Over 70 new acts have been announced for this year's Swn Festival. The four-day Cardiff event features the best new music from Wales and beyond.
Swn takes place in and around multiple live music venues in Cardiff, from October 17-20. The first wave of acts, 50 bands, was revealed back in June. This new batch of bands includes the likes of Mr Scruff, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Drenge and Ghostpoet, and the line-up now sees a total of over 130 acts. Newly announced acts join the already confirmed Everything Everything, Temple and Deerhunter.
Swn 2013 sees the involvement of a number of new venues, including Fuel Rock Club, The Angel Hotel, Sherman Cymru, Jacobs Market and St John’s Church in Canton. They join the already established venues such as Clwb Ifor Bach, The Moon Club, and Gwdihw.
The festival will also see an outdoor stage built for performances on Saturday and Sunday, following the success of last year’s open air gigs at The Hayes.
Swn Event Manager, Gem White, told WalesOnline: “We are really excited for Swn Festival 2013. Last year’s festival was attended by more than 5,000 people over the four days and hosted more than 200 live acts and DJs. So we’ve set the bar pretty high for ourselves this year.
“We’ll be introducing some new city-centre venues this October, including The Angel Hotel, Fuel and Sherman Cymru so we can programme plenty of acts within skipping distance of each other in the city.
“We’ll also be working with some new stage co-hosts and partners to bring the best live acts from Wales and beyond into Cardiff for an amazingly hectic four days of music, art, seminars and workshops.”
Previous acts that have performed at Swn include the Joy Formidable, the Cribs, John Grant, Aluna George, Django Django and Charlotte Church.
The latest Swn line-up is as follows:
Aled Rheon
Alex Dingley Band
Alun Gaffey
Amateur Best
Among Brothers
Annie Eve
Babe
Beard of Wolves
Beta Blocker and The Body Clock
Bloodflower
Bo Ningen
Brothers
Burum
Call Back The Giants
Camera
Casi Wyn
Catfish & the Bottlemen
Chlöe Howl
Clare Maguire
Claw the Thin Ice
Climbing Trees
Clipping
Conner Youngblood
Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog
Cut Ribbons
Dan Bettridge
Deerhunter
Deg Mewn Bws
Drenge
Dutch Uncles (EE Top-Up Ticket required)
Early Hominids
Elly Sinnett
Estrons
Everything Everything (Top-Up Ticket)
Fimber Bravo
Fist of the First Man
Frankie & The Heartstrings
Ghostpoet
Golden Fable
Greta Isaac
Gulp
Gwyllt
Hail! The Planes
Heal The Last Stand
Heavy Petting Zoo
His Naked Torso
HMS Morris
Iron Eye
Joe Robert Lewis
Joey Fourr
John Smith
Keys
Kizzy Crawford
Kutosis
Land Observations
Lanterns on the Lake
Little Arrow
Lowri Evans
Maddie Jones
Marika Hackman
Mark Eitzel
Masters In France
Money
Mr. Huw
Mr. Scruff
Nadine Shah
Nai Harvest
Nanook of the North
Nathaniel
Neil Yates' Five Countries Trio
Nick Mulvey
Night Engine
Olympians
Osian Howells
Paint Happy
Palomino Party
Peasant's King
Peggy Sue
Pinkunoizu
Playlounge
Plu
Queer'd Science
R. Seiliog
Radio Rhydd
Radstewart
Rhodri Brooks
Right Hand Left Hand
Ross Ainslie and Jarlath Henderson
Saturday's Kids
Scriber
Seazoo
Sen Segur
Shhh...Apes!
Siôn Russell Jones
Sivu
Sky Larkin
Slowly Rolling Camera
Soak
Spectrals
Stars & Flights
Story Books
Summer Ghost
Swearin'
Temples
The Adelines
The Broken Vinyl Club
The Echo and The Always
The Lay Lows
The Yawns
Theo
This Is Wreckage
Totem
Trampolene
Trwbador
Tuluum Shimmering
Up Down Go Machine
Verity Susman
Violas
Waxahatchee
We//Are//Animal
Well Wisher
Wicket
Winter Villains
Without Feathers
Wolf Alice
Yr Ods
Four-day Wristband: £65
Early Bird Thursday Wristband: £17
Early Bird Friday Wristband: £20
Early Bird Saturday Wristband: £28
Early Bird Sunday Wristband: £22
Swn Festival wristband holders gain free priority access to all Swn Festival shows (with the exception of Everything Everything), either across the whole festival from Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 October or on individual days. Entry to shows is not guaranteed and is subject to individual venue capacity.
For further details on this year's Swn, head to swnfest.com.
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