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  2. No NDH. What can I do instead?

    in End of the Road

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    This is really bad news. I was planning to go next year, especially as I had a ticket for last year but was unable to go due to ill health. EOTR is also a problem, as since the date change it falls on the same weekend as Moseley Folk Festival. I may have to return to Summer Sundae for some festival atmosphere.

  4. Best Albums of 2011( top 15)

    in End of the Road

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    Can I play

    Good year for music, but then I think every year is a good year for music.

    1. Southeast Engine - Canary

    2. Arbouretum - The Gathering

    3. Richard Buckner - Our blood

    4. The Decemberists - The king is dead

    5. Other lives - Tamer animals

    6. Lanterns on the lake - Gracious tide, take me home

    7. Tara Nevins - Wood and stone

    8. Gillian Welch - The harrow and the harvest

    9. Josh T. Pearson - Last of the country gentlemen

    10. The Antlers - Burst apart

    11. J. Mascis - Several shades of why

    12. Drive by truckers - Gogo boots

    13. Alisdair Roberts and friends - Too long in this condition

    14. 30 pounds of bone - Method

    15. Herman Dune - Strange moosic

    16. Low - C'mon

    17 The Gentle Good - Tethered for the storm

    18. Wild flag - Wild flag

    19. Wooden Shjips - West

    20. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness blues

  8. How was SSW '11 for you ...

    in Summer Sundae Weekender

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    I should say first, I didn't go Saturday. Nothing at all took my fancy. So for Friday and Sunday

    Favourite Act: The Phantom Band (by a country mile), The Antlers, Shonen Knife

    Biggest let down: No cinema tent. Dry the river were a tad disappointing.

    Best find (band wise): Delta Maid, The Whybirds and Other lives, although their set did seem to lose focus after the equipment problem

    Best moment of SS'11: Got to agree with a previous poster, Shonen Knife doing Blitzkrieg Bop, great fun. I got home that night and turned the TV on, and there were The Ramones doing Blitzkrieg Bop

    and the big question will SSW survive to 2012 and if do will there need to be any changes: I've only missed 2 festivals but TBH not bothered, I may come again if the line up warrants it, but I won't lose any sleep if it folds. Sorry.

  12. Best Albums of the Year so far.

    in End of the Road

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    Top 20 so far...roughly in order. Will no doubt change a fair bit over the next 6 months.

    Elbow - Build A Rocket Boys

    Bon Iver - Bon Iver

    PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

    Southeast Engine - Canary

    Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde

    The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps

    Sarabeth Tucek - Get Well Soon

    Antlers - Burst Apart

    Braids - Native Speaker

    Handsome Furs - Sound Kapital

    Lucinda Williams - Blessed

    Jessica Lea Mayfield - Tell Me

    Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

    Singing Adams - Everybody Friends

    White Denim - D

    Metronomy - The English Riviera

    Okkervil River - I Am Very Far

    Ron Sexsmith - Long Player Late Bloomer

    Drive By Truckers - Go Go Boots

    Panda Bear - Tomboy

  14. Best Albums of the Year so far.

    in End of the Road

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    Back on topic, been listening to the new Felice Brothers and Okkervil River albums. The Okkervil album is very different, might not have recognised them from the first couple of songs, but my initial reaction to both is very positive. Already practising shouting along with the Felices' 'Fire At The Pageant' at EOTR next year. 'River Jordan' also standing out on early listens.

    I read that some of the OR tracks were recorded in a single live take with 2 drummers, 2 bass players, 2 pianists and 7 guitarists! Would like to see THAT live on the Garden Stage!

  18. next headliner announced on tuessday

    in End of the Road

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    With you there Ben, Peej would be fantastic. I've only seen her once, back when she was touring To Bring You My Love. That was one of only two gigs I ever went to at the short-lived Que Club in Brum, the other was Pulp, and both still easily rank up among at least my top 20, if not top 10 all-time gigs.

  19. next headliner announced on tuessday

    in End of the Road

    Posted

    Anyway, back on topic....

    Had a chat to the girlie on the Decemberists' merch stall on Fri at Vicar Street, Dublin - excellent gig btw - asked her if they were doing EOTR and she said not as far as she was aware, which either means they're not the second headliner (although, who knows, maybe they're still to be booked?) or she's very good at bluffing :rolleyes: - let's hope it's the latter :)

    Also could highly recommend their support band, Blind Pilot.

  24. Best Albums of 2010

    in End of the Road

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    FWIW here's a top 20 from me. Also posted originally to another messageboard

    Couldn't seperate Phosphorescent and John Grant

    1=. Phosphorescent -- Here's to taking it easy

    1=.John Grant -- Queen of Denmark

    3.Arcade Fire -- The suburbs

    4.The Phantom Band -- The Wants

    5.Smoke Fairies -- Through dark light and trees

    6.Shearwater --the Golden Archipelago

    7.The Acorn -- No ghost

    8.Wolf People -- Steeple

    9.Balmorrhea -- Constellations

    10. The Besnard Lakes are the roaring night

    11. Midlake -- The courage of others

    12. Drive by truckers -- The big to do

    13. Unbunny -- Moon food

    14. Grasscut -- 1 inch / 1/2 mile

    15. Alisdair Roberts -- Too long in this condition

    16. Jane Weaver -- The fallen by watch bird

    17. Surrounded -- Oppenheimer and woodstock

    18. Wooden shjips -- Vol. 2

    19. Gotan Project -- Tango 3.0

    20. Mountain man -- Made the harbour

    Reissues- only 1 to report

    Next stop Soweto. Township sounds of the golden age of mbanqanga

    And finally in a class of it's own

    Dangermouse/Sparklehorse - Dark night of the soul (box set). A fitting

    epitaph to the life and work of the much missed (at least by me anyway)

    Mark Linkous.

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