Fri 28th July 2017 - Sun 30th July 2017

Indietracks Festival

Name: Indietracks Festival
Start: 2017-07-28
End: 2017-07-30
Location: The Midland Railway

at The Midland Railway, Ripley

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Indietracks is a unique summer music festival, combining steam trains and indiepop music!

It takes place at the Midland Railway Centre in the heart of the Derbyshire countryside, and the next festival will be held on the weekend of 28-30 July 2017.

Each year around 50 new and established indiepop artists perform across a range of stages at the festival. Visitors are free to enjoy steam train rides, railway attractions and museums, discos, art and craft workshops, great food and a selection of real ales.

Please visit www.indietracks.co.uk for more information.

Featuring

Martha

Passionate punk-pop band Martha served as a UK counterpart to the US DIY scene of the 2010s, working in the same high-energy but emotionally vulnerable territory as contemporaries like Swearin' and Radiator Hospital. Employing tight vocal harmonies, buzzsaw guitars, and zippy tempos, the group created a distinctively high-strung brand of pop on albums like 2016's Blisters in the Pit of My Heart.

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The Wedding Present

In the late 1980s The Wedding Present were one of the most famous British indie bands. Their career path often involved unusual decisions, such as recording a set of Ukranian folk songs for their first major-label offering and releasing a single on the first Monday of every month for a year. Band members came and went, but the idea of The Wedding Present as a group has remained. Nowadays fans of 'the Weddoes' can still hear their favourite songs (as well as new material) being played live by original songwriter David Gedge and his band.

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Cate Le Bon

Cate grew up in Cardiff's French quarter and made her name as part of Neon Neon but is at her best when solo. Equal parts Nico, Bobbie Gentry and her own emotional observations. “Imagine PJ Harvey’s rawness tangling with Super Furry Animals’ prog, and a vocalist who forgoes folk’s softer sides for delicious black humour… Here is darkness to relish” - Word Magazine.

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Shopping

Shopping are propulsive bass lines, primitive disco-not-disco drums and guitar lines sharp as broken glass. The band was formed in 2012 by members Rachel Aggs (guitar), Billy Easter (bass) and Andrew Milk (drums), who've all done time in a plethora of notable UK DIY bands including Trash Kit and Wet Dog. They pull from a well of 70's post-punk with a voraciousness seldom seen these days, bringing to mind the jagged aggression of Gang of Four, the voracious yelp of The Slits and the dance inducing thrust of Delta 5 .

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Monkey Swallows The Universe

Monkey Swallows The Universe are an acoustic-based indie pop / folkish kind of band based in Sheffield.

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The Tuts

A high energy punk-pop trio from Middlesex with a DIY ethic. Live they seriously pack a punch and are noted for their impassioned songs about sexism, feminism and everyday life-isms. Their famous fans include Kate Nash and Pauline Black who was so impressed she invited the girls on tour supporting The Selecter. "West London three piece buzz like a female version of the Libertines. From the same town as the Ruts, with only a letter difference, the Tuts are a bundle of attitude and suss." - Louder Than War

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