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Northern Ireland is back again for SXSW 2013 with a great new shocase of Northern Irish bands for your listening pleasure. Show your badge to get in.……

Northern Ireland is back again for SXSW 2013 with a great new shocase of Northern Irish bands for your listening pleasure. Show your badge to get in.……

Presented by: BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens & UKT&I (Badges and Wristbands Only)

Y Niwl is a surf instrumental band[1] from North Wales, formed in 2009. Its members are Alun Evans (guitar), Llyr Pari (drums), Sion Glyn (bass) and Gruff ab Arwel (organ and guitar). The band's name is pronounced Uh Nul…

Presented by: BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens & UKT&I (Badges and Wristbands Only)

“Gentle, folky, confidential tone, undershot by a coolness of intelligence and self possession” 4/5 The Daily Telegraph (Pop CD of the Week) “A bewitching one-off talent” Daily Star “Dark-hearted pop songs that striv…

Presented by: BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens & UKT&I (Badges and Wristbands Only)

"The mathy skronk of Battles, Foals’ wounded hearts and The xx’s sense of space, all tempered by a freeness of mind that only comes from breathing a dose of sea air each morning" NME “Everything Touching is an album t…

Presented by: BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens & UKT&I (Badges and Wristbands Only)

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Presented by: BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens & UKT&I (Badges and Wristbands Only)

Willy Moon doesn’t like to waste time. His debut album, Here’s Willy Moon, is less than 29 minutes long. Only one of its 12 songs lasts more than three minutes and not a single note is squandered. No bets were hedged dur…

Presented by: BBC Radio 1's Huw Stephens & UKT&I (Badges and Wristbands Only)

Bastille have moved away from the common output being churned out by indie bands to create pop songs that are absorbing and genre defining without ever being formulaic. The origins of Bastille lie in the creative mind of…

Presented by: Creative Scotland & PPL

Holy Esque are a 4 piece from Glasgow. After forming in March 2011 and posting a few demos online, word spread rapidly about the enigmatic band's intense sonic morass of distortion and atmospheric soundscapes, landing th…

Presented by: Creative Scotland & PPL

PAWS live in Glasgow, with members respectively from Tain (Highlands of Scotland), Edinburgh, and Glasgow. The band is made up of Philip, Joshua and Matthew. Phillip first met Joshua at their high school in Tain, and …

Presented by: Creative Scotland & PPL

We’re from Scotland, we sound like this: http://soundcloud.com/tangointheattic We look like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoNcHSWInxk We socially network here and occasionally here: http://www.facebook.co…

Presented by: Creative Scotland & PPL

Kassidy are made up of Barrie-James O'Neill, Chris Potter, Hamish Fingland and Lewis Andrew and formed in summer 2008. The four members came together through house parties that took place in Hamish's flat in Glasgow wher…

Presented by: Creative Scotland & PPL

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Presented by: Rockfeedback/Transgressive & AIM

There’s a violence to the countryside, encapsulated in the sumptuous prose of D.H Lawrence’s in which metaphors engorge and heighten into states of pure ecstasy. A fantastic and virulent strain of writing which, thanks t…

Presented by: Rockfeedback/Transgressive & AIM

Writer-producer-vocalist WALL appeared on the scene at the end of last summer with her debut single 'Magazine', which proved a triumph for both artist and newly formed BCS Records. Finding themselves championed on blogs …

Presented by: Rockfeedback/Transgressive & AIM

Lionel Williams (aka Vinyl Williams) is a Los Angeles based artist and musician. His collage art & psyche-pop music fuses vast landscapes, multi-religious symbolism, and the supernatural into a paradoxical whirlpool of "…

Presented by: Rockfeedback/Transgressive & AIM

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Presented by: Rockfeedback/Transgressive & AIM

NO CEREMONY/// are an electronic three-piece from Manchester, UK. Their idiosyncratic sound, typified by chiming pianos, distorted synths and pounding kick drums, deftly explores the musical space between euphoric wa…

Presented by: Rockfeedback/Transgressive & AIM

‘Harley Streten has produced an LP that’s scarily close to perfect. Streten’s achieved something rare here: music with mass appeal, but with nothing derivative or by-numbers about it.’ 4.5 stars, Rolling Stone “Flume’s…

Presented by: Kilimanjaro & PRS For Music

“Good music”, says Luke Sital-Singh, “should lock your feet and jaw to the floor”. On the evidence of the four beautifully crafted tracks that have emerged so far, such a feat should not be a problem for the hotly-tipped…

Presented by: Kilimanjaro & PRS For Music

'ACES stunned me. The instrumental introduction made me think of the Black Keys ... then in came the vocals reminiscent of Brandon Flowers. Dare I say it, this sounds like a commercial single.' Paul Gambaccini 'Soun…

Presented by: Kilimanjaro & PRS For Music

In July of last year China Rats, an unheard of band from Leeds in the UK, were booked to play the tiny Villa Camp stage at massive European festival BENICASSIM the night before the start of the main festival. The result …

Presented by: Kilimanjaro & PRS For Music

The Crookes consist of George Waite, Daniel Hopewell, Russell Bates and Tom Dakin. The Sheffield-based newpop dreamers have announced their umpteenth tour of a sizzingly busy career. The past three years have seen them …

Presented by: Kilimanjaro & PRS For Music

Born in Bristol UK, Jamie N Commons moved to Chicago with his family when he was six and it was there that he developed a deep love for the American music. The first gig his father took him to was the Allman Brothers:…

Presented by: Kilimanjaro & PRS For Music

Kerrang! say they’re “one gloriously deranged cacophony”. Rock Sound say they’re “a schizophrenic force to be reckoned with“. They say they can never die. Hailing from small towns but making big sounds, Blitz Kids have p…

Presented by: NME & The BPI

RDGLDGRN (pronounced red gold green) have already distinguished themselves in the DC music scene. Their highly stylized sound (that Go Go drum beat- a distinct DC rhythm) takes hip-hop infused punk and indie rock to crea…

Presented by: NME & The BPI

Eagulls music draws from the palette of genres such as early punk through to post punk and shoegaze all the while sitting comfortably in non of the afore mentioned. Whilst still a relatively new band in both the dura…

Presented by: NME & The BPI

TOY is a Korg Delta led five-piece formed in 2010. It consists of Tom Dougall (Vox/Guitars), Dominic O’Dair (Guitars), Maxim Barron (Bass/Vox), Alejandra Diez (Synthesizers/Modulation) and Charlie Salvidge (Drums/Vox). T…

Presented by: NME & The BPI

Hailing from Birmingham, Peace are a young four-piece pointing the way for a new generation of British guitar bands. Their debut release, EP Delicious, has a sense of adventure and playfulness that led it to enter the UK…

Presented by: NME & The BPI

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Presented by: NME & The BPI

For The Orwells, Remember When will be an introduction of sorts—the 12-track rat-race shows the band’s repertoire of pranging riffs and sneering, snot-nosed vocals. The tracks are a walloping war-cry from a generation th…