Blog: Narratives

Over the Top Festival diary.

May 28, 2009, 2:42am

This weekend I took in the Over the Top Festival . From start to finish, I saw: Ghost Bees, Timber Timbre, The Ghost is Dancing, Clues, Woods (in-store), Bayonets, Tune-Yards, Think About Life, Oh No Forest Fires, Five Blank Pages, Tiny Masters of Today, The Guest Bedroom, The Budos Band, and Green Go. I could conceivably have seen a few more acts, and I suspect some people did. Still, that's a lot of music. The Ghost Bees / Timber Timbre lineup—I missed headliner Baby Dee—is one I've noticed before, but I had never seen them play together. [...]

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