NEWS ROUNDUP (06/10/09)
October 06, 2009,
Written by Nicole Holgate
Today's roundup includes First Aid Kit, Kill It Kid!, Los Campesinos! (again: we cant get enough), plus SWN festival line-up news! As the nights get longer and the days colder and wetter, ensconce yourself in the warming glow of youtube and indoor festivals!
*Remember! The news roundup gets updated throughout the day, so make sure you come back later for more news!
First Aid Kit
Sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg (pictured above) release the follow up to their debut EP 'Drunken Trees' this week, in the form of 'Hard Believer' and b-side 'Waltz For Richard'. The single is taken from First Aid Kit's debut album, due for release in early 2010.
The beautifully shot video for 'Hard Believer' can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDG8xqz7BIk
BUSH HALL, LONDON W/ FANFARLO TONIGHT - SOLD OUT
With what promises to be an amazing show tonight, the girls continue their UK tour alongside co-headliners Fanfarlo with the following dates:
07 - Brighton Hanbury Ballroom w/ Fanfarlo
08 - Cardiff Iforbach w/ Fanfarlo
09 - Leeds Brudenell Social Club w/ Fanfarlo
You can find more info/videos/tracks, new promo shots and the hi-res packshot for 'Hard Believer' here:
http://www.radarmaker.co.uk/current-roster/first-aid-kit/
www.thisisfirstaidkit.com
www.myspace.com/thisisfirstaidkit
Kill It Kid 'Heaven Never Seemed So Close' Video
Los Campesinos! 'There Are Listed Buildings' video
There Are Listed Buildings from Los Campesinos! on Vimeo.
SWN Festival

LATE ADDITION! - WILD BEASTS
SWN FESTIVAL 2009
THURSDAY 22ND - SATURDAY 24TH, OCTOBER
The line-up for SWN Festival 2009 is now complete, with the late of addition of Wild Beasts!
One of 2009's most lauded bands will join the likes of Los Campesinos!, Dananananaykroyd, Girls, Pulled Apart By Horses, The Drums, Slow Club, Mary Anne Hobbs, Johnny Foreigner and Marina & the Diamonds for the Cardiff fest.
www.wegottickets.com/f/901
www.swnfest.co.uk/site
www.twitter.com/swnfestival
Check out the FULL and FINAL line-up below! PLUS stage times..
SWN FESTIVAL 2009 FULL LINE-UP & SET TIMES
THURSDAY 22 OCT/Iau Hydref 22
Dempseys
Shape presents...
Zun Zun Egui (11.00pm-11.45pm)
Evils (10.00pm-10.30pm
Islet (9.00pm-9.30pm)
Fredrick Stanley Star (8.00pm-8.30pm)
Them Squirrels (7.00pm-7.30pm)
plus Shape DJs (upstairs until 2.00am) or Twisted By Design (on the ground floor until 2.00am)
Clwb Ifor Bach
Eat Your Own Ears presents...
Drums Of Death (9.30pm-10.00pm)
Unicorn Kid (9.00pm-9.30pm)
Gold Panda (8.30pm-9.00pm)
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (8.00pm-8.30pm)
Zwolf (7.30pm-8.00pm)
Glass Diamond (7.00pm-7.30pm)
plus DJ Scraggatron
Y Fuwch Goch
Kruger presents...
Portasound (11.00pm-11.30pm)
Not Cool (10.00pm-10.30pm)
Jonquil (9.00pm-9.30pm)
Three Trapped Tigers (8.00pm-8.30pm)
Fiction (7.00pm-7.30pm)
plus Brainlove DJs (until 2.00am)
City Arms
SWN Pop Quiz (5.00pm-6.45pm)
Guto Pryce (SFA) DJ Set (7.00pm-10.00pm)
DIG! DJs (10.00pm-1.30am)
The Model Inn
Lesson#1 presents...
And They Will Riot (10.30pm-11.00pm)
Devil Man (9.30pm-10.00pm)
Team Brick (8.30pm-9.00pm)
The Death Of Her Money (7.30pm-8.00pm)
Toucan Club
Mice Girls DJs (midnight-2.00am)
Dr Kiko DJ (9.30pm-midnight)
Rowan Da Riddim DJ (11.30pm-2.00am)
Tu Chwith (Welsh Language Films 7.30pm-9.00pm)
Barfly
In The City presents...
Gallops (7.30pm-8.00pm)
Lost Knives (8.30pm-9.00pm)
The Crookes (9.30pm-10.00pm)
Milk White White Teeth (10.30pm-11.00pm)
The Gate
Newsoundwales + Gathered In Song present
Wild Beasts (9.30pm-10.30pm)
The Young Republic (9.00pm-9.30pm)
Pete Lawrie (8.30pm-9.00pm)
Don't Move (8.00pm-8.30pm)
The Irascibles (ft members of Young Marble Giants 7.30pm-8.00pm)
Hail! The Planes (7.00pm-7.30pm)
Chapter Arts Centre
BBC Wales Adam Walton and BBC Radio 1 Introducing in Wales with Bethan Elfyn present...
Marina And The Diamonds (9.45pm-10.30pm)
Son Capson (9.15pm-9.45pm)
Post War Years (8.45pm-9.15pm)
Race Horses (8.15pm-8.45pm)
Bright Light Bright Light (7.45pm-8.15pm)
Martin Carr (7.15pm-7.45pm)
Zimmermans (6.45pm-7.15pm)
Science Bastard (6.15pm-6.45pm)
these shows will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio 1 Introducing In Wales with Bethan Elfyn
National Museum Cardiff
Victorian English Gentlemen's Club (3.30pm-4.15pm)
FRIDAY 23 OCT/Gwener Hydref 23
Dempseys
Cardiff Live Music Society, Quench and Xpress present...
Gideon Conn (11.30pm-12.15am)
Dimbleby & Capper (10.30pm-11.00pm)
Silver Gospel Runners (9.30pm-10.00pm)
Elephant & Soldier (8.30pm-9.00pm)
plus Xpress DJs (12.15am-2.00am)
Clwb Ifor Bach
Fear & Records versus Big Scary Monsters presents...
Pulled Apart By Horses (10.00pm-10.45pm)
Johnny Foreigner (9.00pm-10.00pm)
Decmials (8.30pm-9.00pm)
You Animals (8.00pm-8.30pm)
Talons (7.30pm-8.00pm)
Exit International (7.00pm-7.30pm)
followed (downstairs) by The Dudes Abide clubnight with DJs Fear & Records vs Big Scary Monsters (until 3.00am)
and followed (upstairs) by...
Neuropol and Aperture presents...
Mary Anne Hobbs (2.00am-3.30am)
Daedelus (live) (1.00am-2.00am)
Jakwob (midight-1.00am)
DJ Gemmy (11.00pm-midnight)
plus Aperture DJs in the middle floor (11.00pm-3.00am)
Y Fuwch Goch
Turnstile presents...
Girls (11.15pm-midnight)
The Longcut (10.00pm-10.45pm)
Swanton Bombs (9.00pm-9.30pm)
Sweet Baboo (8.00pm-8.30pm)
Threatmantics (7.00pm-7.30pm)
City Arms
Heavenly Jukebox DJs (10.00pm-2.00am)
Dirty Pop DJs (7.00pm-10.00pm)
SWN Bingo (5.00pm-6.45pm)
The Model Inn
Strange News From Another Star (12.30am-1.15am)
Rogues (11.15pm-midnight)
Hafaliadau=Equations (10.00pm-10.45pm)
Cymdeithias Yr Hobos Unig (8.30pm-9.15pm)
Donde Stars (7.15pm-8.00pm)
Toucan Club
The Pipettes + Oli Dutton (DJ Sets) (11.30pm-3.00am)
Katell Keineg (10.30pm-11.00pm)
Geraint Williams (9.30pm-10.00pm)
Denuo (8.30pm-9.00pm)
Ellie Makes Music (7.30pm-8.00pm)
Daedelus Lecture (A lecture by Daedelus 6.00pm-7.00pm)
Cube Interactive Seminars (Three Sessions - 11.00am-3.00pm)
Welsh Music Foundation Welsh Language Seminars (3.30pm-4.30pm and 5.00pm-6.00pm)
Barfly
Wakestock presents...
Master Shortie (10.00pm-10.45pm)
Beatbullyz (9.00pm-9.30pm)
Soft Toy Emergency (8.00pm-8.30pm)
Envy (7.00pm-7.30pm)
The Gate
Fat Cat present
The Twilight Sad (9.30pm-10.30pm)
Tom Brosseau (9.00pm-9.30pm)
We Were Promised Jetpacks (8.15pm-9.00pm)
Our Brother The Native (7.45pm-8.15pm)
Vito (7.15pm-7.45pm)
Draw Me Stories (6.45pm-7.15pm)
Chapter Arts Centre
Peppermint Patti present...
The Victorian English Gentlemen's Club (10.00pm-11.00pm)
Rose Elinor Dougall (9.15pm-10.00pm)
Emily Breeze (8.45pm-9.15pm)
Paper Aeroplanes (8.15pm-8.45pm)
Wet Dog (7.45pm-(8.15pm)
Barefoot Dance Of The Sea (7.15pm-7.45pm)
King Alexander (6.45pm-7.15pm)
James Tyson (6.15pm-6.45pm)
SATURDAY 24 OCT/Sadwrn Hydref 24
Dempseys
Moshi Moshi presents...
Slow Club (11.30pm-12.15am)
The Drums (10.00pm-10.45pm)
Teeth (9.00pm-9.30pm)
Yr Ods (8.00pm-8.30pm)
E And E (7.00pm-7.30pm)
plus Moshi Moshi DJs until 2.30am
Clwb Ifor Bach
The Miniature Music Press presents...
Gaggle (10.30pm-11.00pm)
Beth Jeans Houghton (9.45pm-10.30pm)
Sons of Noel & Adrian (9.15pm-9.45pm)
Stornoway (8.45pm-9.15pm)
Al Lewis (8.15pm-8.45pm)
Y Promatics (7.45pm-8.15pm)
Y Fuwch Goch
Fierce Panda presents...
Goldheart Assembly (9.30pm-10.15pm)
The Molotovs (8.30pm-9.00pm)
Cate Le Bon (7.15pm-8.00pm)
Taxi Taxi! (6.15pm-6.45pm)
City Arms
Adam Walton DJ Set (11.00pm-2.00am)
Sulwax + special guests DJ Sets (6.00pm-8.00pm)
Scrabble Saturday (2.00pm-6.00pm)
Pete Fowler (DJ Set) (2.00pm-4.00pm)
The Model Inn
Right Hand, Left Hand (midnight-12.45am)
Error Error (11.00pm-11.30pm)
Y Pencadlys (10.00pm-10.30pm)
Nos Sadrwn Bach (9.00pm-9.30pm)
John Grindell (7.45pm-8.00pm)
Y Morgrug (6.30pm-7.00pm)
Swn=Sound (5.15pm-6.00pm)
Toucan Club
Acid Casuals (DJ Set) (11.00pm-1.00am)
Underpass (10.00pm-10.30pm)
Minotaur Shock (9.00pm-9.30pm)
Anchorsong (8.00pm-8.30pm)
Huw M (7.00pm-7.30pm)
Gwenno (6.00pm-6.30pm)
Lawnsiad Nofel Newydd Llwyd Owen (4.00pm-5.00pm)
PRS Foundation Seminar (5.00pm-6.00pm)
Fanzine Workshop (12.30pm-2.30pm)
Welsh Music Foundation Seminars (12.30pm-1.30pm / 2.00pm-3.00pm / 3.30pm-4.30pm)
Barfly
DAYTIME SHOW
Music Development, Schools And Lifelong Learning presents...
Loverman (5.00pm-5.30pm)
Tubelord (4.00pm-4.30pm)
Supertennis (3.00pm-3.30pm)
Pilot Falls (2.00pm-2.30pm)
Mostin' Ill (1.00pm-1.30pm)
Barfly
EVENING SHOW
The Complete Stone Roses (9.00pm-10.30pm)
The Gate
Los Campesinos! present
Los Campesinos! (9.30pm-10.30pm)
Internet Forever (9.00pm-9.30pm
Dananananakroyd (8.15pm-9.00pm)
Munch Munch (7.45pm-8.15pm)
Copy Haho(7.15pm-7.45pm)
Sparky Deathcap (6.45pm-7.15pm)
a little treat from Gareth Campesinos and friends (6.15pm-6.45pm)
Chapter Arts Centre
Loose present... the annual SWN/Loose alldayer
Broken Family Band (penultimate ever show!) (9.45pm-11.00pm)
The Leisure Society (8.45pm-9.30pm)
The Pipettes (7.45pm-8.30pm)
Tim And Sam's Tim And Sam Band With Tim And Sam (7.00pm-7.30pm)
Lucky Soul (6.15pm-6.45pm)
Chris TT (5.30pm-6.00pm)
Mitchell Museum (4.45pm-5.15pm)
Zissou (4.00pm-4.30pm)
Frankie & The Heartstrings (3.15pm-3.45pm)
Cat Mouse Cat (2.30pm-3.00pm)
plus SWN Mo Wrestling (in the car park 12.00pm-6.00pm)
Oxjam Second Hand Record Fayre (in the bar 2.00pm-8.00pm)
Parents + Toddlers DJ Sets (in the bar 12.00pm-6.00pm)
Cardiff University Students Union Great Hall
Silent Disco Cardiff (11.00pm-4.00am)
This will be Wales' largest ever Silent Disco! (follow @silentcardiff for more updates)
The Vulcan
Literary and Poetry Readings (time tba)
Venue to be arranged
We will also announce the winner of British Council's Radio Competition 'Opencities - Soundtrack for Cardiff' (time tba)










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