Stag & Dagger - Glasgow

[de_bear]

Latest lineup announcement from PCL for the festival, was a good wee day last year, hopefully same again. Some tidy bands playing so far and for much cheapness.

VARIOUS VENUES - GLASGOW

SEVEN STAGES - ONE TICKET

SATURDAY 22ND MAY 2010

The early bird tickets sold out in record time, so due to overwhelming demand we will be selling a limited number of £12 tickets. This will be your last change to pick up a discounted ticket so hurry before they are all gone!

Featuring:

The Antlers

www.theantlersmusic.com

www.myspace.com/theantlers

Brooklyn-based Antlers released 'Hospice' in 2009. The album answers silliness with solemnity, jitters with nerve. Their band name simply describes their music: a delicately branching instrument of force.

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Chapel Club

www.myspace.com/chapelclub

There are certain kinds of bands and singers who turn self-reflection and introspection into a bit of an art form, Think Morrissey pouring his heart out, bleeding for us so we don’t have to, or the soaring, epic melodrama of Keane. And there’s even a smattering of perhaps that most inward looking of all bands, The Cure; and you've got a small taste of what Chapel Club are all about.

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Divorce

www.myspace.com/puredivorced

This Glasgow five piece specialise in nihilistic Chicago noise rock smeared with this chaotic no-wave abandon. The end result is nothing short of jawdropping.

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Esben And The Witch

www.myspace.com/esbenandthewitch

It’s Siouxsie and the Banshees or Early Cure, but with a dark digital edge that haunts the same shadowy forests as Fever Ray.

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Frankie And The Heartstrings

frankieandtheheartstrings.com/

The missing link between angular indie-folk and bootboy stomp-pop, these Sunderland lads' satirical songs pack an emotional punch.

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Joker

www.myspace.com/thejokerproductions

Born to Grime and adopted by Dubstep, 19-year-old Joker refuses to be tagged although, his soul drenched productions have been described as Jehri Curl Boogie and Wiley stuck in an elevator with Cameo.

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Kid Adrift

www.myspace.com/kidadrift

kidadrift.com/

The 21 year old Scot has been receiving some serious industry backing in the form of Radio 1, 6 Music, News Of The World, and the Scotsman. Recently signed to Islands Records, Kid Adrift is glitch-pop written with one eye on the spooky electronica of Aphex Twin and the other on the kind of lighter-in-the-air anthem that’s a Chris Martin tradenmark.

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Male Bonding

www.myspace.com/malebonding

Signed to Sub Pop in the summer of 2009, this hipster London trio have been taking their brand of lo-fi noise pop on tour with Vivian Girls, Lovvers, HEALTH, f**ked Up, Graffiti Island, Mika Miko, These are Powers, NISENNENMONDAI, Magik Markers, and Finally Punk among others. Expect to hear a lot more about Male Bonding in 2010

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My Latest Novel

www.mylatestnovel.com/

Following the success of debut album 'Wolves' and followup 'Deaths And Entrances' My Latest Novel have started writing material for their forthcoming third album. Stag & Dagger will be the first Glasgow airing of new material.

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A Place To Bury Strangers

www.myspace.com/aplacetoburystrangers

www.aplacetoburystrangers.com/

Not for the faint of heart, APTBS are one of the loudest bands to come out of New York. Ackerman's psych-mangling songs covers a riveting emotional and sonic range to appease even the most demanding noise-rock/shoegaze/experimental fanatic.

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Sparrow & The Workshop

www.myspace.com/sparrowandtheworkshop

sparrowandtheworkshop.co.uk

Drawing comparison to Fleet Foxes, Fairport Convention and Nancy Sinatra, living, performing and being inspired together in Glasgow, rock trio Sparrow and the Workshop are fronted by Chicago born violinist and singer Jill O'Sullivan - Her voice has been compared to both 60s traditional folk singer Sandy Denny yet also to PJ Harvey; on some songs innocent and on others deeply violent and guttural.

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Unwinding Hours

www.myspace.com/theunwindinghours"

After the sad and premature end of Aereogramme, we now find Craig B and Iain Cook are channeling their energy into Undwinding Hours. Spectral guitar and piano ballads haunt their Debut, released through Chemikal Underground this week, and provide a new outlets for the pair's phenomenal talent for composition and heart-bursting lyrics.

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We Were Promised Jetpacks

www.fatcat.co.uk/artistinfo

www.myspace.com/wewerepromisedjetpacks

In 2009 We Were Promised Jetpacks became FatCat Records latest Scottish discovery - We Were Promised Jetpacks, is exactly what you'd expect from the label that gave the World The Twilight Sad and Frightened Rabbit: an anthemic collection of heavily accented singing, insistent rhythms, and intense sincerity. But just because it's not surprising doesn't mean it's not appealing. With songs that marry tough riffs to tender glockenspiels and find a balance between muscular, masculine drumming and singer Adam Thompson’s vulnerable, striving warble, there is much to like within These Four Walls, the bands Debut album.

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Wild Beasts

www.wildbeasts.co.uk

www.myspace.com/wildbeasts

Domino Records Wild Beats released their Sophomore album Two Dancers in August 2009. Recorded in remote Norfolk early in 2009 it follows 2008’s widely celebrated debut Limbo, Panto. The result is a record of tightrope-high drama, put simply, Two Dancers finds the Wild Beasts on fire. Two Dancers is alive with its sense of possibility, a sound that shimmers and sways in the band’s own mercurial fashion.

[duncan123]

WHY DO FESTIVALS LIKE THIS AND HINTERLAND GET ALL MY FAVOURITE BANDS AND MAKE IT 18+?!??!?!.

So annoying. :P

[dirty flow]

enlighten me then

other than divorce and my latest novel (whom i both love), i;ve heard of we were promised jetpacks, other that i dont really know any of these bands. who should i be checking out

[tolywoly]

enlighten me then

other than divorce and my latest novel (whom i both love), i;ve heard of we were promised jetpacks, other that i dont really know any of these bands. who should i be checking out

[Paul ™]

Reckon Hinterland beats this one this year

[theampersanddevil]

Reckon Hinterland beats this one this year

[LastSeeker]

Stage times are now up for this on the PCL website: http://www.pclpresents.com/news.html

Was bored so turned into a spreadsheet, it's here if anyone wants it: Stag & Dagger xls

Edited May 13, 2010 by LastSeeker