Sweeping The Nation

Past Events

Sun 28th March, 2010

Sweeping The Nation Presents... Meursault

Sweeping The Nation Presents... Meursault

8pm @ Firebug

Edinburgh's Meursault match impassioned celidh-informed Scottish folk to an awkward electronic sheen, capable of lovelorn poetry or howling against the world. Touring ahead of their second album in .. Read More »

Thu 4th March, 2010

Sweeping The Nation Presents... The Indelicates

Sweeping The Nation Presents... The Indelicates

8pm @ Firebug

What is there to say about The Indelicates? Well, there's that the scabrously intelligent Sussex-based indiepop-folk collective, led by Simon and Julia Indelicate, are a favourite band of Neil Gaima.. Read More »

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Playlist additions 31/7/10

Sat 31st July, 2010

Britta Persson - Meet A Bear [Myspace] [YouTube]
Britta Persson, bitter person? No. Another Stockholm friend of Camera Obscura's, the well fringed Persson makes music that's big (but not crowded) on sonic possibility but learns to admire the little things and the small ideals. Seems she can even play with the concept of time and motion.

Eels - Spectacular Girl [Read More »

Wow factor

Thu 29th July, 2010

We write about and talk up a lot of new bands on here, but such is the way of modern music and its easy availability and eagerness to please that those that sound genuinely fresh and difficult to pigeonhole... well, they deserve their own post. The suddenly getting big in blogland six months after we first featured them (but as part of chillwave? Pah!) Under Alien Skies got one, The Second Hand Marching Band (playing a very special show in Glasgo..

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Tracks record

Tue 27th July, 2010

Hello there. Back from a fine weekend among like minded people amid the glorious infrastructure of Indietracks. Having got ten hours and less than halfway through the grand review we realised we were giving ourselves a potential aneurysm for nothing, so fuck that. Here are the bits we really want to mention, though, in chronological order:

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