Artist: stornoway

Ahhh, Stornoway , how we love thee. Having stumbled across them a couple of weeks back, Jess wrote an amazing introduction to them , and I was fortunate enough to be able to speak to Brian Briggs, their frontman, Ollie Steadman, their bassist, and Adam Briggs, their trumpet player before they closed the Introducing tent on Saturday night. Some of the nicest guys you'll find in the music biz today, Brian explained that the rest of the band were off watching Dizzee Rascal on the main stage, with Ollie joking that their [...]

Ahhh, Swindon. Home of XTC, the magic roundabout , and, errrr, Billie Piper. And now it can add a much more credible item to that list: the host of 2009's Radio 1 Big Weekend. Playing host to the best of today's music, I was fortunate enough to be invited down to check out the Saturday lineup. After a 2 mile trek to the site, I launched straight in with a quick gander at Huw Stephens, playing a rather strong set on the Outdoor stage. Having heard Westwood from a few miles away, it was nice to hear [...]

Stornoway are a five-piece outfit from Oxford, whose beautiful and effortlessly timeless acoustic-folk is much guaranteed to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Indeed, what is so great about Stornoway is the fact that their music seemingly always comes complete with an under bubbling of pure glowing jolliness. They often make you feel like your at a super barn dance, and I fondly picture frontman Brian Brigg chewing down on a piece of straw while he merrily strums his acoustic (talking of Brigg - his voice really can make the hairs on the back of [...]