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Kinnie The Explorer + Zac Harris & The Blackwater Caravan + The Pretty Marx @ The Winchester

08.20.2010 · Posted in Gig Reviews by Katherine Cantwell

Beginning an acoustic set with Bombay Bicycle Club’s ‘Dust On The Ground’, The Pretty Marx opened up a chilled out, but gripping night at The Winchester. With a stripped back sound front man James Hazell’s voice transpired into something truly extraordinary, husky and deep. Continuing the set with a new song titled ‘Serfs’ followed by ...

Endorse it in Dorset Festival 2010

08.11.2010 · Posted in Gig Reviews, Oxjam by Tony Foster

I was going to start writing words about this year’s Endorse it in Dorset Festival yesterday, but a mixture of fatigue and a very real comedown delayed it by twenty-four hours. It takes it out of you does Endorse it, in a lovely, messy, sleep deprivation kind of way. Somehow I managed an eight hour ...

Larmer Tree Festival 2010

07.21.2010 · Posted in Gig Reviews by Tony Foster

Last weekend the Larmer Tree Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary. In 1990 it was just a one day affair in front of 200 people, headlined by the late Dick Heckstall-Smith, this year the number of artists and performers was in well in excess of that or original audience, with around 4000 punters flocking to the ...

Grooves On The Green 2010

07.13.2010 · Posted in Gig Reviews, News by Tony Foster

I never met Big Al, but heard so many complimentary words about his skills at the Sonic Kitchen Recording Studio, and those sentiments were always backed up by kind words about the man himself. This weekend’s 10th annual Grooves On The Green was dedicated to his memory after he sadly passed away on 25th June. There ...