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Glastonbury…

Well, I’m off for a week to Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts down in Somerset, and for those that are interested, here’s who I’m hoping to see and who I recommend to you.

This will nearly be my 20th festival (nb. first Glasto) and thus I’ve seen a lot of bands, so this year I’m going to try checking out some bands I usually wouldn’t and let you know what I think…

Friday

Bloc Party 23:00 to 00:15

Neil Young 22:00 to 00:15

The Streets 21:00 to 22:15

Specials 20:00 to 21:15

Friendly Fires 18:30 to 19:30

Metronomy 17:25 to 18:10

Fleet Foxes 16:40 to 17:40

N.E.R.D. 15:10 to 16:10

Regina Spektor 13:40 to 14:40

Rumble Strips 13:00 to 13:40

Bombay Bicycle Club 12:00 to 13:00

Mr Hudson 10:50 to 11:40

Saturday

Africa Express Sound System 01:30 to 03:30

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble 00:30 to 01:15

Franz Ferdinand 22:50 to 00:15

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street band 22:00 to 00:15

Deadmau5 20:00 to 21:30

Klaxons 19:50 to 20:35

Passion Pit 18:40 to 19:30

La Roux 17:50 to 18:30

Dizzee Rascal 16:20 to 17:20

Spinal Tap 14:50 to 15:40

Eagles Of Death Metal 13:30 to 14:20

Tinariwen 12:20 to 13:05

First Aid Kit 11:00 to 11:30

Sunday

Blur 21:50 to 23:45

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 20:00 to 21:15

Noisettes 19:30 to 20:30

Bat For Lashes 18:30 to 19:30

Yeah Yeah Yeahs 17:00 to 18:00

Tom Jones 16:15 to 17:30

The Mummers 15:15 to 16:05

Alberta Cross 14:00 to 14:45

Art Brut 13:10 to 14:00

White Lies 12:00 to 12:30

Good Books 11:00 to 11:30

(NB: These stage times are from the official site)

I’ll report back on the other side, see you then.

Greg

Album of the Month

I know we’re a little late on this one, and that there are by this point many, many reviews out there in the blogosphere, but just incase you missed them, I cannot recommend this album enough.

It’s so consistent in the way that MGMT’s debut really wasn’t, and more euphoric and exciting than you could imagine. The Chunk of Change EP was good slash very good, but this is better. It has a kids choir, amazing synths & samples… as if I need to sell it to you anyway.

If you haven’t already done so, check it the fuck out. And the EP too. Thanks to the joys of technology, if you have Spotify going on then the album is here and the EP is here.

Plus don’t forget; our albums of 2009 (the first half anyway) can be found here, with links to our reviews of the said albums.

Greg