Your Indietracks 2019 wishlist

[sweepingthenation]

As is traditional.

[sweepingthenation]

RETURNEES
The Spook School
Martha
Shopping
Peaness
Chorusgirl
Fever Dream
Charmpit

DEBUTANTS
Robert Forster
Prolapse
Waxahatchee
Girlpool
Stanley Brinks
Illuminati Hotties
Fightmilk
Chemtrails
Yr Friends
The Beths
Stella Donnelly
Bad Moves
Breakfast Muff
T-Shirt Weather
Kermes
City Yelps
Pale Kids
El Morgan and the Divers
Jetstream Pony

[brunser]

Off the top of my head:

Art Brut (new album out soon apparently!)
The Spook School
Jeffrey Lewis
Slow Club (if they exist any more)
Kimya Dawson
Martha
Courtney Barnett (too big though)
Peaness
Fresh

The organisers do a good enough job so I'm sure I will be happy with whoever plays!

[tompony]

New:
Jens Lekman
The Radio Dept
Alvvays
Grawl!x
Radiant Heart
Gentle Brontosaurus
Radiator Hospital
Balance Lost

Returning:
Martha
Gruff Rhys
Frankie Cosmos
Frankie Machine

[Dan Pop-o-matic]

New:

Alvvays
Real Estate
The Posies
Thee Mightees
Heavy Lids
The Sleazoids
Duck
My Lo-fi Heart (which is Ian from All Ashore! doing lo fi electropop)
The Goon Sax
Bunkerpop

Returnees

Teenage Fanclub
The Tuts or the Just Joans to do the Friday night headlining honours.

I'll think of more later.

[Trev]

Never played before (I think):

The Wolfhounds
Tullycraft
Fresh
Hook Jaw
Enids
The Goon Sax
Terry
Shonen Knife
Pink Grapefruit
Trash Kit (if they're still a band)
The Fish Police
Those Unfortunates
Open Mike Eagle
T-Shirt Weather
Magic Mist
Palomica (are they still a band?)
Live, Do Nothing


Back again:

City Yelps
The Wendy Darlings
Horowitz
The Manhattan Love Suicides

(it might be obvious from this list that I am not listening to much *new* pop-punk stuff at the moment)

[rococo_zephyr]

New
Robert Forster
Jens Lekman
Meilyr Jones
Goon Sax
Jessica’s Brother
Stanley Brinks
Freshard
The Surfing Magazines
John Maus
Advance Base
Kimya Dawson

Returning
Just Joans
The Wave Pictures
Jeffrey Lewis
Maths & Physics Club
Ballboy
Hidden Cameras
Steven James Adams
Spook School
White Town
The Ballet
Gruff Rhys
Sweet Baboo
Mammoth Penguins

[tompony]

The Ballet

Seconded! I missed them last time because we clashed with them, was absolutely gutted.
Anyone know what's going on with their new album by any chance? It was supposed to come out last year I think but everything went quiet.

[PontiacB]

Fresh
Fever Dream
Flowers
Drahla
PINS
Cowtown
Crumbs
Sauna Youth
Yassassin
Peach Club
Pip Blom
Ex Void

[lloydybwoy]

I'm getting well out of the loop these days, but nonetheless:

Alvvays
Bad Idea
Slowdive
Deerful
Jens Lekman
Downdime
Japanese Breakfast
So Sue Me
Luke Haines
Biscuithead and the Biscuit Badgers
The Staches
The Wendy Darlings
Peaness
Ezra Furman
Keren Ann
The Seven Inches
Mega Emotion
Sugar Plant
Self Esteem
The Luxembourg Signal
Melody's Echo Chamber
The Clientele

[humblebee]

Peaness
First Base
The Middle Ones
Thee Mighties
Chrissy Barnacle
Heavy Lids
Dear Nora
James Figurine
Lush
Richard Burke
Deerful
Owl & Mouse
Fever Dream
The Catenary Wires

A poetry stage, probably

I'm not particularly a fan of the Go-Betweens but Robert Forster sounds like a good shout in terms of a headliner who hasn't played before and would be quite a big draw

[ian]

Buzzcocks please!

[ian]

Also....The Burning Hell please.
And Jeffrey Lewis again.

[ian]

Otoboke Beaver

[tonieee]

The Middle Ones!!!!!

[Michael Quentin]

Slumb Party
Terry
Irma Vep
Michael Seal and the B Positives
The Pooches
Duds
Goat Girl
Dorotea
Pip Blom
The Goon Sax
Cowtown
The Pastels
The Vaselines
Cosines

[sweepingthenation]

Peter Outram in the craft tent: https://www.facebook.com/story.php?stor ... 3115046327

[bigtent]

Alvvays
Art Brut
Los Campesinos!
Oh Peas!
Half Man Half Biscuit
The Spook School
Simon Love
The Wendy Darlings
The Just Joans
The Tuts (if they have new material)
Martha
Thick
Peaness
Champit
Crumbs
Breakfast Muff
Fresh
T Shirt Weather
Radiator Hospital
Mammoth Penguins
Ex Void (seeing as they couldn’t make it this year)
Sleeper
The School
Buzzard

[lloydybwoy]

Sleeper

Mmm. I've been thinking about this for a while now - there are a fair number of Britpop bands who are currently undergoing the revival thing (or who never entirely went away) and I do wonder what folks would think about one of them turning up at Indietracks. Whilst I am a massive Britpop-era nerd who still listens to Echobelly far more often than is advised I would be quite excited initially to see some of my former heroes at Butterley, but... generally I have a feeling that:

a. They might be quite pricey
b. There's a risk that they could attract attendees who are not necessarily entirely Indietracksy (not meant as a slur but thinking about Tonieee's awful experience this year there have been occasions when a subset of certain bands' fans (Weddoes, Teenage Fanclub etc) haven't quite gelled with the usual atmosphere and ethos of the festival - usually those who are there just for the day.)
c. The festival is becoming more diverse in its outlook and in the bands that are booked (hurrah! Still a long way to go mind), and depending on the band it could feel a little like a retrograde step?

I say this as someone who was desperate to see Lush at Indietracks when they reformed, as someone who would totally want Kenickie there if that was ever a possibility, etc. But maybe it's not the place for this - there are, after all, plenty of other opportunities to see Sleeper, My Life Story et al at Butlins and thereabouts.

Anyhoo. Just some thoughts. They might not necessarily be good ones.

[humblebee]

b. There's a risk that they could attract attendees who are not necessarily entirely Indietracksy (not meant as a slur but thinking about Tonieee's awful experience this year there have been occasions when a subset of certain bands' fans (Weddoes, Teenage Fanclub etc) haven't quite gelled with the usual atmosphere and ethos of the festival - usually those who are there just for the day.)

Yeah, that's why I'd be a bit nervous about Indietracks having HMHB on. I know most of their fans are probably very nice, perhaps I'm just being a bit mean, I dunno, but.

Do you reckon that could be a thing with the Britpop set generally? I suppose it depends a bit. It never occurred to me that Lush might bring a bunch of overgrown laaaaadz with them, but then I've never really thought of Lush as Britpop.