Well gigs for a start, since I last wrote I have seen
Bunny Come
Ellen And The Escapades
Family Machine
Let’s Buy Happiness
Montage Populaire
My Luminaries
The Phantom Light
The Secret Cinema Band
Tiger Shadow
Tom Williams And The Boat
Mayhew
Faded Cadence
All those finalists in the Glastonbury festival emerging talent competition 2010. Worthy winners, and taking their place at Worthy farm at the 40th anniversary of Glastonbury festival were Ellen and the Escapades.
Having said that lot's of other stuff too, Roy Hill, Cry No more, Mostly Autumn , Jackie Leven, Urusen, Strawberry Fools, Stackridge, Karnakarta, Stornaway, Dead Like Harry, The Travelling Band, Craig and Willoughby, Cousins and Cutler and of course Strawbs in their acoustic format. There were of course all the support Acts and a few other bands and performers who names now sadly escape me.
Indeed some of those bands I have seen several time over.
Oh and The Floe..actually that is bit of a cheat as that is not until tomorrow,.
Last week I also saw the debut of Craig and Willoughby's Rockin Revue at the famous Eel Pie Club in Twickenham. It was there that I was first alerted to this video and song written by Cathryn Craig and Brian Willoughby, which was about to be released.
The video, words and music focuses on largest natural disaster ever to hit the United States which happened early in May this year but got overshadowed and ignored on the media front because of the man made disaster caused by BP's offshore drilling catastrophe and no doubt, partly due to frenzy in the build up for FIFA'a football World Cup.
Over 12 inches of rain had fallen in an incredibly short period of less than 12 hours, causing a number of rivers to swell including Cumberland,Loosahatchie, Duck, Harpeth and Red River.
Severe flooding affected amongst others Nashville and the areas of Kentucky , Tennessee, Virginia, Ohio, reaching other places revered by many music fans including Gracelands in Memphis district of Tennessee..the spiritual and previous home of Elvis Presley.
The whole area is synonymous with Chet Atkins, B B King, Daniel Boon as well as Gibson guitars of Nashville, Walking Horses of Franklin Tennessee and the 400 mile length of the Natchez Trace the historic route that runs through the area. All are featured to some extent.
The music, pictorial representation and words describing the disaster and the affect that had on the infrastructure of the area and the crucial decisions that had to be made by the Army Corps of Engineers to avoid thousands of deaths can be found here.
Cumberland ( We are Tennessee) - Written by Craig and WilloughbyYou can listen and view here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
