Festival Coverage : Isle Of Wight Festival

By Kenny McMurtrie

May 20, 2013

The Isle Of Wight Festival these days hardly needs any extra advance promotion, given its association in the public consciousness with the original three events of the same name and the pedigree established over the 11 years since its revival by the Solo Music Agency. This year’s festival takes place from 13 to 16 June and at time of writing major acts such as The Stone Roses, Bon Jovi, The Killers and The Boomtown Rats have been confirmed along with smaller ones such as Kodaline, Imagine Dragons, Rizzle Kicks and Imperial Teen.

A weekend’s adult camping comes in at £185 but you can view the whole range of ticketing options by clicking on the festival name at the start of this article.

John Giddings of the organising team took time out from his packed schedule to answer a few questions we sent his way:- … Continue Reading

Long Division : Pre-Festival Interview With This Is The Kit

By Rob Aldam

May 16, 2013

This is the Kit is the musical project of Kate Stables. Formed back in 2003, her travels have taken her across the channel and build the band in size and shape. She’s collaborated and performed with a number of artists from both sides of the Channel, and her touring band incorporates a range of talented musicians in their own right. Ahead of Long Division Festival 2013 MG’s Rob Aldam caught up with her to discuss making music, talented friends and Gaelic audiences.

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Festival Coverage : Long Division

By Kenny McMurtrie

May 13, 2013

Long Division takes place in Wakefield , and is put on by the Rhubarb Bomb blog. For the 2013 incarnation of the festival (in conjunction with Jonny The Firth and Wolfyboy Records of Leeds) 7 venues in the city will host 70 acts over the course of 07 – 09 June. Those acts already confirmed at time of writing include The Fall, Nine Black Alps, Ghostpoet, Jeffrey Lewis, The History Of Apple Pie, Howard Marks, RM Hubbert and The Spills. With tickets at a mere £20 this is a festival that’s pretty much off the scale in terms of value for money.

Dean Freeman from Rhubarb Bomb was kind enough to answer a few questions that we put to him about the organisation of the weekend’s activities:- … Continue Reading

Festival Coverage : Big Day In

By Kenny McMurtrie

May 02, 2013

Edinburgh’s Electric Circus plays host, this Bank Holiday Sunday (May 5th), to the Big Day In event. The full line-up is handily displayed on the image to the left and you can obtain tickets by clicking here.

John-Paul Mason and Tallah Brash, the dual brains behind the day’s goings on, were good enough to answer a few questions that we put to them:- … Continue Reading

Festival Coverage – Primavera Sound

By Kenny McMurtrie

May 01, 2013

The Primavera Sound festival has been around for over a decade in Barcelona and is now in its second year in Porto.  Offering a consistently high level of acts from around the world it is also an important platform for acts from Spain, Portugal and Latin American countries, proof of which is seen this year with such acts as Blur, Bob Mould, Dinosaur Jr., Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Woods rubbing shoulders with The Suicide Of Western Culture, Los Planetas and Guadalupe Plata and many others.

The Barcelona event runs over May 22 – 26 whilst Porto plays host May 30 – June 01 and we were lucky enough to have a few questions about the organisation of the shows answered by the promoters:-

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Record Store Day 2013 : A Q & A with Demon Records

By Cat Schaupp

April 30, 2013

Here at Muso’s Guide, we got pretty stuck in to the build up for Record Store Day 2013. In between vainly attempting to reduce our list of desired records from this year’s releases down to a reasonable number, we got chattering away to record companies around the country about their involvement with the big day in the attempt to find out what life is like on the other side of the till. … Continue Reading

Festival Coverage : Live At Leeds – Q&A with Swiss Lips

By Rosie Duffield

April 29, 2013

Long Division : Pre-Festival Interview With Jeffrey Lewis

By Hayley Scott

April 25, 2013

Ahead of Long Division festival 2013 Muso’s Guide will be catching up with some of the acts from the this year’s bill. First up is the wonderful Jeffrey Lewis who was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule to talk to MG’s Hayley Scott about his upcoming tour, new album and collaboration with Peter Stampfel, his thoughts on that pesky anti-folk tag and The Fall… … Continue Reading

Festival Coverage : HIPSVILLE – The Shook-Ups

By Kenny McMurtrie

April 24, 2013

In their avowed quest to bring the cream of the crop to Bisley for the first ever Hipsville the shadowy figures behind the enterprise have pulled out all the stops and signed up The Shook-Ups.

Carl Combover from the band was tracked down and forced to answer the following questions:- … Continue Reading

Festival Coverage : HIPSVILLE – Wild Evel & The Trashbones

By Kenny McMurtrie

April 22, 2013

Garage Punk is alive & well and emanating from Vienna in the guise of the man known as Wild Evel, who would be a lesser figure without his stalwart Trashbones (who, it turns out, emanate from Graz).

In the run-up to Hipsville Murphy Morphine, fuzz-guitarist in the band, put that geographical faux pas aside and took time off from looking for empty crypts to perform in to answer a few questions we had the brassneck to put to the band:- … Continue Reading