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PostPosted: Tue Sep 06, 2016 3:25 pm 
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Not a vintage year (worst festival weather ever and bizarre security measures) but here are some of the good and not-so-good bits. Review may follow...

Highs (though we missed TFC)

Hard Skin
Thee Oh Sees
Ezra Furman
Meilyr Jones (don't believe the Guardian review)
Whitney
Eleanor Friedberger
Savages - great stage presence now (don't believe the Guardian review)
Broken Social Scene
Younghusband
Shopping
Cat's Eyes
Thurston Moore Group
US Girls (a performance!)
Leaf Library

Lows

Animal Collective (turn up, plug in, bore everyone)
Money (the album cover is our wishful thinking)
Flamingods (where to begin...)
some of Cat Powers' cover versions
Devendra Banhart (Oh John Inman. So much to answer for.)
the Saturday rain

Shepherd's Ice Cream (chocolate/ tayberry) - wowser.

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PostPosted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 5:15 pm 
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Location: Wild and devil-may-care on the last mobility scooter to hell... YEAH!!!!
So the ice cream was a low?

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