Hey! Manchester vs SWN
Hey! Manchester has been promoting folk and Americana shows for four years now. We particularly enjoy introducing bands to Manchester gig-goers - and we’ve given debuts to Jens Lekman, Final Fantasy, Espers, Los Campesinos!, Band of Horses, Frightened Rabbit, Mark Kozelek and Efterklang.
Swn promotes and celebrates new music coming in and out of Wales. It means ‘Sound’ and is pronounced ‘soon‘.
SWN put on gigs all year round, predominantly in Wales, from their base in Cardiff, which is where they host their annual three day Swn Festival curated by BBC Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens .
SWN collaborate and curate with other events too – and in 2010 you can enjoy their favourite new bands at Stag & Dagger, Sounds From The Other City, HowTheLightGetsIn, The Pierhead Sessions, In The City and Machynlleth Comedy Festival amongst others.
10.30 Damon & Naomi
9.30 Y Niwl
8.30 At Swim Two Birds
7.30 Thomas White
6.30 Tim and Sam Band
5.30 Jesca Hoop
4.30 Jo Rose
3.45 Jasmina Maschina
DOORS: 3pm - 11pm
Thomas White
www.myspace.com/thethomaswhite
Damon & Naomi
Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang's music career started with modest goals but
grew to incorporate one of the most influential bands of the 80s (Galaxie
500), a string of duo albums on Sub Pop records thoughout the 90s,
collaborations with some of the most adventurous rock musicians playing
today (Ghost, Michio
Kurihara, nmperign, Wayne
Rogers), and most recently, the formation of their own record label
(20/20/20) and
subsequent release of their two latest Damon & Naomi albums, "The Earth Is Blue" and "Within
These Walls".
At Swim Two Birds
www.myspace.com/atswimtwobirds
Jesca
Hoop (solo)
Y Niwl
Surf's Up! They practice on Crib Goch in Snowdonia, sometimes playing the same song for weeks on end. The drummer's a mutant metronome, the bass player walks like a panther and the guitars bend and twist their way into your face until you're dancing like a teenage weirdo.
Jo Rose
Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band
www.myspace.com/timandsamstimandthesambandwithtimandsam
Jasmine Maschina
Jasmine Monique Guffond is a celebrated Australian electronics musician who relocated to Berlin from Sydney in 2003 with her band MINIT (duo with Torben Tilly). Over the last 12 years Jasmine has been recording and performing with Minit, exhibiting sound installations, developing works of varied scope based on the use of processed acoustic, electronic, and found sound sources.
Equally interested in song, composition and free, improvised music, as Jasmina Maschina she began recording songs in her myriad of Berlin homes producing her debut solo album, 'The Demolitions Series' in 2008. Inspired by an endless list of recorded music, the australian underground music scene including those that wandered over from NZ, her new life in Berlin, chance encounters, art, poetry, film, concerts, jams........
www.myspace.com/jasminemaschine