OT Music Festivals etc. etc.

[Ponte]

Just enjoying the Download highlights on Sky Arts, very good so far.

[the flying pig]

...enjoying...Sky Arts...

Ooh, look at her.

[Ponte]

...enjoying...Sky Arts...

Ooh, look at her.

Culture, bitch.

[Oheddieeddie]

...enjoying...Sky Arts...

Ooh, look at her.

May she burn in hell, "witch witch witch, burn burn !

[MightyWhite]

The only time I watch Sky Arts is when they have those highly educational features on the history of the nude.

[Oheddieeddie]

The only time I watch Sky Arts is when they have those highly educational features on the history of the nude.

They had an old film of "Talk Talk" in concert the other night, I forgot how bloody good they were.

[Ponte]

The only time I watch Sky Arts is when they have those highly educational features on the history of the nude.

They had an old film of "Talk Talk" in concert the other night, I forgot how bloody good they were.

The telecom company?

[Dods]

The only time I watch Sky Arts is when they have those highly educational features on the history of the nude.

You might want to watch Sky Arts 2 at 10pm tomorrow then. It's a French costume drama set in a brothel.

[Oheddieeddie]

The only time I watch Sky Arts is when they have those highly educational features on the history of the nude.

They had an old film of "Talk Talk" in concert the other night, I forgot how bloody good they were.

The telecom company?

NO the terminally underated band that have been endlessly copied by todays tyro's but never credited for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9y6q5x5mB0&feature=related

[SimonB]

Just enjoying the Download highlights on Sky Arts, very good so far.

Agree, it was much better than wading through mud and shit to watch the bands looking forward to part 2

[FER]

Just enjoying the Download highlights on Sky Arts, very good so far.

Agree, it was much better than wading through mud and shit to watch the bands looking forward to part 2

Caught Slash & Metallica on Saturday night. Pretty good.

[eric olthwaite]

Just ordered a couple of polypins to take to Camp Bestival, between four of us.

Do we need to take a bottle of wine for the ladies, I wonder?

[Quiffy]

anyone else short enough to be narked by the seemingly recent trend of people at gigs dancing with their hands in the air.

get your arms out of my sightline and keep your stinky pits to yourself

[gazurtoids]

one arm or both arms?

[Quiffy]

one arm or both arms?

one arm = baseball hat cuntishness
two arms = straw panama hat cuntishness

[AndyPaul]

anyone else short enough to be narked by the seemingly recent trend of people at gigs dancing with their hands in the air.

get your arms out of my sightline and keep your stinky pits to yourself

Well you just gotta to a bit of Reef....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyX9bOAOH-I

[eric olthwaite]

Just back from Camp Bestival. Really not a festival kind of a chap these days to be honest, but had a quite splendid time on the whole. Four days of glorious sunshine obviously helped, and it's a very mellow family-friendly type place where the kids can wander off and do their own thing - whilst us parents get nicely shit-faced.

Assorted highlights:

Adam Ant. God bless the silly cunt. No Ants but he had a band of enthusiastic kids - including the obligatory two drummers; one a rather lovely young lady - and started off by storming through half of 'Dirk Wears White Sox' of all things. The sight of five thousand forty-somethings, half of them with face paint, doing the crossed arms thing to Prince Charming in the afternoon sunshine was utterly fucking hilarious.

Dodgy. Bit meh really, but this became the earworm for the weekend for obvious reasons.

Earth, Wind and Fire. Just fucking wow. Saturday was a sort of 70's tribute night. Chic, with only Nile Rodgers left, came over as a bit of a naff karaoke version of themselves. Kool & The Gang were OK but a few of them were original and they were a bit too old and fucked to get it up properly. EW&F was billed as the 'Earth, Wind & Fire Experience' or the Al McKay All Stars - basically a set of shit-hot musicians around the original guitarist / songwriter. They were just insanely tight and belted out proper, old school 70s funk. Incredible brass section. Like this, in fact.

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. Curiously lovely. Bit of a kid with half a dozen laptops and a voice like Neil Tennant. Somewhere between Example, 808 State and the Chemical Bros maybe? Mind I'm slightly freaked out that the 90s have already become retro enough to do all over again.

Happy Mondays. Gloriously, magnificently, beautifully shite. Poor ol' Shaun's pretty much had it, sadly. The thing it did make realise was just what an under-rated bass player Paul Ryder is; he's the glue that holds the whole band together. Great sound overall, terrible vocals. And I got a picture of Mrs O with Bez in the ice cream queue, which obviously crowned the Facebook album nicely.

[Oheddieeddie]

Just booked my tickets to see Justin Currie or Del Amitri, in Leeds. I can not wait, criminally underrated musician, the finest lyricist Ive ever heard with a voice to match.

Just him on stage a, Guitar and a piano. Beautiful.

[WHITETHROUGH]

I am going to Glastonbury this year, and will be thrilled skinny if Fleetwood Mac makes an appearance!.......Stevie Nicks was always a bit of a babe!

[sunshine whites]

Rival Sons, coming back to Leeds
Don't miss these guys, highly recommended, saw them on the mini debut tour upstairs at the Cockpit.
They earned a lot of attention at shot quickly to appear at the download festival last year. Obvious influences are Zepplin, but throw in the vocal influence of Sam Cook, Johnny Ray , Eric Burden, and Steve Marriott an it leads to a white soul man texture

http://www.planetrock.com/news/rock-new ... t-presale/

http://www.rivalsons.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtIZpnIxR1Q