30/06/2011

Live Review: Tangerine Dream & Brian May

SONIC UNIVERSE CONCERT: 24/6/2011 a cosmic experience with brian may and tangerine dream

As soon as we approached the Magma Centre in Tenerife we immediately realised this would be a unique and incredible experience.

29/06/2011

Pulp and Radiohead's 'Secret' Glastonbury Sets

The secret sets by Pulp and Radiohead were the talking point of this year's Glastonbury Festival, but anyone who decided to avoid the muddiness of Worthy Farm for a weekend of Glastontelly won't have seen them as they happened away from the glare of the cameras in The Park .

28/06/2011

Profile: Bastions

With So much recent news regarding Glastonbury and all the big name artists, I wanted to write a blog-post on some of the lesser-known bands who, in my opinion, should be shouted about, because let's face it - they work just as hard as the rest!

27/06/2011

I Remember K-Tel at Their Peak, I Must be Old Now...

"The 90's? If you can remember that far back you music be old" a friend's daughter said to me yesterday, she's 10 and although I didn't want her to think I was really old, she reminded me that actually I can remember things back in the late 70's, Star Wars, The Jonestown Massacre (my friends 'The Quietly Spoken Gentlemen" and I will one day take our musical version out on tour)

A Couple of Highlights From Glastonbury..


My first personal highlight is from Queens of the Stone Age, who played last night (Sun 26th). I saw QOTSA in 2008 at Reading Festival, and they are great live - so full of energy (the mosh pit was quite scary though!), so I was quite looking forward to seeing them again. Here is a clip of the fantastic 'No one Knows'.

Glastonbury Armchair Highlights

Being something of a confirmed alternative/weird music snob I can say with some honesty that I wasn't highly enthused by the prospect of this years' Glastonbury line-up, at least from seeing the headliners listed ...