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.
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.
Nude Pilots – www.myspace.com/nudepilots
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.”
Franz Nicolay is a multi-instrumentalist and man about town. He is a member of the World/Inferno Friendship Society, The Hold Steady, Guignol, and the Anti-Social Music collective. His piano, accordion, mandolin, saw, and harmonica playing can also be found in recordings of Dresden Dolls, Leftover Crack, The Sharp Things, the Suckers, Mischief Brew, Demander, and The Ratchets. He is active in the realms of performance, recording/production, and composition of original instrumental music.
JG Wilkes is a very significant DJ indeed, at Optimo he and JD Twitch helped Glasgow and then the world re-understand dance music, switching from Detroit Techno to Napalm Death to Madonna within a few minutes, and not have it feel schizophrenic, but all as part of the same beautiful whole. Jonny’s gonna play us some great disco.