“Goodbye Falkenburg is an utterly entertaining trip” MOJO

“cut from the same gonzoid pop cloth as Super Furry Animals, full of psych rock & Beatles soaked harmonies” Q MAGAZINE

“colliery band parps, early Of-Montreal jangle, pastoral melancholy and what sounds like Beirut captaining a pirate ship maintain their standing as purveyors of mighty fine singles” NME

“a wilfully zany debut with mischievous spirit that’s hard to dislike” UNCUT

“Goodbye Falkenberg is an off-kilter masterpiece, irrerverant, unadulterated and well worth a listen”. DROWNED IN SOUND 8/10

“A 13 track joyride, it hurts psychedelia, White Album Beatles, glam-rock, electro, barbershop, tropicalia, chamber pop and post-rock into the mix. The result is a beserk and brilliant record” SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE (Breaking Act)

“Wholly original and genuinely exciting” MUSIC FIX 9/10

“Goodbye Falkenberg is a startlingly good first impression” CLASH MAGAZINE 7/10

“Goodbye Falkenburg’, the quartet prove that they are quite versatile, writing brilliant pop songs with plenty of quirkiness included. The future looks bright for this lot, make no mistake” THIS IS FAKE DIY 8/10

“With darkly humorous lyrics, handclaps galore, huge orchestral arrangements and choral parts – debut album Goodbye Falkenburg is sure to be a highlight of the year” NARC Ones To Watch

“Race Horses have just gone and made your all time favourite debut” SHINDIG

Haddow fest launches its first year with a bang (and a little guitar feedback)!

We’ve bundled just about every great band in Scotland in the back of a van and we’re taking over Edinburgh this March. In fact we’ve more than 75 of them, and enough venues to entertain over 4000 discerning fans.

It takes place across multiple venues in Edinburgh.

tickets can be purchased in person from:

Royal Mile Tavern. 127 High Street, Edinburgh. Tel: 0131 557 9681
Avalanche Records 63 Cockburn Street ,Edinburgh Tel: 0131 225 3939
The GRV 37 Guthrie Street,Edinburgh, EH1 1JG Phone Tel: 0131 220 2987

Bands Confirmed So Far:

Idlewild / The Dykeenies / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Nine Black Alps / My Latest Novel / The 10:04’s / The Paddingtons / Sergeant / The Xcerts / Jim Gellatly (venue host) / London Blackmarket / The Chapman Family / The Nature Boys / Imperial Racing Club / The OK Social Club / Pose Victorious / Sam Forrest acoustic set (Nine Black Alps) / Make Sparks / Tango In The Attic / Mitchell Museum / Epic 26 / Delta Mainline / The Hot Lips / The Void / The Electric Ghosts / Ardentjohn / The Gillyflowers / The Machine Room / Two Stripe / The Shermans / The Leads / Cancel The Astronauts / Lost In Audio / The Valkarys / Dead Sea Souls / Sebastian Dangerfield / The Strands / The Rigbys / The High Lines / Jakil / Alfonzo / The Asps / The Debuts / Aaron Wright / A Day Overdue /Arrows Of Love / The Laymanites / INWITS

Coming up from London in March, Casper is one half of the Adventures In The Beetroot Field booking team, booking and DJing at thier Fabric residency, holds the booking diary for the Amersham Arms in New Cross and the Lock Tavern in Camden and also participates in the booking of various festivals and events including Field Day.

We’ve brought him up after hearing the strength of his sets from High Horse @ The T Bar and Bloggers Delight where he is resident/promoter.

£3 / members free

Define Pop presents…

1:00pm- 11:00pm all day Edinburgh festival please see www.haddowfest.com for more information.

After a busy and exciting 2009, releasing their debut EP and playing shows with the likes of Porcupine Tree, Explosions in the Sky and Cymbals Eat Guitars, North Atlantic Oscillation’s debut album, Grappling Hooks, is released on March 22nd on Kscope. The band have been described as prog-pop and electro-rock, but really they just make music. The music has soaring harmonies and loud guitars and dreamy synths and heavy drums and strange effects and unexpected changes-of-mind.

TICKET LINK: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/70789

Nude Pilots – www.myspace.com/nudepilots
From Edinburgh and Glasgow, they’re are recording right now and will have new songs up before this gig kicks off, seen them two weeks ago and the new stuff sounds fucking minted, the two tracks are a bit old and it’s recorded with ex members.

Plague Vessel – www.myspace.com/plaguevessel
From West Lothian we play a mixture of stuff in our music, we have elements of hardcore, screamo, punk this will have been our second gig. Might be high energy who knows, we just have a laugh. Should have another rough song up before the gig.

Notebooks – Hailing from Stirling they play Modern Hardcore, influenced by Ceremony, Give up the ghost, The Carrier, Modern life is war. This will be their first show.

This should be a cracker and it’s free so get on down.

On December 29th the band announced that, save for a final tour in March 2010, they will cease to make music together. Writing on the band’s myspace blog, singer and guitarist Andrew Mears said, “we’re still friends, still love to play and there’s no attitude about any of this; we’re all at good points in our lives, just very different ones. Life has spread us out over the country now and it’s become a logistical nightmare to get our shit together.”

Youthmovies formed in Oxford, UK in 2002, and consists of Graeme Murray (drums, percussion, backing vocals), Stephen Hammond (bass), Samuel Hudson Scott (brass, keys, backing vocals), Al English (guitar, backing vocals), and Andrew Mears (vocals, guitar). The band were known as Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies before shortening the name in 2006.

To date, the band have released one full album, three mini-albums, three singles, a collaboration with Adam Gnade, several splits and three limited edition tour-only CDRs.