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Glastonbury preview part 2: what to see

News by Simon Jay Catling

As DiS’s own Michael Dawson, thanks to my relatively late call-up to cover Glastonbury, there’s been no small amount of last-gasp poring over flipcharts, GANTT graphs, reading tea leaves, throwing bones etc. etc. as I try and deduct who the chuff I’m going to see over the festival’s duration. Plus, as it’s my first time, all of Wednesday and probably Thursday (and maybe even some of Friday) will most likely be spent wandering about gawping to no-one particularly interested that 'cripes, it’s even bigger when you’re actually here isn’t it?' Aside from that though I’m going to aim to see at least a handful of acts per day - that is if my brain doesn’t get turned to mush by the sheer logistics of it all (that’s what they call drinking these days is it?) The following is likely to be as clear as mud (b‘dm tsch) but does attempt to narrow down the many directions in which the next few days could take… »

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Ellie Goulding wins BBC Sound of 2010 poll

News by Luke Slater

You should be well aware by now that every year the BBC polls a pretty huge collection of movers and shakers in the music industry, asking them what their tips are for the coming year, under the name of 'The Sound of [Insert Year Here]'. First comes the longlist, then comes the final five, and with it, naturally, a winner.»