Camden Crawl 2009 – news!

Texas is so far away, especially when you’re here. And especially more so when it’s holding the most wondruous musical festival in the world evah, namely SXSW. They wish we could be there too, we’re sure. But fret not, it’s ok! Because our very own Camden Crawl is almost upon us. Maybe with a smidgeon more skinny jeans, dirty blondes, tees-adorned-with-unfunny-slogans and Hadouken!-botherers in a square mile than anywhere else on earth, it’s a small price for being a banana’s throw away from a multitude of acts performing on stages smaller than your average.

Last year was great for a number of reasons: we saw Wild Beasts in a tiny little pub, cottoned on to Official Secrets Act (album review here) before the masses, immersed ourselves in Los Campesinos!‘ thesaurical joy, went all grime (bruv) at a Toddla T rave-up and then straight after that headed down the road for a snippet of Future Of The Left. Hell, we even tried our hands at the Crystal Castles phenomenon, just because we could.

Enough nostalgia, what’s happening this year? Well, said Crawl is happening on the streets of Camden on April 24 and 25 – that’s a Friday and Saturday for those without a calendar-mind. Announced artists so far include It Hugs Back, Idlewild, VV Brown, Brakes, Frankmusik and Three Trapped Tigers. And even more recently confirmed set-to-players incorporate an epoch-spanning array including Echo and The Bunnymen, Filthy Dukes, Billy Bragg and the Golden Silvers. More name-dropping your thing? Try Muso’s Guide favourites Man Like Me, Marina and the Diamonds, KASMs, The Joy Formidable and Lion Club. For more information, go to the Crawl’s Man Like Me, Marina and the Diamonds, KASMs, The Joy Formidable and Lion Club. For more information, go to the Crawl’s website. And buy your tickets via Muso’s Guide from here.