Just got back from Latitude 2008. Here are my festival highs:
Elbow and Sigur Rós on the Obelisk arena on Saturday night. Utterly amazing
Grinderman on Sunday. What can you say, just brilliant
Some other bands, notably Gravenhurst and Truckers of Husk
The Literature tent. What a great idea. Especially when it features Robin Ince and Ros Noble doing [...]
For a once keen gig goer, gigs have become more like buses for me of late; nothing for ages then an embarrassment of riches. Not like London buses ever approach anything like riches, although they are frequently quite an embarrassment.
Anyway, after the wonders of Gong at the Meltdown festival I went to see the astounding [...]
This weekend I saw the wonderful Gong playing at Massive Attack’s Meltdown festival in the Queen Elizabeth Hall. What started as a nostalgic indulgence of my misspent teenage years listening to early 70s prog and psyc ended up with me totally transfixed by a band led by a 70 year old man in a red-sequined [...]
