Got an unseemly gap in your social calendar this coming weekend? DiS has got two pairs of tickets for each day of this year's Homefires festival. We're at Primavera, so you can have 'em if you like.
Taking place at Conway Hall in Holborn's Red Lion Square, Homefires IV will strive to continue "showcasing the best of left-field *quiet* music" this Saturday and Sunday (2/3 June). The bill is topped by Nina Nastasia and Bat For Lashes, and also features DiS Recordings' Emily Haines.
For full details see below, but for the chance to win tickets for yourself and a friend/enemy/lover/A.N. Other to one day of the festival, first answer this simple question:
'Homefires' is a festival for 'quiet' music. Your house is on fire. The entire downstairs, in fact, is wracked in flame. You and your childhood sweetheart are upstairs, and the only choice left is to jump or burn. As you gaze through the smoke into each other's streaming eyes, what quiet song would you choose to soundtrack this moment?
No need to email anyone - just leave your answer as a comment below, making sure that you STATE A PREFERENCE FOR SATURDAY/SUNDAY in the subject line. This is important, yes? Line-up:
Saturday
Nina Nastasia
Adem
Fionn Regan
St Vincent
Barbarossa
Adjagas
Not Applicable Artists
David Karsten Daniels
Emmy the Great
Anni Rossi
Men An Tol
Sunday
Bat For Lashes
(Special Guest)
Richard Swift
Emily Haines and Soft Skeleton
Death Vessel
Baby Dee
Thee, Stranded Horse
Basia Bulat
One Little Plane
Alessi
DJs include Belle and Sebastian and Andy Votel
This'll close at 3pm on Friday. That is all.
fionn
be good or be gone by fionn regan. lovely song and also my favorite show for saturday!
Have you forgotten
By the red house painters. It would be a very long burning.
Sunday please!
Oh go on!
Sunday should I win
The Flaming Lips- Felt Good To Burn
saturday!
"two-step" by low. there's never an inappropriate time for a little dance.
sunday
Elliott Smith's Whatever (folk song in c): "what are you doing hanging out with me"
sunday
a common diaster - cowboy junkies
sunday
song for guy - elton john
because it reminds me of being young... and its about a monkey
Saturday
Stormy Weather - Nina Nastasia. It's simply an amazing song. Dogs is brilliant.
Sunday
I am kloot, morning rain.
sunday
across the universe covered by fiona apple
sunday
Elliott Smith: No Name #2
Saturday
The Liars - The Other Side Of Mt. Heart Attack
JUMP!
I think the obvious answer is to jump
House of Pain - Jump Around.
Edit/Saturday
^ Not quiet, but appropriate
sunday
radiohead - motion picture soundtrack
actually
i dont want to go to this.
thx.
is a house wrecked with fire really quiet?
just a thought.... but maybe something off Low- things we lost in the fire :)
tough one but..
"Peach, Plum, Pear" by Joanna Newsom. I don't know why that song gets to me so much but it does, every time.
Sunday please!
:)
let it burn - adem.
perfect soundtrack to dying.
oh, sunday please.
sunday sunday sunday
ANYONE ELSE BUT YOU
The Moldy Peaches
sunday! pretty puh-lease =)
The Flaming Lips- "Do You Realize?"
sunday sunday suuunnndayyyyy
sunday por favor!
perfect tune:
the smiths: asleep.
hard choice...Sunday please :)
Boom Bip & Nina Nastasia - The Matter (of our discussion)
Perfect.
Sunday Please!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday Sunday Sunday!!
Haha!
Sounds like an amazing way to spend a lazy day!
Sunday!!!!! Please.......
Sudnay Sunday Sunday!!!
What a brill way to spend a lazy day!
and my answer is...
.. I got so excited about Sunday I forgot my reply!
Song: Set the Fire to the Third Bar // Snow Patrol... Hairs stand up on the back of my neck
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
sunday please (for emily).
i forgot this part
Harry Nilsson's cover of "without you" would be playing softly in the background.
sunday if possible
and it would either be 'asleep' by the smiths (obvious choice) or alternatively slightly more obscure beirut 'elephant gun'. i think i'm leaning more towards 'elephant gun' as it's less outwardly miserable, and maybe even uplifting with it's lilting accordion etc. hmmm.
SCRATCH THAT - given the severity of the situation, it'd be 'asleep' definitely. :>
ahhh, as a wise bard once said, 'sad songs say so much' :p
Sunday
I'm not sure this would be a time for quiet songs... I think the song I would find popping into my head unbidden, would be "Fire" by Arthur Brown, accompanied by this wonderful visualization:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOErZuzZpS8
SUNDAY
Glosoli - Sigur Ros
at least it would seem like a powerful world-altering moment...even if it was just the two of us
Sunday
Pink Floyd - Fearless
"You pick the place and I'll choose the time
And I'll climb
That hill in my own way."
Such an intense song.
Sunday
April, Carrie Tree. Seek it out, you'll love it.
saturday asseblief!
gloomy sunday- the artie shaw one that vibrates slowly in your bones
saturday asseblief!
i made a terrible mistake! Worrywort by radiohead would do better
Sunday
Emily Haines - Crowd surf off a cliff.
Sunday
Eric Clapton - Give me strength
wie
who won?