If you’re not at Leeds or Reading on his fine bank holiday – much like us here at The Blue Walrus – but you’re still in the mood for absorbing yourself in some fantastic festival performances, you can do so from the comfort of your home. “How?” I hear you ask. Through that wonderful invention they call BBC iPlayer of course!
The BBC are offering some great coverage of the festivals – we’re especially enjoying the Mumford & Sons performance, which you can view by clicking here.
Here’s a track from Mumford & Sons’ packed-out Glastonbury performance at this year’s festival:
Winchester/Bristol quartet Polly And The Billets Doux are giving away a fantastic free track called ‘To Be A Fighter’, which you can grab via the link below.
The band, who have been causing a massive stir all over the UK festival circuit recently, including performances at Glastonbury, Loopallu and The Big Chill, are going from strength to strength at the moment, and have a UK tour planned for this October:
The multi-faceted foursome come highly recommended live (just ask The Ruckus girls), so grab that MP3, have a little boogey, and grab yourself a ticket to one of their October shows.
Holy Ghost! (MySpace) duo Alex Frankel and Nick Millhiser may have started off life as part of hip hop teen-thing Automato, but thank God DFA encouraged them to move towards their current electric disco-funk sound that we have grown to love over the years. They have spent most of the last three years remixing other people’s work, but on Static on the Wire they are offering up four songs all of their own.
You are thrown straight into that electro-funk in the opening title track with smooth vocals, tight beats and a world of synths. Say My name is slower to build, but once the piano trickles into the vocal line, the whole creation transforms into something more driving, only letting up for a slightly sunnier chorus.
I Will Come Back gets right back into the funk beat, and bouncey synth-line that should remind anyone to pack some dancing shoes, with an uplifting chorus that almost briefly touches on the euphoric. The EP then comes to a close with I Know, I Hear which starts keeps interest in the rhythms with some titillating hi-hats a clean bass-line and then drops in the simple synth melody you know the dancefloor has been waiting for – but it doesn’t stop their as some tom-toms thunder in and you get a vocals chorus straight out of a 1980s playbook.
This isn’t a pop record with everything shortened into 3 minute bursts, but is given enough time (most are about 6 minutes long) to develop and transform into something much better. Let’s hope this is a precursor to a full-length release.
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