Stag and Dagger

I'm getting stupidly excited about Stag and Dagger..

The site describes it as:

STAG & DAGGER, the first one-ticket-gives-access-to-all music event to launch across London's East End in May 2008 is excited to announce its return in 2009 - bringing with it a bigger line up, more bands and DJs, more venues, and two additional national dates, this time taking the festival on the road to LEEDS and GLASGOW.

Run by VICE, presented by FIRETRAP, sponsored by Gaymers, and with acts such as:

Lovefoxxx

Casiokids

Dananananaykroyd

Cold War Kids

Exlovers

Filthy Dukes

SLOW CLUB

The Mae Shi

We Have Band

(...and jack penate...)

And DJ sets by magistrates and Moshi Moshi.

Now as you may or may not know, I bum pretty much every band and artist who has ever come out of Moshi Moshi, ESPECIALLY the almighty slow club.

And the fact that for a bargainous £18 I can have an entire day of music in various venues all over Shoreditch, in a kind of intimate gig-meets-festival format.. Well, that's just diddly.

Plus, I'm planning to make a play for a member of Magistrates...

Yeah, damn straight. Yum.

Speaking of bands who should be famous by now..

SLOW CLUB.

I literally cannot praise this band enough. They're playing in London just before my birthday, and I swear to god I don't see any possibility that they might not be massive by summer. If I had my way they'd be this year's MGMT.

www.myspace.com/slowclub

http://www.moshimoshimusic.com/artists/slow-club

i basically just bum everyone on moshimoshi atm.

EDIT: for some reason blogger has a massive issue with me posting youtube videos, so the link to the vid is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac6mXE7UT4E

Also:

You know when you like a band, and you like that the general public hasn't heard of them yet. When they still feel like 'your band'.

But then you secretly want them to get a bit bigger, so that you can tell everyone how you've 'liked them for yearrrsssss....' (but then probably lose interest once they get 'mainstream', and denounce any love you once had for said band once your mum's heard of them).

Well as much as I had love/hate feelings about being their only fan the other night, when they supported friendly fires at UEA;

CAN PEOPLE PLEASE START LIKING BOY CRISIS NOW PLEASE??

Because I've been telling people 'yeah, they'll be massive by summer' for ages now, and I'm starting to look like a twat. Plus: they are genuinely really bloody good.

Youtube has decided not to embed today so click here please. It's the music of sex and they're quite attractive too, in that wears-a-sweatband-unironically kinda way.

You can do me up like Woodrow Wilson

Carry my children

Exit the building

Let me love you like you're the shit girl

You're the shit girl

You're the shit girl

You can do me like Bruce Springsteen

Passed the swim team

Pass the string beans

Let me love you like you're the shit girl

You're the shit girl

You're the shit girl

No exaggeration, my favorite lyrics of all-time. I jest not.