Lineup

Playing 2008’s festival are:

SATURDAY

Future of the Left

Future of the Left are from south Wales. They all used to be in some other bands, and this is something usually gets mentioned when people talk about them. We’d do this, but we don’t really think it’s relevant anymore, especially since their debut album was released last autumn to fantastic reviews. It’s called Curses!, by the way, and was released by the fine people over at Too Pure Records. Anyway. They’ve since toured up and down the UK and made trips to Europe and Australia and played at SxSW, and now they’re playing for us! Their Saturday night headline slot at This Ain’t No Picnic comes at the end of a busy summer for the band, which sees them playing more UK shows as well as at the Reading and Leeds festivals. We pretty sure they’re also off to North America after they play for us. World domination surely awaits?

Official Website <> Myspace

Also playing on Saturday:

Bearsuit (UK, Fantastic Plastic >>> myspace)
Calories (UK, ex-Distophia! >>> myspace)
Cats In Paris (UK, Akoustik Anarkhy >>> myspace)
Chris T-T (UK, Xtra Mile Recordings >>> myspace)
Copy Haho (UK >>> myspace)
Gindrinker (UK, Businessman Records >>> myspace)
The Deirdres (UK >>> myspace)
Gossamer Albatross (UK >>> myspace)
Ice, Sea, Dead People (UK >>> myspace)
Instruments (UK >>> myspace)
Jam On Bread (UK >>> myspace)
Joe Gideon & The Shark (UK >>> myspace
The Light Sleepers (UK, Faux Discx >>> myspace)
Superman Revenge Squad (UK >>> myspace)
This Town Needs Guns (UK, Big Scary Monsters >>> myspace)
Tropics (UK >>> myspace)

SUNDAY

Polysics

Polysics are our headliners for the Sunday night of This Ain’t No Picnic 2008. They hail from Tokyo, Japan, and have released six full length albums of what they dub “technicolour pogo punk” (think: blasting guitars, high energy beats, computer noise, a love of Devo, etc etc..) in the last ten years, whilst taking their wild and critically acclaimed live show all over the world. As I’m sure you can appreciate, we’re really excited about seeing them play, especially if they do their cover of “My Sharona”. It has robot vocals, y’know.

Official Website <> Myspace

Also playing on Sunday:

Alan MX (UK, Smalltown America >>> myspace)
And So I Watch You From Afar (UK >>> myspace)
Applicants (UK, Brainlove Records >>> myspace)
Brontosaurus Chorus (UK, Popart Records >>> myspace)
Crimesss (UK >>> still totally punk but now they have a myspace)
The Duloks (UK >>> myspace)
4 or 5 Magicians (UK, This Is Fake DIY Records >>> myspace)
Laura Wolf (UK >>> myspace)
Let Our Enemies Beware (UK, Smalltown America >>> myspace)
Popular Workshop (UK, This Is Fake DIY >>> myspace)
The Retro Spankees (UK >>> myspace
The Strange Death of Liberal England (UK, Fantastic Plastic >>> myspace)
Super Tennis (UK >>> myspace)
Tubelord (UK, Big Scary Monsters >>> myspace)
William (UK, Tough Love Records >>> myspace)
The Young Playthings (UK, Smalltown America >>> myspace)

There will be 34 acts in total across the weekend – count ‘em up!