OK – so here is our approach to sifting through festival bands so that we can tell you which ones you ought to be getting out to see at Truck Festival 2022.
1. Hunt out the official Truck Festival 2022 Spotify playlist…. which we were nicely impressed with as it didn’t focus too much on the big headline names (a regular mistake we find a lot of festivals make – everyone knows those guys…we want to discover something new!)
2. Do that standard A&R / Festival booker trick of giving each band the following ‘listening’ opportunity (A) Play the first three seconds of the first track to see if it has a hook; (B) If ‘A’ proves OK, skip forward to about a third of the way through the track to see what has developed; (C) On the rare occasion that ‘B’ holds our attention let the track play out while googling the band’s reviews to see what they are all about.
3. Compile a pretty random list of acts who may (or may not) be truly amazing.
What we can tell you straight away is that the Truck Festival booking team are on our wavelength… and if we could work out a name for that genre of music that ‘sounds a bit like Squid/Dry Cleaning/Sports Team/ Bodega’ we’d be delighted to say there is a lot of it at Truck Festival 2022!
So here are a bunch of bands who have caught our ears and who we’d love you you go and support…we’ve also done the graft of finding some of the better reviews of each act so you can get a sense of what to expect…
Truck Festival 2022 – bands to watch
Enola Gay
https://www.sceneandheardnu.com/content/enola-gay-the-birth-of-a-revolutionary-band
Inhaler
https://www.redbrick.me/live-review-inhaler/
Shame
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/shame-drunk-tank-pink/
Orla Gartland
https://thequietus.com/articles/30368-orla-gartland-woman-on-the-internet-review
Black Honey
http://altcitizen.com/album-review-black-honey-black-honey/
Kid Brunswick
https://bittersweetpress.com/kid-brunswick-stained/
The Magic Gang
https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/the-magic-gang-death-of-the-party-album-review
Kawala
https://www.gigwise.com/reviews/3416160/album-review-kawala-better-with-you
Brooke Combe
https://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/interviews/spotlight-on-brooke-combe
Beach Riot
https://louderthanwar.com/beach-riot-subatomic-party-cool-album-review/
DITZ
https://www.popmatters.com/ditz-the-great-regression-review
Lauren Hibberd
https://www.altpress.com/lauran-hibberd-goober-ep-review/
The Clockworks
https://maximumvolumemusic.com/review-the-clockworks-the-clockworks-ep-2022/
Talk Show
https://www.indieisnotagenre.com/talk-show-these-people-review/
The Hara
https://norfolkrocks.uk/review-the-hara/
Folly Group
https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/reviews/albums/folly-group-awake-and-hungry-ep-review
Courting
https://riotmag.co/album-review-courting-grand-national
Bru-C
https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/bru-c-on-the-rise
The Skinner Brothers
https://www.clashmusic.com/features/ill-tell-them-the-fcking-truth-clash-meets-the-skinner-brothers/
Tom Lumley and the Brave Liason
Gen and the Degenerates
https://maximumvolumemusic.com/review-gen-and-the-degenerates-only-alive-when-in-motion-ep-2022/
