Festival playlist: 10 Camden Crawl picks

London's now legendary Camden Crawl is back again this weekend (4th-6th May) and I guess you could say that it is the first festival of the season. The event's own website is pretty fancy and doesn't really need much added to it, and I reckon most of you know enough about Death In Vegas, the Cribs and the Futureheads by now as well. So, by means of a brief preview I thought I would concentrate on the bands in the small print on the poster and pick 10 tracks for a Spotify playlist. Enjoy - and do try and catch these ten if you are lucky enough to be in Camden this weekend and haven't got too many stressful clashes on your clashfinder!

The St Patrick's Day rowdy alternative

As some of you may know, I grew up in Northern Ireland. As an antidote to a lot of the music being shared today in celebration of St Patrick, I thought I would create my own mix as an alternative to all that. I tried to restrict it to modern, lesser-known bands, but my main motivation was to make a rowdy fun 'party mix'. It features tunes from Fight Like Apes, Jetplane Landing, LaFaro, Adebisi Shank, Not Squares, Patrick Kelleher and His Cold Dead Hands, Jape, Cashier No 9 and Oppenheimer. It even has a sad song from Robyn G Shiels at the end, for that authentic end-of-party come down.
You can listen on Spotify at this link.

Slow Thrills St Patricks Day rowdy alternative on Spotify

Or on Mixcloud below - enjoy!

Slow Thrills: St Patricks Day rowdy alternative by Slowthrills on Mixcloud