NEW BLOG With our unerring commitment to only the most up to date new music, here's the playlist for August. sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2025/10/stn-...

NEW BLOG With our unerring commitment to only the most up to date new music, here's the playlist for August. sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2025/10/stn-...

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Here's your first set of names for Leicesterval 2026. And there's much more to come - in a few weeks we'll tell you the other half of the line-up. WEEKEND AND DAY TICKETS, with nearly half the weekend/Saturday allocation gone already: wegottickets.com/event/676095

Would you like some names for Leicesterval 2026? Including a headliner? Here, tomorrow, 11am.

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

. @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. 1/3

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

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

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

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)

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.

Three weeks until we bring @fortitudevalley.bsky.social to Leicester! wegottickets.com/event/662426

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-...

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-...

Wanna hear these songs live?? Come see us on tour! 🎸 Ticket links all here: https://f.mtr.cool/ldgakvleqq

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

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.

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

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...

NEW BLOG: STN Selects for June, the biggest yet. sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2025/06/stn-...

Safely assuming nothing new is going to be surprise released today or tomorrow, STN's thirty favourite albums of the first half of 2025.

New Single. Wildfire. Out Now. projectoverload.bandcamp.com and all the usual streamers.

Watch the new @fortitudevalley.bsky.social video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8NL... And then buy a ticket to see them at Duffy's Bar, Leicester on 11th September: wegottickets.com/event/662426

New Prolapse single, about **SPOILER** Cat Stevens headbutting Donovan. Very much a Prolapse song, if the motorik is swapped for something befitting the title. Also, tour dates in August and October! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNMe...

Reminder that we're bringing @fortitudevalley.bsky.social back to Leicester on 11th September, at Duffy's Bar, and tickets are on sale now. wegottickets.com/event/662426

He just wasn't made for this time.

Sweeping The Nation presents... FORTITUDE VALLEY @fortitudevalley.bsky.social‬ DIY power-pop supergroup (Tigercats, Martha, Fast Blood) supporting their upcoming second album With The Marlinas & 1 TBC Duffy's Bar, Leicester Thursday 11th September 2025 Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/662426

Sweeping The Nation presents... FORTITUDE VALLEY @fortitudevalley.bsky.social‬ DIY power-pop supergroup (Tigercats, Martha, Fast Blood) supporting their upcoming second album With The Marlinas & 1 TBC Duffy's Bar, Leicester Thursday 11th September 2025 Tickets: wegottickets.com/event/662426

For the first time in 29 years… a new single from Heavenly! It will be available in good record shops or can be pre-ordered here - heavenlyindie.bandcamp.com/album/portla...

After last night's soft launch here's STN's Select for May, as well as a couple of other things you should be aware of. sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2025/06/stn-...

Yes, it's late, but we've just stuck up the STN Select for May. sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2025/06/stn-...

Popping out to see @junkwhaletheband.bsky.social * later, which reminds me I forgot to recommend their excellent new EP. (* and less directly for the purposes of this post but just as excitingly @nathysg.bsky.social) junkwhale.bandcamp.com/album/see-yo...

Dayflower have released their new EP today including a version of the title track recorded live at Leicesterval. dayflower.bandcamp.com/album/lazy-ep

🌞🌞🌞 Our new single ‘SUNSHINE STATE’ is streaming everywhere NOW!! 🌞🌞🌞 We made a video for it ourselves!💅 

As the Libertines didn't put it, there are few more distressing sights than that of Steve Lamacq in a baseball cap.

@focuswales.bsky.social Thursday, with Mclusky, Seazoo, Diary and @campfiresocial.bsky.social

Once more, to Wrexham! (how many more years depends on whether the cost of their hotels stops being extortionate)

Our new album, Bright Nights, comes out in July on @fikarecordings.com and @slumberlandrecords.com! Pre-order here!! li.sten.to/allo-darlin-...

Sorry, just run that one past me again...

Given the complete lack of engagement we really should post more things we like on here. So here's Murder Club's new @poptypingrecds.bsky.social 7": popty-ping-records.bandcamp.com/album/ping00...

Maybe if we tied this in with #BandcampFriday...

NEW BLOG for the best of April. sweepingthenation.blogspot.com/2025/05/stn-...

It's twenty years today since the Sweeping The Nation blog began. We had multiple special features planned to celebrate the landmark. None of them are even close to having worked out. So instead we've opened a Ko-fi account. ko-fi.com/sweepingthen...

It's twenty years today since the Sweeping The Nation blog began. We had multiple special features planned to celebrate the landmark. None of them are even close to having worked out. So instead we've opened a Ko-fi account. ko-fi.com/sweepingthen...

And the answer is "disappointing". bsky.app/profile/swee...

You know how years ago before the effects of climate change became apparent there was a school of thought that the earth could have been approaching a new ice age?

On this most Aphex Twin of days, let it be noted that the old woman from the Come To Daddy video's other most significant acting role is in this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz65...

Dig! could have been so different.

Tricky Questions out today, wherever you hear good music! UK tour in October, pre-sale via our mailing list next Monday 7 April. Sign up on our website. We hope to see you soon and that you love our new song!