In the organizer's words:

Düsseldorf's Neumatic Parlo not only cross the Rhine on their sonic journey, but also swim across the English Channel on their debut album play it as it lays: Drenched in the guitar sound of the early 90s, the five musicians skillfully take their place alongside UK greats of the recent past - fans of Shame, Squid or Dry Cleaning will get more than their money's worth here, it all sounds so urgent, inventive and entirely un-German!

CELLAR are a new Cologne-based band making groovy, sometimes heavy guitar music somewhere between shoegaze shimmer and post-punk grit. Formed by three sound engineers and a lighting engineer who became a band while working on everyone else's shows, CELLAR bring a meticulous ear to the chaos.

Their influences-DIIV, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Fontaines D.C., Joy Division-show up more as spirit than template: waves of noise, angular basslines, and lyrics steeped in a love of English literature and poetry. CELLAR is Kerim (Yottagon) on drums, Robin on bass, Cassian (Paul & The Microcosm) on keys, and Antony (ex-Fear of Men, Family Friends, Headache) on guitar and vocals. Antony arrived from London, met the others somewhere between soundcheck and last orders, and the rest followed naturally