Archive for June, 2009
Weekend Anthem
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
4 Slow Club - It Doesn’t Have To Be Beautiful
Hometown: Sheffield, England
Hear more: http://www.myspace.com/slowclub
Pigeonhole: Mates Of State, The Moldy Peaches
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Step Away From The Computer #6: The Garden Party
Friday, June 19th, 2009
THE GARDEN PARTY dares to be different. With its origins traced back to Sao Paolo guerrilla street artists and private parties, it’s finally going overground as a 2000-capacity antidote to festival behemoths like T in the Park. And it’s probably the only event in the world where the dancefloor is located on a tennis court. Game on!
Location:
Kelburn Castle, near Largs, Ayrshire.
Fascinating fact:
The Garden Party had to be cancelled last year because Strathclyde Police’s staffing bill would have been more than double the organisers’ production costs.
Date:
Saturday, June 20 – Sunday, June 21.
Weather forecast:
Saturday
Sunday
Festival history:
This is its first year.
Total number of acts:
51
Cost of a ticket:
£72
So each act is worth:
£1.41
Big-hitters:
The Aliens, James Yorkston & The Athletes.
Organiser’s propaganda:
“We aim to attract a certain type of festival goer: responsible, musically aware, free-spirited, fun-loving individuals who are looking for a fresh and inspiring musical experience.”
Must-hear:
4The Gillyflowers - Country Boy (Village Stage, Sunday)
4James Yorkston - A Calvinist Narrowly Avoids Pleasure (Garden Stage, Saturday)
4The Aliens - Robot Man (Garden Stage, Sunday)
4Alex Cornish – The King Of Hearts (Village Stage, Sunday)
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Music Alliance Pact – June 2009
Monday, June 15th, 2009
It’s Music Alliance Pact time. You may have noticed that every month we try to describe the concept of MAP in a new way. This month we’re going for… a simple but devastatingly effective way to get a song heard by hundreds of thousands of people in over 20 countries and five continents.
SCOTLAND: The Pop Cop4 The Seventeenth Century – Traffic
If Arcade Fire’s Wake Up moved you to your core then get ready to fall in love with Traffic. It has that soaring choral majesty, that sprawling orchestration and The Seventeenth Century clearly possess ambitions that are no less lofty. Having had a listen to the young Glasgow band’s forthcoming In The Place EP, we can say without hesitation that you’re looking at the best new band in Scotland.
b July 24, The Wickerman Festival, Dumfries & Galloway (tickets)
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