So we went to Field Day 2012. Yeah, it’s notorious for bad weather and it’s in East London where people are strange but there was some great music on show and the line up was pound for pound as good as anything this summer.
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The Great Escape Festival Review
Nick Armstrong Great Escape Festival Review 2012 by Seeks Music on Mixcloud
Nick emerges from Europe’s largest new music festival with a show of global reach.
From Iceland to Australia, Newcastle to New York came this years acts that highlighted his weekend and interviewed.
Nick speaks to Zulu Winter, Porcelain Raft, Keep Shelly In Athens and Retro Stefson to name but a few.
Friends were made, beers were drank, there also some gigs thrown in for good measure
Desert Fest 2012
Modern Metal owes huge debt to the desert scene. Without it there’s no Kyuss, Fu Manchu, Nebula or of course Queens of the Stone Age. And now thanks to the boys at Desert Fest, Camden got to experience it’s very own Desert inspired Stoner Rock festival and wisely got it to coincide with Jesus getting us some days off to deal with our hangovers. Read more…
SXSW 2012 Review Show
Being British, We went to Austin, TX for the SXSW Festival confident that we had the measure of the thing. We like to think we know how to run a festival in the UK, how could this compete ? Read more…
SXSW Gig Report : Jack White.
Earlier this evening, To celebrate the third anniversary of the launch of Third Man Records, Jack White headlined the label’s first SXSW showcase.
The show was divided into two hour long sets, with two different backing bands. The first, an all female collective bedecked in baby blue were followed by an all male backing band after the break.
Both sets were liberally sprinkled with greatest hits offerings from The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, and The Dead Weather. Some new material also got an airng. Seven Nation Army closed the show.
Bill Murray was in attendance.
There is a huge stream of photos up on the Jack White website.
Check our full SXSW coverage here