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PROFESSOR GREEN
9.30pm - 10.10pm
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Chart sensation Professor Green originally made his name as a ‘battle rapper’, where his quick-witted ad-hoc rhymes saw him win competitions all over the world… as well as fans like Lily Allen and Mike ‘The Streets’ Skinner. He's since gone on to befriend, tour and collaborate with Skinner and Ms Allen, as well as signing a deal with Virgin Records. Recent single I Need You Tonight (sampling the INXS song of the same name) shot to Number 3 in the UK Charts, and the new one Just Be Good to Green (featuring Lily A) promises to go one, or two, better.
‘If Vanilla Ice wasn't Vanilla Ice, I would be’ - Professor Green
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FREEBASS
8.25pm - 9.05pm
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Words like ‘credentials’ and ‘legends’ were practically invented for Freebass. The band is based around three [?!] bass players, but not any old bass players. Oh no. Check this out for a line up…Andy Rourke, formerly of The Smiths, Peter Hook, formerly of New Order and Joy Division, and Gary "Mani" Mounfield, formerly of The Stone Roses and currently in Primal Scream... Blimey! If that's not a supergroup, what is?
Singer Gary Briggs [formerly of Haven] completes the line-up and Ian Brown, Billy Corgan, Tim Burgess and Liam Gallagher are all working in the studio with the band on their debut album. [We’ve told them to feel free to bring their pals along on the day...]
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DETROIT SOCIAL CLUB
7.20pm - 8.00pm
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Newcastle's Detroit Social Club are label mates of The Cure, Elbow, and Snow Patrol, and will always have their place in history as the last band ever to support Oasis. Never mind standing on the shoulders of giants though – it’s all about what these boys are about to achieve in their own right.
DSC put pen to paper with Fiction Records after their incredible ‘Kasabian meets Led Zeppelin’ home recordings led to an almighty scramble, and had the capital's finest A&R men hurtling up the M1 to clinch a deal with one of the most hotly-tipped bands of the past few years. The album that resulted from all of this fuss is due to land any day now.
‘It's the dark, dirty undercurrent to Detroit Social Club that makes them so incendiary. Silver is a warped psychedelic brew of voodoo chanting and twisted riffs, while Mind at War is a filthy blues-rock beast reminiscent of Primal Scream at their very best’ - NME
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SOUND OF GUNS
6.15pm - 6.55pm
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Well, we don’t often bring a band back for a second appearance, but it feels like it’s really starting to happen for this lot who have just come back with an absolutely MASSIVE sound - in the same league as Kasabian at their epic best.
“Amazing new band” Greg James, Radio 1 [Single of the Week, from June 2]
"British rock and roll from the heart" Zane Lowe
"A band everybody is excited about" Huw Stephens
"Finally the big music gets a band to match" NME
"As massive and dramatic as anything on a major label, brilliant stuff" XFM
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CHAPEL CLUB
5.10pm - 5.50pm
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Chapel Club's delicious indie gloom sits perfectly between Interpol and Pavement, and has been described one critic as ‘candle-lit rock’ [we kinda see where they’re coming from]. Comparisons to Editors, White Lies and Arcade Fire have been thrown their way, but you're more likely to find them listening to Sonic Youth, New Order and Simon & Garfunkel. Recent single ‘O Maybe I’ was crowned ‘the Hottest Record in the World’ by Zane Lowe and - with a major label deal already under their belts – these look set to cross over into the big league in the year ahead.
‘Every once in a while a band crop up who are seemingly purpose-built to be a big deal. These bands seem ill-fitted in small venues playing to tiny crowds, their music bursting out of radios and amplifiers on a different level to every other new band. This year that band are Chapel Club’ – Gigwise.
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FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS
4.05pm - 4.45pm
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Take former Kenickie man (and Lauren Laverne’s brother!) Pete ‘Johnny X’ Gofton, add be-quiffed former football commentator Frankie Francis, and what do you get? A finely-honed indie-pop machine with lashings of retro rock’n’roll fun, that’s what! Frankie and the boys have toured with Florence & The Machine, The Futureheads and even Boro’s own Chapman Family. And their summer schedule sees them confirmed for The Great Escape, Radio 1's Big Weekend, Evolution Festival, Glastonbury, Latitude and Leeds/Reading... so we're in pretty good company, then.
‘The missing link between angular indie-folk and bootboy stomp-pop, these Sunderland lads' satirical songs pack an emotional punch’ - The Guardian.
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OU EST LE SWIMMING POOL
3.00pm - 3.40pm
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Ou est le swimming pool, anyway? Although you could also ask ‘ow is that three Camden fashionistas avec le passion for le bifsteak of Pet Shop Boys / Japan with a side of Duran frites manage to sound so, ‘ow you say, au current. Andelé Peligroso Pericosima, Fernando P.I. and Affa Da are le band of le moment with le daft name but their euphorically bittersweet branch of electro pop ain’t half hot, mum. It’s a liaison dangerouse and it started in a French lesson. It ends with no Resistance. LA PISCINE EST ICI! DANSEZ AT LA BAIGNADE!!
And if you can’t be bothered to read all of the above nonsense, then, in short, if you put Run DMC, Yazoo and Japan in a blender, and serve with a side order of Ultravox and Duran Duran, then we reckon you'd be somewhere near to the sound of Le Pool.
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HOT CLUB DE PARIS
2.00pm - 2.35pm
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Signed to Moshi Moshi Records (Bloc Party, Friendly Fires, Hot Chip, Kate Nash etc), Liverpool math-pop kings Hot Club De Paris have toured with the likes of Maximo Park, Foals, The Who, Joan Of Arc, Jamie T and Dirty Pretty Things. Don't expect a song in 4/4 or a conventional guitar chord, but do expect some amazing harmonies, some wonderful pop songs and of course, some typically sarcy Scouse wit.
"A thoroughly charming freak of nature." NME
"There's something cheeringly uncategorisable about Liverpool trio Hot Club De Paris' blend of twitchy punk, rococo guitar, lusty three-part folk harmonies and witty, occassionally foul-mouthed lyrics. Almost wilfully abstruse, but surprisingly charming live". The Guardian
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THE CROOKES
1.05pm - 1.35pm
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Hey, how’s THIS for a set of accolades in your Wikipedia entry?...
NME Magazine has championed the band, describing how "a band this good are unlikely to remain obscure for long."
The Crookes were named as The Guardian Band of The Day in September 2009 being described as having "hints of the winsome, lose-some C86 brigade, The Smiths (say, circa The Boy With the Thorn in His Side), the plaintive jangle of the Housemartins, even Belle and Sebastian."
In 2009 the band recorded a live session for Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 1 with Lamacq describing the band as having "ambition and flare and a singer with a beautiful voice; one of those special, poetic voices which dips and soars above their jangling guitars."
The Crookes have also been named as BBC 6 Music's favourite new band with Lamacq later describing them as his "favourite British band of the year" on BBC Radio 2.
The band's strong Sheffield roots have seen them embraced by the city's established acts with Jon McClure promoting the band as "Sheffield's next set of musical geniusus" and Richard Hawley describing them as 'absolutely superb' when interviewed on the breakfast show on the 6music breakfast show. [The Crookes have recorded multiple live radio sessions for BBC Radio 1,2,4,5 and 6!]
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RUSSELL & THE WOLVES
12.00pm - 12.40pm
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Don’t call the police! There hasn’t been an explosion in your local leopard skin factory - it’s just these towering, Teesside nutcases crashing onto the stage in a riot of quiffs, retina-threatening shirts and winklepickers that could skewer a Jack Russell at 100 paces. And, from the carnage emerges a throbbing, rumbling rockabilly assault that sounds like The Cramps throwing knives at Link Wray.
Look out for Call the Tribe; a Tarzan-tastic homage to jungle-obsessed 50s B-movies, howled with wide-eyed madness by gangly frontman Russell. Oh, did you notice Russell? 33% Little Richard, 45% the new Doctor Who, and 24% Richard Beckinsale in Rising Damp, he’s destined to be a star. And alright, the sums might not add up, but who cares about maths when we’re dealing with genius like this?
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