Sŵn have announce the first 80 acts who will be playing the 6th annual Sŵn Festival 2012. The four day multi-venue festival will be held this year between Thursday 18th – Sunday 21st October 2012. Along with the first announcement of acts, Sŵn has also re-launched their festival website (www.swnfest.com) and created a new Facebook page where Sŵn Festival goers can share their past festival highlights on the time-line and see all of the latest festival news (www.facebook.com/SwnFestival).
The festival is now moving into its 6th year, with the most ambitious festival plans to date. Whilst still focusing on new and emerging acts, the festival will also play host to some well established headline acts, as well as broadening the programme to include arts based fringe events.
And that brings us to the first 80 acts taking part in this year’s Sŵn Festival (in alphabetical order):
A Girl Called Ruth
Afro Cluster
Al Lewis
Among Brothers
Arcane Roots
Bo Ningen
Brotherhood Of The Lake
Chain Of Flowers
Charlotte Church
Clock Opera
Death At Sea
Denuo
Django Django
Draw Me Stories
Dry The River
Errors
Eugene Francis Jnr
Exit International
Falls
Faye
Feed The Rhino
Fire Season
Fist Of The First Man
Gallops!
Gallows
Glass Pear
Golden Fable
Greta Isaac
Gulp
Hey Sholay
Hysterical Injury
Irma Vep
Islet
Jemma Roper
Jewellers
Joanna Gruesome
John Grant
Katell Keineg
Lanterns On The Lake
Laura J Martin
Liars
Manhattan Coast
Marc O’Reilly
Micachu & The Shapes
Milk Maid
Mowbird
Nebula
No Ceremony
No Thee No Ess
Out Of The Woods
Paper Aeroplanes
Peace
PINS
Prosperina
Quiet Marauder
Rangda
Rozi Plain
Rusty Shackle
Sam Airey
Scritti Politti
Sex Hands
Shy And The Fight
Sion Russell Jones
The Adelines
The Ash And The Oak
The Bright Young People
The Invisible
The Knox
The Lovely Eggs
The School
The Vestals
This Many Boyfriends
Tomos Lewis
Torches
Turbowolf
Urban Development Vocal Collective (UDVC)
Various Cruelties
Verity Susman
We’re No Heroes
Zervas & Pepper
Sŵn Festival 2012 will be hosted across various venues in and around the centre of Cardiff, including – 10 Feet Tall, Buffalo, Chapter Arts Centre, Clwb Ifor Bach, Dempseys, GLAM, Globe, Gwdihw, National Museum Cardiff, O’Neills (Trinity Street), O’Neills (St Mary Street), Cardiff University Students’ Union, The Full Moon (wristband exchange), The Gate, The Moon Club & Undertone.
Sŵn Festival 2012 will also be working with the following co-hosts: Adam Walton (Crackling Vinyl), Artrocker, Dizzyjam, Everybody’s Stalking, Gathered In Song, Lesson Number 1, Cardiff University’s Live Music Society, Moshi Moshi, New Sound Wales, NME Radar, Nyth, Pink Mist, Propaganda, PUSH + RUN, Rockfeedback, Simply Rad, The Line Of Best Fit, Trail Of Press, We Are Cardiff, plus more to be announced.
Tickets will be on sale soon. To be the first to hear about early bird tickets for Sŵn Festival 2012, sign up to the mailing list at www.swnfest.com
