Tour Diary of a Roaming Intern: Jenny Booth at Swn Festival (Cardiff, UK)

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So why not send our former intern, Jenny Booth, to a festival in the UK, right? Heck, if it helps her with a press pass, we feel pretty damn good about it. -Ed.
"dubstep and folk, hip hop and rock, indie and electronica and everything in between,"
what the UK's newest and brightest musicians are up to these days
FRIDAY
even the rainforest of skinny jeans and winklepickers can't make this look good
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Wild Beasts
Marina and the Diamonds
Girls
without making an effort to engage the audience, no one's bothered enough to listen
people-waiting-in-line)
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Photo courtesy of Sam King
Dimbleby & Capper
ohmygosh she's eccentric in all the right ways
Beautiful but Boring
Slick Maturity
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**First Huw Stevens spotting:
Pulled Apart by Horses
he also proceeded to vomit right into the audience
Swanton Bombs
good show but failed to get the crowd moving, even with the machine gun drumming of Viktoria.
the Pipettes
SATURDAY
today Cardiff hit us with storm force gales
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Menomena T-shirt spotted in Cardiff!
Chris T-T
one of the decided highlights of the festival
Taxi Taxi!
taxi taxi!
True Love Will Find You in the End
Cate Le Bon
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Swn is awash with dotty, vamped-up girls and their bands of nameless boys
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Stornoway
Master Shortie
spine-tingling acoustic folk balladry
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Internet Forever
best bad taste joke of the night. "Thanks for making it down here, we're hidden away and forgotten in this basement, bit like the Fritzl family no one talks about."
internet forever
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**SECOND HUW STEVENS SPOTTING!!
Los Campesinos!
I can't help being fond of the band whose song titles include This is How you Spell "HAHAHA, We Destroyed the Hopes and the Dreams of a Generation of Faux-Romantics".
Death to Los Campesinos!
Hold On Youngster
One guy manages the longest crowd surf I've ever seen
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Romance is Boring
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All photos by Jenny Booth, whom we miss a lot 'round here.

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