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They're
label mates of Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand, but
Glasgow's Sons and Daughters have little in common with
their Domino Records brethren. Their music has been
described as 'a noir-ish blend of country, rockabilly,
post-punk, murder ballads and trad Scots folk' by the
NME, while The Guardian reckon 'their threatening punk
country may have the bite of the White Stripes or PJ
Harvey, but their intensity and charisma are singular.
Sons and Daughters are genuinely astonishing'.
However you want
to describe it, we think that Sons and Daughters are
ace, and that their new Bernard Butler-produced album
This Gift is undoubtedly one of the albums of the year.
So there. |
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Biting
lyrics, beards, basslines and some inspired theatrical
touches - this electro-hip-hop-beat-poet duo have
created a live show unlike anything you've ever
seen. They're also the chaps responsible for 'Though
Shalt Not Kill', the track which NME, Zane Lowe
and half the world all crowned the Track Of The
Year in 2007. New single 'Look For The Women'
isn't half bad either and their debut album 'Angles'
has already had XFM's new music mogul John Kennedy
deeming it 'a contender for album of the year.'
Just a band? We don't think so.
'Le Sac and Pip are contenders in the Streets
school of Brit-hop, albeit with more with lyrics
about pants, socks and the Periodic table...'
NME. |
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Critically
acclaimed head of Fife’s Fence Collective, as seen
on tour recently with KT Tunstall, and on TV with Jools
Holland.
‘Accordions! Strings! The sound of a lush, Scottish
ballad warming itself into life…the singer-songwriter
known to his mum as Kenny Anderson and Fife's finest
export since fish and chips and bird flu.
Imagine a woozy, self-deprecating romantic, the kind
of man who travels through thousands of emotions at
all times, suddenly losing his shyness and becoming
utterly fabulous…what's especially wonderful is
that he sounds like no one but himself. This is folk,
but it's not traditional or old-fashioned; it's warm,
bright and modern. Folk for folk like us…glorious!’
– The Guardian.
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All
you need to know about this man…
‘He can follow in the footsteps of Dylan
and Guthrie’ NME
‘A singular talent....his distinctive voice
and guitar establish him as a Medway Hank Williams.
Worth investigating’ - UNCUT
‘The soul of American music distilled into
the voice of a Cuban-heeled greaser from the Medway
Delta’ THE GUARDIAN
‘An extraordinary new British talent...4.5/5’
- THE SUN
‘A superbly realised piece of folk blues
heartache" - MOJO
‘Sweet-voiced blues-folk...a cherishable
artefact even before you fall under the spell
of the actual music’ - NME |
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Red
Light Company's recent debut single With Lights Out
has already had the national music press sitting up
and taking note, with Q Magazine likening their dark,
powerful sound to Snow Patrol and Disintegration-era
Cure. But this is no retro-goth experience, and guiding
light Richard Rennaux combines poetic genius and plaintive
vocals that remind us more of Arcade Fire and Doves.
They're signed to the mighty
Columbia Records, Steve Lamacq and 6 Music love
them, and they've just crossed over into the daytime
radio playlists. Potential stadium fillers, these
boys - catch em close up while you still can.
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‘In
a city still jam-packed with derivative monkey
bands, Slow Club stand out. Call them folk if
you must, but songs such as Sunday and future
single Me and You are so gut-wrenchingly beautiful
that the term sells them short. No, singing
percussionist Rebecca and guitarist Charles
are more than folking troubadours, they're a
musical revelation. Pure heart-bursting pop,
propelled by odd absurdist chair and table thwacking.
Don’t call this club slow, call it special’
– NME.
‘A sort of one man
band. Only with two people. He strums guitar
and sings and she plays drums and all sorts
of weird instruments, like water-filled glass
bottles, spoons and the back of a wooden chair’
- The Independent.
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A
nine-headed, eighteen-legged, double-drummered surf-rock
spectacular from London Town! With a full-on mariachi
trumpet section and some tremendously cool suits.
Sound-wise if you got a big mixer and put The
Cramps in, then chucked in Dick Dale and The Shadows
[taking care with Hank's glasses], added a dash of
Pixies and Muse at their most theatrical, then finished
with a light dusting of Iggy Pop, then MIXED THE WHOLE
LOT UP TO MAKE THE SOUNDTRACK TO THE GREATEST TARANTINO
FILM NEVER MADE…then you're starting to get somewhere
close.
'An urgent rush of dark, brass-backed
surf rock' - Q Magazine
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Hailing
from Leeds, via Kendal, Wild Beasts are the
latest signings to the legendary Domino Records
label; home of Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkey
and Lightspeed Champion…
‘Much of the joy to be found in the dippy,
quixotic and downright oddness of Wild Beasts
is… just that. Evoking a time of British
music that didn’t require strobe-lit music
videos or the affections of trowel-haired Channel
4 presenters (some call it A Better Age), the
Leeds-based foursome sound like music hall on
mushrooms inexpertly fed through an auto harp
covered in strawberry jam’ – Drowned
in Sound
‘Delightful, romantic, magical and timeless’
– The Guardian |
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Straight
from tours with Scouting For Girls and Hello Goodbye,
supercharged-pop quartet Go: Audio have been all over
Radio 1, Kerrang, MTV and MTV2 for the past few months,
with tracks like Woodchuck and Made up Stories finding
favour left right and centre.
The pop-punk thing might get a bit of a bad press these
days, but there's much more to these boys than latest
inheritors of the poisoned chalice that is 'the new
Busted' tag.
Kerrang are already backing the band, and there's definitely
a bit more of a rock element in there. More rock than
Busted, I hear you cry!? Yeah! You better believe it.
Throw a bit of The Killers and Something Corporate into
the mix and you're probably just about there |
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The
return of former frontman Hayze / Romance singer
Mattie Chipchase – this time backed by the
Brothers Barbaylios, and with a new sound halfway
beween the Libertines and Johnny Cash.
Now managed by Ignition (who also look after
Oasis…), and after support slots with Dirty
Pretty Things and The Pigeon Detectives, it’s
no surprise that the A&R hoardes have been
spotted in Stockton lately. To help kick off
what we truly hope will be a rip-roaring year
for the band we have decided to accord them
the unprecedented honour of playing sets to
both open and close the festival, so you can
catch them again at about 9:30 on the Homegrown
Stage.
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