The 405 team was out in force for The Great Escape this year, so rather than bringing you a band-by-band account of our time in Brighton, our editors/writers have chosen their five favourite bands from the event. Who came out on top? Read on to find out... Photos by Tim Boddy James Canham Swords">Forest Swords - Tim and myself arrived partway through Swords">Forest Swords set (they started at the same time AlunaGeorge finished) to a stunned and mostly silent crowd. The two of them on stage (one at the mic, laptop and electronics and another on the bass ...

Today we introduce a new band that press Breaking More Waves buttons, tick all of our boxes and massage our ears in exactly the right way. They’re called Churches and consist of Iain Cook, Lauren Mayberry and Martin Doherty from Glasgow. All members of the trio have past or present histories with other bands, namely Aerogramme, The Unwinding Hours, Blue Sky Archives and The Twilight Sad but Churches sound nothing like any of those bands. Instead their debut track Lies is a rampantly banging electropop track. It’s the audio equivalent of up-on-the-benches sex with a horny lab technician ...

For a few years a scene has been bubbling away in Scotland. Folk songs ring from the valleys as the likes of Broken Records and The Twilight Sad dash around the UK with wind instruments and unworldly lyrics. Admiral Fallow are the latest to this gang, although they have already received niche success with their debut album. Now they’re embarking on a smaller tour – a warm up to the release of ‘Tree Bursts in Snow’. Packing onto the small Harley stage the room is littered with a selection of unusual instruments, creating a strange mix of woodwind and electric ...

Welcome to May 2012. Welcome to a world where we’ve just lost Maurice Sendak, where Barack Obama has voiced his support for marriage equality and where most magic of all, the Xcerts have just been announced as support for Guns’n’Roses. With all this in mind, here is the pick of the pack for the upcoming month and a bit…. + Fresh from celebrating their 5th birthday, Cry Parrot have assembled the stellar line-up of James Ferraro and Heatsick to entertain the masses on the 17th June at the Berkeley Suite. Come along and witness the live work of ...

Bowerbirds - Cargo // 7th May 2012 Watching a band that have released one of the best albums of 2012 in a small venue on a bank holiday is up there as one of my favourite things to do. Come join me. Click here for more info/tickets, and head here for more info on Bowerbirds. Other Gigs 08/05/12 : Yacht - XOYO // [Tickets/Info] 09/05/12 : Friends - Scala // [Tickets/Info] 09/05/12 : Cloud Nothings - Cargo // [Tickets/Info] 09/05/12 : Dj Jazzy Jeff - Jazz Cafe // [Tickets/Info] 09/05/12 : Grimes - XOYO // [Tickets/Info] Gigs chosen by Oliver Primus ...

WHAT: Up to 15,000 people, 300 bands, 30 venues WHY: It's become a one-stop shop for big names with something to prove to themselves, up and coming acts getting set for big summers and the little men fighting their corner WHEN: 10th-12th May WHERE: Across Brighton WHO: THURSDAY: Maximo Park, Friends, Niki & The Dove, Jonquil, Toy, Mystery Jets, Eugene McGuinness, Zulu Winter, Django Django, Willy Mason, Cloud Nothings, Fever Fever, Deaf Club, Jamie N Commons, Bastille, Ben Kweller, Francois & The Atlas Mountains, White Arrows, Weird Dreams, Gross Magic, Cut Ribbons, Shabazz Palaces, Sunless 97, Gemma Hayes, Tribes, Gaz ...

I don't often agreed with UK blogmasters Drowned In Sound in recent months (although I seem to be one in the vast minority that thinks the new Chromatics albums is so overrated that it has disappeared up its own arsehole, so that could also be my problem haha!). But sometimes we are in sync, such as our mutual love for Errors' new album ( goddamn that is a great record ...). Then I got sent this EP by new skids on the Glasgow block Holy Esque - and it seems that the DiS crew and I aren't so disparate after all ...

WHAT : +(PLUS) Fest WHEN : May 4 WHERE : Austin, Chicago, Las Vegas, Boston, Chapel Hill, Columbia, New York, Miami, and Washington, DC WHO : Danny Brown, Kendrick Lamar, MSTRKRFT, Freedia">Big Freedia, Rob Garza (Thievery Corporation), the Hood Internet, more WHAT : The Great Escape Festival WHEN : May 10-12 WHERE : Brighton, England  WHO : Shabazz Palaces, Perfume Genius, Grimes, Cloud Nothings, Alabama Shakes, Willis Earl Beal, Kwes, Com Truise, YACHT, the Twilight Sad, Bass Drum of Death, Django Django, Ben Kweller, Porcelain Raft, Gang Colours, Stay+, Shelly in Athens">Keep Shelly in Athens, Milagres, Willy Mason, Pond, Jam City, more WHAT : Los Lobos Festival ...

I'm out of lame jokes or excuses as to why I'm still doing this shit in late Spring, practically the middle of the year - it's beyond me. But I'll tell ye one thing that might be relevant: I clearly remember Mr Landers standing over my shoulder in third class, watching me blunderingly try to lace a football boot, and him saying "why must you do everything arseways?". #15 Future Islands - On the Water On the Water  isn't typical of the sort of stuff I mostly listened to last year but, while listening to the review ...

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Hopefully you'll recall this review of The Twilight Sad gig from a few months back.  It still is the best gig of 2012 so far. I'm just wondering if me being the old bloke down the front of an old fashioned hall dancing away frantically all through the set gave someone an idea cos here's the newest promo video:-   Just thinking...that could be me and Aldo in 20 years. Still going along once a week to check out the local talent.... Here's a great old Twilight Sad single and b-side:- mp3 : The Twilight Sad - Seven ...

La band sarà il 21 Aprile @ Auditorium Flog (Firenze), 22 @ Loft Coffee… Twilight Sad in Italia pubblicato su Indie For BUNNIES

Genre: Alternative/Indie/Rock Country: UK Tracklist 01. Another Bed 02. A Million Ignorants MySpace [mp3 320kbps] rg df mc

The Twilight Sad have released a video for their song "Dead City" from the band's ablum "No One Can Ever Know". You can view the video below: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wi5iyxGsIQ[/youtube] They Twilight Sad are also playing the following dates: May 10 Kazimier Liverpool May 11 Coalition Brighton May 12 Waterfront Studio Norwich June 02 Long Division Festival @The Hop Wakefield Aug 17 Drowned In Sound Stage @Summer Sundae Leicester Dec 15 Barrowland Ballroom Glasgow You can find out about tickets at the band's website  Read more..

This macabre video follows a video store clerk during his daily grind and disturbing after-hours activities and exposes the anomie at his core.