Gender inequality at Indietracks: There I fixed it

Following on from yesterday's internet entertainment and also today's discussions on the Anorak forum, I thought I'd use the spreadsheet I made up of the past few Indietrackses as a force for good.

I have compiled a fantasy Indietracks lineup featuring all bands that have played there before, but carefully selected so as to be completely balanced by gender.

First a brief note as to what I mean by 'balanced by gender'. Rather than all acts being 50% male and 50% female, I've tried to figure what the make up would be if males and females were randomly distributed. So there are some all male bands and some all female bands. Considering we want about 55 acts to play in total, the mix would be as follows:-

All male	9 bands
Mixed mostly male	14 bands
50:50 bands	10 bands
Mixed mostly female	14 bands
All female	9 bands

With this in mind the lineup would be as follows:-

Disasteradio, Emmy The Great, Foxes!, Frances McKee, Helene, Kevin McGrother, King of Cats, Labrador, Loyal Trooper, MJ Hibbett (solo), Oxo Foxo, Roy Moller, Ste McCabe, Allo Darlin (2008 lineup of Elizabeth and Virginia), Berlin Brides, Burning Hearts, Everybody Was In The French Resistance.. Now, Lets Whisper (2008 lineup including Elizabeth Morris), Marshmallow, Kisses, Modular, Paisley and Charlie, Poppy & Friends, The Cannanes, The Lovely Eggs, The Middles Ones, Zipper, Gordon McIntyre (2012 lineup), Haiku Salut, The Just Joans (2008 platform lineup Dave, Katie, Rowan), Betty and the Werewolves, Teenage Fanclub, The Specific Heats, Art Brut, Butcher Boy, Cola Jet Set, Friends, La Casa Azul, Rose Elinor Dougall, Stereo Total, Tender Trap, The History of Apple Pie, The Red Shoe Diaries, The Smittens, Hong Kong in the 60s, Very Yours Truly, Stars of Aviation, The School, A fine Day for Sailing, A Little Orchestra, Withered Hand, The Loves, Little My.

This gives the following gender stats:-

Total female performers	90
Total male performers	90
%female performers	50.00%
%male performers	50.00%
All male	9 bands
Mixed mostly male	13 bands
50:50 bands	11 bands
Mixed mostly female	10 bands
All female	9 bands

Which is close enough to ideal.

You're welcome.

**UPDATE**
The list of bands was a little half-arsed, so here's the lineup by stage

FRIDAY
MJ Hibbett (solo)
Allo Darlin (2008 lineup of Elizabeth and Virginia)
Tender Trap

SATURDAY
Main Stage
Butcher Boy
Betty and the Werewolves
Everybody Was In The French Resistance.. Now
The Loves (2011 festival lineup with dancing girls)
A Little Orchestra
A fine Day for Sailing
The School

Indoor Stage
Emmy The Great
The Lovely Eggs
Hong Kong in the 60s
Gordon McIntyre (2012 lineup)
Little My
The Red Shoe Diaries
Berlin Brides
Haiku Salut

Church Stage
Helene
Roy Moller
The Just Joans (2008 platform lineup Dave, Katie, Rowan)
Labrador
Ste McCabe
Friends
Very Yours Truly

Train
Oxo Foxo
Paisley and Charlie
Loyal Trooper

SUNDAY
Main Stage
The Smittens
Rose Elinor Dougall
Teenage Fanclub
La Casa Azul
The Specific Heats
Stars of Aviation
Cola Jet Set

Indoor Stage
Art Brut
Stereo Total
Poppy & Friends
Withered Hand
The Middles Ones
Zipper
The History of Apple Pie

Church Stage
Lets Whisper (2008 lineup including Elizabeth Morris)
Disasteradio
Marshmallow Kisses
Burning Hearts
Modular
The Cannanes
Foxes!

Train
King of Cats
Frances McKee
Kevin McGrother

My videos of Indietracks 2012

I went to a music festival the other weekend, Indietracks 2012. Its like twee indiepop and steam trains at the same time, and this it had parrots and owls too.

Anyhoo, at these things I usually shoot a few videos, I'd like to present them all to you here in one blogpost.

This is a short 4 minute taster of the whole weekend


This is Darren Hayman and The secondary Modern playing a cover of The Bee Gees' I started a Joke
 

 This is The Just Joans playing a cover of Kenickie's Come Out 2Nite
 

 This is Fulhast playing Prison Pizza
 

 This is Allo Darlin' playing a cover of The Just Joans' If You Don't Pull

And this is Elizabeth from Allo Darlin's encore, their classic Tallulah



And for those of you with plenty of time on your hands this is a 30 min compilation of the weekend.


On reflection, I should have titled it up with the name of all the bands. That would have taken an hour or so, and I was in a rush to get it online first, not sure why.

I think with these videos for me it is a popularity contest, can I get more views on YouTube than I did the other year. The quality isn't great, but it's good enough for YouTube, and what do you expect with a Canon IXUS 50 from 2005 (it used to be cutting edge, I could have been a contender...). For the past few years there's been folk mincing about at Indietracks with professional cameras, whole film crews, and I'm never sure what happens to the footage, a five minute local news item perhaps, or a limited release indie movie, who knows.

This year a band called The Birthday Kiss had a video up pretty quickly here, although I've got to say, eight seconds in the commentary contains what could be a tribute to the end of my 2008 video. Good research there chaps, appreciated.

Privatisation for better or worse

There was a letter in the Guardian on Saturday, some anti-cuts group pleading to stop the government privatising public services. I read it when I was in the pub, drunk on my own on a Saturday afternoon and a particular line stuck in my head.

If the plans go ahead, companies will be able to make a profit from services previously run by the state and local authorities, while taxpayers subsidise them. This approach has not worked well for passengers on our railways or for many sickness benefit claimants assessed by the private company Atos.

Cos of course everyone knows that the railways have gotten worse since they were privatised.

I recently went to a music festival called Indietracks, at a railway museum in the Midlands, I go every year, its great, you get to play with steam trains and see the same familiar faces every year.

One of my favourite acts is The Sweet Nothings, a four-piece lead by Pete Green, they have songs about indiepop, football, politics and one special song about the railways called Hey Dr Beeching.

At Indietracks I was a bit miffed atHey Dr Beeching and Pete Green, cos the final verse is about how Pete Green dreams about going back in time and killing people who he disagrees with, like the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, former British prime minister Maggie Thatcher and from the song Dr Beeching. I was a bit miffed cos in Norway a few weeks before, some gentleman had similarly taken upon himself to try to execute an entire generation of politicians he disagreed with.
It just seemed a bit distasteful.

Anyhoo, in the preamble to the song Pete Green described how the evil Tory government of the 1960s had employed Dr Beeching to downsize the UK rail network, and close down more than 4000 miles of railway line.

That happened whilst the railways were under state control, not privatised.

Wikipedia’s great, let me remind you, there have been public railways in the UK for over 180 years and for much of that they’ve been run by private companies. Although there were first calls for the nationalisation of the rail network in 1840, it wasn’t until the first world war that they were nationalised. The state controlled them from 1914 to 1921 when they were returned to private companies, that is, after seven years.

They remained in private hands for another 2 years until 1947 when they were nationalised again, and remained so until 1994 when they were privatised a second time, that’s another 47 years.

Anyhoo, this got me thinking, maybe the anti-cuts people who’d written to the Guardian were right, that privisation of the railways had adversely affected the passengers more than the nationalisation of them had, or maybe it had benefited the passengers. I dunno, I’d have to research the matter a bit more. Maybe try to dig up ticket prices and see how they’ve changed depending on ownership, that would be a cool graph to demonstrate the benefits to passengers, if not to taxpayers.

Sadly it was too much hassle to find train fare information stretching back a hundred years, without popping along to the London Transport Museum and leaf through the old timetables and fares. Although wikipedia did have a graph which is useful.
One of the clearest things one can take from this graph is the long steady decline in passenger journeys after the railways were nationalised in 1947. Sure there was a rise in numbers after the depths of 1980, but it wasn’t until after privatisation that numbers climbed back to the heady heights of the 1920s and 2010.

Clearly, passengers voted with their feet and freely chose to use trains for more journeys when they were in private hands, somewhat contradicting the anti-cuts letter in the Guardian.

Not necessarily so though, as this graph only shows passenger journeys, not passenger miles. It could be that due to privatisation longer rail journeys have been broken down into many shorter journeys to make up the numbers. But in the light of Beeching’s axing of shorter rural lines, this seems unlikely.

In closing, I would like to ask what would convince the anti-cuts letter-writers that they are wrong and privatisation has benefited rail passengers?

The Plan - The continuing journey

Its been about a fortnight since I set off on my latest music career. You'll have read the first blogpost about it here, and undoubtedly will have watched some of the videos.

Here's the viewing stats

• Wake Up Boo - 61 views
• Keep the circle around - 21 views
• 100,000 Fireflies - 24 views
• Tiny Tears - 15 views
• If you don't Pull - 8

Its the law of the jungle round here, survival of the fittest, and so the weakest video gets eliminated from my setlist.

I've finally gotten myself a power supply for my wee Marshall amp, so I've plugged in my guitar, turned up the tone, and rerecorded the set, and added two new songs.

Have a listen and let me know what you think.

Until next time, enjoy!
The Greedy Ugly People
Dear Stephen Hawking
Tiny Tears
100,000 Fireflies
Keep the circle around
Wake Up Boo

The Plan - The Voyage Begins

Its been the best part of a month since I did that blogpost about my plan to get from here with no musical career to somehow getting to play next year's Indietracks.

I have made progress, this is the first step, the first series of videos.

I've recorded five songs, uploaded them to YouTube for your delectation, the songs are the following covers:-

• If You Don't Pull
• Tiny Tears
• 100,000 Fireflies
• Wake Up Boo
• Keep the Circle Around

and by a process of survival of the fittest, after a week, I shall eliminate the least popular from the set and replace it with more songs, be it covers or originals. I plan to re-record the more popular songs, better, with guitar plugged in, with different instruments, arrangements, effects and backing singing.

Its like evolution, the weakest is eliminated whilst the more successful change and adapt.

So without further faffing about here are the videos.





Comments and abuse welcome.

Indietracks 2010 videos

And here's a running list of all the Indietracks 2010 videos I can find on YouTube

Allo Darlin
Kiss Your Lips (psychodave0)
1 of 3 (eolrindebara)
2 of 3 (eolrindebara)
3 of 3 (eolrindebara)
My Heart is a Drummer (zondasights)
Tallulah (Galazoaimatos)
Lets go Swimming (ScaredToDanceClub)
Silver Dollars (ScaredToDanceClub)
My Heart is a Drummer (timothyahall)

Antarctica Takes It
Dunno (briantheoyster)

Ballboy
What's a girl to do (monkeyheads)
I've got pictures of you in your underwear (vegetubleman)
1 of 3 (eolrindebara)
2 of 3 (eolrindebara)
3 of 3 (eolrindebara)
dunno (vegetubleman)
Sex is Boring (pranceydog)
Indian Summer (pranceydog)
I don't have to stand here fighting with you about the size of my dick (pranceydog)
Essential Wear for Future Trips to Space (pranceydog)

Be Like Pablo
The Post-It Song (hipmat)
Julianne (eolrindebara)

Betty and The Werewolves
David Cassidy (acoustic) (randomname83)
1 of 4 (eolrindebara)
2 of 4 (eolrindebara)
3 of 4 (eolrindebara)
4 of 4 (eolrindebara)
Dunno (zondasights)

The Blanche Hudson Weekend
dunno (Galazoaimatos)
1 of 4 (eolrindebara)
2 of 4 (eolrindebara)
3 of 4 (eolrindebara)
4 of 4 (eolrindebara)
Crying Shame (thesage38)

Boy Genius
dunno (neonpike)
Scatterbrain (thedyingfly)
dunno (neonpike)
Ramona Saves the Day (thedyingfly)
dunno (vegetubleman)

The Calles
dunno (vegetubleman)

The Cannanes
Misery (antonyahall)

The Cavalcade
dunno (Galazoaimatos)
1 of 2 (eolrindebara)
2 of 2 (eolrindebara)

Clint (Play People)
1 of 9 (peterjh100)
2 of 9 (peterjh100)
3 of 9 (peterjh100)
4 of 9 (peterjh100)
5 of 9 (peterjh100)
6 of 9 (peterjh100)
7 of 9 (peterjh100)
8 of 9 (peterjh100)
9 of 9 (peterjh100)
dunno (eolrindebara)

David Tattersall
Dunno (neonpike)
Dunno (neonpike)
Dunno (neonpike)

Everybody was in the French Resistance... Now
With or without you (Galazoaimatos)
1 of 3 (zondasights)
2 of 3 (zondasights)
3 of 3 (zondasights)

The Felt Tips
dunno (alexbummer)

Foxes!
1 of 2 (eolrindebara)
2 of 2 (eolrindebara)

The Give It Ups
1 of 3 (eolrindebara)
2 of 3 (eolrindebara)
3 of 3 (eolrindebara)

Gordon McIntyre
1 of 6 (eolrindebara)
2 of 6 (eolrindebara)
3 of 6 (eolrindebara)
4 of 6 (eolrindebara)
5 of 6 (eolrindebara)
6 of 6 (eolrindebara)
Leave the earth behind you and take a walk into the sunshine (pranceydog)
Public Park (pranceydog)
I lost you but I found country music (pranceydog)
Independent Popular Music (pranceydog)

The Hillfields
dunno (eolrindebara)
Dunno (zondasights)

Internet Forever
dunno (hipmat)
dunno (pranceydog)

Jam on Bread
1 of 4 (zondasights)
2 of 4 (zondasights)
3 of 4 (zondasights)
4 of 4 (zondasights)

The Just Joans
I won't Survive (illandancient)
Why are we so lonely, steven (vegetubleman)
Wee Helen Got Married (timothyahall)

La La Love You
Sabes que te quiero (vegetubleman)

Linda Guilala
Dunno (zondasights)
dunno (rotherhams)

The Loves
1 of 2 (rotherhams)
2 of 2 (rotherhams)

The Millipedes
untitled (neonpike)
Zombies (neonpike)

MJ Hibbett and The Validators
1 of 4 (eolrindebara)
2 of 4 (eolrindebara)
3 of 4 (eolrindebara)
4 of 4 (eolrindebara)
My Boss Was in an Indie Band Once (ScaredToDanceClub)

Onward Chariots
dunno (neonpike)
dunno (neonpike)

The Orchids
dunno (Galazoaimatos)

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Come Saturday (hipmat)
Heaven's gonna happen now (tillernet)
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (psychodave0)
1 of 2 (eolrindebara)
2 of 2 (eolrindebara)
Gentle Sons (Scared To Dance)
Come Saturday (suziecreamcheese1967)

The Parallelograms
dunno (Galazoaimatos)
2 of 3 (eolrindebara)
1 of 5 (zondasights)
2 of 5 (zondasights)
3 of 5 (zondasights)
4 of 5 (zondasights)
5 of 5 (zondasights)

The Pooh Sticks
On Tape (thedyingfly)
Susan Sleepwalking (thedyingfly)
Who Loves You (thedyingfly)
Heroes & Villains (thedyingfly)
Cool in a crisis (thedyingfly)
dunno (eolrindebara)
dunno (rotherhams)

The Primitives
1 of 3 (eolrindebara)
2 of 3 (eolrindebara)
Dunno (zondasights)
dunno (rotherhams)

Red Shoe Diaries
dunno (eolrindebara)
dunno (discobloguons)

Sarandon
Good Working Practise (neonpike)
dunno (neonpike)
Massive Haircut (neonpike)
Their German Disco (neonpike)
dunno (neonpike)

Secret Shine
Dunno (eolrindebara)

Shrag
Mark E Smith (timothyahall)

Slow Club
Giving up on Love (Niceaction)
dunno (Galazoaimatos)
Wild Blue Milk (ScaredToDanceClub)

The Smittens
1 of 9 (zondasights)
2 of 9 (zondasights)
dunno (vegetubleman)
What Do We Do Now (timothyahall)

Standard Fare
Wow (timothyahall)

Stars in Coma
1 of 4 (zondasights)
2 of 4 (zondasights)
3 of 4 (zondasights)
4 of 4 (zondasights)

The Sunny Street
What is Love (thesage38)
Penguin Pool (emmapropella)
1 of 3 (eolrindebara)
2 of 3 (eolrindebara)
3 of 3 (eolrindebara)

Tender Trap
1 of 3 (eolrindebara)
2 of 3 (eolrindebara)
3 of 3 (eolrindebara)
Do you want a boyfriend? (thedyingfly)
Dansette Dansette (thedyingfly)
1 of 3 (zondasights)
2 of 3 (zondasights)
3 of 3 (zondasights)
dunno (rotherhams)

Veronica Falls
1 of 3 (eolrindebara)
2 of 3 (eolrindebara)
3 of 3 (eolrindebara)
Beachy Head (alexbummer)
Starry Eyes (alexbummer)

Yokoko
Alex Party cover (YokokoLIVE)
Cold Black Heart (YokokoLIVE)

Other Indietracks videos
Winkball
Mark Zonda
HDIF
HDIF 1 of 3 (eolrindebara)
HDIF 2 of 3 (eolrindebara)
HDIF 3 of 3 (eolrindebara)
Story of Sarah Records
Super Summer indiePop Photo Montage (psychodave0)
Have you ever heard a digital accordian (suziecreamcheese1967)

The Just Joans - Indietracks

Eeeep!!! Last weekend was Indietracks 2010, everyone's favourite indiepop music festival based at a railway museum in the Midlands.

And here's a video I took of The Just Joans playing their song I Won't Survive



Usually I record loads of video and string it all together to try and encapsulate the whole festival experience, but alas this year I was unable to.

Still, The Just Joans are great aren't they.

Videos of Indietracks bands 2010 - part 1

There's only a few days left to buy earlybird tickets of Indietracks, earlybird tickets being slightly cheaper then regular tickets, and Indietracks being an indie music festival at a railway museum near Derby on the 23rd to 25th of July.

As with last year, I haven't seen or heard many of the bands playing at this year's Indietracks music festival. So, to help me, and you to chose which bands to check out, I'm putting together a list of all the bands and their videos from YouTube, trying to find three videos for each band.

Its going to take me ages, but, well, this is what I do.

Bands with videos on YouTube

'Allo, Darlin'




Ballboy




Betty and the Werewolves




The Just Joans




Mexican Kids at Home




MJ Hibbett and The Validators




Veronica Falls




Bands I haven't yet found videos for

Be Like Pablo
The Blanche Hudson Weekend
Boy Genius
Burning Hearts
The Callas
The Cannanes
Cineplexx
David Tattersall
The Felt Tips
Foxes!
The Give It Ups
The Hillfields
Jam on Bread
Internet Forever
La La Love You
Lime Chalks
Linda Guilala
Love is All
The Loves
The Middle Ones
The Millipedes
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Paisley and Charlie
The Pooh Sticks
The Primitives
Printed Circuit
Onward Chariots
Pale Sunday
Sarandon
Secret Shine
Shrag
The Smittens
The Specific Heats
Springfactory
Standard Fare
Stars of Aviation
Stars in Coma
The Sunny Street
This Many Boyfriends
Urbantramper
White Town
Winston Echo
Yokoko

Any better offers of videos cheerfully accepted, its going to take me ages to get all the bands.

Tied to the 00's #9

Way back in 2008, Glasgow indiepop legends The Just Joans played train-based indie music Festival Indietracks.

You don't want to know about how I used to know them up in Glasgow, its nothing like The Strawberry Switchblade story, but here's a shot of us chilling out in Derbyshire.

From left to right there's Dave Pope, Holly, some gentleman writing in my notebook, Kaite Pope, Fraser from The Just Joans, Anastacia So Tough So Cute and Chris Elkin from My Legendary Girlfriend, Dot to Dot, Bricolage, The Just Joans and many many more.

My videos from Indietracks

Aye, so the music festival highlight of my year is Indietracks, its like a load of DIY / indiepop bands playing a a Midlands railway museum. I may have few other dreams and ambitions, but going to Indietracks is pretty much my biggest concern.



I like videoing bands when I'm there, I pride myself on using a three year old cheap digital camera and free software to edit the video. It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to have videos online quickly and adequately, before people with more professional kit, and get higher viewing figures too. I have no formal training in film-making, but I harbour a suspicion that the experience I have in doing this sort of thing, is worth far more than spending thousands learning it at a college or uni.

For this year's Indietracks I have made and uploaded several videos, depending on how much time you have on your hands for watching music festival video clips.

• 1.5 minute whizz through
• 3 minute whizz through
• 7.5 minute summary
• Full length part 1 (10 minutes)
  
• Full length part 2 (8 minutes)
  
• The Smittens performing What Do We Do Now

The viewing figures for my videos from last year's Indietracks are as follows:-

• Indietracks 2008 in 1.5 minutes - 497 views
• Indietracks 2008 in 3 minutes - 775 views
• Indietracks 2008 in 7 minutes - 1,021 views

I kind of assumed that the shorter videos would be more popular, but nope, people who watch these videos like watching the longer ones.

I'm not sure how the copyright stands on recording bands playing live, if any bands have any issues with it, I'll remove all trace of their existance from my videos and any of my websites, no great loss.

List of videos of Indietracks 2009

This is going to be a list of Indietracks 2009 videos on YouTube, in performance order:-

Friday
Main stage
Rose Elinor Dougall - part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Rose Elinor Dougall - part 2 - Recorded by eolrindebara

Saturday
Main stage
Sucrette - part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Sucrette - part 2 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Fitness Forever - Vacanze a Settembre - Recorded by Seekatube
Fitness Forever - Monica - Recorded by Seekatube
Camera Obscura - Recorded by eolrindebara
La Casa Azul - Love is in the air - Recorded by Astrid Wiezell
La Casa Azul - Love is in the air - Recorded by BethW
La Casa Azul - part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
La Casa Azul - part 2 - Recorded by eolrindebara
La Casa Azul - Recorded by BethW

Indoor stage
Downdime - part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Downdime - part 2 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Friends - Recorded by eolrindebara
Mighty Mighty - Recorded by eolrindebara
Mighty Might - Built Like a Car - Recorded by MightyMightyC86
One Happy Island - Mothball - Recorded by Erkicman
Butcher Boy - Recorded by eolrindebara
Cats on Fire - part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Cats on Fire - part 2 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Cats on Fire - part 3 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Cats on Fire - Recorded by Follanegraz
Cats on Fire - Fabric - Recorded by Pop Til you Drop
Cats on Fire - I am the White-Mantled King - Recorded by Pop Til You Drop
Cats on Fire - Your Woman (White Town cover) - Recorded by Seekatube
Cats on Fire - Mesmer and Reason - Recorded by Follanegraz

Church stage
The Rocky Nest - Recorded by eolrindebara
Kevin McGrother - part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Kevin McGrother - part 2 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Kevin McGrother - part 3 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Kevin McGrother - part 4 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Kevin McGrother - part 5 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Kevin McGrother - part 6 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Kevin McGrother - part 7 - Recorded by eolrindebara

Trains
Lets Whisper - When you were eating ice cream - Recorded by Nick Vestberg
Lets Whisper - One Hundred Roses - Recorded by Rob Sterowski
Roy Moller - Ticket to Ride - Recorded by Cunard Yank
Roy Moller - Pretty Flamingo - Recorded by Cunard Yank
Roy Moller - Why Not Your Baby - Recorded by Cunnard Yank
Roy Moller - Six Degrees - Recorded by Cunanrd Yank
Roy Moller - Brother Love - Recorded by Cunnard Yank
Roy Moller - Goodnight Everyone - Recorded by Cunnard Yank
Roy Moller - Great Wall of China - Recorded by Cunnard Yank

Tents
How Does It Feel - recorded by HDIF
David Pope and Colin Clary - What Do We Do Now? - Recorded by Nick Vestberg
Indietracks 2009 - Recorded by Damo1177

Sunday
Main stage
Cola Jet Set - Recorded by eolrindebara
The School - Recorded by SimonLove
The School - Recorded by eolrindebara
The School - Valentine - Recorded by TheAlexH
Nick Garrie - Twilight - Recorded by TheAlexH
Lucky Soul - White Russian Doll and Up in Flames - Recorded by TheAlexH
Lucky Soul - Recorded by Seekatube
BMX Bandits - Recorded by eolrindebara
BMX Bandits - I wanna fall in Love - Recorded by TheAlexH
Stereo Total - Wir tanzen im 4-Eck - Recorded by Lars Frodo
Stereo Total - Recorded by Jacki Scene
Stereo Total - Recorded by Starshaped 1
Cooper - Recorded by Follanegraz
Cooper - i - Recorded by NeonPike
Cooper - ii - Recorded by NeonPike
Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee - Recorded by Follanegraz
Teenage Fanclub - Baby Lee - Recorded by TheAlexH
Teenage Fanclub - He'd be a Diamond and Neil Jung - Recorded by TheAlexH
Teenage Fanclub - Recorded by Follanegraz
Teenage Fanclub - Recorded by eolrindebara
Teenage Fanclub - Recorded by MillionsLikeUs

Indoor stage
Zipper - Part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Zipper - Part 2 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Zipper - Part 3 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Eux Autres - Part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Eux Autres - Part 2 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Eux Autres - Part 3 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Northern Portrait - part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Northern Portrait - part 3 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Northern Portrait - part 4 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Northern Portrait - i - Recorded by NeonPike
Northern Portrait - ii - Recorded by NeonPike
Northern Portrait - iii - Recorded by NeonPike
Northern Portrait - An Empty Hotel - Recorded by Seekatube
The Smittens - What Do We Do Now - Recorded by Chris Gilmour
The Smittens - Part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
The Smittens - part 2 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Pocketbooks - part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Pocketbooks - part 2 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Pocketbooks - part 3 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Pocketbooks - Cross the Line - Recorded by Seekatube
Disasteradio - i - Recorded by NeonPike
Disasteradio - ii - Recorded by NeonPike
Help Stamp Out Loneliness - Part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Help Stamp Out Loneliness - Part 2 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Art Brut - DC Comics make me want to rock out - Recorded by Nick Vestberg
Art Brut - Formed a Band - Recorded by Psycho Dave 0

Church Stage
The Understudies - Chip Pan Glam - Recorded by MellowDoubt2009
Helene - i - Recorded by NeonPike
Helene - ii - Recorded by NeonPike
Le man avec les lunettes - Lunch Boy - Recorded by MattB83
Le man avec les lunettes - Lunch Boy - Recorded by Seekatube
Le man avec les lunettes - The Dogsitter - Recorded by Seekatube
Le man avec les lunettes - Apple - Recorded by Seekatube
Countryside - i - Recorded by NeonPike
Countryside - ii - Recorded by NeonPike
Hong Kong in the 60s - Footsteps - Recorded by AnorakHighStreet
The Pete Green Corporate Juggernaut - Hey Dr Beeching - Recorded by Crystalball
Gordon McIntyre - I gave up my eyes - Recorded by TheAlexH
Gordon McIntyre - Part 1 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Gordon McIntyre - Part 2 - Recorded by eolrindebara
Gordon McIntyre - Part 3 - Recorded by eolrindebara

Dunno what day
Talulah Gosh - Beatnik Boy - recorded by HDIF
The Medusa Snare - Recorded by mganothernumber

Recorded over many days
Last Night From Glasgow Indie Eyespy - Part 1 - Recorded by Chris Gilmour
Last Night From Glasgow Indie Eyespy - Part 2 - Recorded by Chris Gilmour
Indietracks 2009 - Recorded by Sigmund Fridge

If there's any videos I've missed or song titles I dunno, feel free to leave a comment.

Videos of Indietracks bands

I've recently discovered that I haven't seen or heard many of the bands playing at this year's Indietracks music festival. So to help me chose which bands to check out, I'm putting together a list of all the bands and their videos from YouTube, trying to find three videos for each band.

Its going to take me ages, but could be quite rewarding.

Bands with videos on YouTube

Au Revoir Simone

• Sad Song
• Fallen Snow
• The Lucky One

BMX Bandits

• Do You Really Love me
• Wonderful World
• Witchi Tai To

Butcher Boy

• Could I be in love with anyone
• Girls Make Me Sick
• Fun

Camera Obscura

• French Navy
• Honey in the Sun
• Razzle Dazzle Rose

Cats On Fire

• Draw in the Reins
• Tears in your Cup
• Astray

Cola Jet Set

• Quiereme
• Al Amanecer
• El Sueño de mi vida

Disasteradio

• Hotline
• Stairdancer
• International Deviance

Emmy The Great

• First Love
• City Song
• Easter Parade

Gordon McIntyre

• I am an Indie Pirate and will Scuttle Ye
• I lost you but I found country music
• Donald in the Bushes with a Bag of Glue

Le Man Avec Les Lunettes

• Aging Again
• Wimbledon
• A Summer Song

Let's Whisper

• When You Were Eating Ice Cream
• Hey Sunshine
• In the Early Morning (?)

Little My

• Sellotape my Hands
• All but the beeps meep
• Aviator Instigator

The Lovely Eggs

• Have you ever heard a digital accordian
• I like birds but I like other animals too
• Oh The Stars

Loyal Trooper

• Okay at Best
• The Doctor
• The Outdoor Type

Lucky Soul

• Lips are Unhappy
• Add your light to Mine, Baby
• Killing Moon

The Manhattan Love Suicides

• Clusterf*ck
• Keep it Coming
• Never Far From You

MJ Hibbett

• Dinosaur Planet
• The Gay Train
• Regardez, Ecoutez et Repetez

Pocketbooks

• Cross the Line
• Falling Leaves
• I'm not going out

The Rocky Nest

• Wait for Snow
• Tom Pitkins
• Lenny Does a Good Deed

Rose Elinor Dougall

• Start/Stop/Synchro
• Another Version of Pop Song
• Carry On

Roy Moller

• Falling and Laughing
• Great Wall of China
• Can't Help Falling in Time

The School

• All I Wanna Do
• Let It Slip
• I want you Back

The Smittens

• Gumdrops
• One Hundred Roses
• What do we do now

Speedmarket Avenue

• Way Better Now
• Don't Fall in Love
• Enlightened and left-wing indeed

Stereo Total

• Musicque Automatique
• Touche Moi
• I Love You, Ono

Teenage Fanclub

• Everything Flows
• Sparky's Dream
• Please Stay

Wake The President

• Remember Fun
• Miss Tierney
• You Can't Change That Boy

Bands I haven't found videos for

Alaska
Art Brut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvA0UBesfbY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBTjkPzaUyc
Bonne Idée
http://blogg.svt.se/psl/2009/02/06/musik-med-bonne-idee/
Cooper
Countryside
Downdime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcyJAKP9u_4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFTia8F1AHw
Eux Autres
Fitness Forever
Bacharach
The Frank And Walters
Friends
Helene
Help Stamp Out Loneliness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAopjt7pkqo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W8kzcRqCm8
Hong Kong In The 60s
Kevin McGrother
King Of Cats
Labrador
La Casa Azul
The Marshmallow Kisses
Mighty Mighty
Modular
Moustache Of Insanity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2tYpT3mf9Q
Nick Garrie
Northern Portrait
One Happy Island
The Pete Green Corporate Juggernaut
Inbetweener
Poppy And Friends
Ray Rumours and the No-Eyed Dears
Mr Bear
The Specific Heats
Ste McCabe
Sucrette
Tender Trap
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK7XzRXa-8k
The Understudies
Zipper

Any better offers of videos cheerfully accepted, its going to take me ages to get all the bands.

Indietracks lineup

They've announced the final bands for Indietracks, and done a schedule, so I've rejigged it so you can figure who's on which stage a bit more easily and colour-coded which bands I've seen before so I can figure out where I want to be at any time.


And here's a new slightly more handy version.

Votietracks

Interesting discussion over on Anorak about voting for Indietracks in the UK Festival Awards.

"We loved your music festival, but don't want you to win any awards for it."

Its kind of like a kick in the balls.

Ooh, at the weekend there, I was reading the Sunday Telegraph and dozing whilst the wean watched Peppa Pig. There was this review of some album/gig in The Review section, they were reviewing Glasvegas, who almost had a number one album the other week, it seems they're doing remarkably well.

I'm not quite sure what they sound like, I only know them by name cos a few years back in maybe 2004, just after we'd released The Plimptons's debut single, Could I Be Loved, we got on Radio Scotland's 'demo' competition, where people had to vote on the BBC website for which song the liked best, ours or whatever Glasvegas were offering.

On the site, after you voted it showed you what the split of the votes, were, not how many, just the split. So if you voted once, and saw it was 50:50 and then ran to another computer and voted again, and it turned to 33:67 you could reasonably guess there had been only three votes.

And if you ran round and voted on 10 computers in the office and the proportions had then gone to 40:60, then someone else must have voted for the other band seven more times to your twelve.

If you deleted the cookie, you could even vote again on the same computer. But that would be cheating.

So I asked around and spammed the internet. It would have been nice to win the votey thing, and get the track played once or twice on Radio Scotland. Some friends voted, some didn't. Some hadn't heard the song but wanted to do something nice for me, and some people had heard the song and didn't like it so they didn't vote, regardless of whether I wanted to win.

After a day or two, and sampling by voting a few times, and doing calculations, there were only a hundred or so votes for each track. Glasvegas had 55% of the vote, Plimps had 45%.

Then it went up to 65:35, then 70:30 in an hour or so. Do the sums, someone was recording multiple votes.

Time passed and it accelerated, so that it was a few of the Plimp army registering hundreds of votes and a similar number of the Glasvegas army doing likewise.

By the end of it, the mighty Plimp won, with I guess 4,000 votes and Glasvegas lost with about 3,500 votes.

We really wanted to win and get our track played on Radio Scotland, so thats what we did. Glasvegas, they went on to have an album that narrowly missed the number one spot the other week.

And the friends who didn't vote because the didn't like the track or the band, their vote or non-vote made fuck all difference to winning the vote, but the sentiment I asked for a favour which would have cost nothing and they refused, that I carry that with me.

Hmm, that's not quite what I was trying to convey when I started writing this.

Has the moment passed? No, I can still convey it.

I liked Indietracks. I liked it cos of the music, the bands, the people, the trains, how everyone was from a band, a promoter, a fanzine, a website, a friend, someone stood nearby at a gig and all of that. Thats what Indietracks was to me, and I liked it.

And if the chap who ran Indietracks it wants to win an award for his labours then regardless of what I think of the award itself ("Anyone can dish out meaningless awards") then I will vote for that festival.

Thats just me , my bitterness and my sense of loyalty though.

Really short

Got Indietracks into 1:40 minutes

What do I win?

Photies

Photies from Indietracks now online here with all tags and stuff

http://flickr.com/photos/manc_ill_kid/sets/72157606413707338/
Feel free to leave comments, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy.

Rather looking forward to writing up the most vitriolic rant I can muster about Sunday night's festivities.

Yesterday's favourite search to find this blog on google
'girls shitting diaries'

I was going to try to video loads of Indietracks and then edit it down to a thirty second documentary thing, cos thats just how cool I am.

But its going to take ages, so here's all the raw footage.

Raw footage from Indietracks from Chris Gilmour on Vimeo.
I think its possible to rip the video from Vimeo in order to edit it yourself, if you happen to have any footage of the same music festival.

Hmm, actually there's so weird voice-overs and me perving over people's shoulders. Its pretty cringeworthy

Track back

Just back from Indietracks, to find someone has broken the lock on my bedroom door, nazi flatmate I reckon.

I think I have to go into work this afternoon, uploading all my band photies will have to wait I guess.

Have a little bit of sunburn, the scars on my arm have come up a treat, looks like it could be a long-sleeved summer

Tracks

Eeep, Indietracks have posted the essay I wrote about my experiences at the festival last year.



Have a read, its thrilling stuff, especially the bit about the knife fight I had with Sharon from the Gresham Flyers on the top of a speeding steam train. I would have won too if it wasn't for that low tunnel.

Failed attempt at being.

Its mostly guilt that brings me to Barden's Boudoir tonight. Sure I could claim to be a big fan of Arthur and Martha, but that would be doing a great disservice to Sharon from The Gresham Flyers who spent the best part of an hour working on me last weekend.

Since I've known half the people in the room for half a decade, but save the merest glimmer of recognition from the girl on the door, it counts for nothing. What I get, I have to get myself, like my damned fool plan to have one of the most popular political blogs in the UK, on a whim, because I can.

My car's parked just down the way, this is my first time in Stoke Newington, well, the first conscious time. A mob of locals came yahooing down the street as I locked my car, I swear one was packing heat. I'm only quite sure I'm not some kind of split personality serial killer, avenging some half-imagined crimes of the past, but sometimes I wake up in strange placed covered in blood that isn't my own.

Arthur and Martha on stage, halfway through AutoVia, my favourite song of their's, alas it the final song of the set. 'Arthur' seemed to be rocking out a little more than usual.

Summer festival appearances should be good.

I don't know if I was actively trying, maybe it was just going through the motions, I stood at the front, as near to the speakers as possible without people thinking 'he's standing as close to the speakers as possible', but I didn't hear any of the second band, save the blistering shards of an epic guitar solo and people clapping. Instead, I was in another place.

It was like in geography class or some MRPII meeting, slipping out of consciousness. Faces of girls I'd loved and any tenuous connection they had with the band before me. Memories of seeing them there or photos of the scene, glimpses like from a passing car, from too far away or the wrong side of the room. The stabbing shards of seperation, of missing something very important, of helplessness, of fate and damned bad luck.

Even in my slipping out of lucidity, I knew something was wrong and sought to guide my stream elsewhere to Manchester and Bolton and married life, anything away from the hell I occupied.

But it didn't quite work, the stabbing shafts of reality and it all comes back to east London cutting through. The here and now, crushing on what once was, or what I remember of it.

Even the reaffirming terrible truth that what I remember isn't the same as what actually happened.

The memories are wrong, incorrect, I know that for certain. But they are still the memories in my head, crystal clear, as though it was yesterday, last week, last year or a decade ago. The memories, soured by the truth.

Where the hell are the toilets in here?

I think I saw Das Wanderlust at Indietracks, but I can't for the life of me remember what they sounded like, and it would be unfair to judge them on tonight's performance considering it was mostly "imagine that last song sounded great" on the grounds that the singing girl had lost her voice, and the one song where DJ Waz played the 7" and the mimed along.

There were people behind me who wouldn't stop talking.

If asked what did I think of the evening, in an imaginary conversation with some vague acquaintance who happened to ask, I think in order to improve my quality of life I should have gone to the My Sad Captains single launch instead. I can barely control what goes on in my head, providing rope to hang myself was never going to be good and a better tunes would have been nicer.

Maybe that's unfair.

I think I've made many bad life decisions. I can't quite pin-point any of them, where or when.

Except climbing out of an eleventh floor window in 1997 and deciding to climb back in.


The oddest thing, after the bands I slouched out of the venue to scribble notes in my car, and as I drove away, I wanted to kill myself even more.