Pains, trains and le French Resistance!
Unlike the big festivals, which can sometimes feel more like a circus than a music festival, Indie Tracks is all about independent bands playing alternative music. On top of a great line-up, the festival also boasts the wonder of trains. Yeah, I know it’s a bit weird, but it’s just the way it is. Trains and music… Indie Tracks.
The festival is held in the Derbyshire countryside, in and around the Midland Railway, Butterley, so that means as well as listening to some of the best indie-pop music, you also get to ride steam trains, get stuck in down at the farm and do some locomotive related historical research at the museum.
Held between the 23rd & the 25th July, the summer festival’s line-up includes The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Pooh Sticks, The Primitives, Love Is All, Everybody Was in the French Resistance…Now and Allo Darlin’.
Highlights will include getting KOd on farm cider, going for boozy roller-coaster ride on the steam train and singing along to Crash like a 15 year old school girl, before falling asleep just outside my tent with a peg sticking uncomfortably in my groinal region.
