HEYA, so it was Leeds (festival) time again and yes i'm a sell out and a gimp going to leeds… how uncool of me.
Anyway leeds obviously meant more coke fueled sex parties and skanking out to the one and only DJ OD (he's from holand) than i do on a normal weekend.
Somewhere inbetween these things i saw some bands which i vaguely remember, so i m filling in fuzzy details with lies and quotes.

THurseday evening was DTTR's lineup (a leeds label started by wiskas from forward russia) on the BBC intro stage. It was pretty cool but…

elephants
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Elephants are basically another shitstorm indie band with catchy songs, annoying accents, and some poppy guitar lines.
More than a bit like good shoes with some whiny southern vocals, YET I CAN'T SEEM TO NOT LOVE THEM. Everything about them shouts "boring, NME band". But their songs are so loveably catchy.

Chores
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A BR00TAL band from the US. We all love decent hardcore: face smashing, eye melting, nose breaking. Its awesome. These guys make hardcore punk with gang screaming, stop start guitar lines, awesome breakdowns. Messy and chaotic as you could want.

The Greek Favourites
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Midwestern…

Yesterday I went to another amazing buttonpusher night at the dingy yet homely (and sadly half empty) chameleon. The gig space of the chameleon (at the top of the building) gets boiling in the summer, but theres nothing better than getting sweaty and watching some rocking bands. There always seems to get friendly crowds who really enjoy the music and fewer annoying scenesters at these nights which makes for a good atmosphere.

These Waves are probably the best derby band at the moment (possibly ever) and pretty much the only way to hear them is to travel to derby or…

Now most of us know the NME is "a lurid piece of filth"… for those who dont heres a disclaimer before you say "WELL YOU CAN'T TALK, YOUR WRITING ON SOME NOTHING BLOG WHICH NO ONE READS": I'm not perfect, and my skills as a music journalist are at best undeveloped, but i really it just to give the "New Musical Express" a good bashing today.

Recently have made me VERY FUCKING ANGRY. Normally i have the good grace to ignore the NME and their topman clad readers, thinking that its just ignorance that makes them that way……

TRUCK 12: LET IT IN!
After glastonbury being mildly disappointing i wasn't about to hype Truck Festival. TUrned out to be truely amazing: Small enough to seem very personal, sunny enough to give me a healthy glow, smelling of cows enough to be authentic and cheap enough to leave me with change.
It's meant to be about finding your new favourite band, but a stupid amount of my favourites favourites were already playing. Seeing as i loved pretty much every band i saw this post will be very boring and mostly for my benefit.

saturday

tubelord
filling colour's (rip)…

over hyped, was pretty fun on hindsight but i dont think i ll go back. main problem is the stages are way too far apart, the sites too big to be worth the hassle of getting around.

anyway HERE IS WHO I SAW AND A QUICK EXPLANATION OF EACH

Thurseday

Kap Bambino were ok, bit of a crystal castles rip off (*lot of a)
Metronomy amazing live as ever, probably not as good as the old lineup but was still really good, and cool crowd. lost my wallet half way through which sucked hard tho

Friday

Gabriella Cilmi Words cannot…

my year in lists…

1 dartz - the sad history of the village of alneruque
2 late of the pier - fantasy black channel
3 rolo tomassi - hysterics
4 adebisi shank - this is an album by a band called
5 errors - it's not something, but like whatever
6 metronomy - nights out
7 this town needs guns - animals
8 foals - antidotes
9 johnny foreigner - waited up till it was late
10 the mae shi - hlllyh
11 los campesinos - hold on now, youngster…
12 holy fuck - lp
13 los campesinos - we…

On wednesday my friend will and I decided to go on an epic journey… all the way to DERBY (despite the football being on). To see a few bands at this little show

Over the past week I've seen (and heard) a couple of exciting new bands from derby: Switzerland and these waves. They are both involved in derbys Sexy? No! promotions putting on some pretty cool bands (previously this town needs guns and pennines) and tonight was no different. Their were a few bands on but the first two really did nothing for me… dreary stuff played at loud…

So this years' dot to dot was definately a lot more crowded throughout the day (seemed every person who could squeeze into skinny jeans came out), perhaps as it was only for one day and their were the "big" bands from the offset. I don't think it was as exciting as previous years despite the fact i could now get into all the venues. Perhaps this is a personal reflection though as my taste has become less mainstream and more niche… anyway heres who i saw and what i thought in brief, good day for music, not so good for…

Colour, Pennines, Calories, Switzerland

Another amazing gig friday. Saurus (aka joel) put on some really brilliant bands.

First off was new kids on the block, derbyshire 4 piece Switzerland (Myspace). Im not going to say they were the most refined, incredibly proffesional band ever. But as far as 17 year old bands go they were pretty damn good and pretty damn fun. They started their set with the front man behind a dinosaur in cardboard winter attire. Anyway they played a bunch of songs with heavy use of pedals and a good ammount of intricate guitar work. A bit like…