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Kids In Glass Houses And The Blackout Added To SWN Line Up

• 22nd Sep 2010

With exactly one calendar month to go until the start of SWN FESTIVAL 2010 we're delighted to unveil over 40 more bands who will be playing this year's event.

They include well known names, such as TOM GRAY from Gomez, who'll be playing only his third ever solo set, Radio 1 Xtra DJ RAS KWAME, who'll be hosting a night of UK and homegrown hip-hop and breaks, DJ RAFFERTIE who'll join the excellent MOSHI MOSHI label DJs for a night of action at Buffalo Bar and Domino Label's awesome CLINIC who'll play the opening evening of the festival. There's many, many new bands too. We're especially pleased to announce that the ubercool US outfit BEACH FOSSILS will play their first ever UK show at SWN Festival 2010. BECOMING REAL, CHAD VALLEY, DAM MANTLE and STILL CORNERS are some of many bands making their debut in Wales, and there's many amazing acts from Wales, including CATE LE BON, HENRYS FUNERAL SHOE, DERWYDDON DR GONZO and RACEHORSES.

As we've been hinting, we're welcoming more rock bands to SWN Festival 2010 and with them some shows open to those aged 14+. Two of our favourite bands who've emerged from South Wales – THE BLACKOUT and KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES – have curated a day of shows during the Saturday of SWN Festival, with bands REAPER IN SICILY, THE COMPUTERS, THE GUNS, EXIT INTERNATIONAL, BLACK SPIDERS and THROATS all playing their stages. GAVIN BUTLER from THE BLACKOUT will open the afternoon with a solo set, before KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES wrap up the live shows with a special, very, very intimate acoustic set… ALED from KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES will then DJ with SEAN aka DIRTY LOVE from THE BLACKOUT at a 14-18 yr old DJ event taking place at MILLENNIUM MUSIC HALL 3.

A full list of bands added to the line up are :

Tom Gray (Gomez)
Alphabet Backwards
The Vaccines
Wounds
Veronica Falls
Houdini Dax
Trwbador
Derwyddon Dr Gonzo
Breichiau Hir
Gildas
Peggy Sue
Exit International
Plyci
Trembling Bells
Zwolf
Mr Huw
Cyrion
Still Corners
Becoming Real
Sibrydion
Dutch Uncles
Raffertie
Ras Kwame
Chad Valley
Racehorses
Reaper In Sicily
The Lay-Lows
Inconsiderate Parking
Scriber
Raphaelites
Kamikaze Veterans
Young Legionnaire
Gavin Butler (The Blackout)
Kids in Glass Houses (acoustic set)
Clinic
Vinyl Vendettas
Dam Mantle
Cate Le Bon
Threatmantics
Henrys Funeral Shoe
Beach Fossils
Visions of Trees

There are a few more bands to be announced, and a full line up of who is playing where and when will follow before the end of this week.

TICKETS

At SWN Festival 2010 we are changing things slightly to previous years, so please pay attention.

STROLLER WRISTBANDS
Stroller wristbands, like previous years, get you free priority access to all the shows in what we’ve now named our Stroller Area. The stroller area covers the stages at Dempseys, Clwb Ifor Bach (upstairs and downstairs), Y Fuwch Goch, The Model Inn (upstairs and downstairs), Undertone, Cardiff Arts Institute, Buffalo Bar and Chapter Arts Centre (there’s several stages here). As some of our venues are a little further out, or the bands are much bigger, we’ve ticketed them as you would a normal show. This way you’re guaranteed entry (subject to the usual conditions). We’ve worked on the feedback from last year – that in travelling out further to a show people wanted to be assured entry. So this change fixes that. It also means that if you only want to dip into SWN Festival for one of the bigger shows then you can, in the same way the day stroller wristbands allow people to come for just one day if they can’t make all three. We hope you like the development.

STROLLER WRISTBANDS
3-DAY SWN FESTIVAL STROLLER WRISTBAND ADVANCE PRICE £45
SATURDAY SWN FESTIVAL STROLLER WRISTBAND ADVANCE PRICE £25
FRIDAY SWN FESTIVAL STROLLER WRISTBAND ADVANCE PRICE £15
THURSDAY SWN FESTIVAL STROLLER WRISTBAND ADVANCE PRICE £10
STROLLER WRISTBANDS AVAILABLE FROM

www.sadwrn.com (no booking fee)
www.wegottickets.com
Spillers Records
Chapter Arts Centre
Catapult Records
Ticketline 029 20230 130
HMV Tickets
Cardiff Box Office link

Stroller wristbands grant you free priority access to shows in the stroller area subject to the individual capacity of each venue.

OTHER TICKETED SWN FESTIVAL SHOWS
on sale now
BRYN FON
AL LEWIS
GILDAS
The Globe, Albany Road
Fri 22nd Oct
7.30pm / 18+
£10 adv link

SWANS
JAMES BLACKSHAW
Millennium Music Hall
Sat 23rd Oct
7.30pm / 18+
£20 adv link

SPECIAL SWANS BUNDLE
3-DAY SWN FESTIVAL STROLLER WRISTBAND + SWANS TICKET ADVANCE PRICE £60 only from link (no booking fee) and link
SATURDAY SWN FESTIVAL STROLLER WRISTBAND + SWANS TICKET ADVANCE PRICE £40 only from link (no booking fee) and link

PAUL HEATON
+ support
The Globe, Albany Road
Sat 23rd Oct
7.30pm / 18+
£15 adv link