SWN Festival returns for its fifth year as Wales’ premier new music festival.
After an incredible demand for tickets last year SWN are delighted to announce they are adding an extra day to SWN Festival 2011. The festival will therefore take place across the evening of Thursday 20th October and Friday 21st October then through the days and nights of Saturday 22nd October and Sunday 23rd October. That's a full day of loads more new music, new bands and bonus SWN fun through the Sunday! Things will wind up a little earlier on the Sunday evening for those who have work the next morning, though there'll be a few events for night owls who are taking Monday off to rest.
With an extra day to the festival SWN have more co-hosts than ever before. Already confirmed to be in the Welsh capital hosting stages with us are Artrocker, Barely Regal Records, BBC Radio 1, Bella Union, British Music Abroad, Bubblewrap, Clash, Crack, Everybody's Stalking, Flux=Rad, Going Deaf For A Living. In Chapters, Kerrang!, Lesson Number 1, Cardiff Live Music Society, Memphis Industries, Moshi Moshi, New Sound Wales, NYTH, NME, Pink Mist (The Big Scary Monsters / Holy Road / and Blood & Biscuits labels), Propaganda, Radarmaker, Rockfeedback, See Monkey Do Monkey, STHCC, Shape, Signature, The Line Of Best Fit, The Rusty Trombone of God, Y Selar and Zoo Pop.
There'll be around 200 acts playing in total. That's a lot of bands. Hopefully you'll know some of them, and hopefully there'll be lots you don't know. That's the idea. SWN want you to come and discover them. This year, thanks to Soundcloud and Radarmaker, there is a player on www.swnfest.com so you can listen to tracks from all of the bands who are playing. There's links on each band's profile so you can go off and hear more too. You've got four months, starting now, to start listening and writing up lists of who you like and who you want to see.
So, without further ado, here's the first 50 bands playing this year's SWN Festival...
Among Brothers
And So I Watch You From Afar
Apostles
Ashtray Navigations
Al Lewis
Barefoot Dance of the Sea
Battlekat
Ben Howard
Bejamin Francis Leftwich
Bleeding Heart Narrative
Chailo Sim
Colorama
Creatures of Love
Daughter
Dots.filmband
Eagulls
Echo Lake
Effort
Elephant
Elephant Stone
Gavin Osborn
Herman Dune
H Hawkline
Houdini Dax
Jen Jeniro
Joseph & David
Lets Buy Happiness
Mammal Club
Masters In France
Mowbird
Olympians
Pandas and People
Patterns
Rapids!
Red City Radio
Right Hand Left Hand
Samoans
Team Sports
The Cut Ups
The Fall
The Joy Formidable
The Victorian English Gentleman's Club
The History of Apple Pie
The Keys
The Method
Theo
Town
Trwbador
Ultrahumanitarian
Zervas & Pepper
SWN Tickets for the four days, which get you free priority access to all the shows (subject to capacity) are just £49.50.
For the moment they are only available from www.swnpresents.com and they will roll out to more outlets over the coming weeks.
These are the advance prices. If there are tickets remaining then they will go up in price a week before the festival, so if you're planning on going its best to buy in advance, and preferably as early as possible to ensure you get a ticket!
The best value, and the most fun, is if you buy a ticket which covers the whole festival :
SWN Festival 4-day Wristband : £49.50
But if you can only make some of the days you can buy individual day tickets :
SWN Festival Thursday Wristband: £10
SWN Festival Friday Wristband: £16
SWN Festival Saturday Wristband: £25
SWN Festival Sunday Wristband: £20
Wristbands grant you free priority access to all of the SWN Festival shows subject to capacity. Bascially, get a wristband and get around Cardiff to see as many shows as you can. We'll publish a full timetable a month before the festival so you'll have good time to make plans as to which venue you'll need to be at and when to see the people you want to see. Just allow some time when you arrive to head to the wristband exchange to swap your ticket for your festival wristband.
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