Complete coverage of Bestival 2011 from The Fugitive Motel.
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Bestival 2011 Clockwatch: Sunday, September 11, Part 2
It says a lot that Noah and Whale can reduce a crowd of thousands to gibbering, incoherent, grinning fools with a collection of songs that aren't even their best.
Bestival 2011 Clockwatch: Saturday, September 10, Part 2
A little nervous about The Cure, who are playing for two and a half hours. Is this going to be a crowd-pleasing festival set, or self-indulgent guff?
Bestival 2011 Clockwatch: Saturday, September 10, Part 1
Now they're lying on their backs on the grass inside the tent, cycling to The Smiths. Genius. Any minute now somebody's going to come in whirling some gladioli.
Bestival 2011 Clockwatch: Friday, September 9, Part 2
Flavor Flav has got his clock out... there's already been an attempted stage invasion... and a lot of rhythmic shouting of "DON'T BELIEVE THE HYPE!" and we're only one song/medley in.
Bestival 2011 Clockwatch: Thursday, September 8
Bestival is officially Going Off. And that's before White drops a pantomime horse into the mix.
That’s Entertainment!
Beth Jeans Houghton with Stealing Sheep
Trof Grosvenor Street (The Deaf Institute), Manchester
Saturday October 1, 2011
The vocal range that Houghton shows on opener 'Atlas' alone is truly remarkable, flitting from an earthy alto to an equally rich, soaring soprano. The ease with which she moves through key changes throughout her performance is really something else.
YouTube Disco: ‘The Ink’ by Dutch Uncles out this week
Dutch Uncles fight over the bathroom in the new promo for 'The Ink', which is out this week.
Bestival 2011 Clockwatch: Friday, September 9, Part 1
The 'Slash's Clashes' section of today's Bestival Bugle is amusing, but scant help, suggesting that one should resolve clashes by going to see the artist with the most hair.
Bestival 2011 Clockwatch: Sunday, September 11, Part 1
Filed under Bestival, Festival Coverage by Kate Goodacre on October 4, 2011 at 6:25 pm {no comments}Chatting to two lovely girls at the barrier, both of whom are adamant that Metronomy will provoke some sort of conversion in your editor's attitude from 'mild indifference' to 'rabid fandom' during the next 45 minutes. I respectfully disagree...