Indietracks - Day 2

Day 2 (Sunday, July 27th) of Indietracks started with waking up early in the tent because it was so HOT out! Hurray - a beautiful rain-free day. Becky has this great 2-bedroom tent which was fantastic but we got the campground without showers so it will be a greasy, sweaty, showerless day at the festival.

Red Pony Clock didn't have a tent so they slept outside ours... they were a bit chilly in the early hours but I think they made it okay.



First band of the day - The Colliding Lemons - a 5-piece girl band from Bristol


Next was our first and only band on the train. Its acoustic Winston Echo (aka Chris and his buddy Rob). The train was HOT but we had a blast!!



Back to the main stage for Brontosaurus Chorus an 8-member London band.


And back to the Chapel stage for The Good Natured with electroacoustic disco beats hailing from Newbury.


This is when the schedule gets all messed up and all the bands and times and stages are switched around... I think this is Mai 68s from Leicester.



The Candy Twins (sorry the cowboy drummer got cut out of the pic!)


A Classic Education - made up of mostly Italians!


Mono Taxi hails from London but is an Anglo-French combo.


The Foster Kids are from Norwich and were fantastic!


KateGoes is from Birmingham and they are completely mad and they come up with a theme for every performance. This is Kate Goes to the Stoneage.


Followed by madness with the balloons...


The Occasional Flickers came all the way from the Greek indiepop scene!


Burlington, Vermont's 'The Smittens' with David, Max, Dana & Colin (Holly the keyboardist is way on the left!) Mike's played with them a few times in the States and we saw them in Birmingham on Tuesday too.


The Wave Pictures (current London residents) played some songs Becky & Sam had actually heard of before!


Glascow band - The Starlets


My photography skills are getting worse - this is Manhattan Love Suicide - one of the main bands Mike came to see at the festival. They played an extremely short set and quickly exited.


The Deidres - 7 oddballs from Derby.


American John from Amida. Amida is from Manchester but I saw them play in Birmingham and us Americans stick together!



Darren Hanlon (of Sydney) & Colin (of the Vermont-based Smittens) playing in the acoustic tent. It was so nice and shady in there and we were all sitting on cushions on the grass...




The Roadside Poppies' Martin & Matloob with our friend Sanjeep who met Matloob last week at the Rip it Up indiepop festival in Sweden - crazy!



Jen & Colin


Peter Dale of Milky Whimpshake - amazing! I wish I had gotten here early to see his solo act this morning on the train. The band is from Newcastle and was a great surprise favorite for me especially their song 'I want to be scene in public with you.'


Ian & Jen - saying our goodbyes until the next show.


Mike & I left at 7pm to head back to Birmingham since we had work in the morning. We wish we could've stayed for another 3+ hours and checked out Ballboy, the Retro Spankees and headliners Los Campesinos! But we had a great weekend and got home in time to watch Carlos Sastre from team CSC win the Tour de France!