My oh my, we have to be careful not to become spoiled! With yesterdays announcement of the LEMINIWHO? line-up we almost forgot to mention that we also continue the tradition of hosting an intimate night with mind-blowing-tear-jerking songwriters during LEGUESSWHO?

Like at previous editions we are hosting the friday night at ‘Kargadoor’, Utrecht, which is situated in an amazing 11th century wharf cellar. Just as amazing is the line-up! Drum rollllll!

Snailhouse (CAN)
Paterfamilias of Montreal songwriting

Ryan Francesconi (US)
Guitar virtuoso and the main man on Joanna Newsom’s remarkable triple album “Have One On Me”.

Stranded Horse (FR)
Frenchman Yann Tambour, specialized in silencing rooms and flooring jaws!

Get your location/day/passe-partout here!

From November 24th till 28th the 4th edition of the LeGuessWho? festival in the beautiful city center of our hometown, Utrecht.

On Friday the 26th we will handle the west side of the city by hosting to venues called ‘Ekko’ and ‘Kargadoor’. These two exquisite venues are only a 100 meters apart from each other.  What can expect? Well…

Ekko
Menomena (listen) 22:00
Trumans Water (listen) 20:15
Siskiyou (related to Great lake swimmers) (listen) 19:30

Kargadoor
Elephant Micah (watch) 23:00
Kiss the anus of a black cat(listen) 21:30

(Let’s call it ‘black cat’ for now ok?)

Tickets are on sale now in three different options.

LeGuess Who? Beep! Beep! ticket (€ 13,-)
giving you entrance to Ekko & Kargadoor on November 26th

Le Guess Who? 4-day Passepartout Ticket (€ 65,-)
Le Guess Who? Dayticket Friday (€ 20,-)

…and a nice elephant Micah video for you to watch!

and don’t hesitate to click on the link to find more about ‘LeGuessWho?’!

From November 24th till 28th the 4th edition of the LeGuessWho? festival in the beautiful city center of our hometown, Utrecht.

While waiting for that glorious week, we will warm you up with a pre-party on November 12. It will take place at dB’s and you will be accompanied by two or three great bands. First two are hailing from New York and New Zealand going by the name of:

Beach fossils (listen)
the Situations (listen)

And you guessed it, it’s FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

On Friday the 26th we will handle west side of the city by hosting to venues called ‘Ekko’ and ‘Kargadoor’. Why would you care? This is why:

Menomena (listen)
Shugo Tokumaru (listen)
Trumans Water (listen)
Siskiyou (related to Great lake swimmers) (listen)
Elephant Micah (watch)Tickets are on sale now in three different options.

LeGuess Who? Beep! Beep! ticket (€ 13,-)
giving you entrance to Ekko & Kargadoor on November 26th

Le Guess Who? 4-day Passepartout Ticket (€ 65,-)
Le Guess Who? Dayticket Friday (€ 20,-)

…and a nice Shugo Tokumaru video for you to watch!

and a sweet little link to the Godfathers ‘LeGuessWho?’ for all the info you need!

Well well well, with a swell presentation behind us, we can now announce you our humble share as a part of the Le Guess Who? 2010 festival. We are honoured to present you a night at Ekko as well as an acoustic night at Kargadoor. So here we go: Beep! Beep! Back up the truck! Proudly presents: Barsuk recording artists Menomena, 31knots’ leadsinger side project, called Tu Fawning and the folk rock of Jason Molina’s buddy Elephant Micah. Yes, that good friends are some sweet sweet artists. More bands will be announced in the upcoming month.

But of course there is way more then just then these Beep! Beep! contributions. Check out this far from complete list of artists that the festival is serving you already.

Swans (vs) opening with support from James Blackshaw (en)
Caribou (can)
Beach House (vs)
The Tallest Man On Earth (zw)
Dimlite (sw)
Trembling Bells (sco)
Ganglians (usa)
Subtitle (usa)
Sharon van Etten (usa)
Voice Of The Seven Thunders (uk)
Alasdair Roberts (sco)
Junip (zw)
Fitz (vs)
Ty Segall (vs)

The Le Guess Who? festival takes place in Utrecht, the Netherlands from November 24th till November 28 2010.
Early Bird tickets cost € 50,- and are on sale from juli 3, go to Tickets for more info.

For now we will leave you with some high quality youtube material by Elephant Micah.

Cheerio!

Pffff…Still recovering from the BEEP! BEEP!, LE GUESS WHO? pre-party. Right now we are heading towards the festival itself. So it’s time to get back to work again and tell you what you should do next…iifffff you live in Holland that is!  So I’m going to keep this one nice and short for my self. All text underneath is stolen. Still we do agree more or less

Ow and I included some listening pleasure as well. Check it!

Friday 27th, November @ Kargadoor, Utrecht

Moon & Sun plays the self-invented genre of Apocalypso. The resulting EP ‘Moon & Sun sings Apocalypso’ contains 4 of the most seducing songs that were made this year. Crackly triphop beats and the sultry voice of Tormell, mixed with Carribean rythms and surprising samples.

1. Moon & Sun – Ashes

Audiotransparent from Groningen is one of The Netherlands’ best and most underrated bands. Their melancholic songs are dressed in tasteful, hypnotic arrangements, with a creative use of strings and samples. Time to check them out and upperrate them! (OK this last sentence I wrote my self)

Ryland Bouchard (ex-The Robot Ate Me) occupies his own odd universe. With a high voice he sings strange indiepop songs on dark topics, such as his schizophrenic mother that was raped in prison by the prison guards, or his extremely religious brother who would regularly beat Bouchard up, for ‘religious’ reasons. Bouchard sometimes plays folk songs with an acoustic guitar, other times he’ll do indiepop with keyboards and drum computers, or he’ll suddenly start playing avant-garde compositions with clarinet and percussion. Live he lets the audience play an important role in the music. Just like Mount Eerie and The Flaming Lips, Ryland Bouchard has the courage to be ambitious and controversial. For the real connoisseurs.

1. Ryland Bouchard – Climb to the top

Doors: 20:00
Damage: 6 Euro

You can buy your ticket HERE

Some of you may have already noticed a bit of flirting, but now it’s getting hot!

This year, Utrechts annual LE GUESS WHO? festival will be taking place from november 26th untill november 29th. The festival is initiated by Tivoli and offers more the 50 must see acts including Patrick Watson,
the Very Best, Tragicly Hip, the Dodos and Great lake swimmers.

STOP! Now before we continue. Utrechts sweet sweet venue Tivoli is still under heavy fire. Make your self useful and support them by signing their petition HERE!

CONTINUE! For this years edition the pretty pretty LE GUESS WHO? peeps, have asked us to participate in their awesome initiative…wink…wink. So honoured as we where we could not refuse such a flattering offer…wink…wink. This is what we came up with.

Saturday November 14th at dB’s studio, Utrecht

LE GUESS WHO? pre-party with

CLUES (Montreal, Constellation records)

Clues was founded in the summer of 2007 by Alden Penner (one-half of Unicorns) and Brendan Reed (Endless Forever, Arcade Fire). In 2008, Clues recruited friends Ben Borden, Lisa Gamble, and Nick Scribner from the Montreal art and music scenes.
During live shows and on recordings, the band share and trade-off on their extensive collection of instruments and create a hopeful, urgent music that expands Montreal’s (already diverse) pop music lexicon, with references to post-punk and experimental music traditions. Clues’ concerts incorporate multiple drummers, a Commodore 64, and an OLPC.

Afterwards people will be dancing to tunes chosen by Utrechts most famous DJ WIEKES

Almost forgot… We are paying so…
It´s FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

it starts at 21:00 and you can show your coolness here by signing in at
LAST FM

During the festival it self Beep! Beep! will host a night at Kargadoor which is near EKKO at the Oudegracht.

Friday November 27th

MOON & SUN (swe/nl) 20:45 – 21:15
AUDIOTRANSPARENT (nl) 21:45 – 22:30
RYLAND BOUCHARD (usa) 23:00 – 23:45

www.myspace.com/moonandsunsings
www.myspace.com/audiotransparent
www.myspace.com/rylandbouchard

Open: 20:00
Entree: € 6,-
LAST FM

More hot words on that next week when we are still hungover from the incredible pre-party!!!