Come back to Camden

Apologies once again to those well outside London...
The first 40 or so bands have been announced for Camden Crawl 2006, with just under half featuring 'The' in their name and a slightly surprising amount of hip-hop. It's somewhat lacking in big names at the moment (although Guillemots are playing so who cares?) but those will probably be added later. That list, then:

• Absentee
• Akira The Don
• The Aliens
• The Automatic
• Cazals
• The Delilahs
• Dogs
• Elle Milano
• Fields
• iForward Russia!
• The Fratellis
• Good Books
• Guillemots
• The Holloways
• Howling Bells
• Humanzi
• Lethal Bizzle
• Louie
• The Maccabees
• The Marshals
• The Mitchell Brothers
• Morning Runner
• Paolo Nutuni
• The On Offs
• The Paddingtons
• The Pipettes
• The Pistolas
• Plan B
• The Rifles
• The Rogers Sisters
• Rumble Strips
• Shit Disco
• S Rock Levinson
• The Spinto Band
• The Sunshine Underground
• Sway
• Switches
• Wolfmother

In other London not-really-a-festival-is-it news, Dirty Pretty Things have been added to Hyde Park's Wireless on the Strokes/Super Furry Animals/Belle & Sebastian day, a pretty great lineup although it seems inevitable that at least two of them will be playing at the same time.