Johnny Scumm
InZayn In The Membrane
Described as "31 Nights, 62 Artists, 1 Venue", the iTunes Festival takes place in London, every July and has done for the past 3 Years in it's current circumstance. I thought I'd make a Thread on this because it's interesting to me and I wanted to show the Americans and others who may not know about it, what it is.
Ok, so what happens, is on Facebook/Twitter/iTunes Festival Website, in the months before July (Starting around April), iTunes announce headline acts for every day on July, to perform on these nights. Every night, a different artist takes to the stage in a FREE Concert, usually with one or two support acts, making up your "62 Artists". So, "free", you say? Yes, the whole month is a month of Free Music. But how do you get to go? Well, on the iTunes Festival website, http://www.itunesfestival.com/,you can apply for Tickets for the artists you may want to see. Fortnightly in May & June, then daily in July, iTunes pick winners for certain concerts, emailing you the Tickets. You're allowed a +1, but no more. Then you go along, queue up, present your ticket and have a great night of Music. Now, in the 3 Years this event has been taking place, (2009, 2010, 2011), I've only ever won twice. Once in 2010, to see Pixie Lott and also once this year, to see Seasick Steve on the 2nd. The event takes place at the Camden Roundhouse.
Now, if you're a Brit and you don't know about this, it's a great opportunity, that's for sure. People describe it as "the best month for music in the UK" and a great experience. I know that it is. Below are the Line-Ups for July in 09, 10 & 11.
2009
1/7 Jamie T + Slow Club
2/7 Fightstar + Young Guns
3/7 Jack Penate + Golden Silvers
4/7 Flo Rida + Ironik
5/7 Snow Patrol + Silversun Pickups + Animal Kingdom
6/7 Franz Ferdinand + Passion Pit
7/7 Mr Hudson w/ Kanye West + Kid Cudi + Kid British
8/7 David Guetta w/ Kelly Rowland
10/7 Paolo Nutini + Marina and the Diamonds
11/7 La Roux + Dan Black
13/7 Newton Faulkner + Ray Gun
14/7 Placebo + General Fiasco
15/7 Friendly Fires + Magistrates
16/7 Simple Minds
17/7 Noisettes + Skint & Demoralised
18/7 Calvin Harris + Miike Snow
19/7 Bat For Lashes
20/7 Bloc Party + Delphic + The Invisible
21/7 Oasis + The Enemy
22/7 Kasabian + Twisted Wheel
23/7 Graham Coxon + Esser
24/7 A-ha + Reamonn
25/7 Stephen Fry + Mumford & Sons + The Temper Trap
26/7 Madeleine Peyroux + Imelda May
27/7 The Saturdays + Sophie Ellis Bextor + Girls Can't Catch
28/7 Amadou and Mariam + Charlie Winston
29/7 Simian Mobile Disco + Gold Panda
30/7 The Hoosiers + Steve Appleton
31/7 MIKA + Erik Hassle
2010
1/7 Scissor Sisters + The Drums
2/7 Tony Bennett + Antonia Bennett
3/7 Ozzy Osbourne + The Sword + Black Spiders
4/7 Foals + Two Door Cinema Club
5/7 N-Dubz + Example
6/7 Kate Nash + Peggy Sue
7/7 Paloma Faith + Alan Pownall
8/7 Ellie Goulding + Delta Maid
9/7 Mumford & Sons + Laura Marling + The Dharohar Project
10/7 The National + Stornoway
11/7 Keane + We Are Scientists
12/7 The XX + Wild Beasts
13/7 Florence + The Machine + Lauren Pritchard
14/7 Faithless + Chew Lips
15/7 Rolando Villazon + Milos Karadaglic
16/7 Amy Macdonald + Tiffany Page
17/7 Underworld + Kele
18/7 Bombay Bicycle Club + Stephen Fry + Everything Everything
19/7 The Futureheads + Frank Turner
20/7 Pixie Lott + Rachel Furner
21/7 The Courteeners + Chapel Club + The Cheek
22/7 Goldfrapp + Marina and the Diamonds
23/7 Defected In The House live
25/7 Foreigner + Europe
26/7 Plan B + Tinie Tempah
27/7 Chipmunk + Daisy Dares You
28/7 Scouting For Girls + Diana Vickers
29/7 The Hoosiers + Diagram of the Heart
30/7 Phoenix + James Yuill
31/7 Biffy Clyro + Pulled Apart By Horses
2011
1/7 Paul Simon
2/7 Seasick Steve + Smoke Fairies
3/7 Manic Street Preachers + Dry The River + Ramona + Ukulele for Dummies
4/7 Linkin Park + Neon Trees
5/7 Beady Eye + Gwyneth Paltrow
6/7 Arctic Monkeys + Miles Kane
7/7 Adele
8/7 Bruno Mars + Ed Sheeran
9/7 My Chemical Romance + Evaline
10/7 Glasvegas + Cat's Eyes + Beatsteaks
11/7 Foo Fighters + Jimmy Eat World
12/7 The Script + Loick Essien
13/7 White Lies + The Naked and Famous + Alice Gold
14/7 Friendly Fires + SBTRKT
15/7 Jessie J + Rizzle Kicks + David Nicholls
16/7 Duran Duran + Ben L'Oncle Soul
17/7 Raphael Saadiq + Bluey Robinson + Selah Sue + MEDI
18/7 Rumer + Caitlin Rose + Mark Radcliffe
19/7 Katy B + Jamie Woon
20/7 The Wanted + Dionne Bromfield + Encore
21/7 Swedish House Mafia + Alex Metric
22/7 Coldplay + The Pierces
23/7 Mogwai + Errors
24/7 Noah and the Whale + Fixers
25/7 Lang Lang + 2CELLOS
26/7 Magnetic Man + Alex Clare
27/7 Example + Wretch 32 + Yasmin
28/7 Chase & Status + Nero
29/7 Kasabian
30/7 James Morrison + Benjamin Francis Leftwich
31/7 Moby + Silver Apples
There, as you can see, very varied sets of Artists, something for everyone it can be said. But I want to ask a few questions.
If you're British.
1) Did you know about the iTunes Festival?
2) If you did and have applied for Tickets before, what have you won Tickets for? Did you go, enjoy it, or not?
If you're not from the UK
1) What do you think about this "Month of Music" for the Brits? Is it a good idea, or is it giving away too much?
2) Who on these lists catches your eyes the most, if you were to get tickets for their "Free Gig"?
