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Bon Iver was easily the best I saw all weekend. If anyone dropped a pin at any point in his set you would of heard it. Conor Oberst was brilliant and you could tell he loved it and was on top form, which is always a worry as to weather or not he will be. Richard Hawley, who spent most of the festival milling around soaking it up like the rest of us with his kids, was ace. He had a chat and some pics with us which was nice! No alcohol allowed in on the first day sucked, but luckily they relaxed that rule after the first day (not sure if this was through punter complaints or if the plan all along to get some cash in the coffers on the first day) and the food selection was a bit poor. Big Top tent was dreadful; why do we need a tent so high? Totally lost all the sound and dreadful acoustics. I was looking forward to Billy Childish, Mountain Goats and Laura Marling so much but the Big Top just ruined it for me. I'm not too sure on The Local tent either; too narrow and souless.

Cracking line up overall for such a small festival. The attention to detail was superb, and the setting was perfect. I just hope it doesn't get any bigger than the 5,000 capacity. We were camping where everyone else was and had British Sea Power one side of us and Cats In Paris just the other side, which says a lot I think. You wouldn't get that at any other festival. The lost gardens were just the best part of any festival I've been too.

Will be back next year for sure. Off to buy my early bird ticket.....

Croucie D'ou La
Merman
Love in the Time of Science
Fisherman's Woman
Me and Armani

Her best yet. If she'd given these songs to Kylie then Kylie would have got to no. 1 in singles and album charts no problem. Fantastic. 9/10.

60% of the time I'm 100% right. Off to Ladbrooks.

Looking forward to seeing how they get on live at End of the Road next weekend.

Always have been, always will be.

Can't wait.

Great review thanks.

It's good to know that Justin Hawkins managed to get some work after The Darkness and Eurovision.

Wild Beasts is massively overrated.

Johnny Flynn or Wave Pictures for me. Shit, not on the Mercury or Pluto lists. Hopefully will be on the Mars Saturn list.

I vote Johnny Foreigner out of that lot then.

Off to dig my tent out the loft :)

EOTR is easily the best festival line up of 2008 :)

....thank fuck! Can I have two tickets please? Thank you. See you up the front :)

Super Furry Animals. I would love to go please. I like green men. Will the Incredible Hulk be there?

...gave Boys and Girls in America a 6/10 last year (Charles Ubaghs review), and it was one of the best albums of the year. He got it horribly wrong with his horrendous review. Stay Postive is excellent, but a similar format to Boys and Girls. Boys and Girls was a 9/10. Stay positive is an 8/10. Perhaps they're overmarking this one to make up for the terrible Boys and Girls review.

Wave Pictures, Laura Marling and Johnny Flynn would get my votes, but none will make the shortlist, although Laura may sneak in and worth an outside bet for a nomination.

Album of the year contender for me. I will remember the name Luke Slater when looking at other reviews as this really does suck.

I was expecting a 'nu' mame to be attached to this scene at some point soon! First time I've heard the 'nu grass' term. I saw him live, supported by Mumford & Sons in Exeter and both bands were superb, I loved every second of it. Gig of the year for me by far. The album has rarely left my CD player since release date. I'd give it a 9. Looking forward to catching Marcus Mumford and his sons at Glastonbury.

I will be nowhere near that stage when Jay Z is on. A) because he is shit and should not be there, and B) Massive Attack are on the Other Stage at the same time.

The Dawn Chorus
Wolf Parade
Johnny Flynn
Black Angels
Derek Meins
Bon Iver
The Most Scerene Republic
Sia
Wild Beasts
Pete Molinari
Oh Laura
The Ruby Suns

Waving Flags by British Sea Power for single of the year.

It's been a cracking year so far for me.

Can't wait to hear The Hold Steady when it's released.

I'd be more worried if DiS said is was good, as the reviews here are consistently poor and just wrong.
So there.

I thought it was 6th May????

...can you not mention The Maybes? in this thread? UK's best undiscovered band. Saw them on Saturday; they were AWESOME.

It's such a fantastic record.

I thought it was a brilliant gig. Spencer Krug has a side project 'Sunset Rubdown', who have just released an album called 'Shut Up I am Dreaming' which is quality. Not Wolf Parade, but very good.

Superb album from the best band in the world, along with The Wrens.

....should be fired, along with the rest of the DiS reviewers as you haven't got a clue. Losers. What sort of name is Cody Jefferson? Sounds like a high school jock (cock). Get back to captaining the soccer team and dating the best girl at high school and stop reviewing music as that is probably the only thing you are rubbish at you bell end.

LMT make extemely unoffensive, dancable, totally unpretentious catchy tunes that all pop music should sound like. All of you 'I'm considerably cooler than yow' tossers who feel the need to slate it should get a life and sit at home on your own and listen to your Morrissey vinyl as you're far too cool for us scenesters.

What an embarrasment you are to reviewing. You should be sacked for that one review alone. I hope you don't get paid for such complete and utter nonsense. Jesus. One letter and two numbers for you: P45.