Another 33 artists added to ArcTanGent festival

Today ArcTanGent have announced that another 33 bands have been added to their line up and revealed that their third international headliner will be announced on the 2nd April.

God is an Astronaut, El Ten Eleven, Tall Ships, I Like Trains, Year of No Light, Alarmist, We Are Knuckle Dragger, No Spill Blood, BATS, Lost in the Riots, Cleft, Olympians, Shiver, Human Pyramids, Astrohenge, Diagonal, Rumour Cubes, Monsters Build Mean Robots, Blueneck, The Winchester Club, Suffer Like G Did, Charlie Barnes, Memory of Elephants, Big Joan, AK/DK, Adding Machine, Samoans, Waking Aida, Wicket, Sleep Beggar, Howard James Kenny, Super Squarecloud and Flies Are Spies From Hell join the line up.

The 33 bands are added to a bill headlined by Russian Circles, a European festival exclusive and This Will Destroy You, a UK festival exclusive Ric Phethean of Tall Ships says, “ArcTanGent was without a doubt the best festival we played last year. The atmosphere was buzzing and the crowd was just mental. Really excited to do it all again this year!”

ArcTanGent is the only festival dedicated to post and math-rock. The festival has 70 bands, four stages, 3 bars and is all at the bargain price of £65 for a weekend ticket. Tickets are selling quickly and are expected to sell out before the festival opens its gates on the 28th August 2014.

A few more bands are still yet to be announced. Tickets are available now from the ArcTanGent website and facebook page.

• Tickets on sale now from www.arctangent.co.uk/tickets/

• Website: www.arctangent.co.uk

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/atgfestival

• Twitter: www.twitter.com/atgfestival

• Instagram: www.instagram.com/arctangentfestival

Maps and Atlases @ The Kazimier Liverpool - Review

The Kazimier Liverpool saw itself the setting for the latest stop on the Maps and Atlases tour and being a Tuesday night they had quite a good turn out for their set. 

Following a great performance from Tall Ships, the Chicago based group entered a very elaborate set full of glowing triangles and drum base shaped light left of the stage with lead singer Dave Davidson sporting his familiar large beard and glasses.

The set started off in quiet a reserved way with the likes of  "Pigeon" and "If this is" and Dave's nimble fingers doing wonders with the neck of his guitar and sounding very reminiscent of the King of Leon if it was fronted by Paul Simon and before they became watered down and mainstream. The mixture of blue grass, folk and indie going down well with the crowd but over all I felt that the first part of the performance was a bit disconnected and flat.

Luckily the latter part of the set put pay to that and with a rousing cover of Tears for Fears' "Everybody wants to rule the world" both the band and the audience seemed to bring it up a level and there was far more interaction and enthusiasm with bassist Shiraz Dada dancing around like a man on fire whilst playing the likes of  the wonderful foot tapping track that is "Fever" and ending on "Solid Ground". 

Maps and Atlases manage to end the set on a high note saving what was dangerously slipping into the mundane and before the audience ears started to slip away.

http://mapsandatlases.org/

ArcTanGent Festival announce First Bands

ArcTanGent, the new Bristol based music festival from the organisers of the award winning 2000trees has today announced the first 14 bands for its line up.

The 5,000 capacity festival will play host to headliner 65daysofstatic plus Three Trapped Tigers, Tall Ships, Rolo Tomassi, Maybeshewill, Johnny Foreigner, Castrovalva, Yndi Halda, This Town Needs Guns, That Fucking Tank, The Physics House Band, Among Brothers, Axes and Brontide.

Says co-founder James Scarlett: “with ArcTanGent we wanted to take the festival template we’ve laid down with 2000trees and have more leftfield, experimental and post-rock orientated bands. We think that this first line up announcement gives our audience an idea of where we are coming from musically and there are loads more exciting bands to come over the next few months!”

Ric Phethean of Tall Ships says: “2000trees is the king of vibes. The two years we've played have been two of the best shows we've ever done - great bands, good times. It's the only festival we make sure we can play and then stay for the rest of the weekend, so we really can't wait for ArcTanGent!" This sentiment is echoed by John Helps of Maybeshewill who says that "2000trees is easily one of our favourite UK Festivals so it's an absolute privilege to be asked to be involved in their new event. The rest of the line-up we've seen so far is exceptional, and we're hugely excited that we get to play the first one."

ArcTanGent takes places from 29th – 31st August and tickets are on sale now priced at £59. Fellow organiser Goc O’Callaghan says: “we’ve done the research and we are pretty much the best priced festival out there. You’ll get two nights camping, four stages, over 70 incredible bands & DJs and the best local food and drink we can find. It’s definitely great value!”

For more information visit www.arctangent.co.uk

DIY at the Camden Crawl

DIY Presents... Johnny Foreigner, Evans the Death, The Victorian English Gentlemens Club & Tall Ships at the Camden Crawl

Off to the Camden Crawl this weekend?

Sunday sees DIY take over The Wheelbarrow on Camden High Street between 2pm and 6pm for sets from some of our favourite bands.

The line-up is:

2pm - Tall Ships (wearetallships.co.uk)

3pm - The Victorian English Gentlemens Club (thevictorianenglishgentlemensclub.co.uk)

4pm - Evans The Death (facebook.com/evansthedeath)

5pm - Johnny Foreigner (johnnyforeignertheband.com)

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