So, there was a Folk Festival. I spent around thirty hours there over four days, and saw almost that many different acts. There were many incredible moments and some dull ones, nice food, nice drink, lots of people, a fiona_kitty from time to time and it was generally a huge amount of fun, though I was pretty much Festival-ed out by Sunday evening ( Read more... )

I have a ton of LJ posts I want to make, and an arguably free evening, so let's see how much of a dent I can make. The best place to start, clearly, is with music! In this post you will be visited by the spirits of music past, music present, and music future ( Read more... )

Last Monday, atreic and I went to see Phil Beer play the Junction. It was an absolutely lovely evening and a start to what would have been a near-perfect week had my performance in the CCB FITA Four on Sunday not been so terrible I didn't even submit my scoresheet. Anyway, that's another story, and not a particularly exciting one. The most welcome ( Read more... )

So the BBC recently rather arbitrarily decided that Britpop was 20 years old this year, and amongst their celebratory programming was a top 40 of favourite Britpop anthems (which they then divided into a bottom 10 and a top 30, presumably because Steve Lamacq didn't feel like doing all 40 on his show). Now, I didn't really get into rock (a genre ( Read more... )

I am eternally after people to drag along to gigs, so probably it's best to mention this fact with at least a fair amount of lead time in order that they might be approximately free on those days.

So. In the next couple of months there are some decent folk acts coming to the Junction. Namely:

Miranda Sykes and Rex Preston on April 15th (Tuesday ( Read more... )

Yeah, I'm musicposting again. You have been warned. Links in this post probably go to music videos on Youtube unless otherwise stated.

This post was primarily instigated by listening to this acoustic song video from one of what I call my guilty pleasure groups despite not feeling remotely guilty about them (warning: Asteroids Galaxy Tour. ( Read more... )

This post has a definite part and a more vague part. The definite part concerns live music, and November. The reason it concerns November in particular is because all of the acts I might potentially want to go and see are coming to this area in the same month. In chronological order, we start of with one of the bands I like who are embarrassingly ( ( Read more... )

So, I went to a Folk Festival. I kind of did this partly out of the belief that I really ought to see if I actually liked this whole music festival thing, and partly out of a feeling that as someone who really likes folk music and lives in Cambridge, I kind of ought to. It felt weird when I went to the smaller Wickham festival for a day last year ( Read more... )

(wasn't inspired by Sunday's headline acts, and also I'm completely knackered and struggling to stand up, so I thought it was time to go home before I wouldn't make it...)

Time spent at festival: just over six and a half hours
Total time spent at festival: slightly north of 25 hours
Ridiculous amounts of money spent on: today, a long-sleeved folk- ( Read more... )

And the just-got-in-but-am-writing-this-before-I-go-to-bedposting continues ( Read more... )