Rock and Pop: Coming Up - HMV' s Next Big Thing Festival is here
Published: 11 February 2010
THERE are just a few days left to catch HMV’s Next Big Thing Festival.
The stellar line-up for the festival, boasting 80 artists, 27 gigs, across six venues ending on Valentine’s Day, includes Ellie Goulding, Marina & the Diamonds and Joshua Radin.
Here’s what’s left to play: Barfly, Camden – Mystery Jets, Two Door Cinema Club, Pulled Apart By Horses (Feb 13); The Borderline – The Soft Pack, Comanechi, O’Children (Feb 12), Ian King, Matthew P, Pamela Wyn Shannon, Andrew Morris (Feb 13), Boys Like Girls, Futures, Kill Casino (Feb 14); Jazz Cafe – Paloma Faith, Alex Gardner (Feb 11); Relentless Garage – Band of Skulls, General Fiasco, Birds of Tokyo (Feb 12), Example, Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Lights (Feb 13); Upstairs at Relentless Garage – Jersey Budd, Davy Knowles, Cosmo Jarvis (Feb 11), Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Georgia Ruth, Katriona Gilmore & Jamie Roberts (Feb 13); ULU – Miike Snow, We Have Band, Music Go Music (Feb 11).
Tickets £10 from www. • hmvnextbigthing.com
• NAMED after a dark Czech fairytale, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders claim to be a collective of “musicians inspired by the bleak surrealism of Eastern Europe, lullabies of cold hill tribes, the high-buttoned blouses of English rose folk chanteuses, the mournful repetition of Italian baroque and the cacophony of German noisemakers”. Got that?
So once you’ve paused for breath and worked out if their Romany sounds are appealing, there’ll still be plenty of time to pencil March 5 in your diary.
They play The Underbelly, Hoxton Square on March 5.