This Is Fake DIY: Features and Interviews

Preview: The Great Escape, Brighton
OK, so it's a 'little escape' for us DIY-ers, but here's what the festival has to offer over the next few days.

In Session: Tapes 'n Tapes - Hang Them All
See a performance of the band's single, taken from second album, 'Walk It Off'.

Interview: These New Puritans
DIY spoke to Jack and George from the band.

In Session: The Lodger - The Good Old Days
Watch an exclusive performance of the new single, recorded last year in Leeds.

Soundtrack Of Their Lives: The Wave Pictures
'Springsteen still inspires me to be a better songwriter, singer and guitarist, and my ambition doesn't really extend beyond that.'

In Session: Florence And The Machine - Hospital Beds
Florence and friends cover the Cold War Kids track at last weekend's Camden Crawl.

Soundtrack Of Their Lives: The Accidental
The band's Stephen Cracknell and Sam Genders let us in on what constitues their respective soundtracks...

In Session: Peter Moren - Social Competence
It's Peter's song about his time as a supply teacher, performed exclusively for us!

Interview: The Presets
DIY talks to the Australian electro duo about their new album and other stuff.

Interview: Free Blood
John and Madeline talk about their new EP, ('Part 2') and much more besides.

Eugene McGuinness
'It's kind of weird that one of the first things they mention in articles is where you're from'.

Wild Beasts
'There should always be a fear of what you're going to do next. Just keep going into the dark and keep going into unknown territories.'

Operator Please
'I think a common misconception about us is that we apparently have parents in the music industry, which is total bullshit.'

The Rakes
'It is four years after we started so you're going to feel slightly jaded and a bit wiser. I mean, I don't quite feel like Mick Jagger or Bono yet.'

Sam Sparro
'It's heavily influenced by funk and electro from the late 70s to the mid 80s as well as New Wave and New Romantic stuff and modern dance music and pop and soul.'

Speck Mountain
'It is an album about unrelenting hope in the midst of a great disappointment with our existence. '

Dels
'People have started to brand what we do as 'chip-hop' which is quite funny.'

Guillemots
'I saw some YouTube stuff of Jean-Michel Jarre recently, and - I mean, he's the man - but I don't want to go that way onstage.'

The Whip
'I saw Button Moon recently and was a bit gutted, I remember it being another world out there, but it was just a tin of beans and a Lenor bottle on string.'

Malcolm Middleton
'Sitting on a bus everyday gives you a different perspective of your life, that's always fun.'

Navvy
Sheffield-based quartet, two boys and two girls, who cite such influences as The Breeders and Wire.

Damage
Damage is a frankly insultingly young 19 year old, who suddenly discovered an innate super power for creating awesome electro dance last year.

Richard Peter Snapes and the Lie Awakes
Think Cats and Cats and Cats meets Arcade Fire. Brilliant.

Let's Go Sailing
Let's Go Sailing consists of one Shana Levy and a host of musician friends who play on and off at gigs.

Kid Captain
This is a band who certainly embrace the sound of past greats with influences being worn loudly on their collective sleeve.

The USA
If not because we've pretty much fallen for them after hearing so little material, then because they've named their forthcoming tour the 'minibar tour'. Genius!

Paper Planes
These demos are bloody good, notwithstanding the fact they've only been together for a matter of weeks.

Magic Arm
The alter-ego of Manchester-based electronic folksy troubadour Marc Rigelsford.

Bear Hug
Many influences can be picked out, from Interpol to British Sea Power and even hints of David Bowie.

Trailing Laces
The music is observational without feeling contrived as the band weave their obvious frustration with day to day life in to some fantastic sounding tunes.