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Great Escape

Can’t quite believe it’s been a year since the last one.. But here is my line up for my weekend of fun. With a delegates pass none the less!

Thursday:
Ida Maria, The XX, Sarah McLeod, Alphabeat, Peggy Sue and the Pirates, Go! Team, Ting Ting’s
Friday:
Yoav, guest talk with guy who created Hype Machine – natch, The Shoes, Bitchee Bitchee Ya Ya, Matt and Kim, Operator Please, Joe Hot Chip, Ipso Facto, Lovebox DJ’s
Saturday:
Tuaca Promotion (!!!), The Clik Clik, Wiley, Mystery Jets, Fujiya and Miyagi, Laura Marling, Sam Sparro, Santogold.

PHEW. What a cracking line up. I will be doing some sort of review after it all. Unfortunatly, my computer is being a spastic again so I can’t upload any music. Damn.

BUBBLE

Hot Chip were in the Radio 1 Live Lounge last week and did a cover of Wiley’s Wearing my Rolex.

Pure brilliance right here.

Thanks to FuelFriends for the link

Hot Chip Tour

New tour dates announced the other day, how exciting! Although (if all goes to plan) I won’t be in the UK for this, I highly recommend that you go and see them at on of the below dates:

Oct 23 Southampton Guildhall
Oct 24 Cardiff University
Oct 25 Liverpool Carling Academy
Oct 26 Leeds Carling Academy
Oct 28 Sheffield Carling Academy
Oct 29 Birmingham Carling Academy
Oct 30 Cambridge Corn Exchange
Nov 01 Manchester Apollo
Nov 02 Glasgow Carling Academy
Nov 03 Leicester University
Nov 05 Brighton Dome
Nov 06 London Brixton Carling Academy
Nov 07 London Brixton Carling Academy (Late 9pm-3am)

I’d say get tickets for the Nov 7th date in Brixton as on their last tour back in Febuary they started the show with a full brass band.. bit cool eh. Get your tickets HERE from Friday 25th…

Last night…

We went to see the PopJustice ‘Wonky’ tour featuring Leon Jean Marie, FrankMusik and Alphabeat. It was great. I particularly enjoyed the audience participation which only lasted for a second in LJM’s set but they were really enjoyable, reggae-electro anyone?
Alphabeat were also brilliant – really cheesy and lead singer Anders seemed to be slightly… intoxicated? Up most treat of the night was when all three acts came on to perform Digital Love which I linked to a few weeks ago. I’m still just not sure about FrankMusik, especially as he wasn’t wearing his trade mark white glasses. Let down.

Hot Chip were on the radio last week. Not in the UK but in the USA. Oh the magic of the Internet.
You can listen to them live: here.