Tagged: bestival2010review

He probably wouldn't be banging on about Lindsay Lohan and Audi TTs, although after a weekend at Bestival and a rekindled addiction to crass mainstream hip hop predominantly through the ubiquity of Katy On A Mission, as well as a set as short and sweet as Christmas from Tinie Tempah , Miami 2 Ibiza is the Swedish House Mafia's previous omnipresent hit One gone quintessentially British. Swedish House Mafia ft. Tinie Tempah - Miami 2 Ibiza (Original Mix) by House.Planet Tinie's [...]

Wearily arising to the masked masquerade this afternoon provided by the latest electro pop kingpins racking up an exquisite debut record layered with more exhilarating hits than late nights in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park, Monarchy offer an idyllic ear filler to displace any lingering wax, dirt and anything else that may have possibly become lodged in the gaping gate to the auditory canal after three days of grubbiness. Opening with the operatic (and just a tad less ostentatious than Hurts) Black, The Colour Of My Heart, the mysterious duo, aided by the most mechanical of rhythm sections turn gurns [...]

As the heavens above turn a forever darker shade of pale and thoughts recur to 2008 when everything underfoot was turned to nigh on a metre of pulverised chocolate cake, afrobeat collective The Hackney Empire , playing in the heart of the colossal spider mechanism that annually threatens to incinerate Glastonbury's Arcadia, are a refreshing blast of The Very Best-esque catchy, if contrived sunray pop. Then the heavens are sliced and diced, then two overtly enthusiastic MCs chant away insipidly "It's raining, but we don't care", then "we" realise "we" care, and the Big Top, although about to be [...]

For 2 weekends in 52 the remote landmass lurking beneath the south coast of Britain, the Isle Of Wight becomes infested by swarms of beat-hungry munchkins in search of thrills in every case, spills in fewer, and pills still in a fair few. Where the Isle Of Wight Festival attracts buzzing, bruised hordes all too hooked on the latter, this weekend saw Rob Da Bank's Bestival return for its sixth annual shebang, transforming the raw wood climbing frames and cardboard Giraffe cutouts of Robin Hill Country Park into a hedonistic haven for seemingly around half [...]