Time in the mud
I'm currently back in Somerset taking a much needed break, the calm before the storm as it were. I'm writing on Firefox and should do-so more often as it checks my spelling as I go along rather than in Safari. Random point, but needs to be said as I'm quite prone to careless spelling mistakes.
My annual Glastonbury trip proved to do the job rather nicely. It rained a lot. It was very, very muddy (no surprise there?) but was just the kind of break I needed. Being my 6th Glasto, I didn't really need to feel like there were many things left to discover there, I didn't even go for the music this time. I would have been happy to wonder around and check out all the random shit that goes on. I wasn't impressed with the line-up either, but once I was there, everything fell into place, musically too.
I found there were a lot of bands that I probably wouldn't have gone out of my way to see, but glad I did. Bjork aside, whom was the only one I really cared about. I saw her a few years ago, but I spent my time there stuck behind a tall gay couple, wishing it was a little louder. Her appearance on the Other Stage made up for all of that and I found myself in a total trance (until they lost the channel on the speaker near us).
There were a lot of other bands who were noteworthy. For example, The Arcade Fire surprised me. I didn't think much of their recordings, but seeing them live has totally converted me, I totally love them now and see what all the fuss is about. On the other hand, I love Patrick Wolf's recordings, but wasn't so impressed with him live. CSS were mighty cool in the rain, Rodrigo y Gabriella blew me away and so did Shirly Bassy and Cold War Kids... I reminded myself that there IS still a lot of great music out there, there's just not a support from the record industries right now while they figure out what the rest of us already know... give us the music and we'll show the support!
On top of that, I spent a lot of time in my Glastonbury Haunt (aka. Lost Vagueness) spending a lot of time with Future Cinema (check out http://www.19-27.co.uk and http://www.futureshorts.com especially) and pole dancers / weddings in the Chapel of Love and Loathing. All of which was well needed.
On Wednesday I return to London and have two days to prepare all 10 final selected demos for live drum recording over two days. Guitars, Bass are close to follow. Vocals, piano and others I still need to organise, but July is going to be utter madness.
I don't care, I'm looking out the window and there is a beautiful sunset over the Quantock hills.
My annual Glastonbury trip proved to do the job rather nicely. It rained a lot. It was very, very muddy (no surprise there?) but was just the kind of break I needed. Being my 6th Glasto, I didn't really need to feel like there were many things left to discover there, I didn't even go for the music this time. I would have been happy to wonder around and check out all the random shit that goes on. I wasn't impressed with the line-up either, but once I was there, everything fell into place, musically too.
I found there were a lot of bands that I probably wouldn't have gone out of my way to see, but glad I did. Bjork aside, whom was the only one I really cared about. I saw her a few years ago, but I spent my time there stuck behind a tall gay couple, wishing it was a little louder. Her appearance on the Other Stage made up for all of that and I found myself in a total trance (until they lost the channel on the speaker near us).
There were a lot of other bands who were noteworthy. For example, The Arcade Fire surprised me. I didn't think much of their recordings, but seeing them live has totally converted me, I totally love them now and see what all the fuss is about. On the other hand, I love Patrick Wolf's recordings, but wasn't so impressed with him live. CSS were mighty cool in the rain, Rodrigo y Gabriella blew me away and so did Shirly Bassy and Cold War Kids... I reminded myself that there IS still a lot of great music out there, there's just not a support from the record industries right now while they figure out what the rest of us already know... give us the music and we'll show the support!
On top of that, I spent a lot of time in my Glastonbury Haunt (aka. Lost Vagueness) spending a lot of time with Future Cinema (check out http://www.19-27.co.uk and http://www.futureshorts.com especially) and pole dancers / weddings in the Chapel of Love and Loathing. All of which was well needed.
On Wednesday I return to London and have two days to prepare all 10 final selected demos for live drum recording over two days. Guitars, Bass are close to follow. Vocals, piano and others I still need to organise, but July is going to be utter madness.
I don't care, I'm looking out the window and there is a beautiful sunset over the Quantock hills.
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