belated

I absolutely love this band, but I still can't help occasionally finding their constant fiddling with their material to be more frustrating than interesting. The new material played at Cargo was done brilliantly, but the older stuff (bar probably Chris Michaels and the run of Widow City tracks) was pretty shambolic.

Spot on. Massively disappointing album by their very high standards. Has grown on me a bit but still no more than pleasant. 6 is fair. Shame.

b) Mark E. Smith

b) Robert Wadlow

Is this place any good then?

Also, any idea who's headling the Moshi night yet?

are better than the Kills.

The Kills usually have about 1 decent song per album, and another 11 that sound exactly the same.

The Raveonettes last album, aside from 'Dead Sound', was pretty duff, though.

pft

A) Grasshopper

I'd been to Bowlie

No ATP lineup has been anywhere near as good

C) The Verve

It's like the 2000 US Elections all over again...

And the photographers appear to have seen a fair few more bands than the reviewers...

:) now

And cannot read

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A) Glastonbury Festival

...if they'd been able to play more than 5 songs and the crowd was a bit more lively.

Also, for such a short set, quite a lot of seemingly pointless instrument-swapping faffery.

Sounded great, though.

Were awesome. They won.

The Ruby Suns were good too.

And I quite liked Slow Club.

'Pretty generic' and 'indie' I'd agree with, but the dance bit and the Skins bit (and the Foals comparison above) don't really work for me.

They were, for me, a bit like a scruffy post-Libertines band (bad), attempting to do upbeat indie pop (good) and sort of failing a bit (so ending up okish).

But I agree. I watched them, they were ok/maybe a bit bad. But really nothing like Foals?

Even if in Notts they only played about 5 songs...

On the negative side, I told the guy from the band I was going to the Bardens gig and then I didn't. So.

Just go to one day? Sunday's line up is pretty similar to previous years' Sundays...

I'm definitely one of those 200.

I need this now.

Perhaps it works the other way - I'm sure there are 51 people who need a 200 track Fiery Furnaces live album...

Glasto is not going to end. A few years' break, maybe. Max.

on field day, surely?

Even Truck, after last year's disappoinment...

the fact that it was already one of their most overplayed, well-known hits (along with tracks 2,3,4...) Fairly standard label best of practice to put the big hits up front...

Though it's a best/the rest really isn't it?

CD1 has been properly sequenced, as a standalone intro for the casual fan.

CD2 is almost designed to stop people moaning about what's been left off CD1 (the 'proper' one) - assorted great but non-essential tracks, singles that weren't up to usual standard.

Non?