Yeah Yeah Yeahs for Indian Summer Festival!

On the 2nd and 3rd of September 2006 in amongst the greenery of Glasgow’s Victoria Park you’ll find Indian Summer: Scotland’s newest, most cultivated music event, brought to you by promoters PCL in conjunction with Traxx Events and Southern Comfort Fat Tuesday.

Book the weekend off now to capture that blissful end of summer feeling with acts including the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Antony and the Johnsons, Broken Social Scene, Hot Chip, 1990’s, Optimo and much much more.

Tickets go on sale from 9am Saturday 27th May on www.ticketweb.co.uk at only £60 for the whole weekend (subject to booking fee).

To be more experimental with the bill, and so you can enjoy the diverse music to the fullest; the event will have an intimate capacity. And of course what better way to complement this than with home-grown and healthy food, premium drinks and maybe even a picnic table or two…

PCL are the company who first brought Franz Ferdinand, The Strokes, The White Stripes and The Flaming Lips to Scotland, so to sum them up – they are the people who introduced you to your favourite bands before they were your favourite bands. Plainly speaking, the event is the way it is; music policy, size and the relaxed feel, for the simple reason that they are creating a nice weekend that they themselves would like to go to. This is why you are seeing these well loved established yet off-centre acts, as well as new acts they are taken with, who’ll hopefully capture you too.

Drawing on the sights and sounds of one of the greatest musical cities on earth, New Orleans, expect the Southern Comfort Fat Tuesday tent to don a mask and party like no other: all will be revealed soon…

So, you can see that Indian Summer’s open minded guests are to have the music on their minds but expect lots of wee eclectic surprises too…keep your eyes and ears peeled.

Please note: there are no camping facilities at Victoria Park – Indian Summer don’t expect you to give up your shower, tea and toast just for them…

Ticket Details

Tickets are on sale from 9am on Saturday 27th May 2006:

Log on to www.ticketweb.co.uk

Phone 08700 600 100 for credit card bookings.

Tickets will be available in person from Tickets Scotland (Glasgow and Edinburgh), Ripping (Edinburgh) and Monorail (Glasgow).

Gates open at 2pm, event ends 10.30pm.

The acts so far…

Yeah Yeah Yeahs:

MTV and Grammy nominations give way to expectations, but these expectations are surpassed when these two guys and a girl play live, kick drum pounding and sharp vocals reciprocated by pounding hearts and voices singing along.

This NYC band’s thrilling 2006 album "Show Your Bones" has so far given us the elated blissful punk singles Gold Lion and Turn Into. On Dress Up/Fiction records, the band have so far this year curated a day at All Tomorrows Parties, had a sold out UK tour and headline the first day of the first Indian Summer. Expect an electric vibe.

Antony and The Johnsons:

Album I Am A Bird Now brought them a Mercury last year but the act, with ‘androgyne’ singer Antony taking the deserved limelight, released their first album in 2000. This year’s seen them perform with the London Sinfonietta Orchestra, at The Royal Albert Hall and for charity benefits led by composer Phillip Glass. Live, Antony is peculiar, benign and charming, and plays the piano while his voice reaches out to extreme yet simple emotion. Recording a new album at this very moment and new material to emerge in time for the end of summer festivals, there’s no doubt they’ll close Indian Summer on an emotional high.

Broken Social Scene:

Hailing from Toronto, since 1999 this 10, sometimes 11 or 12 piece collective have a revolving cast of Canadian indie musicians, producing a supergroup dynamic that takes listeners through alt-rock and orchestrated electronica. The self titled studio album in 2005 was praised by critics and live shows are buzzing and atmospheric.

Hot Chip:

Casio in spirit and fender in heart, the UK group’s second Album The Warning has given us the infectious punk-house single Over and Over (spawning credible remixes by the shed load) and calmer but no less quirky Boy From School. Live they are nerd chic, with four keyboards, one guitar, cutting lyrics and humorous touches.

1990’s:

Fuzzy rock’n’rollers from Glasgow who are set to make 2006 their year. Not industry virgins, members have been part of The Yummy Fur and V-Twin in the past, and are nice guys with melodies, smiles and oh so much spirit. 1990's release their first limited edition 7" (you made me like it b/w arcade precinct) on 22nd May.

Optimo:

The most cutting edge live/club organisation in Scotland, if not the UK, and wholeheartedly "they love your ears". JD Twitch and JG Wilkes music policy is all genre encompassing raw, creative and percussive. Crusaders against "cool", there’ll be more information about what Optimo will be doing at the event in due course…