The Flaming Lips

We’re a bit starved for really awesome festivals here in Berlin, so the likes of you and I are going to have to travel a little bit. Since you’re probably working for €6 an hour in a backpacker hostel or sumfink, money is important to you (although in today’s wintery economice climate, who is that not true for, I ask), so cheap is best.

With one of the strongest lineups of the european festival calendar and held in one of the cheaper of the states local to us, OFF FESTIVAL in Katovice, Poland is perfect for you. I don’t really know you, but I stand behind my wild allegations. €30 for a three day pass is absurdly thrifty, and check out the lineup:

THE FLAMING LIPS (USA)
DINOSAUR JR. (USA)
TINDERSTICKS (UK)
THE FALL (UK)
LENNY VALENTINO (PL)
19 WIOSEN (PL)
A HAWK AND A HACKSAW (USA)
A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS (USA)
ANTI-POP CONSORTIUM (USA)
APTEKA (PL)
ARCHIE BRONSON OUTFIT (UK)
ART BRUT (UK)
ATLAS SOUND (USA)
BEAR IN HEAVEN (USA)
CASIOKIDS (NO)
CIEŚLAK I KSIĘŻNICZKI (PL)
DAMON AND NAOMI (USA)
DARKSTAR (UK)
DIGITAL MYSTIKZ (UK)
DUM DUM GIRLS (USA)
EFTERKLANG (DK)
ECSTATIC SUNSHINE (USA)
FENNESZ (AUT)
FM BELFAST (IS)
HAPPY PILLS (PL)
HEY (PL)
INDIGO TREE (PL)
JOKER feat. NOMAD (UK)
KIM NOWAK (PL)
KRYZYS (PL)
KUCZ/KULKA (PL)
LACHOWICZ (PL)
LALI PUNA (DE)
LAO CHE (PL)
MATMOS (USA)
MEMORY TAPES (USA)
MEW (DK)
MITCH AND MITCH WITH THEIR INCREDIBLE COMBO (PL)
MUCHY (PL)
NATHALIE AND THE LONERS (PL)
NIWEA (PL)
NO AGE (USA)
O.S.T.R (PL)
PABLOPAVO I LUDZIKI (PL)
PHILIP JECK (UK)
PINK FREUD feat. JERZY MILIAN (PL)
PLUM (PL)
PRAWATT & MIRNA RAY (PL)
PULLED APART BY HORSES (UK)
PUSTKI (PL)
RADIO DEPT. (SE)
RAEKWON (USA)
SHEARWATER (USA)
SHINING (UK)
SOMETHING LIKE ELVIS (PL)
SZELEST SPADAJĄCYCH PAPIERKÓW (PL)
TAKEN BY TREES (SE)
THE HORRORS (UK)
THE PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT (USA)
THE RAVEONETTES (DK)
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH (SE)
THE VERY BEST (MW/UK)
THESE ARE POWERS (USA)
TIDES FROM NEBULA (PL)
TORO Y MOI (USA)
TRANS AM (USA)
TUNE-YARDS (USA)
TUNNG (UK)
VOO VOO plays “SNO-POWIĄZAŁKA” (PL)
WILLIAM BASIŃSKI (USA)
ZS (USA)
ZU (ITA)

…I’d pay thirty quid alone to see Trans Am, but headlined by Flaming Lips with The Raveonettes and The Fall, holy shit.

You can grab tickets from the website here: http://2010.off-festival.pl/?dz=13

…with all the infos that you could ever eat here: http://2010.off-festival.pl/?

Unfortunately technical problems stopped us from playing anything from the new Japanther and Electrocute albums. You can check out some MP3s here:
Japanther – Spread So Thin (From Rock n’ Roll Ice Cream)

Electrocute – Super Kiss Attack (From Double Diamond)

Here’s the track list and head a bit further down for the download link and player.

1. Nephu Huzzband – The Finger That Points
2. Editors – All Sparks (Cicada Remix)
3. New Young Pony Club – We Want To
4. We Are Enfant Terrible – Wild Child -  Hit Meteor Remix
5. Dukes of Windsor – No Disguise
6. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Shadow’s Keeper
7. Bloc Party – Luno (Bloc Party vs. Death From Above 1979)
8. Kiss Kiss Kiss – Other Colours
9. Dead Boys – Sonic Reducer
10. Wolfmother – Woman (Mstrkrft Remix)
11. Jamie T – Sticks ‘N’ Stones
12. Foals – Spanish Sahara
13. Two Door Cinema Club – What You Know
14. So So Modern – Dendrons
15. Fukkk Offf – Love My Shake (LaClopeAuBec Remix)
16. Death from Above 1979 – Black History Month [Alan Braxe & Fred Falke Remix]
17. The Medics – Joseph
18. Good Shoes – Easier Easier
19. We Have Band – Love, What You Doing?
20. 2020Soundsystem – Satellite
21. Shy Child – Depth Of Feel
22. The Van Gobots – Any Means of Destruction
23. BookClub – Centuries
24. The Normal – Warm Leatherette
25. The Fall – Y.F.O.C. / Slippy Floor
26. Lies In Disguise – Meet Your Replacement
27. Enter Shikari – Thumper
28. Robert Smith – Very Good Advice