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The Chapman Family, Peggy Sue and Silver Columns Added To Dot To Dot Line Up

• 26th Apr 2010

Dot To Dot festival today announce even more great new additions to their 2010 bill, which is set to roll into Bristol, Nottingham and, for the first time, Manchester at the end of next month.

Celebrating the landmark fifth anniversary of the festival that even the unpredictable British weather can’t trouble, Dot To Dot is pleased as punch to add even more scorching hot, up and coming talent to the hippest festival bill of the summer, a jam-packed line-up that already includes some of the world’s most exciting must-see acts such as returning psych-pop faves Mystery Jets (who just this week scored BBC Radio 1 & this year’s Dot To Dot resident DJ Zane Lowe’s Hottest Record In The World), acclaimed Cardiff-based proper indie torch bearers Los Campesinos! and folktronica popstrel & 2010 Brit Award winner Ellie Goulding.

Dot To Dot festival organiser Anton Lockwood (of DHP Group) said today: ‘A big part of dot to dot is new music. So we are very excited to add to the dot to dot bill some of the best new talent in music from all around the world. You might not have heard these names now, but by this time next year some of these people will be household names!’

Kicking off the list of latest additions is Stockton-on-Tees post-punk four-piece The Chapman Family, one of this country’s hardest gigging bands, who will be unveiling tracks from their soon to be released debut album. Dark, intense and brooding (clue: their Myspace friends include both Joy Divison and Bill Hicks), this is one short sharp shock that you will definitely not want to miss.

Wichita Recordings’ latest signings Peggy Sue (formerly known as Peggy Sue & The Pirates) had been quietly amassing an army of fans the envy of their contemporaries via a highly collectable series of self-financed DIY EPs before signing on the dotted line with the well respected UK indie label in late 2009. Based in Brighton, Peggy Sue consist of twin frontwomen Katy Young and Rosa Slade plus drummer Olly Joyce and count acts such as Laura Marling, Mumford & Sons, Blood Red Shoes and The Maccabees as fans. They released their debut album ‘Love And Other Fossils’ to great acclaim last month.

Villagers frontman Conor J O’Brien’s previous band The Immediate should have been massive in 2009. His new band Villagers (who are set to play both the Nottingham & Bristol legs of Dot To Dot) have just signed to Domino Records (home to a certain Sheffield beat combo plying their trade under the crazy name Arctic Monkeys – that’ll never catch on) and played last week’s Later With Jools. We absolutely promise you that Villagers will be massive in 2010. Wait and see…

Electropop wonder kids Fenech-Soler have been described as; “The future of white dancefloor-scorching electro funk” by Time Out. Their new single “Stop And Stare” (out this week) is currently being hammered on the airwaves and Fenech-Soler will bring their glacier cool French disco inspired synth-heavy sound to Dot To Dot’s Bristol & Manchester legs this year.

Also added to the bill today are fuzzy synth-pop duo Silver Columns erstwhile M83 man Nicolas Fromageau’s new band Team Ghost, new wave goth rockers O Children, Louisville, Kentucky three-piece Wax Fang, hotly-tipped indie-popster Lissie, Cajun Dance Party offshott Yuck, bluesy chanteuse Leah Mason and folk-inflected sounds from The Crookes.