Sunday’s Line Up

Aeroplane Djs

Alabama 3:
Rock/Blues
Essential Album: Exile on Coldharbour Lane
Meg says; Best known by most for the Sopranos theme tune. Shockingly, not actually from Alabama, the frauds.

Amadou And Mariam:
African/Blues/Jazz
Essential Album: Welcome to Mali
Meg says; Just like Rodrigo Y Gabriela, except they’re from Mali and sound completely different.

Amorphous Androgynous

Arveene & Misk

Basement Jaxx:
House Music
Essential Album: Rooty
Meg says; Used to be a poor mans Chemical Brothers, it’s long since swapped around though.

Bell Orchestre:
Instrumental/Post Rock
Essential Album: As Seen Through Windows
Meg says; Some members are also with Arcade Fire so if you like them…

Bell X1:
Indie/Rock
Essential Album: Flock
Meg says; Aslan for the Twenty First Century? You decide! Or don’t.

Blitzen Trapper:
Experimental Folk/Indie
Essential Album: Wild Mountain Nation
Meg says: Two of the bands members are called Eric, but nothing funny has ever happened as a result of this.

Damien Dempsey:
Folk
Essestial Album: Seize The Day
Meg says; ‘More Dublin-y than the Dubliners’ is his slogan…or at least it should be.

Dublin Gospel Choir:
Gospel
Essential Album: Even Better Than The Real Thing (Vol 2)
Meg says; Have been called the Slipknot of the gospel choir world….by me…just there.

Duke Dumont

Ebony Bones

Echo And The Bunnymen:
Post Punk
Essential Album: Porcupine
Meg says; Not actually ‘bunny’ men. No one called Echo in the band either. So they’re liars, basically.

Erol Alkan:
Dance/Mash Up
Essential Album: A Bugged In Selection with Erol Alkan
Meg says; Vying with 2 Many DJs for ‘King of Mash-Up’ title.

Fionn Regan:
Folk/Rock
Essential Album: The End of History
Meg says; Will be road-testing material for his forthcoming album

Flaming Lips:
Alternative/Experimental
Essential Album: At War With The Mystics
Meg says; Known for their spectacular live shows, should be a highlight.

Fleet Foxes:
Indie/Baroque
Essential Album: Sun Giant
Meg says; Originally called Pineapple, which just isn’t half as cool.

Florence And The Machine:
Indie/Alternative
Essential Album: Lungs
Meg says; Either the best or most over-hyped band of 2009 depending on who you listen to.

Halfset:
Experimental/Indie
Essential Album: Another Way of Being There
Meg says; Another Irish band, were on the latest series of Songs in a Room.

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Introducing

Laura Izibor:
R&B/Soul
Essential Album: Let The Truth Be Told
Meg says; Moved to Atlantic Records to work with her mentor, Steve Lunt. That’s a funny name.

Micachu And The Shapes:
Alternative/Pop
Essential Album: Jewellery
Meg says; 20 year old London girl who looks like Robert Smith and occasionally plays homemade instruments. I know someone who has a pet rabbit that looks like Robert Smith.

Mick Flannery:
Folk
Essential Album: White Lies
Meg says; Watch out for his guitar playing, he’s left handed so he plays it upside-down. That’s if you’re interested in that kind of stuff. You sad bastard.

Nightmares On Wax Soundsystem:
Electronic/TripHop
Essential Album: Mind Elevation
Meg says; Been on the go for 20 years now, so knows how to get a festival crowd going.

Okkervil River:
Indie/Folk
Essential Album: The Stand-Ins
Meg says: Take their name from a short story by Tatyana Tolstaya, who lives in Lenigrad. Leningrad was the setting for a major action sequence in James Bond film ‘Goldeneye’. Pierce Brosnan played Bond in Goldeneye. Bronson also starred in ‘After The Sunset’ with Chris Penn. Penn’s brother is Sean. Sean Penn was in ‘Mystic River’ with Kevin Bacon.

Our Fold

Passion Pit

Quantic And His Combo Barbaro:
Funk/Salsa
Essential Album: Tradition in Translation
Meg says; Latest band formed by William Holland, a English-born, Columbia based composer.

Royksopp:
Electronic/House
Essential Album: The Understanding
Meg says; Popular Norwegian duo, from Tromso, which is also the home of Dr Carleton Gajdusek who won a Nobel Prize for work on Prion diseases. What an interesting fact you now have at your disposal.

Simian Mobile Disco Live:
Tech/Electro
Essential Album: Temporary Pleasure
Meg says; Production duo who have seemingly worked with every decent band in the world over the last few years

Skream And Benga:
Dubstep
Essential Album: Skream
Meg says; Two of the best known names in the Dubstep scene, doubling up for the festival season.

Switch

The Acorn:
Indie/Folk
Essential Album: Glory Hope Mountain
Meg says; Big in Canada, isn’t the greatest recommendation. Supported Elbow is better.

The Big Pink:
Electro/Rock
Essential Album: A Brief History of Love
Meg says; Their debut album is released a week after E.P. If there is any justice in the world it will be big.

The Sugarhill Gang:
Rap/HipHop
Essential Album: Sugerhill Gang
Meg says; The first Rap group to enjoy mainstream Success. Have been touring constantly since reforming 10 years ago.

The Wailers:
Reggae
Essential Album: One Love: The Best of..
Meg says; Unless things take a really surreal turn they won’t be joined by Bob Marley on stage. Will still be a good run through of a lot of familiar songs.

Two Door Cinema Club:
Electro Pop
Essential Album: Four Words To Stand On
Meg says; Upcoming three-piece from Bangor. Already have Glastonbury and V festival under their belts this summer.

Transmission Djs

Villagers:
Indie/Pop
Essential Album: Hollow Kind
Meg says; From the man who brought you The Immediate. Still, it would have been nice if The Villagers were actually a collection of people from Stradbally itself. Doing, you know, Village-y stuff.

Zombie Nation:
Electro/House
Essential Album: Black Toys
Meg says; An ideal opportunity to say ‘That’s banging’ in a loud fake-English accent. If you like that sort of thing. Which I do.