It's Oh So Quiet...

[bennyhana22]

So, nearly 48 hours without a post on the site...

Nearly 48 YEARS since the last announcement of any kind...

...there is serious EOTR inactivity here, folks!

Does no-one have anything to say/share/bring to the table?!

Where are those pesky unsigned bands? It's the second week in May!

Where's that next killer announcement with lots of new exciting news and confirming the mighty BRAKES to play?

WHERE IS EVERYONE?!

*sticks out lower lip*

Ben

[shoebox]

I got a DM from them on Twitter last week saying there would be a cheeky announcement soon, with some more bands, but no dates as to when this would be.

It is VERY quiet, but, judging by that interview with Sophia that was Tweeted earlier, I guess it's a busy time sorting out the finer points.

Lykke Li is now way up my "Must see" list and I've got to thank Jools Holland for telling me how to pronounce her name properly. I'd always assumed it was pronounced "likely". Oh how foolish I am!

[geofelgie]

tis quiet indeed......started festie preparations already - but then i have wychwood in three and a half weeks!

A cheeky little announcement would be welcome indeed. ;-)

[marooned]

Brakes is surely a MUST - like me, they're ALWAYS there.

Off to Wychwood myself. Miracle moment the other day, I was wistfully backtracking on my Glastonbury adventures and wishing I could go again, when into my workshop comes a lady to order Signs. We get talking about campervans, then Festivals, then she tells me they operate property lock-ups at Glastonbury - would I like to work with them.............

Hey ho, short answer is I'm there from Monday to the following Monday - REESSSUUUULLLLLTTTTTT!

So, it's Wychwood, Glastonbury, Larmer Tree and EOTR - the day-glo vest will be worn out, and my business will go to pot...............

[MattL80]

Hello.

[Splainc]

It's just hitting organization time for me. Travelling over from Ireland so Tangerine Fields booking, cheap flights, decision over Cork or Dublin airport, confirm who is going etc. All the admin stuff. Once that is all out of the way the excitement really starts to kick in.

Friends of mine have their fingers crossed that they will be selected to play as one of the unsigned bands this year. They have a new album out which is doing really well.

Check them out here

[marooned]

If you want to hear a pin drop - then visit the afore-mentioned WYCHWOOD Forum.

Being as how it's only HOURS away, you'd think it'd be lively, BUT, despite mine and a couple of other's efforts, it's dead as a donut...........

[SweepingTheNation]

"So the 8 successful application bands will be announced on our website this Friday"

"We will also be adding a further 9 bands to our line-up on Monday"

[bennyhana22]

YES!

I am taking personal credit for this announcement-about-the-next-announcement.

Clearly my gentle whining has prompted Alex and Sophia to Tweet.

You're all very welcome!

Ben

[Infinite Jest]

*applauds*

[perfectpassion]

I think clearly Ben you should be organising your own festival. It could include a "speakers corner" for music related ranting, special food stalls, and a dance tent. But not too much instrumental stuff please

[shoebox]

Ben, could you put Dan Michaelson & The Coastguards on at your festival please? Amazed that they've been omitted from this year's EOTR bill. No sign of Steven Adams in any capacity either. They are stalwarts and have been cruelly shunned! (citation needed)

[RedRockRick]

Spoke with them after the Truckers show last week - they seemed resigned to not playing this year. Which is a shame.

[perfectpassion]

Its oh so quiet, Ben hasn't posted anything for days.......

[RedRockRick]

I see This Frontier Needs Heroes are over here coincidentally at the same time as EOTR.

As, hmmm, are Richmond Fontaine.

Bruce Springsteen is due a tour, too.

Just saying.

[perfectpassion]

Well the unsigned bands announcement has livened the forum up no end (not) Heres hoping for some action tomorrow? I should really be posting on the SUNDAY RANT but here goes....

We have found a new pub venue in Cambridge called the Haymakers, they have had some great bands on, and in the next few weeks they have Alessi, the Wave Pictures blah blah. So last night we went to see the six piece Young Rebel Set from Stockton-on-Tess. Avoiding tedious comparisons with other nu-folkers, they really gave it all, six of them squashed up on the tiny stage. It was a really enjoyable gig, but where the hell was everyone else???? I counted an audience of 24, some of whom left, were part of the support act, or were dressed as Red Indians......

Was everyone watching the Eurovision Song Contest?

Here was a gritty-folky-soulful northern band that would have felled those wussie M&S with the first song, and nobody bothered to go and see them!

It seems they are more appreciated in Germany , we make the finest music in the world and then we give it away.

Ben please add them to your new festival x

Edited May 15, 2011 by perfectpassion

[bennyhana22]

Dear All

Firstly, apologies for my abject posting-failure of late. It has been most remiss of me. Saying that, I have a few excuses in mitigation.

It's been a bit of a sports fest of late. Last Sunday I walked 26 miles as part of the brmb Walkathon in Birmingham. This charity walk along a faily grubby Birmingham bus route had 10 000 plucky Brummies risking life and feet to raise money for my children's Emergency Department, so I HAD to walk. This was all well and good but, being the absurdly competitive and impatient OCD-sufferer that I am, I yomped it. Again all good, round in 6 and a half hours and home early. But, I strained my left calf. This was a particular issue as I had a bike race yesterday that I'd been training for for 3 months! All's well that ends well and my leg, though sore today, did not stop me riding like a cyclomentalist yesterday in the beautiful Scottish Highlands.

So I've been a wee bit busy.

However, I've been lurking and reading feversishly, though without time to explore the application winners, which I will endeavour to do today and tomorrow. I am also, naturally, becoming a Twitter-pest, continuously looking at my feed for that imminent announcement. Whilst already spolied for choice at this year's festival, something especially smashing today would just place the cherry on the top of my already delicious looking festival cake.

Chant with me: 'BSP,BSP,BSP,BSP,BSP...'

Oh, and I've got EITS tomorrow night so I'm the cat that got the cream, even if there has been a MASSIVE delay on the arrival of my EITS vinyl :angry:

It's nice to be back in cyberspace with you

Ben

Edited May 16, 2011 by bennyhana22

[wackojackohighcliffe]

This was a particular issue as I had a bike race yesterday that I'd been training for for 3 months! All's well that ends well and my leg, though sore today, did not stop me riding like a cyclomentalist yesterday in the beautiful Scottish Highlands.

[bennyhana22]

Etape Caledonia, Pitlochry

If I may be somewhat self-congratulatory, I did pretty well!

Came 172nd out of around 4200. Winner was about 20 mins quicker (81miles) and was Evan Oliphant, a pro.

Also came 50th overall in the KOM for ascent of the big climb, so pretty chuffed. Not bad for 41!

Wee bit sore today!

What do you ride, wacko?

Ben

[wackojackohighcliffe]

Ah yes, the famed Etape (technically not a race, despite the best efforts of half the entry i'm sure ). That is very impressive - obviously not held up by tacks this year. Good job on Schiehallon (correct my spelling - my scottish ain't great).

That's my kind of riding - roadie, self-trumpeted climber extraordinare (by virtue of being a skinny bastard who was starting to get hammered at rugby) and very bored of time-trials. Not had a great season thus far, due to injuries, weather and the dreaded exams. Therefore training really kicks off June 6th - will be aiming for hill climbs this year then.

[perfectpassion]

Congratulations BEN x

[wackojackohighcliffe]

So you didn't get held up by this then?

http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/525874/etape-caledonia-suffers-another-tack-attack.html

[bennyhana22]

No - we caught the end of a news item on 5live on the way home, but didn't hear the whole story. I genuinely thought something had gone wrong in the newsroom and the computer had brought up the story from 2 years earlier as I hadn't heard talk of it at any point on Sunday!

Cracking day though. And whilst you are, of course, correct about it not being a race, unlike other sportives its absolutely run like one with British Cycling marshals, a podium and riders going for it! Winner was Evan Oliphant, a pro for Team Endura in a record time of 3h 27m. I'd have been third in the women's race

Have almost definitely decided to the Marmotte next year.

Apologies to everyone else for hijacking this thread. We bikies do love to talk about bikes!

Ben

[bennyhana22]

Well Explosions in the Sky were predictably fantastic last night in Manchester. The support guy, moniker Lichens, was very odd. Drone-Ambient, he built up a single 'track' over 30 minutes, with wailing vocal effects, loops and stuff, to an underwhelmed and rather too chatty studenty crowd. By the denouement I was rather enjoying it, notwithstanding the chatter!

EITS were immense, however, once again exhausting themselves for 1h 20m for my personal happiness. The new songs worked wonderfully with some old favs - for anyone as interested in them as me they opened with Yasmin the Light and closed with an absolutely epic The Moon is Down which, given that my favourite EITS record is 'Those who tell the truth...', was wonderful.

Brought back some VERY happy memories of EOTR '09 and has only made me more impatient for September. Treated Phil to a mega EOTR-2011 playlist on the way up and down to Manchester, much to his chagrin as he's not coming! Some old bollocks about a friend's wedding in September...I suggested he probably wasn't that good friends with them...

Ben

[baroquepop]

I don't get to see much live music of note, but did manage to catch Sufjan Stevens in Sage Gateshead. It was truly a spectacle. I would not have been surprised to see a kitchen sink in the corner of the stage because this gig had everything else! In fact one song alone Impossible Soul had everything, running to over 30 minutes in a live setting. A cracking night!

And now EOTR is my next engagement of any kind anywhere outside a 10 mile radius of where I live, I guess it's time to peek in here a little more often. I'm currently buying selectively through the CD output of most of the main acts, and that definitely gets the anticipation going.

I've had zero success with Liftshare over the years so I'll probably be offering or taking a lift from Scotland, I'm in the far north.

Edited May 27, 2011 by baroquepop