Festival Preview // Leeds & Reading 2010
There’s oh so much festival variety these days. Dance festivals (2 blokes with keyboards), folk festivals (2 men blokes with a 2 string guitar and a woodblock), fancy dress festivals (2 men dressed as women), boutique festivals (anyone on stage who can play a guitar).Choice is great, but while these newcomers bicker and swabble at [...]
-->Festival Preview // Secret Garden Party, 23rd-26th July
Picture, if you will, Toad (Wind in the Willows), the Moog (Willow the Wisp), and Zebedee (Magic Roundabout) sitting at a large mushroom, planning a musical shindig, on a farm with a lake, in the idyllic Cambridgeshire countryside, you’d call it Secret Garden Party. Six years on, the award winning SGP is boutique about to [...]
-->Festival Preview // Latitude, 15th-19th July
Ah, choice. It’s nice to have options, isn’t it? Ostensibly a good thing, except when confronted by a myriad of options, all much of a muchness. Stand in front of the shampoo (or laundry detergent) section at your local supermarket and you’ll know what I mean. And what’s true for domestic products also applies to [...]
-->Interview // The Gaslight Anthem
When New Jersey four-piece The Gaslight Anthem released their second long player ‘The 59 Sound’ in 2008, fans of rock and roll rejoiced. Traditional rock was back. And it wasn’t just the everyday music fans who sat up and took notice, with the band being invited on stage to perform with Bruce Springsteen at Glastonbury [...]
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