18/02/2010 by admin.

Before the addition of The xx, Fever Ray and Richie Hawtin, we were convinced that Rob da Bank’s Bestival MAY contain the best line up for any festival to be held in the UK this year. Now with the addition of these three deservedly acclaimed artists, it’s safe to to say that Bestival contains the best line for any festival to be held in the UK this year. Keep the 9th - 12th September 2010 free for this…

Taken from the Bestival website…

“Staying on course to deliver the closest thing to festival nirvana this side of rock ‘n’ roll heaven, Rob da Bank and the Bestival crew are just too excited to be able to hold in the latest mega-mungus line-up announcement for our seventh outing any longer. With the likes of Dizzee Rascal, Flaming Lips, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem and Gil Scott Heron already out of the besti-bag, we have got some absolute belters joining the bill for the first Robin Hill Country Park adventure of the teenies!

Rob da Bank says: ‘OK, check this out for a triple whammy - my joint favourite band of last year The xx playing what will be a very rare UK festival appearance on our very own Isle of Wight, the audio-visual phenomenon that is Fever Ray with her ONLY UK festival this year and to cap it all one of the most important electronic wizards about, Richie Hawtin bringing his Plastikman guise to the Big Top. Selfishly these are three of the most played artists round the da Banks’ at the moment and if you don’t already own all the music get it now and get ready for September!’
Winners of a truck load of coveted accolades, including The Guardian and Rough Trade Shops’ Album of the Year, for their sublime debut album The xx will be taking the ferry to the Isle of Wight to blow you away with one of only three UK festival appearances this year that will see them baring the spellbinding lyrical interplay and evocative riffs that have deservedly made the masses fall head over heels for them. Aside from blowing us all away in the Big Top on Friday the band will also be loading Saam Farahmand’s groundbreaking, super-future ‘xx: a Sculpture of the Album’; a 3D physical interpretation of their music, into their van. Utilising film, light and sound via three specially created audio-visual units this will play all weekend in Bestival’s very own permanent cinema onsite … and you won’t see it at any other UK festies!”

The festival is to be held at Robin Hill Country Park, Isle Of Wight.

Visit the Bestival website for more information.

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02/12/2009 by admin.

There are very few that can actually justify asking for up to £50 for tickets, but in what will no doubt be one of his most spectacular gigs, Paul Weller will now play a further third date at the Royal Albert Hall on the 26th of May, 2010. This event will follow the highly anticipated new album which will be released in the coming Spring on Island Records.

See Weller’s website for more details, live performances of 22 dreams and a preview of his forth coming track,  ‘7&3 Is The Strikers Name’.

The Mod Father is back.

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30/11/2009 by admin.

Blue. Blue. The word evokes something inside of us. A feeling. A thought. A sense of something that you can’t quite put your finger on, but it’s there. What is it? What does this colour, mood, movement, music or feeling represent?Scientifically speaking, blue the colour is evoked by the perception of a spectrum of light dominated by energy with a wavelength of roughly 440–490 nanometer. Spiritually, it is symbolic to the fifth throat chakra. It is also said to be the aura colour shown when someone is oriented toward spirituality and is used to represent peace.Once considered a hot colour, it is now an icy, cool, calming, cold colour, said to help the perception of time pass more quickly, yet too much blue can make you feel dejected. Non can better describe this feeling than that of the Blues. No other label of a genre of music has been able to amalgamate everything that it has ever stood for or represented. It was something special, taking from its origins of European and African music yet retaining a completely new identity, one separate from either of its parent traditions. The American writer, Washington Irving is credited with coining the term ‘the Blues’ as it is now defined in 1807. From the expressive words of deprivation, extreme suffering the

“field holler” and spirituality all created a road from the fields to the towns for the Blues. The singer would speak of their blues and the guitar would answer back. Learning to make the guitar talk would enable them to give feeling that would travel through the most coldest of veins to the most hardened stone hearts and break them. Its a certain feeling that hits when you put on a blues track, you may lie back and ponder upon some of life most elusive answers. Looking up at the clear cloudless day-time sky while the molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun as demonstrated with the Tyndall effect in 1859.But Blue hasn’t just been in our minds, it has been a part of our language for many centuries. The modern English word ‘blue’ comes from the Middle English, ‘bleu’ or ‘blwe’, which came from an Old French word ‘bleu’ of Germanic origin. Though it started almost totally absent from ancient Western art and language, it is now formidable in everyday language, familiar phrases present us with both positive and negative aspects of the descriptive word blue. To be a ‘true blue’ is to be someone loyal and faithful. Out of the blue - unexpected (positive or negative). Yet it seems ever present that blue is just that feeling of being slight, one piece missing, feeling blue, blue Monday and of course having the Blues.

We can all feel blue, but only some think blue. It’s a state of mind, a way of life; it doesn’t necessarily mean you’re unhappy, it allows you to be in tune with your surroundings and their vibrations. You give though, like blue, to the different shades of life, sometimes you’re as blue as they sky, giving light with a smile, other times, you’re a deeper shade like Sapphire, finding it hard to retain your way.

We all think blue. I’m just the first to admit it.

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