Green Man Festival

jish · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 3:48 pm

Just got back from my first visit to the Green Man Festival. Superb weekend. Wellies not required as the weather held out.

Took on some absolutely amazing bands / artists too including...

We Aeronauts
6 Day Riot
Wave Machines (excellent)
Broken Records
Emmy The Great
Gang Gang Dance
British Sea Power
Roky Erickson
Animal Collective
Stornoway
The Leisure Society (Excellent)
The Phantom Band
Jonny (Norman Blake out of Teenage Fanclub & Euros Childs out of Gorkys Zygotic Mynci)
Noah & The Whale
Grizzly Bear
Bon Iver (Superb)
Jarvis Cocker
It's A Buffalo
Zun Zun Egui (shite)
Trembling Bells
Scott Matthews
Camera Obscura (excellent as ever)
Rodriguez
Wilco (amazingly good)

Also had the fortune of parking about 500 yards from our tent.

Superb weekend. Massive Hartlepool prescence there too!

Kolley Kibber · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:29 pm

Lucky you, I spent the whole weekend up to my knees in mud last year. The line up was far better this year too.

tigro · **Posted:** Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:16 pm

Davey Axelrod · **Joined:** Sat Feb 21, 2009 12:41 pm **Posts:** 41

What was Roky Erikson like? 13th Floor Elevators are (were) class!

jish · **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 8:22 am

He was pretty good Davey. The set was a bit more bluesy than psychedelic which is what I was expecting. He got a fantastic reception from the crowd.

jish · **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:30 am

ElvisAintDead wrote:

Wilco (amazingly good)......of course they were "amazingly good"...that's because they ARE "amazingly good".

Not quite obscure enough, but amazingly good!

I already knew that they are amazingly good. Just thought i'd share it with the folk on The Bunker.

I was stood with a group of friends, many who had not heard much by Wilco. Each and every one blown away by that performance.

They were far and away the best band at the festival (that I saw anyway)

GroovyCrimes · **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 9:34 am

Rodriguez is the one that stands out for me.
His album (Cold Fact) is probably the best Bob Dylan album that Bob never made & the best 60s album of the 70s if you get my drift.

Spender · **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:14 am

Last time I saw Wilco was a Glastonbury and I took a couple of first timers with me. They were completely blown away and started buying up the back catatlogue when they got home, watching for local gigs etc. I reckon Wilco are like that, you either adore them or they pass you by. Yankee Foxtrot Hotel is one of my favourite albums. :wink:

Spender · **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:25 am

I'm guessing that's EIEIO, Mr Dead, but I can't see Youtube here. I get large chunks of the Bunker which are just empty space when people post Youtubve thingys. sadx

jish · **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:00 pm

Spot on that Elvis. I'll be checking them out.

YHF is also my favourite Wilco album. Superb from start to finish!

GroovyCrimes · **Posted:** Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:43 pm

Anyone for Mermaid Avenue ?

Spender · **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:56 am

ElvisAintDead wrote:

Spender wrote:

I'm guessing that's EIEIO, Mr Dead, but I can't see Youtube here. I get large chunks of the Bunker which are just empty space when people post Youtubve thingys. sadx

It is Kev!!

Glad you've heard of them, they were just amazing. One of those bands that deserved better than their fate, it's a stunning album which I still play a lot now.

I'd forgotten about them but I'll be trying to nick that from somewhere then. I know people disapprove of such actions but it's simply not available here unless it's Brittany Spears, The Eagles, or some whimpering quavery voiced 'RnB' warbler. :wink:

Frodraff · **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:02 am

GroovyCrimes wrote:

Anyone for Mermaid Avenue ?

Now I have walked long long way
I still look back to my Tanglewood days
I've lead a lotta girls since then to stray
But there ain't nobody that can sing like me.

It's me favourite verse.

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:20 pm

ElvisAintDead wrote:

I've got a Tanglewood! clappp

The ped-egg may help with that

Compo · **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:23 pm

can a cheese grater be used as a ped-egg and visa versa

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:30 pm

Compo wrote:

can a cheese grater be used as a ped-egg and visa versa

If you use a cheese grater on your feet, make sure you wash it before it gets used in the kitchen. Good advice - FACT

Compo · **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:34 pm

talking about cheese graters does anyone use the little zest grater on the left hand side of a square one, i know what its used for but I never have. The only thing thats been grated on that section of my grater is my nuckles

Gibsons Beard · **Posted:** Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:36 pm

Compo wrote:

talking about cheese graters does anyone use the little zest grater on the left hand side of a square one

no

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