Catch Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! At Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festival

• 14th Aug 2006

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the Brooklyn-based 5 piece famous for their irresistibly catchy tunes, poignant, endearing vocals and thought-provoking lyrics are one of the many more alternative bands gracing the NME stage at this year's Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festival this year.

Recent single 'The Skin Of My Yellow Country Teeth' taken from their debut self-titled album, seems to sum up an era of unsatisfied desires, frustration and nostalgia for happier times, while simultaneously tricking you with it's upbeat tempo and twanging electric guitars, designed it seems to simply make you dance. This is what the band seem to do best; make you want to dance through your misery, while at the same time seeming to endorse and magnify the feeling.

Catch this phenomenal band on the NME stage at this year's Carling Weekend: Reading Festival on Saturday the 26th of August, or on the same stage at Carling Weekend: Leeds Festival on Sunday the 27th of August 2006. For your chance to win tickets click here: link!