Gruff Rhys Reviews

Independents Day
Band name: Various Artists Label: AIM Teaser: This limited 2CD may be a charity-friendly celebration of indie music, but let’s face it - the appeal lies in it’s surreal cover versions. Step this way for The Prodigy doing The Specials and Devandra Banhart covering (gulp) Oasis. Gareth Mytton reviews… Pull quote 2: Devendra Banhart turns ‘Don’t Look Back...
Welsh rare Beat 2
Band name: “I Steddfod Seicadelig!” Label: Finders Keepers Teaser: While the 60s generation were practising being twee to Donavan, it seems that the Welsh were busy re-inventing rock and roll in their own native tongue. The cunning bastards. Ric Rawlins adopts a retro brogue and delves into some of their lost classics… Pull quote 2: This record is fascinating...
The Green Man Festival
Venue: Brecon Beacons, Wales Teaser: Ric is kidnapped by fez-wearing drug fiends in a remote Welsh music festival. But, being the trooper he is, he escapes to check out Pete and The Pirates, Battles and The Aliens! Pull quote 2: The Aliens are attacked by inflatable bananas and rubber chickens – but still deliver a seriously swaggering rock show… First para:...
HOVE FESTIVAL PART FOUR
Venue: Hove, in Scandinavia somewhere Teaser: Richard’s Hove festy odyssey continues, with predictable behaviour from king twat Pete Doherty and a nice night time lullaby from The Raconteurs. Pull quote 2: Because, no matter what Babyshambles do, bar re-writing all their material, the music would still be a half-arsed regurgitation of parodic renderings of the ghosts of...
Field Day festival
Venue: Victoria park, London Teaser: Our man at the festies Don Blandford brings us this review of the weekend’s controversial Field Day in London. It’s GoodBooks, Foals and The Concretes VS an angry local council - and madness is sure to follow… Pull quote 2: I resorted to watching someone roll past me inside the giant Rumble Strips drum, which had only...
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