Indian Summer Returns – The First Bands Revealed!

• 30th Mar 2007

The first round of acts have been announced for this years Indian Summer festival and includes a host of top indie artists such as The Flaming Lips, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Rapture, Annuals and Optimo (Espacio).
It was also revealed that Optimo will be curating their own area this year due too the tremendous response that they received from fans last year.
Organisers PCL are being tight lipped about the other acts performing this year.
They said: “ We’re releasing the line-up slowly and call it a weekender because, for us and the type of music lover this appeals to, every act is an attraction.
”It’s not some complicated grand plan though, we’re driven pretty simply by daydreams of the kind of event we ourselves have always wanted to go on in Scotland.”
Commenting on what festival goers can expect too see from this year’s Indian Summer, PCL said: “Each act has a sense of being what’s cool, sometimes deliberately, sometimes not, and if they are cool then they don’t care.”
They added: “Everyone has their own take on music appreciation, but we see it as looking for music that rings ‘true’ in an undefinable sense of the word.”
BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio Radio Scotland DJ Vic Galloway praised Indian
Summer, saying last year’s festival was one of his ’favourite events of 2006’.
He said: “It looks like 2007 will be equally good, if not better, I personally can’t wait.”
BBC Radio Scotland and BBC 6 Music will both be covering the event live all weekend.
Highlights of last year’s event included energetic and emotive sets from the two Mercury Prize nominated acts of the weekend, Hot Chip and Guillemots.
Other standout included sets by CSS, The Fall, Antony and The Johnsons, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Gang of Four.
Dates are set for Saturday 14th July and Sunday 15th July 2007 with tickets coming in at £65 for the weekend.
For full details of the festival you can visit its website at link.