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Standon Calling
PREVIEW
Taking place, in scenic Standon, Standon Calling mixes the intimate with a three-day party atmosphere, to ensure a good time for all.
Ever wondered, what a festival would be like without the archetypal heard of screaming tweens shouting out for more 'La Roux'? With an intimate setting, Standon Calling, impresses with its mix of upcoming artists alongside the already established. Metronomy and The Magic Numbers alongside Fool's Gold, Pantha Du Prince and festival whores These New Puritans ensures a musical masterclass, to educate even the most oblivious. With the combination of this year's theme, being ‘Murder on the Standon Express’, the essential all-night bar and a nightclub in a cowshed, Standon is Calling out for a good time.
Standon, Hertfordshire
6th- 8th August
For more information go to: www.standon-calling.com
Continue reading...Calling all Mystery Jets fans
Leeds Student giveaway
To help while away those long, summer nights and make that call centre job a little more bearable, Leeds Student is offering one lucky reader two tickets to a secret Mystery Jets gig in Hyde Park this coming Tuesday.
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"Come down and we'll have a party!"
INTERVIEW
Leeds Student's Laura Mackenzie catches up with Mystery Jets bassist, Kai Fish, to talk shop ahead of their 'secret gig' at the Brudenell next week.
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Headliner Eric Prdz talks to LS about Creamfields 2010
INTERVIEW
There are few DJ’s who succeed in hitting the heady heights of DJ superstardom, however, Eric Prydz is one such artiste. This Swedish DJ/Producer du jour is responsible for some of dance music’s biggest tracks, including last summer’s anthem ‘Pjanoo’ and has fast become one of electronicas most in demand producers. Taking time away from his busy schedule, we sat down with the man of the moment to talk about his highly anticipated Creamfields appearance this Summer and hosting the Pryda Friends Arena.
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Download
PREVIEW
This year's Download festival is shaping up to be one of the best. Rebecca Atkinson elaborates below and Leeds Student interviews festival organiser Andy Copping.
Read moreLive at Leeds 2009
Luke Fear wraps up the fourth and final part of our Live at Leeds Coverage
The Bacchae, Fran Rodgers, Pulled Apart by Horses, Future of the Left,
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Leeds festival
PREVIEW
Right in the centre of our fair city, this year’s Leeds line-up is sure to make a pre-pubescent’s heart flutter. With the likes of Cypress Hill, Weezer and (swoon) Blink-182 on the Saturday, we can all relive those awkward teenage days, whilst towering over a sea of post-GCSE adolescents. And if the abundance of hormones doesn’t sound appealing, Arcade Fire, the newly reformed Libertines, Guns N’ Roses, LCD Soundsystem and Modest Mouse ensure something for everyone.
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Glastonbury
PREVIEW
Where to start? Pet Shop Boys? Stevie Wonder? Flaming Lips? Even more enticing than the gargantuan line-up though, is the oppurtunity to get absolutely minged off your mong whilst running around fields looking at fairy-children, a giant Tyre-annosaurus Rex and the fire-breathing constructions in the Shangri-La nightlife village. Last year’s programme featured the slogan ‘Glastonbury is no place to start taking drugs’, proving that Michael Eavis still has a sense of irony. And hopefully, this year Michael Jackson won’t die.
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Pukkelpop
PREVIEW
As is often the case with these European festivals, the line-up for Pukkelpop is delightfully eclectic. Foals, Noisia, the xx, Blink-182, Kelis and Beach House are playing and that’s before we even get onto the headliners, who include Iron Maiden, Queens of the Stone Age and the Prodigy. It’ll be brilliant for a good dance, with the likes of Nosaj Thing and Groove Armada and Hot Chip gracing Pukkelpop’s stages. If that hasn’t got your mouth watering, the free train ticket around Belgium included with your ticket might just help.
Read moreSoundwave
PREVIEW
Imagine Bestival without the hoards of unwashed hippies, with better weather, and on a beach! Cue Soundwave; three nights of sun, sea and electronica set in an idyllic Croatian fishing town. There are boating parties, a circular seventies nightclub, and a beach terrace for daytime partying. The lineup is awash with up-and-coming producers including Illum Sphere, Dam Funk and Debruit, as well as Bullion, Paul White and Toddla T. Think of it as Benicassim’s cooler older brother, with real culture and less English people. All for a price that won't have you drowning in a sea of debt.
Read moreIndietracks
PREVIEW
Located in a disused rural railway station, Indietracks proudly takes the notion of being an indie trainspotter to a new level. An Eden for anoraks, its crowd gives bands who released one single in the mid-eighties the kind of rapture as AC/DC at Donnington, while the merch stand houses as many fanzines and knitted goods as it does band t-shirts. Previously headlined by Los Campesinos! and Camera Obscura, this year’s lineup boasts Brooklyn darlings The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and cult eighties heroes the Pooh Sticks and the Primitives. Just don’t call it twee.
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Creamfields
PREVIEW
The UK’s number 1 dance festival is fast approaching and is on course to repeat last year’s success.
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Local Natives Talk to Leeds Student Music
INTERVIEW
Local Native's bassist, Andy Hamm, talks to Leeds Student Music in the midst of festival touring.
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The Dead Weather
Horehound (Third Man/Warner Bros.)
The Dead Weather's second album is a strange affair.
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Foals
Total Life Forever (Warner Bros.)
Foals have always been known for their daring mix of cerebral instrumentation and raw energy.
Read morePendulum
Immersion (Warner Bros.)
Starting off with a theatrical opening that wouldn't be out of place on the soundtrack of an action-packed Matt Damon movie, drum and bass veterans Pendulum are out to prove they've still got it with their studio album.
Dan Deacon
Spiderman of the Rings
There are so many songs, or albums, that are said to be able to make you feel young again, that often the phrase is merely a long-winded way of expressing appreciation for an artist’s vigor. Even on the occasions when it seems sincere, the songs in question usually only really take you back to being about 16, an age really of snide cynicism and narrow-mindedness. Dan Deacon goes the whole nine yards though. As far as I’m concerned, when listening to Spiderman of the Rings, I am a toddler. Following what is essentially a four-minute xylophone crescendo laden with cackling Woody Woodpecker samples (in the form of the appropriately named ‘Woody Woodpecker’), just two songs in and ‘Crystal Cat’ will have you running around giddily like a toddler, giggling, eating crayons and pissing your pants in the corner of the room.
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Part Chimp
Thriller
Almost everything about Part Chimp is a half-arsed afterthought. Almost. Their lyrics mean nothing. Their jokes and banter mean nothing. Their song titles mean nothing. Their clothes cost nothing. Their cover art is consistently stupid. The fact that their album is called Thriller, ostensibly owing to its release date coming right after Michael Jackson's death, has really got nothing to do with anything. Yet such is the magnitude of this band that when one of their fuzzed-out monolithic stoner riffs kick in, the fact that nothing means anything ceases to hold meaning.
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Kid Rock
Rock 'n' Roll Jesus
That's right. Kid Rock, the wordsmith responsible for classic refrains such as 'bawitdaba-da-bang-da-dang-diggy-diggy-diggy-said-the boogie-said-up-jump-the-boogie', is still making music. Despite beginning his career at an almost adolescent stage many years prior to real success, when Kid Rock, real name Robert James Ritchie, first appeared at the turn of the century blending cheesy biker-rock music, smutty hip-hop and occasionally a country twang he was a white rapper to rival Eminem's urban style with his own Redneck appeal. And were it not for the release of Beck’s ‘Loser’ an entire decade earlier, he could have been labeled the greatest Cowboy MC around.
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