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Sunday
Sunday started with a bit of celeb spotting
in the hotel – not only were The Chills staying at our hotel (or so we were
told), but so were The Very Most, and Dean Wareham!!!!
When we arrived at the site, we – along
with several children and many other fully-grown adults – got a little
over-excited by a huge vintage steam-roller flattening a pile of beer
cans. Only at Indietracks!
photo credit: RadioNowhere.org
photo credit: RadioNowhere.org
We continued our excitement with the
opening set on the Outdoor Stage from the riotous Spanish band, Axolotes
Mexicanos, who wowed the crowds with their crazy pop punk, interspersed with
Olaya’s insults to her brother Juan (translated via bass player, Stephen) such
as ‘This song is called ‘Abortion’ and I dedicate this to my brother’! Olaya was very nervous and kept
forgetting to play the keyboard, and when she didn’t know what to do she threw
her arms in the air and whooped. The
audience laughed its arse off, but also loved their songs. We caught up with the band a little bit
later on in the day and heard that they will have an album out hopefully by the
end of the year – can’t wait!
We headed to the Indoor Stage for a set by
Cosines as we had been given a heads-up earlier from Adam from The Manhattan
Love Suicides that they would be covering ‘Young Turks’ by Rod Stewart. It was a great cover, and we saw Adam punching
the air down in the audience!
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photo credit: RadioNowhere.org
Regular listeners to RadioNowhere will know
that we love The School, a Cardiff-based band that are not only an extremely
talented bunch of musicians but are also really lovely people. At this year’s Indietracks, we braved
the swelteringly hot conditions on the vintage trains to be treated to an
acoustic set of songs by The School performed by singer (…and promoter and Wales
Goes Pop! organizer and Elefant UK overseer…) Liz and multi-instrumentalist (…and
PhD student and graphic designer and neuroscientist…) Harri, joined by Simon
Love on tambourine. It was a very well attended performance,
enjoyed by all as the train carriage passed through the stunning Derbyshire
countryside.
photo credit: RadioNowhere.org
photo credit: RadioNowhere.org
Next up for the RadioNowhere interview (mis)treatment
were Mega Emotion, the band comprising ex-Bearsuit members, Iain, Jan and
Lisa. We met Bearsuit a couple of
times when they were doing shows for ‘The Phantom Forest’ album, and found them
to be an amazing live band as well as being fun people to talk to, so it was
great to meet them again.
They aren’t trading on their Bearsuit past at all, deciding instead to
start from scratch and establish themselves as a brand new band, so here at
Indietracks they played the Church Stage.
We arrived early to ensure that we got in, and wow… we were not
disappointed! Despite being a
relatively new band, their songs are perfectly formed, massively catchy, and so
powerfully performed. We were
blown away by one of the best shows we have seen in ages, and they were rightly
rewarded with a spontaneous standing ovation at the end of their set. They have had some initial releases on
home-produced cassettes and are currently looking for a label, so hopefully
they will be getting more music out there for your pleasure very soon – don’t
miss out, you will love them.
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Over the weekend we
greatly enjoyed spending time with our friends, the lovely Jónas from Elefant Records,
and Indietracks regulars (both as festival-goers and performers) Javi and Coral
from Band Á
Part, and were so pleased they decided to make the trip from Madrid to be
there. The weekend just went too
fast and before we knew it we were saying our goodbyes… with that, this year’s Indietracks was over. Maybe we’ll see you there next year?
Jessica 6 x
Jessica 6 x
All of the artists
interviewed by RadioNowhere over the weekend will be featured in an Indietracks
special and some of those artists will also be serving time in The Vinyl
Dungeon very soon… visit radionowhere.org for more information or follow us on Facebook
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