SWN FESTIVAL RETURNS!!!

SWN festival is set to return to Cardiff this October for three days of incredible live music. 

Curated by BBC Radio 1’s Huw Stephens, SWN Festival 2009 boasts a swathe of established and new bands playing in venues across the Welsh capital.

Welsh champions Los Campesinos! will curate their very own night at the festival and will perform alongside the marvellous Dananananaykroyd. Pioneering electronic producer Daedelus will be making an appearance with the likes of Gold Panda and Minotaur Shock. If it’s emerging talent you’re after then San Francisco band Girls or Scotland’s Copy Halo are ones to watch, and how could we forget the legendary Martin Carr… and that’s only the beginning. 

Head over to www.swnfest.co.uk for more information and check first round of confirmed bands below. Many, many more to follow…

SWN Festival 2009 is scheduled to take place Thursday 22 - Saturday 24 October. ‘Earlybird’ tickets are available until this Friday 31 July from www.wegottickets.com priced at £15 for a 1-day pass and just £40 for a 3-day pass.

The lineup so far looks like this:

Los Campesinos!

Dananananaykroyd

Copy Haho

Sparky Deathcap

Gold Panda

Daedelus

Munch Munch

The Leisure Society

Sweet Baboo

Lucky Soul

Sons of Noel And Adrian

Cymdeithas Yr Hobos Unig

Hail! The Planes

Martin Carr

Son Capson

Cat Mouse Cat

Islet

Huw M

Minotaur Shock

Girls

Broken Family Band

Science Bastard

Three Trapped Tigers

Them Squirrels

Gaggle

Exit International

Hafaliadu = Equations

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More acts will be announced soon.

Swn is the Welsh word for sound, pronounced ‘soon’.