Sweeping The Nation Presents... #7

While we recover from the non-partying around the STN birthday celebrations and start to get develop some good ideas, we might as well tell you about our next live gig even though you don't come to them and it's ages away. It's a special one, though, being an Indietracks Festival warm-up. For it we're temporarily moving to the bigger Leicester Musician, where on 22nd July we intend to present...


By Rachael Smith

MJ Hibbett & The Validators
The only non-Indietracks full band public gig this year (we think) by the indiepop bard of Peterborough, just before he takes his one-man rock opera Dinosaur Planet to the Edinburgh Fringe.



Standard Fare
Some say they're indiepop's breakout band of the year. What we can definitely state is The Noyelle Beat is a superb work.



Lime Chalks
Birmingham outfit who, they say, "play indiefolklofipop or whatever you'd care to call it, and their philosophy is thus: cheerfulness, melodiousness, harmoniousness!"




As usual it'll be £4 online or £5 on the door. Register your interest on Facebook or last.fm, why not.

Inflation rates

We did this last year, but given the explosion in UK festivals is first said to have started leaking crucial fluids in 2007 it seems a good time to take stock. Hence, this table - this is how much a single adult camping ticket for pretty much every major festival in the land costs you now and would have cost you three years ago.

Festival	2007 price	2010 price	% rise
Glastonbury	£145	£190	31.0
Reading	£145	£180	24.1
T In The Park	£140	£180	28.6
Download	£145	£170	17.2
V	£130	£165	26.9
ATP	£120	£160	33.3
Big Chill	£125	£155	24
Latitude	£112	£155	38.4
Isle Of Wight	£125	£150	20
Bestival	£115	£150	30.4
Rock Ness	£100	£149	49
Secret Garden Party	£110	£142	29.1
Glade	£110	£135	22.7
End Of The Road	£95	£130	36.8
Wakestock	£75	£120	60
Green Man	£98	£120	22.4
Global Gathering	£105	£120	14.3
Cornbury	£90	£115	27.7
Summer Sundae	£90	£113.50	26.1
Guilfest	£100	£110	10
Wychwood	£95	£110	15.8
Cambridge Folk	£95	£108	13.7
Creamfields	£57	£100	75.4
Beautiful Days	£90	£100	11.1
Lounge On The Farm	£50	£95	60
Solfest	£59	£89	50.8
Wickerman	£65	£85	30.8
Belladrum	£70	£85	21.4
Lovebox (weekend)	£60	£80	33.3
Truck	£55	£80	45.5
Moseley Folk	£42	£77	83.3
Camden Crawl	£45	£57	26.7
The Great Escape	£39.50	£55	39.2
Wireless (one day)	£40	£47	17.5
Field Day	£22.50	£33.33	48.1
Underage	£20	£29.50	47.5

Birthday presents VIII

Alright, so maybe yesterday's contributions didn't quite conclude matters, but this Super Furries cover is far too good to abandon to fate. Benjamin Shaw makes "songs of nausea, noise, love, desperation, hope and hilarious anecdote", EP I Got the Pox, The Pox Is What I Got seeing him baring his tortured soul in lo-fi recording and electronic subterfuge.

Benjamin Shaw - Hello Sunshine


Also in Birthday Presents...
Heartbeeps - FYH (Mat Riviere)/Internet Forever vs Pagan Wanderer Lu - Break Bones (chipped bones remix by PWL)
Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences - The Angriest Dog In The World (Superman Revenge Squad)
Rev. Diva Schematic - Paper Planes (MIA)
Paisley & Charlie - The Lucky One (Au Revoir Simone)
Of Mice And Mental Arithemtic - Mica (Mew)/Major Kid Sun - Peacebone (Animal Collective)
Vom Vorton - Alan Bean (Hefner)
MJ Hibbett - Dreaming (Allo Darlin')/Fly Me To The Moon (Frank Sinatra)