ALICE HUBBLE
Alice Hubble is the solo project of Alice Hubley, and the product of one lady locked at home with her enormous collection of synthesisers. Inspired by the 70’s recordings by Tangerine Dream, Ashra and Mike Oldfield, Alice creates a delicate distinctly feminine take on the 70’s progressive synth sound.  As a debut, the single ‘Goddess’ defied all expectations, receiving terrific press and countless plays on BBC 6 Music thanks to Lauren Lavern, Gideon Coe and Steve Lamacq who named it his ‘Single of the Year (so far)’ in June 2019. The debut lp, Polarlichter was released in September 2019 alongside a four page feature in Electronic Sound Magazine and reviews in The Quietus and Prog Magazine.  Alice recently completed a UK and German headline tour and shows supporting Beak>, Pram and Damo Suzuki.

CAPTAIN HANDSOME
Captain Handsome – the solo project of Lily from Fightmilk – create pretty, country-tinged minimalist pop songs about the kind of stuff you lie awake thinking about for years after they have happened, curdling with embarrassment. Quiet, relatable and sensitive without ever becoming sentimental, Captain Handsome’s debut EP I Am Not An Animal carries clear influences of Dolly Parton, Kirsty MacColl, and Mitski. These are observations of the minutiae of life turned into lo-fi yet gigantic pop songs; an exploration of the musically weird and navigating the strange and sometimes difficult terrain of your internal world. 

CHEMTRAILS
Chemtrails began as the lo-fi bedroom recording project of romantic partners Mia Lust and Laura Orlova, evolving into a 5-piece garage-punk and acid-corroded new-wave outfit in  2016. Soon after, Chemtrails were signed by Swedish label PNKSLM Recordings, and have since gained a reputation for their prolific DIY output and high energy live shows. The band’s biggest influences are the Pixies, Blondie, Oh Sees, Black Lips and sixties psych and garage punk, but holding everything together is an ear for melody and no shortage of hooks, with cryptic lyrics that center around alienation, love, the human condition, the impending apocalypse and occasionally on Mia Lust’s place in the world as a transgender woman.  

EMMA KUPA
Songwriter, previous frontwoman of the much-missed Standard Fare, and current frontwoman of Mammoth Penguins and The Hayman Kupa Band, anyone who’s seen Emma Kupa in one of her many musical incarnations knows that her power and her voice leave you breathless. Emma has played solo shows across the UK, and in Sweden, France, Germany and the USA. Her songs have had extensive radio play (BBC 6Music: Steve Lamacq, Gideon Coe and Marc Riley) and been featured in films (The Kitchen (2012) and The Runaways (2020)). Photo: Wolf James Photography 

ERICA FREAS
Songmaker Erica Freas moved to Bristol UK from her hometown Olympia WA in 2019. A dynamic guitar player and lyricist, Freas is best known for her contributions to punk through bands like RVIVR and Somnia. She has kept a small flame lit with her solo music over the past decade and just added oxygen with her most recent album ‘Young’ (Specialist Subject Records, 2020). Freas has consistently used her platform to stand up for diversity and representation within the music scene and social injustice in the greater world; on ‘Young’ she turned inward and wrote about the easy, loving parts of life and connection. “With these songs, I was thinking about what world we’re welcoming the next generation into and, similarly, how we approach our own futures and histories as we grow. These songs are about being alive, whether we’re new to it or have been around awhile.” – Erica Freas

GUTTS
GUTTS are a five-piece sax-fuelled post-punk/queercore band from London. Reforged in early 2019 from previous incarnation Guttfull, the group have crafted a new set of songs exploring politics and sexuality across a range of simultaneously melodic and angular grooves. Lyrics touch on subjects both timely and perennial such as cultural appropriation, domestic violence, faux feminism, tone policing, biphobia and trash dads. They’re currently recording their debut EP ready for a summer release. Expect an onslaught of relatable moments, air-punching ‘yesses’ and an irresistible energy you can’t help but move to. 

HAILEY BEAVIS
Norfolk born Hailey Beavis is a song writer and artist living in Edinburgh. Her debut EP ‘Whatever You Feel I Do Too’ was released January 17th 2020 on OK Pal Records, the label she co-runs with best chum Faith Eliott. The tradition of folk and storytelling is evident in Beavis’s stand-out lyrics, which are full of narrative, imagery and description. Over the course of the record, sweet, melodic song-writing meets soupy harmonies and synths. It’s a kind of bedroom-pop that is as personal as it is strong-willed and outward facing. Her music maps the journey through the surrealism of childhood, stretching into insightful and vividly captured songs that deal with love loss and desire, with an overarching sense of self reliance and perseverance. “A record so full of fuck-you realism played off against pensive faith.” – The Skinny. “The EP sees Beavis exploring love, loss and learning to be yourself in a tone that’s vulnerable and honest but resolute.” – The National

LOS CAMPESINOS! 
Los Campesinos! make dizzying, dense, word-drunk and anthemic sing-alongs about people in low, lonely moments, existing several kilometres from the zeitgeist. They write love songs; ones that take place in the logical blind spots where people find out what truly matters and how far they’re willing to go to make these things real. They write about smart people doing terribly irrational things – using a depressant like alcohol to beat depression, burning the skin off your hands before seeing a palmist, “taking props from ‘90s boy band fashions”, investing your emotional well-being in a far-flung football team. The group formed in Cardiff in 2006 and have released six highly acclaimed full-length albums, starting with ‘Hold On Now, Youngster…’ in 2008, and most recently ‘Sick Scenes’ in 2017. This year they celebrated the 10 year anniversary of their third album, ‘Romance Is Boring’, including repressing the sold-out album on vinyl and playing a double header of special shows in London to mark the occasion

MELBY
Since debuting with catchy single Human in early 2016, things have moved steady for Stockholm psych pop act Melby. The 2017 debut EP received praise from both Swedish and international sources such as Amazing Radio, Ja Ja Ja and Line of Best Fit, making Melby one of the most exciting names on the Swedish indie scene. The band returned with Reject and Overthinking in 2018, a year which then saw tour dates in London and Berlin, as well as all over Sweden. Debut album None of this makes me worry, from 2019, is yet another piece to the exciting puzzle that is Melby’s music.

NADIA JAVED
The Tuts have long been one of the best and brightest new bands in the UK, for what they do and what they represent. This all-female, all-feminist, DIY “3-Tone” trio (of proud Caribbean, English and Indian/Pakistani origin) are avatars in the ongoing debate over inclusivity in the music scene, as well as a powerful musical unit by any standards. Over the years they’ve secured tours with Kate Nash, The Selecter, played Glastonbury and more recently supported The Specials on a month long tour. Nadia Javed, lead singer & guitarist of the band, has also just embarked on her solo career. A stripped down project showcasing her more personal material and an exploration of identity politics; delving into her hilarious and relatable anecdotes from her journey growing up as a working class British Muslim punk which she recently showcased at Edinburgh fringe festival, playing a string of sold out shows.

OH PEAS!
Oh Peas! is the sometime solo, nowtime full band project c/o Cardiff’s underground wunderpop weirdo Rosie Smith (Euros Childs’ band / Neurotic Fiction / Trust Fund / Totem Terrors). Specialising in off-kilter DIY sad pop bangers touching on radical themes such as everything being absolutely terrible, facing your fears and being nice to people. Oh Peas! have sold out rooms at Swn Festival 2018 as well as Wales Goes Pop 2019, and performed at the 2019 Green Man Festival after first appearing in 2016 as a Green Man Rising finalist. The band are set to record early 2020 and plan to take to the road and make a racket at your popshows thereafter. ‘I finally pick my jaw up off the floor all I can hear is my own slightly dazed and puzzled voice asking, so when exactly did Oh Peas! become the best band in Wales?’ – God Is In The TV. ‘Wowing with surprising lyrics and ideas aplenty, Oh Peas! is Rosie Smith – aka somebody I’m looking forward to hearing more of in the future.’ – Huw Stephens.

OTIS MENSAH
Otis Mensah is a young rap-poet from Sheffield embodying a contemporary take on alternative hip-hop music and spoken word poetry. With endeavours to shed light on existential commonalities through vulnerable expression, Otis’ work reads like a stream of consciousness, documenting journeys of thought. Drawing from influences such as Common, Aesop Rock and The Roots, Otis delivers off-kilter lyrics with a sentimental vibe. Otis has performed live with the likes of Arrested Development, Killah Priest, Oddisee, Illa J, Mahalia, Lowkey, Abstract Orchestra,Open Mike Eagle, Milo, Homeboy Sandman, P.O.S, The Mouse Outfit, Cosmo Sheldrake and as tour-support for Brother Ali and Chali 2na.

PET CROW
Derby based Pet Crow formed in 2016 and set their stall out from the get go. Groove-laden, surf tinged, garage rock to which you can dance.  2017 saw the release of their first LP via local DIY label ‘Reckless Yes!’, followed later that year by a 7” single ‘How Are you Wired?’ via ‘Too Pure Singles Club’, which found itself in the UK physical charts.  Since the last release, Pet Crow have been busy writing, touring & being people. Their 2nd LP ‘Take The Edge Off’ was released in Feb 2020 – self-released (UK) & via ‘No Sleep Records (US). Tracks from the album have been played on Steve Lamacq and Marc Riley’s BBC 6 Music shows.

PETE GREEN
Pete is a Sheffield-based poet and musician who is preoccupied with depletion, dereliction and renewal, marginal places and situations, coastlines and estuaries, railways, getting lost, love and identity and other impossible things. They have performed at pubs and libraries, a barge on the Thames, an industrial water wheel and a fourth division football stadium.  Pete‘s single ‘Everything I Do is Gonna be Sparkly’ was played on Radio 1 and made the sound go funny. Their more recent work includes two albums, The Glass Delusion and We’re Never Going Home, and a pamphlet Sheffield Almanac, and last year Pete was shortlisted for the 2019 Brotherton Poetry Prize. In 2020 Pete has resumed performing with The Sweet Nothings, is working on a full-length collection of poems, is dreaming about a third album, and is striving to cook the perfect vegetarian breakfast taco.

PIP BLOM
Amsterdam-based Pip Blom started writing, recording and releasing her own indie-pop tunes with a twist in 2016. Early songs, which were simply uploaded to the internet, quickly amassed thousands and thousands of plays – prompting Pip to recruit a band and start playing them live. In stepped brother Tender Blom on backing vocals and guitar, Darek Mercks on bass and Gini Cameron on drums, with Pip herself fronting on guitar on vocals. Since, the band have played hundreds of gigs, rising from small pubs to the European festival circuit, as well as being asked by the likes of Franz Ferdinand and The Breeders to join them on tour. The band’s energetic live show quickly pricked the ears of international press and radio including BBC Radio 1, NME, DIY and Brooklyn Vegan. BBC 6 Music even A-listed five of Pip’s singles in a row, and Rolling Stone described the debut album ‘Boat’ (2019) as “an instant classic”.

SHOPPING
They’re no longer based in the capital these days – guitarist Rachel Aggs (Trash Kit, Sacred Paws) has relocated to Glasgow, joining drummer Andrew Milk (Current Affairs), while bassist Billy Easter (Wet Dog) is now a semi-permanent resident of Los Angeles – but Shopping will always be a London band. It’s little surprise, then, that the threesome returned to the city to write their formidable fourth album, All Or Nothing (out Feb 7th, via Fat Cat). Four albums in, Shopping are as committed and focused as ever, regardless of any distance. As critics have noted, the trio’s vision – groove-centered; deeply queer; political by default – place them in a radical lineage of dance, a continuum connecting disco and post-punk to Chicago house and EDM. That spirit of liberation through rhythm is very much present on All OrNothing, says Aggs. “We found ourselves singing about being true to yourself, in an often binary and belligerent digital age, and reclaiming agency when it feels like our personal freedom and privacy is constantly eroding.” In an era dominated by spin and surveillance, All Or Nothing invites us to remember what really moves us, in dance and in life.

SHYPIG
She only knows four chords, but boy can she play them badly. Born of a dream to write very, very sad songs and named after a budget-friendly Australian wine, Shypig is the solo project of Libby Clark (Trust Fund/Speed Skater). Expect heartbreaking bedroom-pop, mostly based on the fictional village of Hollyoaks and the lives (and inevitable deaths) of the residents that live there. 

SUDS
In the cold beginning of 2018 three gals, one lad, and various instruments came together to create SUDS. Dan the dog-walker-by-day, guitarist by night made the bold move to Peterborough to join the rest of the clan. Dan’s energetic nature is amplified on the strings, contrasting and complimenting Maisie-Mae’s soft voice. Made from hand crafted moody words and gentle vocal lines, they are accompanied by Maisie-Mae’s catchy guitar licks. Isabella, who’s day job is a piano tutor, puts aside the keys and picks up the sticks for this project. Pro Popcorn Popper, Tom leaves the grueling work of the cinema behind him and plays the bass. 

THE PINK POUND
The Pink Pound is the solo electronic project from Ruby Waters (aka Andrew Milk of Shopping and Current Affairs). Mixing bedroom pop with Hi-NRG dance music she creates a queer synth-laden playground. A demo tape is out now via thepinkpoundsound.bandcamp.com.

“Specialising in deep, disco beats and personal lyrics, there is obvious inspiration taken from the likes of the Pet Shop Boys and other 80s synth-pop masters.” – Glasgow Music.

Photo: Lou Mac Photography. 

THE SCHOOL
The School is a pop band from Cardiff for fans of Camera Obscura, Alvvays, Belle & Sebastian, The Ronettes, The Ramones and Shonen Knife. The band have been working on their 4th album due for release this year on Elefant Records, and ventured over to perform at SXSW in Texas. Adam Walton, BBC Radio Wales – “One of this countries’ finest songwriters, like a cross between Joey Ramone and Carole King..” Clash – “a joyous indie pop explosion steeped in classic pop songwriting”

THROW LIKE A GIRL!
Throw like a girl! are a Leicestershire-based two piece formed in 2018 over a shared appreciation for Doe. Their debut, Lost and Losing, is available on Bandcamp and they are excited about recording their follow-up LP in the near future. Their sound is influenced by 90s emo, indie, punk and DIY. Writing about subjects including social anxiety, feeling like a fish out of water, teenage frustration and feminism, Throw like a girl! embrace the awkward and are cool with being uncool. 

WHYTE HORSES
Whyte Horses are a glorious mystery. The band – if, indeed, they are a band – released their debut album ‘Pop Or Not’ in 2016, achieving rapturous critical acclaim, including the ‘Album of the Year’ award from Piccadilly Records and endless support from BBC 6 Music. Sophomore album ‘Empty Words’ (2018) is a record of innovative eclecticism, which takes you on a sonic journey through soul, 60s pop and Nouvelle Vague-esque ballads through to fuzzed-up psychedelic rock. Latest release ‘Hard Times’ (2020) is the group’s most ambitious collaborative project to date. Described by Whyte Horses creator and curator Dom Thomas as a “fantasy mixtape”, the project sees this shape-shifting musical dream-pop collective re-imagining songs from an eclectic mix of musical backgrounds, with collaborators including La Roux, John Grant, Chrysta Bell (Twin Peaks), Badly Drawn Boy plus many more. Live, Whyte Horses encapsulate everything from Andy Warhol to Brazil’s tropicalia movement. Matching a sweet sense of innocence to lingering darkness, Whyte Horses are a uniquely intriguing experience.

ATTA GIRL
Atta Girl is a feminist clubnight playing tunes by female vocalists. Genre hopping from riot grrrl, indiepop to pop of all decades. It’s all about the joy of dance and letting go in a safe space. Expect to dance to tunes from Allo’ Darlin, Angel Olsen, Bikini Kill, Beyoncé, Blondie, Bonnie Tyler, The Breeders, Britney Spears, Carly Rae Jepsen, Courtney Barnett, Dream Wife, Du Blonde, Grimes, Hole, Kate Bush, Kelly Clarkson, Le Tigre, Lizzo, The Long Blondes, Lykke Li, Madonna, M.I.A, Rihanna, Robyn, Saint Etienne, The Slits, St. Vincent, X-Ray Spex, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.. To name a few! It’s been ten years since Atta Girl played Indietracks, they can’t wait to close the festival with a bang! 

FORTUNA POP! 
Sean and Morgan from Fortuna POP! get upgraded from their regular spot at the Indietracks campsite disco, highlights of which have been Sean pretending to crucify himself on the tent pole to “The Ballad Of John And Yoko” (drunk), Sean falling face first in the gravel outside the tent (very drunk), and, last year, the near death of Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Congleton. Expect classic indiepop with dashs of post-punk, 60’s psych and northern soul thrown in for good measure.

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE LOVED? 
One of our favourite London club nights, playing indie pop, northern soul, Tamla Motown, girl groups, and sixties heartbreak. “Digging deep into a 60s to 70s selection with the Temptations, Beach Boys, The Shangri Las and into the 80s with The Smiths, Belle And Sebastian – ‘a celebration of an emotion in motion’. Deeeep.” – Time Out London