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SWN Festival Announces Further Acts For Line-up

• 21st Sep 2009

Building on it's reputation as the go-to festival for new music, SWN 2009 will now feature performances from the likes of Frankie & the Heartstrings, Beatbullyz, Slow Club, Swanton Bombs, Master Shortie and The Longcut plus a double appearance from the terrific Pulled Apart By Horses.

The new additions takes the total number of bands descending on the Welsh capital to well over 100, with several more bands yet to be revealed!

SWN Festival is curated by Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens and takes place from 22nd-24th October in multiple venues across Cardiff city center.

Check out the complete list of bands confirmed below:

The complete list of new additions:

Anchorsong
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
Beatbullyz
Bec And Beth
Bright Light Bright Light
Cate Le Bon
Catherine AD
Chris TT
Don't Move
Draw Me Stories
Drums Of Death
E and E
Ellie Hurricane
Elephant & Soldier
Frankie & The Heartstrings
Geraint Williams
Get Back Guinozzi
Gideon Conn
Glass Diamond
Internet Forever
James Tyson
Jonquil
Katell Keineg
King Alexander
Master Shortie
Not Cool
Our Brother The Native
Paper Aeroplanes
Portasound
Pulled Apart By Horses
Race Horses
Right Hand, Left Hand
Rogues
Rose elinor dougall
Slow Club
Soft Toy Emergency
Stornoway
Swanton Bombs
Teeth
The Complete Stone Roses
The Death of Her Money
The Drums
The Irascibles
The Longcut
The Molotovs
The Pipettes
The Young Republic
Tom Brosseau
Tubelord
Ungdomskulen
Yr Ods
Yndi Halda
Y Promatics
Zimmermans
Zun Zun Egui
Zwolf

PLUS DJ SETS FROM:

DJ Gemmy, Dig!, Pete Fowler, Adam Walton (BBC Radio

Wales), Heavenly Jukebox, Mice Girls, Sulwax, Turnstile / Transparent,

Jakwob, Rowan da Riddim, Brainlove, Dr Kiko, Eat Your Own Ears DJs,

Dirty Pop, Scraggatron, Acid Casuals

Acts announced so far:

Los Campesinos!
Dananananaykroyd
Copy Haho
Sparky Deathcap
Gold Panda
Daedelus
Munch Munch
The Leisure Society
Sweet Baboo
Lucky Soul
Sons of Noel And Adrian
Cymdeithas Yr Hobos Unig
Hail! The Planes
Martin Carr
Son Capson
Cat Mouse Cat
Islet
Huw M
Minotaur Shock
Girls
Broken Family Band
Science Bastard
Three Trapped Tigers
Them Squirrels
Gaggle
Exit International
Hafaliadu = Equations
Strange News From Another Star
John Grindell
The Twilight Sad
Pencadlys
Anchorsong
Evils
Nos Sadwrn Bach
Unicorn Kid
Mary Anne Hobbs
Johnny Foreigner
Talons
Dimbley and Capper
Al Lewis
Fredrick Stanley Star
Decimals
Denuo
Gareth Pearson
Donde Stars
Mitchell Museum
Threatmantics
Silver Gospel Runners
Vito
Wet Dog
Supertennis
Tim And Sams Band with Tim and Sam
The Victorian English Gentlemens Club
Zissou
Y Pencadlys
Goldheart Assembly
Marina And The Diamonds
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs
Moshi Moshi DJs
Midwife Crisis DJs
Vinyl Vendettas DJs

SWN is the Welsh word for sound, pronouced 'soon'.