In The City News

BANDS: ITC Unsigned bands announced

Posted on 30th Sept. 2010

In The City is proud to announce the 30 bands of this year's In The City Unsigned. The Unsigned strand of In The City has nurtured and promoted unsigned talent since the first In The City and we can place this year's chosen bands side-by-side with previous bands such as Coldplay, Radiohead, Elbow, Muse, Friendly Fires, Noah and the Whale, Gallows, Mount Kimbie and dozens of other household names from the 19 year history of the UK's first music industry convention.

The 30 bands selected to appear at In The City Unsigned 2010 are:

2:54 - Sinister and moody shoegaze two-piece
(www.myspace.com/thetwofiftyfour)
Andrew Davie - understated singer-songwriter with a songbook of Autumnal tales (www.myspace.com/andrewdavie)
Beaty Heart - Lush, percussion-heavy art school hypnotics (www.myspace.com/beatyheart)
Big Deal - Loose, summery pop, joining the dots between Mazzy Star and Tennis (www.myspace.com/bigdealband)
Brown Brogues - Six strings and two drums-worth of stomping, bluesy garage (www.myspace.com/brownbrogues)
Catfish & The Bottlemen - Wide-eyed rock four-piece (www.myspace.com/catfishandthebottlemen)
Chad Valley - Jonquil frontman's disco dreampop solo project (www.myspace.com/hugomanuel)
D/R/U/G/S - Soaring, post-dubstep anthemics from Manchester (www.myspace.com/drugsdogoodthings)
Dead Models - 50s and 60s-indebted smoky songwriters (www.myspace.com/deadmodelsuk)
Eagulls - Explosive, bloody-nosed slacker punk from Leeds (www.myspace.com/eagulls)
Fanzine - Breezy, bright-eyed slacker-pop from blog darlings (www.fanzineblogspot.blogspot.com/)
Films of Colour - Swooning, layered epic indie
(www.myspace.com/filmsofcolour)
Fixers - Tom Tom Club-esque surf-dance quintet (www.myspace.com/fixerstheband)
Foreign Office - Infectious synth-flecked new wave (www.myspace.com/foreignofficemusic)
Frontiers - Midlands-based post-punk and shoegaze quartet (www.myspace.com/frontiersofficial)
Labyrinth Ear - Much hyped boy/girl duo, new to the live circuit (www.myspace.com/labyrinthear)
Les Cadets - Latin and electronic-influenced indie-pop (www.myspace.com/lescadets)
Milk Maid - Lo-fi grunge pop from Manchester (www.myspace.com/milkmaidmilkmaid)
Misty Miller - Teenage ukulele player with an amazing voice (www.myspace.com/mistymillermusic)
Monument Valley - London singer-songwriter, with echoes of Nick Drake (www.myspace.com/monumentvalleyband)
Oberhofer - Much blogged youthful exuberance from New York (www.myspace.com/oberhofermusic)
Picture Book - Insistent, dancefloor-driven electro pop (www.myspace.com/picturebookofficial)
Samuel Diamond - Brooding, Hyperdub-influenced lo-freq. electronica (www.myspace.com/samueldiamondbeats)
Sissy & The Blisters - Primal krautrock from Egyptian Hip-Hop labelmates
(www.myspace.com/sissyandtheblisters)
Slow Motion Shoes - Lamacq-approved fizzy neon pop (www.myspace.com/slowmotionshoes)
Smatka - Broad-brush, multi-faceted pop, from innocent to disturbing (www.myspace.com/smatka)
Sophie-Rose - Florence and Mystery Jets-approved pop (www.myspace.com/sophieroseband)
The Car Is On Fire - Infectious and experimental Polish psychedelia (www.myspace.com/thecarisonfirespace)
The Kill Van Kulls - Gloriously harmonious synth-soaked pop (www.myspace.com/thekillvankulls)
Thomas J Speight - Sweet and wistful folk-inflected songer-songwriter (www.myspace.com/speightboy)

Full details of when and where all the bands listed above are performing during In The City 2010 will be available at www.inthecity.co.uk/bands shortly. Live wristbands give access to all live events (Main and Unsigned line-ups, and official showcases) and can be bought here.