDING

Sun 25 Sep
Clwb Ifor Bach

14+ show / please bring ID
£8 adv from www.swnpresents.com
wegottickets.com
theglobecardiff.com
seetickets.com
gigantic.com
cardiffboxoffice.com
Spillers Records
Bristol Ticket Shop

f-k. YES.

Made up of Robin Silas Christian (drums), John Arthur Webb (guitar & vocals) and Kevin Hendrick (bass and vocals), and rising from a flourishing DIY scene in their adopted hometown of Dalston, London, Male Bonding became a very real thing in May, 2008, with their first show, at an insane house party called “RAGE!”

Male Bonding was born raging and it’s been non-stop ever since. That party evolved in to a split 7” release with PENS on Male Bonding’s own label Paradise Vendors Inc. (which sold out in a week). To date, Male Bonding has dispatched seven releases including a Flipper tribute 7” (on Domino Records) alongside PPM Allstars, Lovvers and Ponytail. The band has toured the UK with Brooklyn’s Vivian Girls and played shows with Lovvers, HEALTH, Fucked Up, Graffiti Island, Mika Miko, These are Powers, NISENNENMONDAI, Magik Markers, and Finally Punk among others

//KUTOSIS//

KUTOSIS release their debut album ‘Fanatical Love’ this November on Barely Regal Records.

The Cardiff three piece took just 6 days to record, mix and master the album with Rory Attwell, known for his recent work with Male Bonding, Yuck, Fair Ohs and Veronica Falls to name but a few.

'Fanatical love' sees the trio not only hone their craft but really push the boundaries of their multifaceted sound - from the infectious, guitar-driven hooks of 'Shadows' to the hypnotic electronic rhythms of 'Battle Lake'. 

Not content with just experimenting musically, the release heralds the start of an ambitious video project working with 10 film-makers, each of which making a video for one of the tracks on the album for a special one off screening at Cardiff’s Chapter Arts Centre.

SWN presents JUNIP featuring JOSE GONZALEZ with TOBIAS WINTERKORN and ELIAS ARAYA

SWN presents

JUNIP
WOODPIGEON

Sat 10th Sep
The Gate, Roath, Cardiff
7.30pm
This is a 16+ show / please bring ID
£10 adv from www.swnpresents.com

wegottickets.com
cardiffboxoffice.com
seetickets.com
ticketlineuk.com
gigantic.com
Bristol Ticket Shop
Spillers Records
The Gate

Yes! After Jose Gonzalez was forced to cancel this show at the start of the year due to illness, he's kept his word and we've a date in the diary for his amazing outfit JUNIP. We've now the added treat that it's in the magnificent Gate venue too, which will make it even more of a treat. Oh, it's on a Saturday night too - how perfect!

Jose Gonzales, who sold about ten zillion copies of his debut album Veneers, has teamed up with Elias Araya and Tobias Winterkorn to form Junip. Jose's remarkable voice remains centre stage as he leads the amped up trio through an incredible new album 'Fields'.

The story that leads to Junip’s 2010 release is one of patience and perfectionism, frustration and persistence, sheer bloody-mindedness, inspiration and success. The place to which it takes you, however, is one of pastoral contemplation, autumnal grace and inscrutable, haunting serenity. A cosmopolitan three piece from Gothenburg, Sweden – featuring Tobias Winterkorn (keyboards), Elias Araya (drums) and José González (vocals & guitar), the latter of whom you’ll be familiar with from his solo work – Junip have existed since 1999, maybe even 1998. It’s so long, frankly, that none of them are quite sure. FIELDS, however, is the album that they’ve been itching to make ever since.

González and Araya have been playing together since they were 14. Their love of hardcore led them to form Renascence, (later called Sweet Little Sinister), and they first encountered Winterkorn at shows in Gothenburg in the mid ‘90s. “We talked about music that wasn’t hardcore music,” Winterkorn recalls. “I think we were all fed up and talked about doing something new.” “Our feeling was that we could do something more interesting with a setting that was more typical of the ‘60s and 70s’,” “By then in Sweden,” González relates, “it felt like everyone else was into Americana and country with steel stringed guitars,” he continues. “We had nylon strings and a Moog.”

They started rehearsing at Araya’s mother’s house, and though González initially brought in half-finished songs, “I noticed pretty early that it sounded better if we improvised together first and I then came up with a melody and lyrics.” “I remember,” Araya reminisces, “that the lack of a full drumkit played a big part in the beginning of how the songs, and especially the drum patterns, were formed“. The four-track cassette recordings that emerged caught the ear of Josephine Olausson (currently with Love Is All) and Per Idborg, who released the four-song 7”, ‘Straight Lines’, on their Kakafoni label in 2000. They also latched onto González‘s solo recordings, a fact that ultimately contributed to Junip’s unusually lengthy genesis, though it wasn’t the only reason it’s taken them a decade to record their debut: Araya spent much of 2001-2005 studying art in Finland and Norway, while Winterkorn worked part time as a teacher, spending his spare time building a studio for his own recordings. But it was undeniably the success of González‘s debut album, Veneer, that held things back the most: its initial domestic success in 2003 led to European and US releases (on Peacefrog and Mute respectively) in 2005, in the process selling a million copies and going platinum in the UK.

“I always had the idea that Junip would do a full length,” Winterkorn still claims, “but all the breaks we had made it hard to believe that we would really do one. Now I try not to think about the time it took.” “It was frustrating at times,” Araya admits, while González himself says that it’s been “like chasing a teenage dream. I’ve felt during interviews that I was just talking about castles in the air. We talked about it every time we met, but my touring always forced us to postpone things.” There was an attempt to record in 2005, “but,” González sighs, “we were slow at writing so it ended up as an EP (‘Black Refuge’). And then I went on tour again…”

Finally, when duties for González‘s 2007 album In Our Nature were complete, Junip was at last able to become the priority that they had always meant it to be. In fact, in retrospect, the endless postponement has maybe helped the band. “We’re ten years older now,” González concedes, “but it feels very natural now that we have gotten to know one another musically again.” They began by improvising together over a couple of months, looking for sketches that stood out for their groove or melody, recording every time they played “and then taking out the raisins from the cake to eat them”, as Winterkorn endearingly describes it. They constructed songs around beats and guitar patterns, building up a musical wall with Winterkorn’s analog synths, combo organs and Rhodes, but this time their perfectionism held them back. “We spend a lot of time trying to get where we want to go,” González explains. “There’s a thin line between being stubborn and perfectionist.” Winterkorn can barely wait to agree. “It’s hard to let go of something when it doesn’t feel right,” he laughs, “but sometimes we’re the exact opposite of perfectionists. Sometimes we didn’t try as hard as we should have.” It’s a combination of these two things that no doubt gives the album its unique dynamic – some songs sound unusually raw, almost as though they’re threatening to distort – but there was a reason for this, Winterkorn clarifies. “We wanted all the songs to sound rough and tough. The sound is intentional.”

And it’s unique too, no doubt about it, a hazy, organic, melodic and hypnotic musical environment that leans on an unconventional blend of influences, from John Martyn’s folk-jazz to Richie Havens’ psychedelic soul via the more motorik elements of so-called ‘krautrock’, though the latter, Araya says, “is not as heavy as some might think. My mum is Ethiopian, and when I was growing up she played a lot of Ethiopian music, which is very repetitive. Even though I hated it at the time, I think it influenced me.” “Afro-beat and soul are always on my stereo,” Winterkorn adds, “so the monotone grind you can find in that music can also be heard in ours.” Meanwhile González is able to reel off a whole list of albums that have made an impact on his life during the time Junip was waiting to happen but that eventually informed the music on this album: from Shuggie Otis’ ‘Inspiration Information’, C.K.Mann’s ‘Funky Hi-Life’, David Axelrod’s ‘House Of Mirrors’ and Nina Simone’s ‘See-Line Woman’ all the way to Linda Perhacs’ ‘Sandy Toes’.

Produced by the band and mixed by Don Alsterberg, who also helped with recording – “we know what we like, but we’re neither the best recording engineers nor the best musicians,” González confesses – FIELDS proves that every second of its protracted gestation has been worth the wait. From the galloping simplicity of ‘Off Point’ to the gentle summer breeze of ‘Always’, from the light-as-a-feather deftness of ‘It’s Alright’ to the blissful melancholy of ‘Tide’, it’s a heady and seductive brew, defined by the warmth of Winterkorn’s keyboards, Araya’s subtly insistent rhythms and González‘s distinctive, softly-sung tones and enigmatic lyricism. Its modesty belies its attention to detail as well as its defiantly not-of-this-time and not-of-this-world atmosphere. It’s hardly surprising that González was so eager to return from the lonely world of the solo artist to immerse himself once again in what Winterkorn calls “the Junipsphere”, but it’s equally obvious why his band mates waited so long.

SWN presents WIBIDI

SWN and ORCHARD ENTERTAINMENT presents

WIBIDI
plus support

TUES 2nd AUGUST
Undertone, Cardiff

WEDS 3rd AUGUST
Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff

£8 adv from http://www.swnpresents.com/
http://www.thinkorchard.com/
seetickets.com
wegottickets.com

WIBIDI is the new project founded by Super Furry Animals members Daf and Cian. For two consecutive days in August there will be the chance to see them in action as they bring WIBIDI to two Cardiff venues, small in comparison to the venues that the Super Furry Animals inhabit, they're back to the street, starting afresh with something very special... Here it begins.

Wibidi is a dreadlocked tornado with a voice like rust.

He’s manic, disconcerting, compelling. He just doesn’t stop – a million miles an hour, every hour. There’s something about that makes you think that dark forces once ruled his soul. It’s not a nice thought.

Then something happened. Don’t know what. He turned it around, using the same energy that could demolish buildings to build them instead.

First came a contribution to the the Mr Nice project, the Howard Marks biopic starring Rhys Ifans, it didn’t feature in the movie but instead was commissioned by Howard for his live shows. Howard now opens his shows with the track. That came about after a chance encounter with Dafydd Ieuan and Cian Ciaran, of the Super Furry Animals.

Further sessions resulted during the recording of the second album by The Peth. Then Wibidi just started turning up to perform his own material. He was relentless. Track after track after track. Snapshots of a life lived large in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay (hence the album title).

If you’re looking for a coherent, easily-categorised collection of work, you’ve come to the wrong place. Tiger Baby is the warped sound of 21^st century urban blues. It twists from one turn to the next – uncompromising, reflective, brutal, anarchic, solemn.

At its heart is this unique force of nature, fizzing and popping like a defective firework. “When I was young I hated love songs”, he says. “I’d listen to them thinking: ‘Fuckin ‘ell man, get over yourself’. But I was young, Once I got my heart broken, once I got to feel the pain, then I realised what life was all about.”

Coming soon is Wibidi’s debut album ‘Tiger Baby’  released on 'Strangetown Records'.

For further information and FREE download track from forthcoming album: there’s what you want to know and what you need to know. See: www.wibidi.co.uk

SWN curates the opening night of Cardiff's Admiral Big Weekend

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND
ATTACK! ATTACK!
OK

with host JEN LONG (BBC RADIO 1 INTRODUCING IN WALES)

Lawn of City Hall
Cardiff
Friday 5th August 2011
7.00pm-11.00pm
FREE

Welsh promoters SWN (that's us!) are proud to have been asked to curate the opening night of Cardiff's ADMIRAL BIG WEEKEND. We have chosen three awesome bands, plus an equally awesome host. The event is completely FREE! Just turn up and enjoy.

Across Saturday and Sunday evenings you can also see these bands :

The Feeling
King Charles
Dom Duff
Edei
Vintage Trouble
The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
Dodgy
Zing Zong
Nerina Pallot
The Big Gig Winner

SWN FESTIVAL 2011 presents THE FALL / THE NIGHTINGALES / TED CHIPPINGTON

 
SWN Festival 2011 presents

THE FALL
THE NIGHTINGALES
TED CHIPPINGTON

Saturday 22nd October 2011
Great Hall, Cardiff University
6.30pm-10.30pm
£15 advance
18+ only / please bring ID

THE FALL will play a headline slot at Great Hall, Cardiff University as part of SWN FESTIVAL 2011. We are releasing a limited number of tickets for this show only, priced £15.00, for people who want to go to this show only and not to any of the other shows at the festival that day. If you buy a SWN Festival Wristband for either the whole festival (£49.50) or the Saturday only (£25) then you'll get access to this show in the usual way by arriving as early or as close to doors as possible and you'll be given free priority entry, subject to capacity.

Tickets for this show are on sale now from swnpresents.com, cardiffboxoffice.com, wegottickets.com, seetickets.com and Spillers Records

For more information on SWN Festival go to www.swnfest.com. SWN Festival tickets are also on sale through www.swnpresents.com

THE FALL need no introductio do they.

THE NIGHTINGALES

Birmingham's original punk group The Prefects had been part of The Clash's 'White Riot Tour', recorded a couple of Peel sessions, released a 45 on Rough Trade and, years after splitting up, had a retrospective CD released by NY label Acute Records to all round glowing reviews - from Rolling Stone to webzines.

The Nightingales was formed by former members of The Prefects following that band's demise in 1979.

With an ever fluctuating line up, based around lyricist/singer Robert Lloyd, the Nightingales enjoyed cult status in the early '80's as darlings of the credible music scene and were championed by John Peel, who said of them - "Their performances will serve to confirm their excellence when we are far enough distanced from the 1980's to look at the period rationally and other, infinitely better known, bands stand revealed as charlatans".

The group recorded a bunch of critically acclaimed singles (Almost always 'Single Of The Week' in the music press) and three albums, plus many radio sessions for their great supporter Peel - more than any other band bar The Fall. They also regularly toured the UK and Northern Europe, as headliners and supporting acts as diverse as Bo Diddley and Nico.

In the late Eighties the Nightingales stopped working but, following the occasional gig between times, they re-grouped in 2004, with Lloyd being joined by original Prefects guitarist Alan Apperley.

After fucking about with various wastrels, precious sorts and mercenaries the group arrived at it's current line up, which features Lloyd, Apperley, Andreas Schmid (from Faust Studio) on bass, ex Violet Violet drummer Fliss Kitson and guitarist Matt Wood, plus on occasion bassoonist Katherine Young &/or guitarist Christine Edwards and Emily Manzo on keyboards (Christy & Emily).

Since restarting the group have been more productive than ever - releasing five 7" vinyl singles and three studio albums (Plus two live albums), touring England, mainland Europe and USA numerous times, recording many radio sessions along the way. They have been invited to play various festivals in Europe and the States, including Glastonbury and SXSW. Their "Let's Think About Living" 45 was 'Single Of The Week' on BBC 6 Music and they have continued to receive regular rave reviews for their records and live shows.

In 2008 the band recorded "Insult to Injury" with Hans Joachim Irmler of krautrock legends Faust. This record was released in February 2009 on the Klangbad label and is largely considered the best 'gales album yet. Another Irmler produced album - "The Lost Plot" - was recorded in August 2010.

TED CHIPPINGTON

As a teenager Stewart Lee went to see THE FALL in concert. They were supported by a comedian, TED CHIPPINGTON, and it was this set which inspired Stewart to become a stand up comedian. After retiring in the 1990s he has recently returned to the stage. We thought this would be the perfect line bill to bring him to Cardiff.

SWN presents WISE BLOOD

SWN presents

WISE BLOOD

Tue 13th Sept 2011
Undertone, (basement of 10 Feet Tall), Cardiff
Doors 8PM - curfew 11PM
£7 advance from www.swnpresents.com / wegottickets.com and seetickets.com

First ever UK shows for this incredible new band. Found them at SXSW and fell in love with them. We've worked with a load of likeminded UK promoters and their US agent to bring them to the UK for their first ever UK shows. These are the shows that make what we do so special.

Wise Blood is Chris Laufman, a young guy who lives in Pittsburgh and makes woozy, inward pop songs out of other people’s music. Laufman’s voice is usually the only original element in Wise Blood’s songs. But Laufman’s sample manipulation can turn something like the brontosaurus-stomp drums from Led Zeppelin’s “When the Levee Breaks” into just one element of a funky swirl of a track. To hear Laufman tell it, he’d like to take over pop music completely in the next year or so. The first step in that campaign: a self-titled five-song EP up for free download on Wise Blood’s Bandcamp page which is here http://hazemotes.bandcamp.com/

 

SWN FESTIVAL 2011 : 180 BANDS ANNOUNCED / WHO IS PLAYING ON WHAT DAY

 

 

 

(THE VACCINES play their fifth ever gig, Dempseys Bar, SWN Festival 2010. Pic by Shutterfox)

 

SWN Festival 2011 / Gwyl SWN 2011

Thursday 20th October - Sunday 23rd October

www.swnfest.com

 

Yes. Yes. Yes. SWN Festival returns for its fifth year as Wales’ premier new music festival. We honestly never thought we'd get this far. In fact we never thought we'd make it to the second year. Yet here we are, five years strong, bigger and brighter every year with the best  to come. It's our birthday. Let's celebrate.

 

After an incredible demand for tickets last year we're delighted to announce that we adding a WHOLE EXTRA DAY to SWN Festival 2011. I'm so excited I needed capitals for that. The festival will therefore take place across the evening of Thursday 20th October and Friday 21st October then through the days and nights of Saturday 22nd October and Sunday 23rd October. That's a full day of loads more new music, new bands and bonus SWN fun through the Sunday. Grab a Sunday lunch then off you go again. We'll wind things up a little earlier on the Sunday evening for those who have work the next morning, though there'll be a few events for night owls who are taking Monday off to rest. That'll include us.

 

Each year at SWN we work with our favourite local, Welsh and UK peeps who co-host stages with us. We want you to fall in love with them as we have. With an extra day to the festival we've more co-hosts than ever before. Confirmed to be in the Welsh capital hosting stages with us are Artrocker, Barely Regal Records, BBC Radio 1, Y Nyth, Bubblewrap, Crack, Everybody's Stalking, Flux=Rad, Steve Lamacq and Going Deaf For A Living. Lesson Number 1, Moshi Moshi, New Sound Wales, NYTH, NME, Pink Mist (The Big Scary Monsters / Holy Road / and Blood & Biscuits labels), Propaganda, Radarmaker, Rockfeedback, See Monkey Do Monkey, STHCC, Shape, Signature, The Line Of Best Fit, The Rusty Trombone of God, Y Selar, Gathered In Song and Zoo Pop.

 

And the bands. Oh the bands! There'll be 180 acts playing in total. 180. ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY! Like the darts. That's a lot of bands. Hopefully you'll know some of them, and hopefully there'll be lots you don't know. That's the idea. We want you to come and discover them. This year, thanks to the awesome Soundcloud and the skills of Radarmaker, we have a player on www.swnfest.com so you can listen to tracks from all of the bands who are playing. There's links on each band's profile so you can go off and hear more too. Start listening and writing up lists of who you like and who you want to see. Of course that might all go to pot on the weekend as you find yourself in one venue glued to a band you'd completely overlooked, but hey, getting your prep in is loads of fun.

 

Besides the music we've a few other treats to announce, but that'll follow in the coming weeks.. for now, here's the full confirmed line up, with who’ll be playing on each day. Final times and venues will be released around 1st October.

 

THURSDAY

Algiers

Hymns

Tubelord

Elephant Stone

Herman Dune

Elephant

Yaaks

Alt-J

Fixers

Greta Isaac

Creision Hud

Jen Jeniro

Yr Ods

Masters In France

Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells

CRST

Martyn (LIVE)

Dividers

Bedford Falls

Caves

The Cut Ups

Red City Radio

 

FRIDAY

Brandyman

The Good Wife

The Skull Defekts

Visions of Trees

Niki & The Dove

Ifan Dafydd

Stay +

Seams

Astroid Boys

Run, Walk

Kerouac

Brontide

Two Wounded Birds

Gross Magic

Clock Opera

Racehorses

Breton

Veronica Falls

Gallops! 

The Victorian English Gentlemens Club

Creatures of Love

Friends Electric

And So I Watch You From Afar

Man Without Country

The Joy Formidable

Ian Watkins DJ Set

His Naked Torso

Ultrahumanitarian

Team Sports

Ashtray Navigations

 

SATURDAY

DZ Deathrays

Mowbird

Deaf Club

Cut Ribbons

Rapids! 

Esben & The Witch

Y Niwl

Denuo

Joseph & David

Summer Camp

Patterns

Let’s Buy Happiness

Winter Villains

Llewis Floyd Henry

Mr Phormula

Ugly Duckling

Dots.Filmband

Ffred Jones

Joe Janiak

Daughter

Benjamin Francis Leftwich

Bleeding Heart Narrative

Christopher Rees & The Horns

LA2019

Gallops!

Three Trapped Tigers

Sissy & The Blisters

Town

Jim Jones Revue

Cymbals

Beaty Heart

Zulu Winter

Ted Chippington

The Nightingales

The Fall

Little Arrow

Barefoot Dance Of The Sea

Ivan Moult

Evening Chorus

Sen Sgeur

Violas

Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog

Houdini Dax

Colorama

Dirty Goods

The Method

The Broken Vinyl Club

The Keys

Sam Airey

Gavin Osborn

Catrin Herbert

Iwan Huws

Loved Ones

Monument Valley

Eagulls

Twbador

Mammal Club

Melodica Melody & Me

Pandas & People

 

SUNDAY

Famy

Torches

Ren Harvieu

Dam Mantle

Apostles

Dancers

Battlekat

Big Deal

The History of Apple Pie

Echo Lake

Copy Haho

Lucy Rose

Al Lewis

Sam Duckworth

Gideon Conn

Shoes and Socks Off

Jodie Marie

Ben Howard

Witches Drum 

Kutosis

Tiger Please

Saturday’s Kids

Mechanical Bride

Born Blonde

Cuba Cuba

Spector

Chailo Sim

Zun Zun Egui

Them Quirrels

Gentle Friendly

Truckers of Husk

H Hawkline

Sweet Baboo

Zervas & Pepper

Joshua Caole

James McKay

David Dondero

Holland

Olympians

Effort

Among Brothers

Hail! The Planes

Theo

Samoans

Strange News From Another Star

 

And how much are tickets for this you're thinking? £100ish? That would be good value wouldn't it, for four days and 200 bands. NO! This is SWN and so tickets for the four days, which get you free priority access to all the shows (subject to capacity) are just £49.50.

 

For the moment they are only available from http://www.swnpresents.com - and they will roll out to more outlets over the coming weeks.

 

These are the advance prices. If there are tickets remaining then they will go up in price a week before the festival, so if you're planning on coming please buy in advance, and preferably as early as possible to ensure you get a ticket.

 

The best value, and the most fun, is if you buy our most popular ticket which covers the whole festival :

 

SWN Festival 4-day Wristband : £49.50

 

But if you can only make some of the days you can buy individual day tickets :

 

SWN Festival Thursday Wristband : £10

SWN Festival Friday Wristband : £16

SWN Festival Saturday Wristband : £25

SWN Festival Sunday Wristband : £20

 

Wristbands grant you free priority access to all of the SWN Festival shows subject to capacity. Bascially, get a wristband and get around Cardiff to see as many shows as you can. We'll publish a full timetable a month before the festival so you'll have good time to make plans as to which venue you'll need to be at and when to see the people you want to see. Just allow some time when you arrive to head to the wristband exchange to swap your ticket for your festival wristband.

 

Ok, cool, that'll do for now. Looking forward to seeing you at SWN Festival 2011.

 

 

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For press accreditation please email swn@radarmaker.co.uk

For pictures of performing bands and photos from previous SWN festivals email john@plugtwo.com

For any other festival enquirires email info@swnfest.com

 

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