While the summer season months and festivals in fields appear to be flying previous at breakneck pace once more, it’s time to take a seat again and stay up for among the bands that will probably be showing on the 2023 Sŵn Competition in Cardiff this coming October. 

This award profitable multi venue occasion has been so fashionable, not simply with us however with these lucky to have attended over the previous few years; earlier than anybody was even introduced this yr, Sŵn bought out each its early fowl and tier-one tickets. 

As you will notice on the picture above there are plenty of names we already find out about booked to look akin to BC Camplight, Chilli Jesson, Divorce, Jessica Winter, The Final Dinner Social gathering, Lynks, Mandy Indiana, Pale Blue Eyes, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Opus Kink, Pip Blom, Treeboy & Arc and Vainness Fairy.

These are simply to call those that got here instantly to our consideration. As we normally uncover over the weekend, there will probably be one or two different names we merely haven’t frolicked catching up on but that will find yourself being an everyday inclusion in our diaries at any time when they seem once more over the next months (perhaps years) inside venues many people get pleasure from visiting throughout the UK. 

This occasion is a big weekend in some peoples’ diaries (it’s an enormous weekend in ours), and already early indications are mouthwatering sufficient for a few of us to start out planning our attendance, and inform anybody who enjoys the problem of seeing as many nice bands over a weekend that the clock will permit to come back together with us. 

We’ve been there earlier than and we’ll be there once more. Sŵn is held over the weekend of twentieth/22nd October in Cardiff. Extra data accessible on their website right here 

The primary playlist overlaying a couple of of the names already introduced might be heard right here:

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