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Slow Club and Everbody Was In The French Resistance… Now! Added To Indietracks Festival

• 26th May 2010

Slow Club and Everybody Was In The French Resistance…Now! have been added to the line-up for Indietracks 2010.

They will join the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Love Is All, The Primitives, Ballboy, Allo Darlin, The Pooh Sticks, Standard Fare and around 50 other indiepop bands at this year’s festival, which takes place on 23-25 July 2010.

The festival is held in the grounds of a picturesque 1950s steam railway in Derbyshire.

Slow Club are a Sheffield DIY alternative folk-pop duo featuring Charles Watson and Rebecca Taylor. Charles plays guitar and sings and Rebecca plays drums and all sorts of weird instruments, like water-filled glass bottles, spoons and the back of a wooden chair. The band released two 7″ singles on Moshi Moshi records in 2007, followed by an EP in 2009, ‘Let’s Fall Back in Love’. Their acclaimed debut album, ‘Yeah So’ was released in July 2009.

Everybody Was In The French Resistance…Now! are Eddie Argos from Art Brut and Dyan Valdés from The Blood Arm. The band is single-handedly correcting the mistakes of pop songs past. They have so far defended the belittled blue collar worker from Kanye West's ‘Gold Digger’ ,told Gerry and the Pacemakers that it’s okay to walk alone and dumped Martha Reeves on behalf of poor Jimmy Mack. Their album ‘Fixin’ the Charts’ was released on Cooking Vinyl in January 2010.

Indietracks has also revealed which bands will be playing on which days at the festival:

Friday 23 July
Everybody Was In The French Resistance…Now!
+ Allo Darlin’ + Veronica Falls

Saturday 24 July
The Primitives + Love Is All + Ballboy + White Town + David Tattersall (Wave Pictures) +
The Smittens + The Orchids + over 20 more bands.

Sunday 25 July
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart + Slow Club + The Pooh Sticks + Shrag + Standard Fare + The Specific Heats + over 20 more bands.

A full list of bands playing on each day is available at link. co.uk

Over 50 indiepop bands from across the globe will be playing across four stages: the outdoor stage; the indoor stage, the church and on the steam trains themselves. The festival will also host a range of craft workshops and a selection of discos after the bands finish. Festival goers can have unlimited rides on the steam railway over the weekend, as well as full access to other railway attractions including a farm and museum.

Weekend tickets are £60 and day tickets are £32.50.