And so it came to pass that it was the final day of Connect, and by Christ, was it biblical in terms of weather. The rain fell and fell and fell all night all morning and all afternoon. Add to that a lunchtime TV football match featuring Rangers and Celtic – and remember, we are [...]
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Saturday evening is kicked off with the sweet, narcotic drone of Spiritualized on the Main Stage. Jason Pierce only really has two songs, essentially – the slow one which uses women as a metaphor for drugs and the fast one which uses women as a metaphor for drugs. But still, they are both good tunes [...]
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Saturday morning brings a hearty breakfast and a stroll round the lovely little town of Inverary, before we head in to be held up by yet more irritating stewarding. After yesterday’s now aborted chair ban, today they have decided they will prevent anyone entering with their own alcohol…..despite having sent out several emails indicating that [...]
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So onto Friday evening. Next up was legendary American slacker Stephen Malkmus and his backing band, the Jicks. The erstwhile former Pavement front man still looks about 12 and came onstage to launch into a brutal, frenetic and frankly untuned mess of a song. The ELM posse was split on this one, the old Pavement [...]
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Hydro Connect entered it’s second year with a lot of questions. The line-up, by common consent, hadn’t come close to last year’s and ticket sales could well be described as ‘sluggish’. Add to that a predicted monsoon through the month of August and it looked like Scotland’s most innovative Festival was headed for the buffers [...]
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I don’t like festivals. You probably could have predicted that, I know. You stand in a field and get covered in mud. I don’t like mud. It’s not solid ground, it’s not a proper puddle, its just this gooey mess. In fact, if mud was a singer, it would be James Blunt. That’s how much [...]
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