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The Subways To Headline 2000 Trees Festival

• 1st Mar 2010

Post-grunge punk rockers The Subways will headline the Saturday night at this summer’s 2000trees festival, organisers can now reveal.

Last year the British trio were the main support for AC/DC’s stadium shows at Wembley Stadium and Glasgow’s Hampden Park. Before that they turned two years on the road touring with the likes of Foo Fighters and Oasis, and a potentially career-ending throat ailment, into their edgier second album All Or Nothing.

The Subways join folk-punk hero Frank Turner whose headline performance on the Friday night will be a monumental and fun-filled show from one of the nation’s most electrifying performers as well a main stage set from Sheffield’s finest experimental rock outfit 65daysofstatic.

Playing just before Frank on the Main Stage is Metronomy – sublime electronic pop band who have risen to success over the past year with second album ‘Nights Out’ as well as remixing the big names of the UK music scene including Roots Manuva, Franz Ferdinand, Klaxons, Goldfrapp, Zero 7, Ladytron and Kate Nash. And joining The Subways on the Main Stage on Saturday are Bombay Bicycle Club – brimming with youthful urgency, honesty and romance with chiming chords and sighed melodies that blaze proudly like flushed cheeks on a cold day.

Also confirmed for the weekend are local (GLOS) heroes Jim Lockey & The Solemn Sun, whose songs of downbeat redemption are bound to resonate with the disillusioned and the hopeful; the deft wit and underlying intellect of one of the UK’s premiere performers, Chris T-T; Hampshire seven-piece The Dawn Chorus who deal in thundering rhythms and folk blitz; expansive, organic indie with echoing, piercing guitars and insistent piano from Roundstone; subtly infectious, folk-sewn stories from Adam Kilip’s The Tailors; charming yet occasionally vitriolic stummer Ben Marwood and musical storyteller and 2000trees house folky Dan Heaver.

Completing the latest line-up confirmations are Scottish three-piece The Xcerts who will be premiering tracks from their second album currently being recorded with Brand New producer Mike Sapone in New York; country rock punkers Crazy Arm who got the festival started last year on the Thursday night; instrumental electronic outfit Maybshewill; the dance/electro/dub/rock mash up of Old School Tie and Bath’s banjo wielding Americano blues rock act, Kill It Kid.

With two full days featuring over 50 acts on three stages, comedy, DJs, headphone disco and campfire sing-a-longs to keep the party spirit going till dawn, 2010 is shaping up to be the best year yet for 2000trees – with an extra day of music and fun for just 500 people on July 15.

Line-up so far:
MAIN STAGE:
FRIDAY
Frank Turner
Metronomy
Crazy Arm
Maybeshewill

SATURDAY
The Subways
Bombay Bicycle Club
65daysofstatic
The Xcerts

LEAF LOUNGE:
FRIDAY
Jim Lockey & the Solemn Sun
The Dawn Chorus
Chris T-T
David Goo
The Tailors

SATURDAY
Kill It Kid
Roundstone
Old School Tie

GREENHOUSE STAGE
FRIDAY
Dan Heaver
Ben Marwood