The bands page over at hwch.net has now gone “live”. Clicking on the band names now presents you with a mini band profile, links to band pages and a downloadable track by said band. So you can now listen to all those bands and decide who you REALLY want to see at this years HWCH. Genius. Here’s a couple to get you started.
MP3 Ham Sandwich - click…click…BOOM!
A gander at the HWCH myspace page also throws up contenders for the Scandinavian invasion. Kieran already posted about Oh No Ono who sit in the top friends along with fellow Scandinavians El Ray, Cats On Fire, The LK, Marybell Katastrophy, Sambassadeur, Tupelo Honeys, New Violators and Loveninjas. During some late night musings with Claire, she also pointed out that Suburban Kids With Biblical Names were at one point riding high in the top friends. Makes sense considering the love affair this country has with them, added with their close friends status with The LK. Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
-phil
Having the option to download a song by each artist is a swell idea-they did the same last year and I took advantage of knowing what bands to avoid and what bands to spend my time legging it across the city to see(something which with the introduction of a festival ‘complex’ shouldn’t be happening too much this year,although I’m interested to see how this one way system malark works out).
SBKWN-my heart will break if they don’t in fact play.
Exited.
That is all.
“Hard Working Class Heroes organizers are delighted to announce the “Scandinavian Invasion” that will feature as this year’s international quotient. The bands have been carefully selected in conjunction with industry insiders from their various countries.
Swedish 7-piece The Concretes head the pack fill the key Saturday night headline at the Festival leading the way for a broad swathe of emerging artists from that part of the world. In spite of a series of problems The Concretes triumphed over adversity at the beginning of the summer with the own-label release of their 3rd proper album, “Hey Trouble”, which was described as “Jesus & Mary Chain swirl and sashaying girl-group sweetness”.
In full the following Scandinavian bands will play this year’s Hard Working Class Heroes festival:
The Concretes (Sweden)
A Kid Hereafter (Denmark)
Cats on Fire (Finland)
El Ray (Denmark)
The Elephants (Denmark)
The Floor is Made of Lavas (Denmark)
The LK (Sweden)
LoveNinjas (Sweden)
Marybell Katastrophy (Denmark)
Murder (Denmark)
New Violators (Norway)
Oh no Ono (Denmark)
The Radio Arts (Sweden)
Soda Fountain Rag (Norway)
Thomas Denver Jonsson (Sweden)
Tupelo Honeys (Sweden) ”
No SKWBN. *sigh*
Although-The Concretes,The LK,Oh No Ono,The Loveninjas,and a few more bands for us all to fall in love with. *hooray*
God bless Scandinavia.