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Bruce Springsteen @ Wembley
This one wouldn't make it into my top 40 of Springsteen concerts, though of course that wouldn't preclude it from featuring in my top 100 gigs of all time. A decent set list on paper, the whole of Darkness played in order, but probably due to a degree of knackeredness on my part and a mistiming of when to put away the Red Bull , it never quite caught fire for me in the way Springsteen gigs do. The bar is of course set high. Thousands would and do disagree with me.
Bruce Springsteen @ Hampden
Hey, it's Scotland and a much better crowd and everyone is having so much more fun, band included, with some excellent mugging from Steve. Good setlist with more than a few of my faves. Everything seems to run so much better, including the pit queuing, though I didn't appreciate them moving the Andy's Loo I was patronising whilst I was still in it. I got a sun tan!
Bruce Springsteen @ The Ricoh Arena, Coventry
I haven't made up my mind about this one yet. Because this is the kind of person I am (and because she was so much shorter than me) I let a woman from Northampton stand in front of me in the pit. She would not stop wittering for the next two hours and close to kick-off announced that because she'd parted with hard-earned money for that privilege, she'd every right and intention to sing along to all the hits and we would have to accept this. Bruce started with an acoustic Ghost Of Tom Joad, followed up with Long Walk Home, My Love Will Not Let You Down, Two Hearts, Seeds, Trapped, Long Time Coming...She was gone by Wrecking Ball. Thank you, Bruce.
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Sharon Jones has had to pull out due to cancer.
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Meh to that announcement but I didn't really need more convincing about this year's line-up.
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Wall, Evens The Death and the amazing Tigercats all added as application winners.
Once upon a time we'd get about 15 of these wouldn't we?
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Well, here at 49 Thunder Road, Guildford...
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I rarely, RARELY watch any comedy. Too much good music, and that's why I'm there.
I've seen a couple in the past, and they've been OK. Didn't bother trying to get near Russell Howard the year he performed. Seemed like a fruitless exercise.
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Sharon Jones will be amazing, a nice shift from mumbling beards.
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One 6 hour shift a day.
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If you're talking about stewarding then...
I remember it being incredibly annoying missing bands. I remember it being an absolute fag getting up at 7 for shifts. I remember it being unbelievably cold and boring standing by yourself at the campsite entrance at 3 in the morning.
I remember it being free and a good laugh. Very easy - keep the festival do's and don'ts sheet with you to admonish bad campers with and try not to get caught skiving. Be prepared to be really tired but remember it's only a weekend. And see all the bands you can in your spare time.
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Leisure Society, Allo Darlin' and the Staves are all good, Dinosaur Jr is great (although surely bigger than Warpaint?!?)
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Yeah, I'm so happy Wintersleep are supporting, worth the entry price for them alone. Hopefully will bring back some memories of a great night in the Tipi.
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The late night disco in the Woods is a good laugh but as far as I recall there is more going on after the bands have finished at GM. There's a cider bus though so no real worries
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Frightened Rabbit, Efterklang, Jens Lekman, Polica, Bo Ningen = sick! The lineup this year is good so far, hopefully they add some more guys like they did Phosphorescent and Okkervil River in previous years.
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New Frightened Rabbit is very nice, looking forward to seeing them in Nottingham next week.
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Bill Callahan and Bonnie Prince Billy would be great. But Les Savy Fav would be so brilliant. EOTR needs LSF. I repeat, Les Savy Fav!!!
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Personally hoping for an Explosions in the Sky return but somehow I doubt it. Nick Cave would be great but I'm not convinced either.
You know what would be great? Get Desaparecidos over here. Don't know if they could headline but they could definitely headline the Big Top. Just do it!
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Po Girl
Wailing Jennies
Long Winters
Dexateens
Rosie Thomas
Kasey Anderson
Anders Parker
Nada Surf
Lucero
Have Gun Will Travel
Wrinkle Necked Mules
Stewboss
I See Hawks In LA
Broken Social Scene (well, if Grandaddy can get back together...)
Kathleen Edwards
Hem
Lower Dens
Hackensaw Boys
Frog Holler
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (under an alias)
Glossary
James McMurtry
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Doing it alphabetically:
Anais Mitchell (preferably doing Hadestown), And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of The Dead, Andrew Bird, Archers Of Loaf, Bill Callahan, Blind Pilot, Bon Iver, Bonnie Prince Billy, Califone, Decemberists, Desaparecidos, Dinosaur Jr. , Dirty Three, Dispatch, Drive-By Truckers, Frightened Rabbit, Gaslight Anthem, Gillian Welch, Guided By Voices, The Hold Steady, Jeff Mangum, Les Savy Fav, Low, Menomena, Modest Mouse, My Morning Jacket, The National, Okkervil River, Other Lives, Phosphorescent, Polica, Portugal. The Man, Ramona Falls, Rural Alberta Advantage, Shearwater, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, Swans, The Thermals, Titus Andronicus, Wintersleep.
Them please.
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Too true. Excellent job.
Worst type of company to name on an ego trip though.
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Not sure what people are complaining about with the portions and prices. I got a decent plate of potato wedges with spicy salsa for £3.50 one evening and that was easily enough for dinner
What about the waffle stall? That was amazing, £5 for the best dessert I've had in ages!
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Didn't have a problem with the size but I did with the food (price was expectedly high). I couldn't find a proper pudding on site - cakes are not puddings and the crepes were crap. Bhatti wraps were hugely dissapointing. As were the wedges.
Pizza was very good value. So too the chicken (not enough potatoes though and the roll was tasteless). I'm sure it all used to be better.
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Locals? Just a guess...
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Alabama Shakes again...
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I was working as a steward and there were definitely day tickets. Don't know who for or where you could get em from but there were.
GIGS
in End of the Road
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Great setlist that one, glad you enjoyed it. Just got back from my holiday in Italy where I got to see him in Rome - absolutely sensational, Incident into Rosie and then the only ever performance of NYCS outside of the US!