Tag: Isle of Wight Festival
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Every Record Tells A Story Scores 100
Well – it’s my 100th post…. Blowers: “And with that quick single off the pads, that’s a century of posts from England’s Every Record Tells A Story. 100 up – and he’s looking delighted as he acknowledges the applause from this sell out Oval crowd” Aggers: “Yes Blowers, and what better way to celebrate than…
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The Isle of Wight Festival 2012 In Pictures
A final look at The Isle of Wight Festival then: Here are my favourite images of the weekend… First up: Bruce Springsteen. The sun was setting as he approached the crowd. A couple of balloons floated by… Elbow‘s set was one of the best. Guy Garvey‘s voice is amazing live…. The crowds at the festival…
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Isle of Wight Festival 2012: Nine Bands in One Day
Sunday at The Isle of Wight Festival in 2012 was about as good as it gets for a UK music festival. The weather wasn’t too bad for a start…(after it had rained all night) If you are ever in a band and want to get the Big Top crowd’s attention at 11.50am on a Sunday…
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Bruce Springsteen: Live at The Isle of Wight Festival
Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band live at The Isle of Wight Festival “So this is your idea of a summer’s day?” (it rained all last night and whilst gloriously sunny, it is barely 20c) Bruce asks, looking at the crowd pityingly. “We came by plane, car and f-ing boat to get here” he…
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Pearl Jam: Live at The Isle of Wight Festival
Pearl Jam live at The Isle of Wight Festival Formed out of the ashes of Mother Love Bone twenty-odd years ago, it is difficult to express how important Pearl Jam seemed by the time their second album Vs went multi-multi platinum. I thought they might become the new Zeppelin. They had thoughtful songs, lots of…
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Tom Petty: Live At The Isle of Wight Festival
Tom Petty’s first live appearances on these shores for many years means it is time for me to confess something. Petty’s double live album Pack Up The Plantation – Live! was the first album I ever took back to the shop because I didn’t like it. Scandalous isn’t it? But in my defence, I read…
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Isle Of Wight Festival: It’s Official: There’s Some Mud On The Site
The Isle of Wight Festival kicked off yesterday with sets from Primal Scream and The Stranglers, not to mention weather that lived up to every festival cliché there is. Reports of people queuing in their cars in order to be towed by tractors onto a waterlogged site made Every Record fear the worst as we…
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Music Festivals and how to survive them…
With the festival season now underway, even Every Record is throwing caution to the wind (and rain, not to mention probable hail, sleet and the odd plague of locusts) and taking a Grand Tour of The Isle of Wight Festival. Of course, I realise I have pretty much tweaked the nose of providence by deciding…
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