In Live Music We Trust: A BBC Radio 1 Hackney Weekend preview
Five acts we recommend at the Hackney Weekend
Photographer:steve wild
Chris Swindells, Chris Eustace - 21 June 2012
Random Impulse - Saturday, BBC Introducing
Stage
Random Impulse floats through some strange
circles, the grime MC has earned kudos from luminaries as far and wide as Lupe Fiasco, Ed Sheeran and Jack White. Jovel
Walker is the one man music machine, with guitar and beats, he's set numerous musical rings on fire and proved the
gap between punk and grime is easier than everyone thought to bridge.
With the fire of the fight in his belly the
22-year-old broke records by selling an astronomical 10,000 units of his independently released debut EP in the space of just
six months. He's found critical plaudits in the strangest of places, from MTV to Huffington Post, the love just won't stop
for the wonder kid Walker.
Savages – Sunday, BBC Introducing Stage
Brighton’s Savages
are garnering huge praise from all corners right now, and all with just one song, ‘Husbands’ available
to listen to online. Intense and visceral, the all-female quartet take the best of early-80’s post-punk/new wave and
cut it with darker, more gothic influences.
Live, they’re compelling, quirky and quite simply ferocious.
It’s quite possible that they’ll blow everything else on the Introducing Stage away without even trying.
Jessie Ware - Saturday, BBC Introducing Stage
The new sub-cool pop songstress with one foot in eighties era electronica has made her name first with SBTRKT
and then his vocal arm, Sampha, before becoming infamous for her own song writing and that obscure line; 'carving my initials
on your forehead'. Her debut 'Devotion' will be unveiled in August and having her Hackney Weekend slot announced
just last weekend by Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac on Radio One, it's the best time to see a performer moving up a gear. Her
latest single 'Wildest Moments' is one more example of a singer maturing into a sound of great depth and emotion.
Madeon – Sunday, Dance Arena
Stupidly
young electropop sensation Madeon, aka Hugo Pierre Leclercq, came to prominence with his remix of Pendulum’s ‘The
Island’ and his own ‘Pop Culture’ mash-up, which spread like wildfire once he uploaded it to Youtube
this time last year, and he’s been supported from the off by Radio 1’s dance guru Pete Tong.
Scoring a sizable hit with his soaring debut single ‘Icarus’ a couple of months ago, there’s
more where that came from, and it’s just as infectious. For anyone missing Daft Punk, you know where to go on Sunday.
Special Guests – Sunday, Main Stage
The big intrigue left for the Hackney Weekend.
Who do Radio 1 have lined up as their big surprise guests? Last year saw Arctic Monkeys saunter on unannounced
to premiere ‘Suck It And See’, so the bar is set high anyway, but given the superstars on show elsewhere
it’s time to think big.
You’d guess at Coldplay, as they could come on and do ‘Princess
Of China’ with headliner Rihanna... wait there’s a day off in their touring schedule! Oh,
it’s between dates in Texas. Our other big brainwave was One Direction (scream!), but they
too will be in the US.
Guesses we’ve kicked around include Muse, Justin Bieber,
Kanye West and Cheryl Cole, but it looks like we’ll all just have to wait for the
big reveal.
The Hackney Weekend tickets are now sold out and all ticket holders are reminded that they will have to hold ID and a ticket
with their corresponding face on the front.
Click here for our weather watch report on the weekend's forecast.
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