Organisers of the Gatecrasher Summer Soundsystem have announced the line up of indie boys who will be taking to the decks, for one night only, to try their hands at DJing as part of the annual dance festival. Babyshambler Peter Doherty, Ordinary Boy Samuel Preston, Futureheads Ross Millard and David 'Jaff' Craig, and, erm, Franz Ferdinander Paul Thomson will all DJ as part of the festival's Teenage Kicks arena - as will members of Belle & Sebastian and Shitdisco.
More used to doing time behind the decks, Judge Jules, Mauro Picotto, Mr Scruff, Fabio & Grooverider, Timo Maas, Andy C, Marco V, Dave Pearce, Lisa Pin-Up, K90 and Christopher Lawrence will also all play at the Soundsystem, which takes place on 27 May at Lotherton Hall, near Leeds.
Commenting on this year's event, Gatecrasher MD Simon Raine told CMU: "There has always been a unique crossover between the world's of dance and indie music and we want to celebrate this at Summer Sound System in a way that is unique and fits with the whole dance festival culture. There is some quite anarchic about members of coolest UK bands becoming DJs, you never know what musical style or sound may come up with!"
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