June 2012

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  • 06.28.12
    Get your B<E<A<K ON! Willowman Festival Highlight Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Day 2 of Willowman festival, I'm feeling sluggish, spaced out and (here comes the start of many conundrums) spitting feathers. No abundance of energy drinks, fizzy sweeties and copious amounts of coffee could trick my body into thinking it hadn’t been raving it up the morning after the night before. A hair of the dog hadn’t worked either. Enter B<E<A<K. As they blasted onto the stage a blaze of colours, instruments, and slightly scary (in the Ronald McDonald when you were a kid kind of way) bird masks, my eyes were given one hell of a workout as they darted ...
  • 06.28.12
    Willowman Highlight – Vintage Trouble Uncategorized | Comments Off
    Hailing from the US of A you'd think these guys have been playing together for years and years and years. Umbelievably tight (insert all types of inuendos), I now know what would happen if you could breed the genes of James Brown, a young Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder... the result would be frontman Ty Taylor. Love love love LA's funk, soul, blues group, join their mailing list for a free EP. Here they are performing on Jools Holland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsw4ipHcMvY
  • 06.27.12
    3,2,1 She’s back in the room – thanks to Willowman Festival Uncategorized | (1)
    There simply are no words to express how rubbish I have been to neglect my poor blog on Hotpress.com for this long. 11 months and about 30 cities later, my faith in festivals has been restored. Has anyone heard of Willowman Festival? I hadn't, neither had your man Neville Staple from the Specials, but only a few days ago, there we both where in the hills of Yorkshire lapping it up like a dog against a pea stained lamp post. The diversity and quality of acts that took place on the same weekend which was no doubt overshadowed by the Isle of White ...