killyourtv

Watching her in Manchester in November. Album one of my favourites of the year. In similar vein the Haley Blais record is a gem (as was the debut), also here in a month's time.

Dry Cleaning were one of my euphoric highlights of the first post-Covid EOTR in 2021, but I found that second album lightweight and can't really be bothered waiting through filler for 3 year old classics, unless they do surprise with that third album.

Mrs KYTV just reminded me the Charlotte Adigery & Bolis Pupul set in the Big Top was her favourite too, euphoric. She also loved Yeule and Heloise Werner & Colin Alexander's weird classical crossover to close the wonderful Talking Heads stage, so clearly she didn't worry about the lack of better-known names this year. Or cargo pants, whatever they are. She walked away from caroline in the Garden, in fact she wasn't sure if they were "still practicing". To be fair it didn't make much sense sitting among the chatterers, but brilliant down the front for me.

It took us a day to work out what those funny boxes with sawdust and scoops were for. Brought back images of village fete lucky dips or something.

Last night Gia told us this was the first time she'd sung for anyone in 4 years (it was a hesitant performance) after vocal problems a few years back led to cancelling all tours. She said she'd turned down lots of festivals, will guess including EOTR, due in part to difficulties in recreating the records live.

Campervan tickets back on sale.

Thanks for replies. I got earlybird campervan previous years; it's not the extra £20 or whatever as much as uncertainty about getting one at all. Campervan/MoHo seems to increase by the year (though as someone else pointed out before there was seemingly plenty of space).

Early Birds system kept crashing/posting Gateway error. Got 3 adult tkts at 11:12 but campervan pitches apparently sold out so have to wait for next release of those (if there is one !)

"The beauty of the #EOTR festival, so many people at the same event enjoying such a wide range of totally different fantastic music." is spot on. Every year I never seem to have seen ANY of the acts other people most enjoyed, or the ones the national papers rave about this morning.

Just home in time to see Gia Margaret in Manchester tonight (seated gig apparently); shame she wasn't on the EOTR line-up this time as new record is magical

Mrs KYTV just said they were OK once you learnt not to look, smelt OK and were actually cleaner inside (less cleaning liquids etc).

Off-topic but at 58 I realise I have (genuinely) no idea at all who is a "big" act these days. (I always assumed that David Thomas Broughton was the biggest act). Is there an official list ? My 22 year old had seen King Giz the night before in Manchester and tells me they're massive and couldn't believe EOTR had them, or that we had "Currents" year Tame Impala in 2015 (and Sufjan that year). I've never bothered with the headliners, they often seem well past their peak, but there does seem to have been less well-known names this year.

11th EOTR (though last year was just a Thurs and Sun night due to family drama) and I still got teary leaving this morning in that beautiful sunrise. Glad to read first-timers. Took Mrs KYTV and 24 year old lad again and we pretty much ended up in the same places though he inexplicably left Heloise Werner early to catch the start of King Giz ! HIGHS The site; never bore of gardens, the art, peacocks, the quirkiness. I let the lad beat me at marbles. All the music was (at worst) enjoyable, and the variety was astonishing; Joan Shelley to Divide and Dissolve to Alogte Oho for instance. Macie Stewart (with the sax)on Friday in the Boat was an all-time top 5 EOTR set, also love Alogte and Kokoroko, and the guitarist with Sam Burton was astonishing. Caroline's cover of Low's "Nothing but heart" was very moving. Sound quality was great throughout; the Garden in particular was better than I remember. Food was good quality (though I miss Bhatti Wraps) and decent value; we paid far more off the site at the Museum pub in Farnham we always walk to. The 8% Verdant on the craft beer bar was the beery highlight. Enjoyed a couple of films, All the Beauty and Bloodshed and Five Easy Pieces, for the first time. Quite a lot of noise bleed from the Boat so nice they put subtitles on. Only heard an hour of comedy on the Sunday but laughed a lot at the Shed W****r. LOWS I'd listened to music by all the artists in August and thought there was the usual great spread of styles, but perhaps a few less real discoveries than, say, 2021. My lad thought the headliners very weak compared to Green Man, perhaps an unfair comparison (but look at EOTR 2015 for contrast). Yes, the garden is treated as a picnic site where you chat to your mates, and even at the front there's too much talking, but audiences were immaculate by and large in the Folly, Boat and Talking Heads. The toilets. Terrifying at first, once I learned to not look down I thought they were OK, but as one lady noted in the Folly "It's an easier ride for the guys", and that's fair. Thanks to all you lot for being so nice and maintaining EOTR's low dickhead quotient.

Does she ? Can only see a few European festivals. High on my list as family dramas meant I missed last autumn dates and new LP is wonderful

Never seen Brian Jonestown Massacre live but I do remember watching "Dig !" on a quiet afternoon in the cinema tent (2015 I think) with a dozen others, all laughing like drains.