Mad Cool 2017 gets even cooler. Foals, Catfish And The Bottlemen, Quique Gonzalez, Slowdive, Savages and many more join Headliners Foo Fighters, Green Day And Kings Of Leon. Taking place in Madrid from the 6th – 8th of July at the city’s Caja Magica site, the three - day event will be welcoming Cage The Elephant, SBTRKT (DJ Set), Fuel Fandango, Jagwar Ma, Floating Points (DJ Set), Depedro, Unkle, Neuman, Benjamin Booker, Junior Boys, WAS, Full, Star Slinger, Viva Suecia, Joseph, Anna Of The North, Los Zigarros, Sexy Zebras and Aurora & The Betrayers y Shinova to the lineup.

Only in its second year, Mad Cool is already establishing itself as one of the festival season’s prime attractions. Speaking about the wide variety of acts on show across the festival, Mad Cool’s Director Javier Arnaiz said  “Our goal is to create a festival with an eclectic line up where you can enjoy a global experience that differs from others. A festival that can have main international artists, future talents that are growing and emerging bands which are the upcoming generation. We believe in supporting the emergent scene as this is vital for us in order to develop bands.”

Mad Cool will also be welcoming the winners of their talent competition, who will be performing at the festival. They are: Cannibals, Not My Circus, Ganges, Veintiuno, The Amsterdammers, Fizzy Soup, Dear Audrey, Paracusia, Chelsea Boots and Nora Norman.

Tickets for the festival are priced at 150€ for a weekend pass and 69€ for a day ticket, and are available here

The price for a weekend pass rises to 170€ from 1st March

Floor Staff is the musical moniker of Dublin based songwriter, producer and composer Anthony Donnelly. With his new EP, Convictions, Donnelly bravely takes this introspection to more personal depths, confronting bereavement, fidelity and self-esteem, cathartically transforming these concerns into joyous pop expressions. Floor Staff's first release The Good Luck EP received critical acclaim, resulting in substantial domestic radio play and numerous festival appearances.

The Convictions EP was recorded in Ailfionn recording studio, run by engineer Christopher Barry (Myles Manley, Cat Palace, Ye Vagebonds). The pair worked together on production and no one else was permitted to enter the studio until the EP’s completion with the exception of violinist Katie Lynn. 

“We played and recorded various random objects, not necessarily to capture how they sounded, but to evoke a particular type of emotion or to work as metaphors for lyrical content. This included scraping kitchen knives together, playing portable radiators as snare drums and playing a bicycle wheel using a hard copy of the previous EP. In a way that was kind of cathartic for the recording process in that damaging the old EP helped to highlight the irrelevance of previous work compared to what I was trying to achieve then and there. Stuff like that helped focus my attention on the present moment.

“I wanted a particular type of groove for this EP. The drums needed to be just off the grid in the style of Quest Love and his playing with D’Angelo, who is a big musical influence. Investigating new ideas and influences like this developed the production style and helped to free me up in a lot of ways."

Listen to lead single ‘Saviour’ here