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Posted: **Sat Jun 09, 2007 10:21 pm**

Thats only the fourth time

Back on topic :

I'm leaving for the Austrian Festival on monday, cant wait.

Posted: **Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:27 pm**

Monday?! So no shower or shave for.... a week?

Glasto on Wednesday week - roll on! Midsummers eve and sunrise on midsummers day at the stone circle - who cares about the bands!

Posted: **Mon Jun 11, 2007 10:33 pm**

I saw the True Colors tour at Red Rocks last night. The girlfriend won tickets, which is great because I kind of wanted to go. The lineup:

Cyndi Lauper
Erasure
Debbie Harry
Dresden Dolls
Cliks

with Margaret Cho as MC.

I really enjoyed it, but who I really wanted to see it for was the Dresden Dolls. I've become a fan of their first album this year, and I think this has pushed me over into being a fan of theirs. I got their other album, got it signed last night and got a hug from the lead singer lady. Which was cool.

Posted: **Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:48 am**

First day off since I got back from Glastonbury, so for Menolly and anyone else who's interested.....

This was my fifth time and the wettest! It rained and rained and rained and on a farm with 200000 people that means lots and lots and lots of MUD!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHIInZcZ6E0
It only stopped raining on several occasions long enough for the mud to dry into a stick mess that sucked your wellies off! (Imagine ankle deep, thick, slippy lumpy GLUE!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRjje28APJ8

So the weather kind of spoiled it as the adventure and experience it normally is. It was just too hard to wander round aimlessly. It's big enough that walking around dry can be exhausting (eight mile circumference, stages all over the place), but in the mud, every step is the effort of about ten normal ones!!! The solstice was unfortunately sacrificed as it was freezing cold and miserably wet

.

On the plus side, I actually got to see some fantastic music for a change! We checked out the following...
The Earlies
Gogol Bordello
John Otway
Martha Wainwright
Arcade Fire
Bjork
Spiritualised (acoustic)
You Say Party We Say Die
Calvin Harris
Biffy Clyro
Dreadzone
CSS
John Foggerty (of Clearence Clearwater Revival)
Saw Doctors
Tinariwen
Seth Lakeman
Husky Rescue
Kila
Chemical Brothers

The best new bands I discovered were undoubtedly Seth Lakeman and Husky Rescue.
www.husky-rescue.com/
www.sethlakeman.com/
Of the bands I knew, the best were Arcade Fire and Kila.

www.bbc.co.uk/glastonbury/

Posted: **Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:40 pm**

Stonemaybe wrote:First day off since I got back from Glastonbury, so for Menolly and anyone else who's interested.....

Thanks Stoney!

Sorry to hear about the cancellation of the Circle. Bummer...

Posted: **Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:46 pm**

Wasn't cancelled, just that I wasn't up to doing a cold damp all-nighter with the rest....

Posted: **Fri Jul 06, 2007 3:48 pm**

Stonemaybe wrote:Wasn't cancelled, just that I wasn't up to doing a cold damp all-nighter with the rest....

That makes sense. I'll look forward to your description next year then.

:::and thanks again for O-gon-cho's "gift" of a mud dragon:::

Posted: **Mon Aug 27, 2007 4:26 pm**

Woohoo festival time is once more nearly upon us

Off to Electric Picnic in Ireland this weekend....

www.electricpicnic.ie/flash.html

I am particularly looking forward to Jesus and Mary Chain, The Fall, Sonic Youth, Beastie Boys, Primal Scream, Polyphonic Spree, 65 Days of Static, Camera Obscura, Iggy Pop, Modest Mouse, The Aliens, Kila, The Undertones....

Hmm, all in all far too much good music on so I'm bound to miss loads of what I want to see, and I'll be too busy running around to see bands that I like, to see other great bands that I've never heard of.

Crap, I've just talked myself out of my excitement!

Posted: **Sat May 24, 2008 11:37 pm**

It's that time of year again. The first festival of the season is looming, next weekend.

Just the little local one again, but it's looking good.

If anyone can recommend any of the above, I'd love to hear.....

Posted: **Sun May 25, 2008 1:43 am**

The headliners for Friday I know. I like I'm Gonna Be (500 miles) so much, I knew who they were as soon as I read their name.

Posted: **Sun May 25, 2008 10:34 am**

Menolly wrote:The headliners for Friday I know. I like I'm Gonna Be (500 miles) so much, I knew who they were as soon as I read their name.

Yeah they'll be good fun! I bought a 'best of' cd on Friday cos although I know their biggies, hadn't heard anyhing else. Reading the insert, I didn't realise just how worldwide the Proclaimers had made it. Good on them!

Posted: **Mon May 26, 2008 1:54 am**

I had the Proclaimers CD with 500 miles on it when I was in college. I remember being pretty impressed with the CD all the way through. Ought to be a fun show.

Posted: **Wed May 28, 2008 7:49 pm**

I've seen the Proclaimers before, and despite being very nerdy, it was an especially good show. However, out of that lineup, Robyn Hitchcock would be who I would soil myself for, despite seeing him once live already. And I'd be excited about seeing Billy Bragg, who I have never seen yet.

Posted: **Sun Jun 01, 2008 11:15 am**

Well, third day about to start and I have the gritty eyes & gravelly throat to prove it! Been great so far, apart from losing my backpack on Friday night. Robin Hitchcock was good (6/10), Dreadzone were amazing (9/10), Proclaimers were hit and miss (7/10) on Friday. Oh, and the Silent Disco was extremely funny. On Saturday The Blockheads were perfect (10/10), Duffy was...Duffy (3/10), Orchestra Baobab were extremely disappointing musakcrap (0/10), and Divine Comedy much better than expected (8/10).

Today I'm really looking forward to Miles Hunt, Dengue fever, Transglobal Underground, and I'm hoping that Billy Bragg et al in Imagined Village will surprise me cos I got an horrible suspicion they're gonna be awful.

Hopefully the rain will stay away too!

Posted: **Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:54 pm**

good luck with the rain. wot, no hitchcock setlist?

Posted: **Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:00 am**

sarge wrote

wot, no hitchcock setlist?

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Day Three's highlights were most definitely 3 Daft Monkeys. Nobody else grabbed my attention very much at all.

Posted: **Mon Jun 02, 2008 5:22 pm**

may see X tomorrow, but i doubt it. tuesday is a stupid day for a show...

glad you are having fun.

Posted: **Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:35 am**

I may be heading to Donnington Park this weekend for Download ( www.downloadfestival.co.uk/lineup/ ) although not 100%.

I've been to a few of the UK festivals and Download is easily my favourite - both location wise and music wise.

Posted: **Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:24 pm**

Glastonbury time coming up again - less than 2 weeks to go!

Lineup's too long to post but here's the link - I'll welcome any tips (and thanks for yours Sarge!)

www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/performance.aspx?id=2179

One's I'm really looking forward to - UNKLE, Manu Chao, Alabama 3, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Baghdaddies, Wurzels

Posted: **Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:50 pm**

*bows*

...I only ask you keep your eyes open for more mud dragons, oh ancient watery one...

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