Musicbox turns 20
Underhand wrestling tactics and more by Andrew ‘Bernie’ Plain
We’re celebrating 20 years of Musicbox Studios this year and we wanted to mark this occasion with a gig worthy of it. We couldn’t think of a better way than to curate a stage at Sŵn and combine our 20th birthday with their 10th.
We’ve tried to pick bands and friends to play that span our 20 years so we have exciting new bands in the form of Himalayas and The Cradles who have both started coming to us in the last couple of years and we think are superb. They are both rapidly gaining great reputations as two great indie bands and you won’t want to miss them.
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We’re delighted to have convinced our dear friends Derrero to reform for it and we’re very grateful to them for saying yes. They were one of the very first bands to use Musicbox back in 1996 and favourites of ours along with the legendary John Peel and Steve Lamacq. If you’ve never had Derrero in your life then you have an opportunity to put that right at Sŵn 10.
Matt Davies has been a long time supporter of our studios and we were privileged to call Funeral For A Friend our friends. Back in 2006, Matt asked us to play on a solo record of his under the name The Secret Show. It seemed fitting that since it was 10 years since that point that we ask Matt to perform some of those songs at our stage.
We’ve successfully managed to get the amazing Truckers of Husk to agree to play after challenging them to a tag team wrestling match. If we won then they promised to play. We used some severe underhand tactics, got the win, and now they’re playing! It’ll be their first show in some time and the pain of their wrestling defeat will no doubt produce a great gig.
There are also a couple more very special guests that we’ll be announcing closer to the time but you’ll have to watch the usual spaces to find out who they are.
Either way, please come and help us celebrate our 20th birthday on Saturday 22nd October in The Moon Club as part of the incredible Sŵn 10 line up.
To keep up to date with the Musicbox 20 stage, join their event page here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/1765702677038279/
