Forest Swords's 2012 Concert History

Forest Swords is one producer, Matthew Barnes, from the Wirral, Liverpool, UK. A unique blend of jagged hip-hop and R&B beats, looping guitar lines and manipulated samples, his evocative and emotional music reflects the sprawling Wirral landscape of river, coastland and woodland with all the haunting melodies of nearby city Liverpool’s enviable pop history.

Forest Swords had 10 concerts in 2012

Date Concert Venue Location
Sep 20, 2012
Forest Swords / Robin Fox / Slant Azymuth / Silver Apples

ELECTRONIC ARTS FESTIVAL

Bozar Terarken Brussels, Brussels Capital, Belgium
Sep 06, 2012 –
Sep 09, 2012
Bestival 2012
The xx / Major Lazer / alt-J / Two Door Cinema Club / Stevie Wonder / Disclosure / Florence and the Machine / Clean Bandit / Sigur Rós / Ben Howard / Charli XCX / Alabama Shakes / New Order / Justice / Miike Snow / Rudimental / Emeli Sandé / NERO / Hot Chip / Bonobo / Little Dragon / AlunaGeorge / BASSNECTAR / First Aid Kit / De La Soul / Kate Nash / Warpaint / Friendly Fires / Four Tet / Azealia Banks / Michael Kiwanuka / Bat For Lashes / Lianne La Havas / Gabrielle Aplin / Rizzle Kicks / Sub Focus / King Krule / The Horrors / MF Doom / Gold Panda / Sister Sledge / Gary Numan / Spiritualized / Orbital / Ane Brun / Soulwax / Bondax / The Staves / Adam Ant / Maya Jane Coles / Camo & Krooked / Gemini / Delilah / Julio Bashmore / Claude VonStroke / Friends / Stooshe / Field Music / The 2 Bears / Porcelain Raft / Summer Camp / Gallows / dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip / The Gaslamp Killer / Frankie Rose / Forest Swords / Stanton Warriors / Scuba / Dirty Beaches / Buraka Som Sistema / Toy / Eats Everything / Moodymann / This Is The Kit / Max Cooper / Dub Pistols / LTJ Bukem / 2manydjs (DJ Set) / King Khan & The Shrines / The Japanese Popstars / Krafty Kuts / Sleepy Sun / To Kill A King / The Coronas / Kwes. / Jinja Safari / Clock Opera / DJ Yoda / Mosca / The Nextmen / Slagsmålsklubben / Prince Fatty / Plastician / Beans on Toast / Milagres / Patterns / Bellowhead / Kevin Saunderson / David Rodigan / The Correspondents / Krystal Klear / Turbowolf / 2:54 / Eliza Shaddad / Jaguar Skills / Melé / L.A. Salami / Pearl and the Beard / The Other Tribe / Gush / Francois Kevorkian / Ryan Keen / Josh Kumra / Evian Christ / Jackmaster / Scratch Perverts / Annie Mac / Chas 'n' Dave / Spencer / Fiction / Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo / Redinho / Francois K. / Greg Wilson / Drums of Death / Stay+ / Ben UFO / Ahab / Gecko / Liz Green / James McCartney / Tom Williams / Oneman / PBR Streetgang / Clement Marfo and the Frontline / The Cuban Brothers / Jeffrey Lewis & the Junkyard / dirtybird / Random Impulse / Mary Epworth / Laurel Collective / Sunless '97 / Lucky Elephant / Brassroots / Lux Lisbon / Murkage / T.E.E.D / Alonestar / Dingus Khan / Sarah Williams White / Lunch / Rosie Ribbons / Caribou DJ Set / Giles Smith / The Al Mckay Allstars / The Robbie Boyd Band / Perhaps Contraption / James Priestley / Young British Artists / DJ Shepdog / Hallouminati / Ghost Outfit / Mano De Dios / St Spirit / Jaipur Kawa Brass Band / Gak Jonze / Largo Embargo / Two Jackals / Katy Prado & the Mamboleros / James Frost / Three Bonzos And A Piano / Heathward / Church of Love & Ruin / The Shellac Collective / Blackhouse Crow Show all bands
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Robin Hill Country Park Downend, Isle of Wight, UK
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Jun 07, 2012 –
Jun 10, 2012
Optimus Primavera Sound 2012
The Weeknd / The xx / Death Cab for Cutie / M83 / Beach House / The Flaming Lips / Wilco / Washed Out / Explosions in the Sky / The Drums / Neon Indian / Rufus Wainwright / Kings of Convenience / Yo La Tengo / Chairlift / Black Lips / Yann Tiersen / The Rapture / Wavves / Tennis / Suede / Atlas Sound / Spiritualized / The Walkmen / Thee Oh Sees / White Rabbits / Other Lives / Mercury Rev / John Talabot / The Afghan Whigs / I Break Horses / St. Etienne / Veronica Falls / Shellac / Dirty Three / Baxter Dury / Forest Swords / Sleepy Sun / Olivia Tremor Control / Erol Alkan / Ultramagnetic MC's / Wolves In the Throne Room / Jeff Mangum / Lee Ranaldo / Deadboy / Jackmaster / Demdike Stare / bigott / Siskiyou / Redinho / Oneman / Linda Martini / Spencer / Mujeres / Codeine / You Can't Win Charlie Brown / The Right Ons / We Trust / Best Youth / Tall Firs / Gala Drop / Nick Garrie / Rafael Toral / Julie & the Carjackers / Espirit / Stopestra / James Ferarro and the Bodyguard / The War On Drugs / kindness Show all bands
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Parque da Cidade Porto, Porto, Portugal
Show Duplicates for Jun 07, 2012
May 28, 2012
The Soft Moon / Forest Swords / Liturgy

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De Kreun Kortrijk, Flanders, Belgium
May 27, 2012
I'll Be Your Mirror - Curated by Yeah Yeah Yeah's
"I'll Be Your Mirror" - Curated by Yeah Yeah Yeah's / The Afghan Whigs / Archers Of Loaf / Oh Sees / Yuck / Demdike Stare / Siskiyou / Ultramagnetic MC's / Sleepy Sun / Tennis / Tall Firs / Forest Swords
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Alexandra Palace London, England, United Kingdom
May 25, 2012 –
May 27, 2012
ATP I'll Be Your Mirror 2012
Wolves In the Throne Room / Mogwai / Slayer / Tennis / Yuck / Thee Oh Sees / Melvins / Mudhoney / The Afghan Whigs / Sleep / Balam Acab / Chavez / The Soft Moon / Dirty Three / Sleepy Sun / Forest Swords / Yob / Siskiyou / Demdike Stare / Harvey Milk / Blanck Mass / Make-Up / Floor / Codeine / A Storm of Light / Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat / Umberto / Tall Firs / Antoni Maiovvi / Archers Of Loaf Show all bands
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Alexandra Palace London, England, United Kingdom
May 17, 2012 –
May 19, 2012
Liverpool Sound City Festival 2012
alt-J / The Temper Trap / Charli XCX / Jake Bugg / James Vincent McMorrow / Django Django / Professor Green / Johnny Sands / Michael Kiwanuka / Alkaline Trio / Electric Guest / Mystery Jets / White Denim / Peggy Hsu / Slow Club / Dan Croll / Clutter / The Jezabels / Luke Fenlon / Death In Vegas / Niki & The Dove / Peace / Bow & Arrow / Bear In Heaven / Man Get Out / Ghostpoet / Kids In Glass Houses / Ironside / Pond / Pete Bentham & The Dinner Ladies / Willy Mason / Nokies / Flat Back Four / Tim Hecker / Broken Lungs / Last Dinosaurs / Still Corners / Lower Than Atlantis / The Wedding Present / Waa Wei / Fossil Collective / Oxygen Thieves / Jay Stansfield / Chew Lips / Toy / Dead Cities / Alex Hulme / Don Broco / Sun Drums / Bleached / Hugh Keice / Peter & The Harmonics / Theme Park / Anna-Anna / The Ratty Little Fingers / Mind Mountain / White Arrows / Get Back Colquitt / Jazzhands / Forest Swords / Heartbeat Parade / Ex Easter Island Head / Mont Blanc / Jinja Safari / Manuka / Elmo & the Styx / Yukon Blonde / Chelcee Grimes / Blunt Truth / All We Are / Barbieshop / Jessie Rose / Low Roar / Kazimier Krunk Band / Jeanclaudegoddamn / Clock Opera / Monkey Pilot / Long Finger Bandits / Hey Carrianne / Jonquil / Iktsuarpok / Kasst / Milla and the Geeks / Eugene McGuinness / Miss Stylie / Daniel Kuhle / Artwork & Mc Pokes / Faceless Nation / Oliver Tank / Princess Chelsea / Coma / Willis Earl Beal / D/R/U/G/S / Patterns / The History of Apple Pie / Shields / W.I.M. / Concrete Knives / Fixers / Algiers / PINS / Dave Hause / Lulu James / Gush / Owls / Library Voices / Toys / The Heartbreaks / Melè / I am Dive / Arcane Roots / Post War Years / The Computers / Big Sleep / Bird / The Daydream Club / Ahab / Millions / Sweet Billy Pilgrim / Still Flyin' / The Midnight Youth / Bad Pop / Crash of Rhinos / Be Forest / Dinosaur Bones / Hey Sholay / fiN / Sietta / Kites / Bwani Junction / Emma-louise / Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers / Fitz / Mugstar / The Lake Poets / The Invaders / By the Sea / Jethro Fox / The Folks / Cheap Thrills / Pikachunes / Inland Sea / Golden Fable / Goodnight Lenin / Bleeding Heart Narrative / Flip Grater / Ej / The Kestrels / Farryl Purkiss / Slow Down, Molasses / We Are Animal / Crusades / Towns / Cazadores / Esco Williams / Jackson Firebird / Coffee & Cakes for Funerals / People in the Box / I Dream In Colour / Daytona Lights / People of K / Mammal Club / Death at Sea / Fine Young Firecrackers / Common Tongues / Highfields / Bonfire Nights / Ben Salter / The Bendal Interlude / Ninetails / Like Spinning / The Bowers / Ghost Outfit / The Hideaways / Fabrizio Cammarata / Lilliput / Dead Wolf Club / Catfish and the Bottlemen Show all bands
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Unknown venue Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for May 17, 2012
May 10, 2012 –
May 12, 2012
The Great Escape 2012
Bastille / alt-J / Disclosure / The Temper Trap / Alabama Shakes / HAIM / Grimes / AlunaGeorge / Nick Murphy fka Chet Faker / Foxes / Madeon / Lianne La Havas / St. Lucia / Django Django / Perfume Genius / Mystery Jets / Nils Frahm / Half Moon Run / Boy / Emma Louise / College / Booka Shade / Com Truise / We Were Promised Jetpacks / Jamie N Commons / Peace / Foy Vance / Tanlines / The Barr Brothers / Dry the River / Shabazz Palaces / Reverend and The Makers / Lapalux / Swim Deep / Friends / Body Language / Last Dinosaurs / Lower Than Atlantis / Willy Mason / Husky / Don Broco / JD McPherson / Porcelain Raft / EMA / Bass Drum of Death / Mallory Knox / Dillon / We Have Band / Fossil Collective / We Are the Ocean / Forest Swords / Toy / Spector / When Saints Go Machine / Max Cooper / Trust / Avalanche City / Chew Lips / Loney Dear / Gaz Coombes / Koreless / A Winged Victory for the Sullen / Theme Park / Eagulls / DZ Deathrays / White Arrows / Yukon Blonde / Princess Chelsea / Howler / Admiral Fallow / I Am Oak / Vondelpark / Kwes. / Jinja Safari / Natty / Dauwd / The Skints / Frànçois and The Atlas Mountains / Oliver Tank / Doldrums / Young Magic / Electric Wire Hustle / Clock Opera / Exitmusic / Errors / Zulu Winter / Jonquil / Fear of Men / Micachu & The Shapes / Milagres / New Look / S.C.U.M / Lulu James / French Films / Rolo Tomassi / NZCA LINES / Tall Ships / Dante / Hooded Fang / Juveniles / Tiny Ruins / PAWS / Six / O. Children / The Darcys / Young Dreams / ME / Beth Jeans Houghton & The Hooves of Destiny / Maxxi Soundsystem / Evergreen Official / Paul Thomas Saunders / Treetop Flyers / Mikill Pane / Jam City / Rich Aucoin / Devin / W.I.M. / Solar Bears / Duologue / Cymbals / Fiction / Soft / Retro Stefson / Owlle / The Black Belles / Hannah Cohen / Gold & Youth / Stay+ / 22 / Pale Seas / Winter / The Computers / Weird Dreams / Novika / Big Sleep / Eight and a Half / Mojo Fury / Halls / Black Moth / Novella / Sonic Boom / Mujeres / Gross Magic / Odonis Odonis / Cheveu / Bad Pop / Hey Sholay / Boxes / Violet / Ben Caplan & the Casual Smokers / Mesparrow / Visions of Trees / Seasfire / Binary / The British Expeditionary Force / Wet Nuns / Flip Grater / Hawk Eyes / Massmatiks / Revere / Jethro Fox / Pikachunes / Among Brothers / Bos Angeles / The Psychologist / Graphics / Inland Sea / Zebra and Snake / Step-Panther / Grass House / Cut Ribbons / Hans Chew / Shinies / Me And The Bees / Slow Down, Molasses / Gabriel and the Hounds / Fanzine / Films Of Colour / Ben Salter / Big Wave Riders / Antlered Man / Drop Out Venus / Spoek / I Ching / Furguson / Pets With Pets / Bueno Bros / Martha Paton / Face + Heel / Negative Pegasus / Seward / Kinnie the Explorer / My Best Friend / The Killgirls / The Jaguar Shark / Sing Tank / Redhino Show all bands
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Great Escape Festival Brighton, England, United Kingdom
Show Duplicate for May 10, 2012
May 06, 2012
Simple Things 2012
Grimes / Simian Mobile Disco / Hudson Mohawke / Death In Vegas / Squarepusher / Ghostpoet / Lone / Rustie / Forest Swords / Lunice / Nathan Fake / Kwes. / Planningtorock / Stealing Sheep / Team Me / Young Magic / Errors / Male Bonding / Hooded Fang / Jackmaster / Man Like Me / Space Dimension Controller / Deadboy / Redinho / Cloud Boat / Boy Friend / Caribou DJ Set Show all bands
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Bristol, England, United Kingdom
Apr 15, 2012
PCL presents Stag & Dagger
White Denim / The Phantom Band / Django Django / Passenger / A Plastic Rose / To Kill A King / The New Piccadillys / Vigo Thieves / Chasing Owls / Will Hanson / Eleanor Friedberger / Washington Irving / Willy Mason / White Arrows / Post War Years / Still Corners / Jonquil / Niki & The Dove / Miaoux Miaoux / Random Impulse / Bear In Heaven / EMA / Forest Swords / Adam Stafford / Bwani Junction / Milk Music / Holy Mountain / Michael Anguish / Hot Panda / Honeyblood / The Heartbreaks / Die Hard / Ryan Keen / Holy Esque / Still Flyin' / HIDDEN MASTERS / Discopolis Show all bands
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Various Venues Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

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Bestival 2012 on Sep 6, 2012 [810-small]

Bestival 2012
Sep 6 - 9, 2012
 Downend, Isle of Wight, UK
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PCL presents Stag & Dagger on Apr 15, 2012 [774-small]

PCL presents Stag & Dagger
Apr 15, 2012
 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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PCL presents Stag & Dagger on Apr 15, 2012 [775-small]

PCL presents Stag & Dagger
Apr 15, 2012
 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Genres:

Electronic
Experimental
Ambient
Electronica
Instrumental
Psychedelic
Art Pop
Dub
Wonky
UK Experimental Electronic
Hauntology
Ritual
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Latest Setlist (04/19/2024):

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  1. Panic
  2. The Highest Flood

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Concerts Per Year:

2024 6 concerts
2023 8 concerts
2019 2 concerts
2018 2 concerts
2017 55 concerts
2016 1 concert
2015 3 concerts
2014 40 concerts
2013 5 concerts
2012 10 concerts
2011 2 concerts
2009 1 concert

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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

How many concerts has Forest Swords had?

Forest Swords has had 135 concerts.

What genre is Forest Swords?

Forest Swords is most often considered to be Electronic, Experimental, Ambient, Electronica, Instrumental, Psychedelic, Art Pop, Dub, Wonky, UK Experimental Electronic, Hauntology, and Ritual.

When is the next Forest Swords concert?

The next Forest Swords concert is on June 14, 2024 at Music Hall of Williamsburg in New York, New York, United States.

When was the last Forest Swords concert?

The last Forest Swords concert was on April 19, 2024 at Poppodium 013 in Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands. The bands that performed were: Hexvessel / Blood Incantation / Dool / HEALTH / Royal Thunder / clipping. / King Yosef / Home Front / Ragana & Drowse / Benefits / Fuck Money / Deaf Club / Angry BlackMen / Patriarchy / Alber Jupiter / Tusmørke / Xiu Xiu / Forest Swords / Miaux / Fluisteraars / Darsombra / Death Goals / Lucy Kruger & The Lost Boys / Inter Arma / Pruillip / Stormo / Echoes Of Zoo / Hedvig Mollestad Trio / Drone Assembly / Plexi Stad / Couch Slut / Agriculture / ENMA / Docile Bodies / Gomer Pyle / Atomic Vulture / Alabaster.

What setlist does Forest Swords play live?

The songs that Forest Swords performs live vary, but here's the latest setlist that we have from the April 19, 2024 concert at Poppodium 013 in Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands:

  1. Panic
  2. The Highest Flood

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