In 2008 sweepingthenation saw 499 performances during 28 concerts with 441 bands at 13 venues in 7 locations.

Date Concert Venue Location
Dec 05, 2008 –
Dec 07, 2008
White Noise Christmas 2008
Rival Consoles / Maybeshewill / Themselves / Theo / worriedaboutsatan / Alright the Captain / Minnaars / Gallery 47 / Buenos Aires / Pure Phase / Dobermann / Speaking in Italics / Ambrose Tompkins / Beyond this Point are Monsters / Two Minute Noodles / Peter Wyeth / Death of London / Jamie Says / Cunt Rag / Logfox / Project Notion / twenty below zero Show all bands
Firebug Bar Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Nov 20, 2008
Mistys Big Adventure / Flipron The Charlotte Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom
Nov 13, 2008
Half Man Half Biscuit / MJ Hibbett & The Validators
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Princess Charlotte Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Oct 16, 2008
Elbow / Jesca Hoop De Montfort Hall Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Oct 01, 2008
Johnny Foreigner / Dananananaykroyd / Love Ends Disaster! / Minnaars Princess Charlotte Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Sep 27, 2008
Polysics / Chris T-T / Bearsuit / Future of the Left / TTNG / And So I Watch You from Afar / The Deirdres / Tubelord / The Strange Death of Liberal England / Cats In Paris / Popular Workshop / will.i.am / 4 or 5 Magicians / Copy Haho / Superman Re...
Polysics / Chris T-T / Bearsuit / Future of the Left / TTNG / And So I Watch You from Afar / The Deirdres / Tubelord / The Strange Death of Liberal England / Cats In Paris / Popular Workshop / will.i.am / 4 or 5 Magicians / Copy Haho / Superman Revenge Squad / Calories / Super Tennis / The Duloks / Gossamer Albatross / Joe Gideon & The Shark / Applicants / The Retro Spankees / The Young Playthings / Brontosaurus Chorus / Jam on Bread / Tropics / Ice, Sea, Dead People / Light Sleepers / Gindrinker / Alan MX / Let Our Enemies Beware / Instruments (Make Music) / Laura Wolf / Crimesss / Instruments Show all bands
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King's College London Students' Union (KCLSU) London, England, United Kingdom
Sep 12, 2008 –
Sep 14, 2008
End of the Road Festival 2008
Mumford & Sons / Bon Iver / Laura Marling / Noah and the Whale / Calexico / The Mountain Goats / Low / Conor Oberst / Sun Kil Moon / Kimya Dawson / Richard Hawley / Mercury Rev / British Sea Power / Tindersticks / Bowerbirds / Shearwater / Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin / Two Gallants / Akron/Family / Cate Le Bon / El Guincho / Seabear / FM Belfast / Dead Meadow / Mark Kozelek / Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band / Dirty Three / Pete and The Pirates / The Acorn / Constantines / Jeffrey Lewis / Robyn Hitchcock / Micah P. Hinson / The Wave Pictures / Friska Viljor / American Music Club / Wildbirds & Peacedrums / Miracle Fortress / Kelley Stoltz / Smoke Fairies / Let's Wrestle / A Hawk and a Hacksaw / Peter And The Wolf / Brakes / Darren Hanlon / Woodpigeon / Pyramids / Zombie Zombie / The Chap / Karima Francis / Bob Log III / Clare & The Reasons / Pictish Trail / The Miserable Rich / Charlotte Hatherley / Darren Hayman / Liz Green / Sennen / Billy Childish / Kurt Wagner / Jeremy Warmsley / The Congregation / One Little Plane / David Thomas Broughton / Devon Sproule / Steven Adams / Adrian Crowley / The Accidental / Baby Dee / Hey Negrita / Jason Molina / Essie Jain / The Gentle Good / Alessi / Sons of Noel and Adrian / The Young Republic / Denis Jones / Absentee / Arrows of Love / John Fairhurst / Over The Wall / Cats In Paris / Screaming Tea Party / Christopher Rees / Affection / a.P.A.t.T. / Birdengine / Threatmantics / Robyn G Shiels / Angelo Spencer / By The Fireside / Hush the Many (Heed the Few) / House of Brothers / Thingumajigsaw / Gossamer Albatross / Hush The Many / Telegrams / Lonely Ghosts / Cut A Shine / The Folk Orchestra / Freakflag / Revenge of Shinobi / Bianca Bohl / Electric Tape Recorder / The Sylvias Show all bands
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Larmer Tree Gardens Tollard Royal, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Aug 08, 2008 –
Aug 10, 2008
Summer Sundae Weekender 2008
Lykke Li / Cold War Kids / José González / of Montreal / Macy Gray / Noah & The Whale / The Heavy / Dirty Projectors / The Whitest Boy Alive / The Coral / Frightened Rabbit / Simian Mobile Disco / Wild Beasts / Camera Obscura / Róisín Murphy / Foy Vance / Efterklang / Supergrass / Gary Go / Reverend and The Makers / Benga / Alela Diane / Fuck Buttons / Phaeleh / Joan As Police Woman / King Creosote / Dodgy / Lightspeed Champion / Maybeshewill / Jeffrey Lewis / Howling Bells / Those Dancing Days / Dawn Landes / Natty / Henry Rollins / Errors / Count & Sinden / Tom Baxter / Fight Like Apes / Nina Nastasia / The Mae Shi / Kyte / Zombie Zombie / Emma Pollock / Dan Arborise / The Travelling Band / Codes / Danny & The Champions Of The World / James Yorkston And The Athletes / Philip Jeck / Royworld / Hamell On Trial / Frank Bretschneider / Our Broken Garden / James Maddock / Essie Jain / Benin City / Heroes / John Power / Celestial / Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir / Origamibiro / Youthmovies / Envy & Other Sins / Charlie Jones / Chris Helme / Rod Thomas / Jersey Budd / Powerplant / Ictus / Kathryn Williams & Neill MacColl / Rook And The Ravens / Tired Irie / Uncle Frank / The Screening / Rachel Unthank / Isambard Khroustaliov / Love Ends Disaster! / Dan Raza / The Chairmen / New York Alcoholic Anxiety Attack / Calder / Special Ed And The Shortbus / John Budding / El Mahico / Threep / Catherine Tran / M48 / Tullis Rennie / Lothar Ohlmeier / (S.W.A.G.G.A.R) / Kathryn Williams & Neil Maccoll / Joel Owen / Project Notion / mijim / C*Bob & The Sunshine Blues Show all bands
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De Montfort Hall Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Aug 07, 2008
James Maddock / Swagger / Uncle Frank / M48 / Project Notion

Summer Sundae Fringe Festival 2008

Summer Sundae Fringe Festival 2008 Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Aug 07, 2008
Tired Irie / Love Ends Disaster! / Pacific Ocean Fire Firebug Bar Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Jul 25, 2008 –
Jul 27, 2008
Indietracks 2008
Los Campesinos! / Still Corners / The Wedding Present / Allo Darlin' / The Wave Pictures / Lovestarrs / Darlings / Comet Gain / Darren Hanlon / The Lodger / A Classic Education / Darren Hayman / Zoey Van Goey / Ballboy / The Kabeedies / Pocketbooks / The Voluntary Butler Scheme / Shrag / Manhattan Love Suicides / Liechtenstein / The Smittens / Milky Wimpshake / The Just Joans / St Christopher / The Deirdres / The Rosie Taylor Project / The Starlets / Brownies / The Bobby McGee's / Cocoanut Groove / Je Suis Animal / Zebras / Punk TV / The Parallelograms / Airport Girl / Slow Down Tallahassee / Amida / Harvey Williams / The Middle Ones / Strawberry Story / Roadside Poppies / The Candy Twins / The Foster Kids / Mexican Kids at Home / Mono Taxi / Town Bike / Red Pony Clock / Colin Clary / Esiotrot / The Retro Spankees / KateGoes / The Kick Inside / Lardpony / Brontosaurus Chorus / The Occasional Flickers / The Mai 68's / Gregory Webster / The Seven Inches / Dirty Fingernails / silence at sea / silverdrop / Marjit Vinjerui / Tortoise Shout / Winston Echo / Rory Hill / Penny Broadhurst / The Colliding Lemons Show all bands
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Midland Railway Centre Ripley, England, United Kingdom
Jul 19, 2008 –
Jul 20, 2008
Truck Festival 2008
Laura Marling / Noah & The Whale / Frank Turner / Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs / Camera Obscura / Okkervil River / The Lemonheads / YACHT / The Magic Numbers / Stornoway / Daedelus / Ulrich Schnauss / Dodgy / Emmy the Great / Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly / These New Puritans / TTNG / Maps / Neil Halstead / The Nextmen / Television Personalities / Chapterhouse / Rolo Tomassi / PVT / Jonquil / Johnny Foreigner / Riz MC / Richard Walters / ALTERN 8 / Spectrum / Martin Simpson / Kyte / Post War Years / Pivot / Danny & The Champions Of The World / Piney Gir / Strategy / Rachael Dadd / Witches / Fighting With Wire / Thomas White / The Early Years / Little Sister / Lovvers / SixNationState / The Coal Porters / Walter Schreifels / Le Volume Courbe / King Cannibal / The Research / Alphabet Backwards / The Epstein / D.P. / Oliver Wilde / Ralfe Band / Aphasia / Youthmovies / Thomas Truax / Ian McLagan & The Bump Band / Little Fish / Shao Dow / Munch Munch / So So Modern / Orphan Boy / Dead Kids / Cats In Paris / Fonda 500 / Winnebago Deal / Paris Motel / Antony Elvin / Easy Tiger / Milk Kan / The Tamborines / KTB / Luke Smith / Co-Pilgrim / The Winchell Riots / Buttonhead / The Novellos / Retribution / Indigo Moss / Ye Nuns / James Rutledge / Family Machine / Restlesslist / Ruth Minnikin / Jali Fily Cissokho / Morrison Steam Fayre / Borderville / This Is Seb Clarke / Carlos Santan / Gabriel Minnikin / The Wishing Stones / Holton's Opulent Oog / The Marmadukes / Load.Click.Shoot / Dusty Sound System / Olivia Brown / Eamon Hamilton / The Drug Squad / the bronsteins / Mephisto Grande / Tristan & The Troubadours / the european union / The Youngs Plan Show all bands
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Truck Festival 2008 Steventon, England, United Kingdom
Jul 08, 2008
The School / The Mai 68's Princess Charlotte Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Jul 05, 2008
Jeremy Warmsley / Esser / So So Modern / Liam Finn / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man Princess Charlotte Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Jun 25, 2008
Mystery Jets / Jeremy Warmsley / Regards Princess Charlotte Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Jun 08, 2008
Thomas White / Thomas White + Chris TT / Chris T-T The Musician Pub Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Jun 04, 2008
Johnny Foreigner / Dananananaykroyd / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / Minnaars Sumo Leicester, England, United Kingdom
May 31, 2008
Hot Club de Paris / Copy Haho / Minnaars / Sunset Cinema Club Princess Charlotte Leicester, England, United Kingdom
May 22, 2008
MJ Hibbett & The Validators / Phil Wilson / The Mai 68's Firebug Bar Leicester, England, United Kingdom
May 04, 2008
Johnny Flynn / Slow Club Sumo Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Apr 30, 2008
Lightspeed Champion / Ox.Eagle.Lion.Man / The Screening Princess Charlotte Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Apr 24, 2008
Wild Beasts Sumo Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Apr 23, 2008
Johnny Foreigner / Charlie Jones / Autohype / The Carnabys Sumo Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Apr 03, 2008
Cheeky Cheeky And The Nosebleeds / 4 or 5 Magicians / Kid Captain Sumo Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Mar 01, 2008
Johnny Foreigner / Kyte / Envy & Other Sins / Tired Irie Firebug Bar Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Feb 16, 2008
The Cribs / The Ting Tings / Does It Offend You, Yeah? / Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong
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Leicester University Student Union Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Jan 29, 2008
Blood Red Shoes / Make Model / The Screening Princess Charlotte Leicester, England, United Kingdom
Jan 19, 2008
The Futureheads / Grammatics / Penfold Gate
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Loughborough University Loughborough, United Kingdom