We bought ourselves tickets for Indietracks this summer. So I am going to see some bands I have wanted to see for a long time (The Wedding Present, The Beatnik Filmstars, Comet Gain, Milky Wimpshake), some bands I would love to see again (Ballboy, The Occasional Flickers) and some new bands that I have yet to tick off my seen live-list (The Roadside Poppies, The Zebras, The Deirdres, Pocketbooks). And a whole bunch of others too, as well as many regulars from the place where indiepoppers hang out during the 364 days a year when there is no Indietracks. And there is something with trains too. So that is going to be a lot of fun.

To prepare ourselves, we will play records at the aforementioned Exeter Goes Pop! tonight, go and see three new bands in Bristol on Saturday and see five not-so-new-but-all-the-more-legendary bands in London six days after that. It all makes me look more like an indiepopper than I actually am these days, for I am going through a phase of listening to only a little bit of music and even less indiepop. But that might be an extra reason to not spend another two weekends at home with the safe trinity of books, broadband and bed.