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 …

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.
Polly And The Billets Doux – To Be A Fighter
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:
7th   The Luminaire, London*
8th    Stereo, York
9th    Night & Day Cafe, …

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 …

We were greatly saddened to hear on BBC 6Music that Ou Est Le Swimming Pool frontman Charlie Haddon committed suicide at Belgium’s Pukkelpop Festival during the day yesterday. NME.com has reported that the singer jumped from a mast backstage at the festival, and his death has been confirmed by Pukkelpop Festival, with a tribute to him left on their official website.
You might remember Tim featured Ou Est here at about this time last year, and since then the band had gone from strength to strength with a UK headline tour confirmed …

I have to admit that when I clicked through to Boy & Bear’s MySpace page, I was actually quite sceptical. Wow was I wrong to feel like that. I ran across the name because the Australian band played support, alongside Alessi’s Ark, on Laura Marling‘s last tour. I’d seen a lot of tweets at the time calling Laura’s performance mediocre, Alessi’s performance pretty good, and Boy & Bear’s performance absolutely amazing. So, with a spare few moments, I decided to check them out.
Their whole sound is ramshackle folk-rock goodness, and …

We mentioned this 13 minute indie monster of a track when we reviewed Spring Offensive‘s debut album Pull Us Apart a couple of weeks ago, and it finally gets it free release today.
Now it would be easy to just have cut these 13 minutes into five separate tracks, but as with the five stages of grief it imagines (Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance) – each part should not be heard or experienced in isolation. Also, if you’re anything like me you’ll enjoy with a wry smile the change in …