West Holts 2017

[CaledonianGonzo]

We get the jazz fest every July, but it almost always seems to consist of nowt but Jools Holland, Curtis Stigers and endless minor 'swing' bands.

[sime]

On 7/18/2016 at 7:24 PM, Badlands said:

It wasn't done intentionally. Beef with neither the poster nor the acts mentioned. I'll rectify.

Ah, have done that myself when using my phone. Thanks for clearing it up sir

[Quark]

1 hour ago, Badlands said:

Hip-hop aside, I'm rarely knowledgeable enough on the WH genres to suggest acts. More than happy to get my ears into recommendations and stuff that pops up on the lineup. 

I find jazz/funk, world music much easier to hear live without knowing the stuff compared to your usual guitar stuff.

I'll go with both of those, except I also know bugger all about hip hop!

There's been some good reggae on there, remember seeing the Congos a few years back and they were brilliant for a sunny afternoon.  Gregory Porter last year as well, although he moved up (although I think WH suited him far better) to Pyramid this year.

[pecks]

3 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

In the spirit of continuing to throw names into the hat (without much idea of whether or not they can (still) cut the mustard live or not):

Fred Wesley and the New JBs

Albeit, I saw the Fredster about 4 or 5 years ago and it was a hoot, albeit a very drunken one from my side.

oddly, they played my local bout 3 years ago. on that particular occaision, the mustard was most definitely cut. 

[Rumblestripe]

3 hours ago, Avalon_Fields said:

I think I'm on repeat but will mention again with more hope than expectation:

Boz Scaggs

Jason Isbell

Santana

Steely Dan

The Mavericks

Rhiannon Giddens

Steve Earle

The Avett Brothers

Balkan Beat Box

Peter Gabriel

and almost any act from Mali & Senegal

 

Can I propose you as booker for WH 2017?

Would love any of them, would add Afro Celt Sound System and step up The Ben Miller Band from Avalon.

[eFestivals]

6 minutes ago, Rumblestripe said:

Can I propose you as booker for WH 2017?

surely that's more like 1979 than  2017?

 

[HoTWire]

5 hours ago, The Nal said:

Earthless yes please! Haven't heard anything by then since Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky. Which I loved. 

Any of their newer stuff any use?

Try Acid Crusher, their newest thing... Still fantastic
 

 

[The Nal]

34 minutes ago, HoTWire said:

Try Acid Crusher, their newest thing... Still fantastic

Cheers! 

[Avalon_Fields]

5 hours ago, eFestivals said:

surely that's more like 1979 than  2017?

 

1979! I didn't know I was as contemporary as that. 

 

 

[eastynh]

Would the Human League be thought of as a West Holts kind of act?

[Badlands]

I'd say they were more likely to be Avalon than WH.

[Mezhyp1]

3 minutes ago, Badlands said:

I'd say they were more likely to be Avalon than WH.

The Human League, in Avalon? 

[CaledonianGonzo]

I don't really see why not. Fundamentally it's not a nostalgia stage, but no reason why the odd  1980s synthpop act couldn’t feature.  You wouldn't want them and, say Erasure in the same year, but as time marches on there are fewer and fewer sixties and seventies acts still extant to choose from.

I mean, Dare is a solid gold belter - but Kraftwerk first.

[Quark]

1 hour ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

I mean, Dare is a solid gold belter - but Kraftwerk first.

My only problem with Kraftwerk is that, no matter what they've done, the first thing that always comes into my head is Bill Bailey's version of Das Hokey Cokey.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Not an issue for those of us not on the Bailey Bandwagon.

[stuartbert two hats]

20 hours ago, The Nal said:

We never get any funk here. Average White Band picking up the pieces for Scotland. 

Now that's a band who should play Glastonbury.  Have they already done it?

[The Nal]

2 minutes ago, stuartbert two hats said:

Now that's a band who should play Glastonbury.  Have they already done it?

Dunno but they're a barely recognisable watered down version these days. 

And they're nothing without Hamishs Glaswegian afro anyway

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Arthur Verocai, please

Been rinsing this for weeks now.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Kool Keith has a new album on the way

https://mmg-koolkeith.bandcamp.com/album/feature-magnetic

 

[Badlands]

4 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Kool Keith has a new album on the way

https://mmg-koolkeith.bandcamp.com/album/feature-magnetic

 

Saw him and his potty mouth at The Park back in 08. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Ah...I wasn't there that year. I've never maaged to catch him live, but I do wonder whether he'd be as - erm - erratic as his recorded output often is.

[stuartbert two hats]

I'd like to see Gustavo Santaolalla returning. He's known for his film and game soundtracks such as The Motorcycle Diaries and The Last Of Us.  He was there in 2014 as part of Bajofondo,  but I'd like to hear him doing some of his more acoustic numbers, like his album Qhapaq Ñan, or The Motorcycle Diaries.  

 

[CaledonianGonzo]

On 20/07/2016 at 0:41 PM, The Nal said:

Oh, and just spotted that young Wesley himself is playing Edinburgh next Thursday.

https://tickets-scotland.com/events.html?event_method=viewevent&event_id=12f2817a-45cb-11e6-b2cc-22000b75ede9

Just won free tickets for this 

[The Nal]

7 hours ago, CaledonianGonzo said:

Just won free tickets for this 

Ah result! Nice one. 

[Avalon_Fields]

Can't see much better than a sunny afternoon at West Holts with some Calypso Rose (The album features Manu Chao, it's clearly influenced by him)