Daily Archives : August 4th, 2009

Reviews, views, links, photos and thanks…

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Well… another Glasgowbury Music Festival has been and gone – once again the mighty Sperrins were rocked to their core by several thousand festival-goers on Saturday 25th July.

However, it doesn’t have to end there – we’ve scoured the internet and compiled a list of handy online resources which will help you relive some of the best bits of the festival weekend – and for those who couldn’t make it, you’ll be able to get a little taste of what you missed….

 

BBC Introducing…

First up, this year the small but MASSIVE main stage was sponsored by BBC Introducing… (Radio1, N. Ireland) with Rory McConnell – much like the festival itself, their aim is to support the best unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar music.

Throughout the day they were recording all the performances on the main stage, as well as some very special acoustic performances in the backstage ‘yurt’ – it’s a circular tent-like thingy – look it up.

You can listen again to last week’s broadcast whicht featured the main stage performances, whilst this week you’ll get to hear all the yurt-based action:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/rorymcconnell/

 

BBC Across The Line

Next, we have BBC Radio Ulster’s Across The Line festival coverage – Rigsy and the rest of the ATL crew have been in attendance for about 4 or 5 years now, and this year they saw fit to tell us 20 remarkable things (rather than their normal 10) about the Glasgowbury Music Festival:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/atl/review_specific275849.shtml

You can also check out their dedicated Glasgowbury section on their website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/atl/glasgowbury/

Finally, you can listen again to their most recent broadcast which included their festival coverage and yurt-related discussion:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007cpgz

 

BBC Electric Mainline

Stephen McCauley from BBC Radio Foyles Electric Mainline show spent the day at the festival interviewing artists and festival organiser Paddy Glasgow as well as playing some specially recorded session performances. If you missed the show, or just want to listen to it again, you can do so here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/foyle_aod.shtml?foyle/electric_mainline_thu

 

Bandwidth Films – Vanwidth Sessions

Check out a selection of 4 specially recorded acoustic sessions by the good folks at Bandwidth Films – they’re really rather good:

http://www.bandwidthfilms.com/glasgowbury

 

Festival Reviews

Stu Bailies Blog:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/stuartbailie/2009/07/rocking_at_eagles_rock.shtml

Md-Ulster Mail:

http://www.midulstermail.co.uk/entertainment/Glasgowbury-the-great.5504182.jp

Hot Press:

http://wordpress.hotpress.com/festivalnews/2009/07/28/glasgowbury-09-a-sell-out-success/

State Magazine:

http://www.state.ie/glasgowbury-09/

 

Blah Blah Blah…

We know you guys are never short of an opinion or two – so why not share them with us – either directly on our website [ www.glasgowbury.com/feedback ] or on the likes of some popular music disucssion forums:

FastFude: www.fastfude.org

AU Magazine:  www.iheartau.com/forum

 

Say Cheeeeeese!

Before we go, we’d just like to let you know that you can view a selection of photos taken during the festival weekend at the following location:

http://www.glasgowbury.com/image-gallery-glasgowbury-music-festival-2009/

These include our own photos as well as some submitted by festival-goers themselves – so if you have a few photos that you’d like to share with us and the rest of the world, we’d be more than happy to see them!

Finally, we’d like to thank you for your continued support of new music – both by your attendance at the festival and at the regular G Sessions dotted throughout the year.

Until next time…..

small but MASSIVE!

 

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