We kick off our ArcTanGent coverage proper with the launch of our ATG page. There you can find articles on a lot of the bands, our special mixtape stream, our #EDATG twitter stream and Instagram gallery via which you can follow our descent in to depravity in a field throughout the week. Enjoy.

Confucius wrote that if we want really get to know a place we have to listen to the music played there. Well, listening to the music from Leicestershire we just have to go and enjoy its amazing music scene. By Daniela Patrizi

“It was a hairs on the back of the neck experience…” – by Benjamin Bland

Jamie Ward (ex member of Kyte and current member of the post-rock band Maybeshewill) and James Stafford (a member of the alternative rock band kids in cars) are the two men behind the Dark Dark Horse, an electronic project based in Leicester. By Daniela Patrizi

Festival co-founder Simon Maltas takes us behind the scenes of what is sure to be one of THE events of the summer, ArcTanGent Festival… – by Hannah Morgan

Maybeshewill are no strangers to Ech(((o)))es and Dust. We reviewed their third album ‘I Was Here For A Moment Then I Was Gone’ back in May 2011 and they’ve been on the road to promote it for 18 months. April 22nd will see a release of a film documenting that tour. Before they kick off their festival season on the 20th of April in Bristol and London, Magda Wrzeszcz chatted to John Helps, the guitarist, about the film, the upcoming summer and Maybeshewill’s future plans.

Maybeshewill’s third album was awaited with great anticipation. After coveted success of their first two long plays the game was not only to live up to them but also to come up with something that will blow the public away for a third time in a row. Fi …

In a list of most ironically named albums, the debut album from this Leicester four piece would certainly be worth considering. They have thrown a lot into the pot and produced a melange of styles that, for me, doesn’t represent a cogent release; it fe …