We’re so pleased to finally announce the lineup for the GUITAR HERO New Bands stage at Offset Festival 2009. We’ve had over 2000 (!) submissions through the site and it’s been a pleasure and a struggle in equal measure to hand pick the bands we loved the most.
Headlining the Saturday night are local boys done good DEAD KIDS, whose antagonistic post-punk found the perfect home on boutique label Sparrow’s Tear, home of Selfish Cunt. Saturday night also sees Offset playing host to the sublime garage fuzz-soul of THE RAYOGRAPHS and contenders for single of the year with ‘Graveyard Shift’, FRIENDSHIP – a two-piece rhythm assault with tunes that loop around your head for days.
On Sunday DETACHMENTS are playing for us before they go huge – a few fantastic singles on ThisIsNotAnExit produced by Andrew Weatherall, Trevor Jackson and Tim Goldsworthy (DFA) will be followed by the debut album in 2010 – it’s shaping up to be a blinder. We’re also thrilled to be bringing QUAD THROW SALCHOW to Offset. The band were handpicked to open the DFA’s NotWave compilation featuring the likes of James Chance and Free Blood.
Full lineup after the jump.
