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Concrete Recordings presents: Glastonbury Unsigned Bands 2005CD REVIEWFriday 5th August 2005 If you love festivals then get this compilation. With twenty-five tracks on the two CDs, it's well worth the money at a mere £5 - and you’re helping homeless people with half the profits going to Shelter, and the other half to the bands on the CD. The CD showcases the unsigned new talented bands who all turned up to play in front of Michael Eavis and a panel of judges for the prize of a chance to play one of the main stages at this year's Glastonbury Festival. With a wealth of different musical directions on offer it gives the listener a chance to hear the various kinds of music on offer at Glastonbury Festival each year. Not only that, it’s an opportunity to hear brand new bands before they become well known and they are all of a fantastically high standard. With the album drawing from the various stages competitions to give you the flavour of bands on offer there, it’s actually quite useful for anyone new to Glastonbury to give them an idea of what kind of music diversity is available at the festival. The first album starts a little awkwardly with slow tracks and up-tempo numbers coming in quick succession. But because Glastonbury offers such diverse music there was obviously little the producers could do. In fact after this musical tussle the rest of the CD settles down and flows quite well. Highlight track from the first CD is by The Deadbeats, who won the Acoustic Stage finals and were crowned overall winners. Their track ‘Moonshine’ is a perfect introduction to their up-tempo Country stomping. If that’s not your cup of tea then don’t worry there’s plenty of other offerings for you, including many ‘indie’ bands such as Scouting For Girls and The Mad Staring Eyes as well as crazy girl punk from The Priscillas, all from the John Peel stage finals and some great dance music from the Dance Stage finals too, including Transcargo, Genesis Elijah and Luminous. Also on the first CD are Unnati and Jazzworld Stage winners Moya’s offerings, ‘Barish Mey – In The Rain’ and ‘Bambela’, two perfect examples of the music which you can hear under the fluttering flags of the Jazzworld Stage arena. With the album finishing with the wonderful Celtic rhythms of ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ by Dragonsfly which reminds me of the Greenfields of Glasto and listening to a mellow band while feeling sunkissed and blissed out. CD2 starts rather wonderfully with the chilled out ‘Christ’ by the Red Hand Band, which may be a Christmas song, but it still has a Glastonbury feel to the music. This collection of songs is more diverse than the first CD but personally I prefer it. With contributions ranging from Paddy Milner’s jazz piano to Reem Kelani’s Palestinian vocal chanting to Chemical Dub Theory’s twiddly dance dub. The stand out track for me of the whole album is young folk musician Jim Moray’s wondrous ‘Seeds of Love’. Closely followed by the fragile crafting of Whalebone Polly harmonising the fantastic ‘Do More Dancing’ - a great suggestion for all those at festivals. Together both CDs are an outstandingly good example of the wealth of talent that’s being produced in this country. Many of these bands are guaranteed to become festival favourites and a few have already started appearing on the festival circuit. A highly recommended album to play and imagine you’re in a field at Pilton. Well done to all concerned at Glastonbury Festival and those that put the CD together for encouraging all these new bands. review by Scott Williams For more on the CD - or to buy for just £5, see www.concreterecordings.co.uk. 
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