Less than two weeks to go: what do you need to know?

Hi indiepopkids!

As you can imagine we are busy like a swarm of bees, putting things into place, thinking of a trillion thinks we may not forget before the party starts and still try to catch a sunbeam or two.

But: there is still time for some loving advice, so in case it's your first trip to Berlin and you can't figure out where to get a vegan sandwich in the middle of the night or if you want to know where you can get a decent breakfast that will help you through the day or maybe just through this tiny little hangover from all this tipsy-making music we prepared for you, shout it out! Also if it's not food related (I must be a bit hungry at the moment), let us know and we will try to hook you up with some of the high-value information-stuff!

All the best and see you oh so soon

I could dance all night like I'm a soul boy

We are so very excited and can't believe Indie Pop Days will start in like, a minute. Well ok, two weeks, but still pretty soon! ...for those of you who want to listen and dance to Northern Soul, Indie Pop, Baroque, Pop & Mod this Saturday we can recommend DIE ZWEI LUSTIGEN DREI + guests.

    

August 18th, from 22 Uhr at King Kong Klub

 I could dance all night like I'm a soul boy

Oh my! That's tomorrow! Chop chop, up and on the dancefloor! See you in a minute

15 days left...

...so let's get prepared for the bands and shows with our annual soundcloud mixtape!

Due to some copyright issues there are no songs from Cats on Fire included here, meeh. But you can listen to them on our line-up page or just click here.

Enjoy!

Last Line-Up Update: Azure Blue (SWE)

Some of you have already read the sad news on Facebook, The Give it ups had to cancel their performance as one of the members cannot make it to the festival due to health issues in the family. We wish you all the best, get well soon!

But now let's look forward to the sunny side of this post and of our line-up, which is finally complete!

The first night of Indie Pop Days 2012 will see yet another act who is playing in Germany for the first time. Our headliner on Friday will be Azure Blue, a solo project of Swedish Tobias Isaksson, known to indie popsters for his former Labrador based bands Irene and Laurel Music.

On his first album "Rule of Thirds" which was released last year on the Sweden-based Hybris-Label and internationally on Matinee Records, he is leaving the grand Indiepop sound of his Labrador releases behind to enter a world of airy synthpop, much to the enjoyment of everyone who likes analogue synthesizers and drum-machines. Once you hear one of his tunes, be sure to have it stuck in your head - proof is a click away, "dreamy eyes" and "little confusions", both singles from "Rule of Thirds".
Fans of New Order, Air France, The Go-Betweens, The Cure, Sarah and/or current favourites from Sweden like The Radio Dept. have something to look forward to.

Goodbye to A Fine Day For Sailing - Hello to The Spook School

Unfortunately, we have to tell you that A Fine Day For Sailing are not playing Indie Pop Days due to personal circumstances. We are really really sad about that cancellation but we have found another great und fresh Band to take their place. The young Scottish The Spook School will be joining the bill. Their 7" single "Here We Go" will be released on Cloudberry Records very soon.

If you want to know more about this fantastic band just have a look at their website. There you can download some of their songs for free . "History" is one of them. 

Ta-daaa it's a Teaser

There it is our fun teaser with footage from last years Indie Pop Days, filmed and edited by the superduper awesome Nouriya. Thank you so so much! We have hearts painted all over our faces!

Follow her work here and here! 

Now let's watch this over and over again and get excited about the next edition of pure Indie Pop delight!

Line up News: The Proctors (UK)

Now it's out!  Everyone who saw the band playing as a three-piece including the great Lisa Bouvier at the fantastic Popfest Berlin yesterday will be happy to hear this: The Proctors will play at Indie Pop Days, too!

Their new single "I need to tell you" is free to download on Shelflife.

Where to go this weekend...

POPFEST BERLIN of course!

There are still 35 days to go for the Indie Pop Days but 0 days left for Popfest Berlin. Look at this line-up and jump around:
CLOSE LOBSTERS (UK)
BAND À PART (ES)
GRABBEL AND THE FINAL CUT (DE)
THE PROCTORS (UK)
TENDER TRAP (UK)

WARM UP PARTY
Tonight 27 July 2012 @ Schwalbe
Live: Red Money (UK) Firestation Records Release-Party DJs: Lena Lightning (Popkiss, Munich), Kitten On Fire, Smuf, Andi Popassistant (Popfest Berlin DJ-Team)
 For more information please visit: http://popfestberlin.blogspot.de/

Be there! Popkids of the world unite!

Our sponsor and media partners

Aloha Surfsoda, taz. die tageszeitung, Zitty and ByteFM are on board again!

The team of Indie Pop Days is very happy to have the fab four as supporters for this year's Indie Pop Days again. A big thanks to all of them!

The Fireworks play IPD!

Hi!

No announcements for quite a while but today we can give you one more band who will come over to Berlin for the festival. We invited a London based band who never played in Germany before.

The Fireworks started out as Matthew singing some songs down the phone to people and then people trying to convince him that he should start a band... so he did! A dandelion radio session, gigs in London and playing indietracks last year has started the ball rolling. A single out this Summer on Big Pink Cake Records will offer a hazy noise up fuzz of Summer Summeryness.

The Fireworks are Matthew (Big Pink Cake), Emma (Pocketbooks), Carys (The Give It Ups), and Isabel (Twee As Fuck).  Harmonies, noise, fuzz, tambourines, catchy tunes... is kind of the order of the day and most definitely POP.

The Fireworks performing  "Higher And Higher".

here we go again...Indietracks 2012

For all music lovers who are in England at the moment here is an event you can't afford to miss: 6.-8. July the Indietracks Festival at the Midland Railway - Butterley in Derbyshire has -as always- a brillant line-up. Around 50 artists will play across four stages: the outdoor stage, the indoor stage, the church and on steam trains!. This time the legendary American Slumberland label curates the outer stage and you have the chance to see bands like Veronica Falls, Allo Darlin', Girls Names or Sea Lions. Classic bands like The Jasmine Minks, The June Brides, The Monochrome Set and The Vaselines will perform at this fantastic festival as well. There's more info on this magic indiepop-gathering after the klick:
Indietracks 2012

The Holiday Crowd

Shortly after the release of their brilliant debut "Over The Bluffs" (on Shelflife/New Romantic For The World) there has been a lot of enthusiasm on the internet  (here) about these indie pop newcomers from Toronto, Canada. When you listen to their songs for the first time you are immediately reminded of the music of The Smiths: In fantastic tunes like "Never Speak Of It Again" and "While She Waits" the charismatic voice of singer Imran and jangly guitars on reverb recall the atmosphere of Morrissey's former band.

Imran Haniff and Colin Bowers founded the band after high school. They wrote some songs but never played live. After ten years, "the longest break a band has ever had" (Bowers), Imran and Colin decided to play together again. They were joined by Alex Roberts and David Barnes, who now play bass and drums. While the band played the first live gigs in small local clubs in 2011, they not long ago supported Paul Weller in Toronto.

The Holiday Crowd will play for the first time ever in Europe: at Indie Pop Days! We are really looking forward to hearing some of our favourite songs of the last months played live!

The video "While She Waits" was filmed by Street Folk Sessions in Toronto's historic Allan Gardens Park. It features a new acoustic arrangement of this smashing song.