Stages

Band Descriptions

Absentee Menacing growls and twinkling melodies
Alex Metric Electronic grunge gouged out with scalpel-like precision
Alexander Wolfe Dark picky chords, swoopy strings and slopey drum
Ali B Dutch morrocan master of beats
Alphabeat These Sweedes should get a Phd in pop
Atomic Hooligan Sonic scoundrals return to the garden once more
Autokratz Stop reading this and dance damn it
Bad Science A grand gumbo of grooves & moves
Baxter Dury Some gifts must be genetic and more?
Beep Seals Grand groovey pop psych vibes
Blisskrieg
Bonde Do Role Samba from the favelas meets electro
Brendan Campbell
Brothers Bab Ridiculously infectious Ska and reggae
Cage The Elephant Kid Rock would be green
Cass Lowe
Deep Mamboo
Denis Jones Logical, ear massaging, heart stiring sonic harmony
Eclectic Method Visual and audio phenomenons
Eddy Temple Morris He keeps on coming…. back (and for good reasons)
Eight Legs They do have 8 legs and 16 arms
Elle S'Appelle Give Pacman a run for his money
Envy and Other Sins 4 year gardening vetrans - nuff said!
Esser Sleasily "Oh Yeah….!"
Evi Vine Gothic glamour-puss that's hard to refuse
Fenech-Soler New romantics of the electro scene
Florence
& The Machine From English Rose to Whitetrash Tramp and back again
Flying White Dots - Psychedelic Mashup Madness
FrYars Glyched and gorgeous razor sharp pop
Gabby Young
and other animals So genre defying we don't know what to say
Gentlemens
Dub Club Dub for the discerning gents
Gipsydelica Balkan block rock

GRACE-fucking-JONES-baby! Makes madonna look as daring as a carebear

Hush the Many (heed the few) Strings and things that never fail to feed your head
Infadels Biggest baddest baldest band ever!!
Inside-us-all
Jay Jay Pistolet Quirky ballads that make your eyes twinkle
Jonny Taylor Innercity nursery rhymes that bite!
Juxta
KinKane The hardest working band in rock and roll back from holiday
Kissy Sell Out Try not to dance, just try
Kristoffer Ragnstam He gets pop-rock right. And then more
Lacrosse What fingerpuppets would sound like if they sang
Late of the Pier Dirrrrty electro with a rock-y edge
Lazy Habits Nothing lazy here – just habit forming funkers
Lior Australian amazes and enchantes
The Little Ones The soundtrack to "Bouncing in Fields"
Losers Eddy TM's aka along side of Tom (Cooper Temple Clause) Bellamy
Lowline Sinister, thundering and rumbling riffs to uplift
Lykke Li Sexy sultry stripped-back pop
L-Mo Word's defy us – but not him!
Married to Sea The antidote to the poison you just drank
Man Make Music DJs Body jacking juice
Metronomy The dorky duo return to get you dancing like a dolt but they're a trio!!
Micachu Guitar vituouso You'll never look at your hoover in the same way
Morcheeba Atmospheric legends to soundtrack your sunday
Mozzy Green Uber-fresh oddbeat experimental acoustice
Mumford and Sons Loose you heart to this
Noah & The Whale Too cool for school blaze folk
Narkosis Infectious ryhmes that bite, tickle and make you giggle
No Fakin DJs Doing just that!
Officer Kicks They came, they floored, they conquered
Olafur Arnalds Scandanavian contempory classical composer will make you weep
Orphan Boy Northern grit for the garden
Paprika Balkanicus Spicy Balkan Gypsies
Park Bench Poet
Post War Years
Precious RGB
Primary 1
Punks Jump Up
Rachel Taylor-Beales
Ratatat Head banging boys play infectious electro riffs
Ratty Rat Rat
Rough Edge Quartet
Saint Etienne Performing their greatest hits for the garden
Sam Beer
Semifinalists
Shick Defeat
Shout Out Louds The pogues love these WASPy romantics
Sons & Daughters Of Mother Siouxsie and Father Cave
Sunny Day Sets Fire Does what it says on the tin
Tallulah Rendall 6 year veteran returns
the Alps
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour Forget the other pretenders to the 60s revival; the Asteroids do that and more

The Bicycle Thieves
The Brute Chorus
The Gadsens
The Glitzy Bag Hags
The Head Gardener It's his party and he'll play if he wants to
The Mordekkers
The Shoes
The Wallbirds Dylan would be proud of their range
The Winchell Riots
The Whip Don't get high for this, they'll do the trick
Thomas Tantrum Joyful tunes to stamp your little foot to
Thom Stone
We Used To Make Things
2 Many Wedding DJs Do we even need to explain?