The Icarus Line, Danananananaykroyd, Maybeshewill & Adem amongst names for Brainwash Festival

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Brainwash Festival -takes place between the 14th – 16th October 2011 in Leeds. They’ve announced the first wave of artists who will perform including The Icarus Line, Dananananaykroyd, Maybeshewill, Lite, Adem, Kong and much more.


Now in its 6th year, Brainwash began life as a three-day event across the Brudenell Social Club and Royal Park Cellars in 2006; the idea being that the venues’ close proximity to one another would create a flow of eager music-lovers across a small patch of Leeds’s much beloved LS6 area. Key to the ethos of the festival was, and is still, diversity: a mish-mash of genres loosely based around rock/indie/metal music but stretching from its confines into anything from folk to jazz to electronica; people don’t like just one type of music and they certainly don’t want to see the same band 40 times over a weekend…

This year we’ve announced two visitors from abroad: Japanese math-rock outfit LITE and much respected and infamous US rock n’ rollers THE ICARUS LINE. Add to this the guaranteed fun times provided by Scottish sextet DANANANANAYKROYD as well as fellow visitors KONG, MAYBESHEWILL, TUBELORD, LET’S BUY HAPPINESS, MARBLE VALLEY (featuring Steve West from Pavement) and many more, and it’s clear to see we’re in for another pretty special weekend. Leeds represents too of course: CASTROVALVA, BLACKLISTERS and ARTHUR RIGBY & THE BASKERVYLLES have all just played Leeds & Reading Festival, and we haven’t even finished announcing bands and other treats yet…

As well as the aforementioned Japanese instrumentalists Lite (not forgetting their snot wielding tour buddies 54-71) we’ve previously welcomed the soft tones and subtle ingenuity of Adem; the epic rock progressions of Oceansize; the brutal noise of US legends Unsane; the neo-classical motions of Olafur Arnalds. Last year we rounded off Saturday with the party machine that is HEALTH and Sunday with the equally frantic Melt Banana; we’ve even managed to somehow take Norway’s Jaga Jazzist from the majesty of London’s Barbican Hall one night into the modesty of a backstreet social club in Leeds the next at Brainwash IV. And that’s before you even consider the wealth of local talent, indeed the bedrock of an event like this, provided by the likes of Humanfly, Fran Rodgers, Vessels, Forward Russia (who played their final ever gig at Brainwash), Pulled Apart By Horses, Glissando, Paul “Lone Wolf” Marshall and many more.

We’ve also had a charity element to the festival each year, raising money for the likes of Oxfam and Sheffield Children’s Hospital in the past few years. This year we’ll be picking three charities and allowing those who attend to pick which one our profit goes to.

For many people, however, the ‘serious’ stuff doesn’t matter too much, and that’s totally fine – Brainwash is hopefully just an excuse to see a load of ace bands, discover someone you’ve never heard of and drink the very reasonably priced Brudenell bar dry…

Brainwash Festival VI
14th-16th October 2011
The Brudenell Social Club/ Royal Park Cellars, Leeds

Listen & download:

http://brainwashfestivalleeds.bandcamp.com

 

Read:

http://brainwashfestivalleeds.tumblr.com

 

Friday (Upstairs @ The Library):

DANANANANAYKROYD – http://www.dananananaykroyd.co.uk

CASTROVALVA – http://www.facebook.com/castrovalvamusic

 

Saturday:

THE ICARUS LINE – http://www.myspace.com/theicarusline

LITE – http://www.lite-web.com


MAYBESHEWILL – http://www.maybeshewill.net


KONG – http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kong/53926792253

 

&U&I – http://www.andyouandi.net


SHAPES – http://www.weareshapes.com

 

YOUNG LIAR – http://soundcloud.com/youngliar


NGOD – http://ngod.bandcamp.com


JUFFAGE – http://www.juffage.com


BLACKLISTERS – http://www.blacklisters.bandcamp.com


MOJO FURY – http://www.reverbnation.com/mojofury

 

Sunday:

LET’S BUY HAPPINESS – http://www.letsbuyhappiness.bandcamp.com


ECHO LAKE – http://www.echolakeband.com


MARBLE VALLEY (Steve West from PAVEMENT) – http://www.marblevalley.co.uk

 

TUBELORD – http://www.asktubelord.com


PEOPLE IN JARS – http://www.peopleinjars.com


HUMANFLY – http://www.humanfly.bandcamp.com


TRIO VD – http://www.myspace.com/triovd

 

ARTHUR RIGBY & THE BASKERVYLLES – http://www.arthurrigby.co.uk


BLOOD ORANGES – http://www.myspace.com/wearebloodoranges

 

ANTLERED MAN – http://www.antleredman.co.uk


FALSE FLAGS – http://www.facebook.com/pages/False-Flags/182573191788802

 

£8.50 day tickets Fri/Sat/ Sun
£15 weekend tickets

Online tickets from: http://www.wegottickets.com/f/2825

 

Physical tickets from Jumbo Records and Crash Records.

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