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Steve Mack @stevemack2017.bsky.social · 28d

. @sweepingthenation.bsky.social put on a great gig at Duffy's Bar in Leicester last night headlined by @fortitudevalley.bsky.social with Virginia's Wolves & the Marlinas(pictured) .

The latter were great openers. I particularly liked the singer's voice.

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · 28d

LEICESTERVAL: LEICESTER INDIEPOP WEEKENDER 2026

The thirteenth Leicester event, the second weekender. Saturday upstairs 2pm to around 10.30pm, Sunday downstairs 3pm to before 9pm followed by an indiepop disco upstairs to midnight.

Full line-up ETA late October.

wegottickets.com/event/676095

Last year's debut weekender went well enough that we're giving it another go, our unlucky for someone thirteenth gathering of DIY greatness in all. Saturday upstairs from 2pm (and there's going to be ...

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · 29d

Tonight! Tickets on the door or for cheaper via wegottickets.com/event/662426 (but before 5pm if you could)

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Sep 7

*cough*ticketsonsaleendofnextweeklineupendofoctober*cough*

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Sep 7

Doors 7pm, bands from 7.30 to round, maybe right before 10.

Sweeping The Nation, taking to Duffy's for the first time, Presents... Returning after their standout set at Leicester Indiepop Alldayer 2022, FORTITUDE VALLEY is the brainchild of Laura Kovic. Tak...

Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Sep 4

ONE WEEK TO GO! until @fortitudevalley.bsky.social start their Part Of The Problem, Baby album tour at Duffy's, Leicester, with Virginia's Wolves and The Marlinas.

wegottickets.com/event/662426

Fortitude Valley

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Aug 25

Was actually looking for something else in a issue from around the same time, which I didn't find.

Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Aug 25

One month later...

Select magazine, August 1999, in which two future Cribs discuss their Trisha appearance. Trust me, "once supported Tampasm" would have made them godheads at the time.

Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Aug 25

Select magazine, July 1999. Let's not be hasty, it could be any rock-obsessed twins from Wakefield called Ryan and Gary.

(Unless they mention it in a podcast this isn't documented anywhere online by the way, it's even been missed by that Select scans site)

A Select magazine article about an episode of ITV 9.25am talkathon Trisha (which they misspell in the article) about obsessive music fans, including two eighteen year olds dressed as Marilyn Manson and Kurt Cobain who are Ryan and Gary Jarman later of the Cribs. This isn't mentioned anywhere online, by the way.

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Aug 25

Also, and I might have missed evidence but, it's interesting how everybody knows Andrew Harrison coined the term in The Word but nobody seems to have actually found where or when.

Sweeping The Nation, taking to Duffy's for the first time, Presents... Returning after their standout set at Leicester Indiepop Alldayer 2022, FORTITUDE VALLEY is the brainchild of Laura Kovic. Tak...

Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Aug 25

Feels a bit weird how landfill indie has recently been subsumed into the spuriousness of and accordingly re-promoted as 'indie sleaze' because they were both sort of mid-00s things with guitars.

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Aug 21

Three weeks until we bring @fortitudevalley.bsky.social to Leicester!

wegottickets.com/event/662426

Fortitude Valley

Is it still worth doing these? Given we don't think anybody reads them. Autocamper - Foxes Blue Amber - Yr Man in the Music Scene Boko ...

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Aug 4

The July STN Selects playlist, which yes, probably should be also available on another source by now, but also nobody follows them so it doesn't matter. sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2025/08/stn-...

STN Select: July 2025

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Aug 4

Not at this end now, I forgot to make the playlist public last night so it's possible you saw it before I remembered.

Is it still worth doing these? Given we don't think anybody reads them. Autocamper - Foxes Blue Amber - Yr Man in the Music Scene Boko ...

Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Aug 4

The July STN Selects playlist, which yes, probably should be also available on another source by now, but also nobody follows them so it doesn't matter. sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2025/08/stn-...

STN Select: July 2025

Sweeping The Nation, taking to Duffy's for the first time, Presents... Returning after their standout set at Leicester Indiepop Alldayer 2022, FORTITUDE VALLEY is the brainchild of Laura Kovic. Tak...

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𝓕𝓸𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓽𝓾𝓭𝓮 𝓥𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮𝔂 @fortitudevalley.bsky.social · Aug 1

Wanna hear these songs live?? Come see us on tour! 🎸

Ticket links all here: https://f.mtr.cool/ldgakvleqq

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Aug 1

Not only is it Bandcamp Friday but it's @fortitudevalley.bsky.social album release day... fortitudevalley.bandcamp.com/album/part-o...

...and their tour for it starts round ours (if you assume "ours" for the night is Duffy's Bar, Leicester) on 11th September. wegottickets.com/event/662426

Fortitude Valley

... @gweniferraymond.bsky.social @gwennosaunders.bsky.social @heavenlyamelia.bsky.social @jeanines-band.bsky.social @projectoverload.bsky.social @prolapseband.bsky.social @robinkester.com @youngfathers.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/swee...

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Jul 21

I first saw and fell for Panic Shack in 2019 on their third gig when they didn't have enough of their own songs for a half hour set. Five and a bit more than a half years later their debut album is number 11 in the midweeks. Something feels quite weird about that.

Panic Shack in repose. Photo by me. There is also one of me with them where I look like their dad, which is never being made widely public.

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Jul 12

Pleased to say with a day short of two months to go that Alldayer alumni Virginia's Wolves have been added to our @fortitudevalley.bsky.social gig at Duffy's, Leicester on 11th September.

wegottickets.com/event/662426

Fortitude Valley, supported by Virginia's Wolves and The Marlinas, Thursday 11th September, Duffy's, Leicester. Tickets £8 advance from wegottickets

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Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Jun 30

Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Jun 30

NEW BLOG:

STN Selects for June, the biggest yet.

sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2025/06/stn-...

STN Selects: June 2025

Well, mentioning how last month's playlist was fortunately a little quieter than usual was a red rag to the industry bull as this is the big...

Well, mentioning how last month's playlist was fortunately a little quieter than usual was a red rag to the industry bull as this is the big...

Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Jun 30

Let's try doing some tagging.... @adwaithmusic.bsky.social @allodarlin.bsky.social @thebeths.bsky.social @cmatbaby.bsky.social @dancerband.bsky.social @dayflower.bsky.social @fortitudevalley.bsky.social @gemmacullingford.bsky.social @gruffrhys.bsky.social ...
bsky.app/profile/swee...

Sweeping The Nation @sweepingthenation.bsky.social · Jun 30

NEW BLOG:

STN Selects for June, the biggest yet.

sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2025/06/stn-...

STN Selects: June 2025