Not content with injecting the streets of Camden with a fair old smattering of acts across the indie spectrum taking in the likes of Teenage Fanclub, The Drums, Dead Meadow and The Chapman Family a splendid shot has just been added to the lethal musical concoction that's sure to crumble a fair few crawlers come May. Leading the line up additions to this year's Camden Crawl are Roundhouse headliners and respective sweethearts of mascara-masked emo pop and girl group major politicians, Lostprophets and, quite bizarrely, Sugababes. Whacked-out American punksters We Are Scientists, mad-hatter MC and Witness to the Fitness that's sure to be needed to power through 22 hours of music in 2 days Roots Manuva and post-punk heroes Gang Of Four. Elsewhere across a hefty handful of venues smeared across two miles of saliva-soaked North London street, mercurial mademoiselles of the Mercury Music Prize Ms. Dynamite and Speech Debelle prescribe hip-hop doses on Saturday and Sunday respectively and jazz genii Polar Bear return to the brassy backstreets of London's prime punk hangout and piping hot slabs of electro electricity from Super Basques (via West London) Crystal Fighters (pictured. Sort of...). The jagged, shark-toothed surf-pop of Surfer Blood and the summer-time lo-fi slump of Best Coast stand, alongside the Xtatic Truth Crystal Fighters and the garbled ghetto electronica of Gold Panda as Dots & Dashes' understated highlights of the weekend, just in case you were wondering...The weekend's full line up is now as follows:
Saturday 1st May:
TEENAGE FANCLUB * THE DRUMS * NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB * MS DYNAMITE
BILLY CHILDISH * CORNERSHOP * DEAD MEADOW * I BLAME COCO * PULLED APART BY HORSES * SHY CHILD * SLOW CLUB * STORNOWAY * WE ARE THE OCEAN
AKALA * ART VS. SCIENCE * AUTOKRATZ * BEST COAST * BILLY VINCENT * BO NINGEN * THE CHAPMAN FAMILY * GRAFFITI 6 * HOLLY MIRANDA * THE HUNDRED IN THE HANDS * JAMIE WOON * KASMS * LEFT WITH PICTURES THE LIKE * THE LOST LEVELS * MT. KIMBIE * NECRO DEATHMORT * RACE HORSES * SILVER COLUMNS * SPECTRALS STRICKEN CITY * TOTALLY ENORMOUS EXTINCT DINOSAURS
Sunday 2nd May:
GANG OF FOUR * ROOTS MANUVA * LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION * YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS
BABYBIRD * DAN LE SAC VS SCROOBIUS PIP * DELAYS * GOLD PANDA * POLAR BEAR *ROX * SPEECH DEBELLE * THE SUNSHINE UNDERGROUND
ALAN POWNALL * CASIOKIDS * CHEW LIPS * CLOCK OPERA * COSMO JARVIS * DRUMS OF DEATH * EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER * GAGGLE * GENERAL FIASCO * HOOK & THE TWIN * INVASION * THE JIM JONES REVUE * JOE GIDEON & THE SHARK * JOE WORRICKER * JOSH WELLER * KASSIDY * KATY B * KYTE * OH NO ONO SHARKS * TUBELORD * WINTERSLEEP * YACHT
Appearing both days:
ALEX METRIC * BETTY AND THE WEREWOLVES * CALORIES * CHICKENHAWK * COMANECHI * CRYSTAL FIGHTERS * DAVID VINER * D E K A D E * DRUM EYES * ELIZA DOOLITTLE * EMILY BARKER & THE RED CLAY HALO * EMPEROR MACHINE * ERIK HASSLE * KAP BAMBINO * KURRAN AND THE WOLFNOTES * LEAFCUTTER JOHN * LONELADY * MALE BONDING * MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS * NAT JOHNSON & THE FIGUREHEADS * THE POSTELLES * SAMUEL AND THE DRAGON * SKEPTA * SMOKE FAIRIES * SURFER BLOOD * THAT FUCKING TANK * TODD * TREETOP FLYERS * TURBOWOLF * VERONICA FALLS * VILLAGERS * WILD PALMS
Tickets for this year's event are currently on sale here, and more info can be found here at the Crawl's official site. Roundhouse headliner tickets are unleashed early on Friday morning, 9am along with Saturday and Sunday day tickets. Computer breakfast, perhaps?
