MELT! Festival 2011 - Highlights

The Melt! Festival is a music festival in Germany. The music that is played is described by the organizers as Electronic meets Rock.

Since 1999 the festival is held in Ferropolis, Gräfenhainichen Germany.

A principal attraction of the festival is the location, an openair museum of huge machines from the 20th Century. Some of them weigh up to 1980 tonnes and reach 30 metres high.

Some of this year's highlights are available on this blog... thanks to MELTmartin

Beady Eye - Live @ MELT! 2011
Beady Eye are an English rock band formed in 2009 by former members of Oasis, following the exit of member Noel Gallagher.

The Naked and Famous - Live @ MELT! 2011
The Naked and Famous are a New Zealand indie rock band from Auckland. Their single "Young Blood" debuted on the New Zealand chart at number one in 2010 - the first New Zealand artist in three years to do so. The Naked and Famous released their debut studio album, Passive Me, Aggressive You, on 6 September 2010.
On 6 December 2010, the BBC announced that The Naked and Famous had been nominated for the BBC's Sound of 2011 poll.

The Drums - Live @ MELT! 2011
The Drums are an American indie pop band from Brooklyn, New York, with members stemming from the shortlived band Elkland (formerly Goat Explosion). The band is currently on the Moshi Moshi/Island (UK), Popfrenzy (AU) and Downtown (US) labels.

The Streets - Live @ MELT! 2011
The Streets is a British rap/garage project from Birmingham, United Kingdom,[1] led by Mike Skinner. Skinner has credited Johnny Drum Machine as the only other member of The Streets to have appeared on all the albums. The Streets regularly perform live, and have appeared at several major festivals. The current live line-up consists of Skinner, Kevin Mark Trail on backing vocals, Wayne Vibes on guitar and bass, Chris Brown on keyboards, Magic Mike on samplers and Johnny Drum Machine as drummer and musical director.

Patrick Wolf - Live @ MELT! 2011
Patrick Wolf (born Patrick Denis Apps on 30 June 1983) is an English singer-songwriter from South London. Patrick utilises a wide variety of instruments in his music, most commonly the ukulele, piano and viola. Known for combining electronic sampling with classical instruments, Wolf's styles range from romantic folk to techno-pop.

We Have Band - Live @ MELT! 2011


Everything Everything - Live @ Live @ MELT! 2011
Everything Everything are a British alternative rock band that formed in late 2007, originate from Newcastle, Kent and Guernsey, and reside in Manchester. The band rose to fame when they were revealed as part of the BBC's Sound of 2010 poll on 7 December 2009. The band released their debut album, Man Alive through Geffen Records on 30 August 2010; where it debuted at number 17 in the United Kingdom.

Digitalism - Live @ MELT! 2011
Digitalism is a German electro boogie duo founded in 2004 in Hamburg and consisting of Jens "Jence" Moelle and İsmail "Isi" Tüfekçi. They are signed to French label Kitsuné Music, and have released four singles to date: "Idealistic", "Zdarlight", "Jupiter Room", and "Pogo". Jens likens Digitalism's songs to simple chapters in a complex novel about social interaction and attraction, with distorted bass lines and thumping rhythms comprising the punctuation.

White Lies - Live @ MELT! 2011
White Lies is an English indie rock band from Ealing, London. Formerly known as Fear of Flying, the band consists primarily of Harry McVeigh (lead vocals, guitar), Charles Cave (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Jack Lawrence-Brown (drums). The band perform live as a five-piece, complemented by sidemen Tommy Bowen and Rob Lee.

Bodi Bill - Live @ MELT! 2011
In a time of chill, of electronics and calculus Bodi Bill enter the stage with an alternative draft. They inspire with pop songs full of love and devotion, backed up by a heartly coolness only a city like Berlin can bear. This coolness is burst when 3000 voices sing together on their live shows: “If you don't like Sonic Youth … fuck off and die!?
Passionate songwriting, unobstructed indulgence, virtuosic beats, Kraftwerk-like synthie layers. Allways refining their already unique sound.

And probably more to come over the next few days... tell your friends, tweet it, facebook it.. they might all be gone before too long and deleted from youtube again.

More Info
http://www.meltfestival.de/en
http://www.facebook.com/meltfestival