Indietracks Special – 6 Bands You Shouldn’t Miss

So welcome to our Indietracks special, for the next week or so this blog is going to become all Indietracks, all the time in honour of Derbyshire’s finest Indie-Pop at a Train Museum Festival (please do let me know if there’s a better one!)

So kicking off proceedings we thought we’d bring you our pick-of-the-pops (Tony Blackburn reference entirely intentional) and talk you through some of our most anticipated, and completely unmissable acts.

As a slight caveat, we’ve avoided all the headliners because it’s pretty obvious that you should watch Hidden Cameras, Allo Darlin’ and Gruff Rhys right? We’ve also decided for the sake of not repeating ourselves not to mention Nat Johnson or Nightflowers as we’ve talked about them recently, so we can but assume that you’re not stupid enough to miss either of those two!

We were going to make this a classic top five list but couldn’t decide between two of them so without further ado here’s our list of 6 Band You Shouldn’t Miss at Indietracks this weekend.

LINDA GUILALA (Saturday – Outdoor Stage – 16.40)

Due largely to the influence of Elefant Records on the Indie-pop scene, Indietracks gets more than it’s fair share of Spanish bands. The presence of Linda Guilala alongside The Royal Landscaping Society and Axolotes Mexicanos continues the theme this year.

Linda Guilala are my favourite of the bunch, the two-piece make an impressive racket that takes it’s influence from The Jesus And Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine in equal measures. The band are ex-members of Juniper Moon and have produced a number of other well known Spanish artists, including my favourite Spanish band of all time Los Bonsais. Linda Guilala’s most recent album Xeristar is their most exciting release to date, and a good slot on the main stage is a well deserved reward for the pair.