Dan Davies talks to Saint Etienne’s main man Bob Stanley about his part in Moseley folk Saint Etienne in those early days Stanley with the big fringe From 1960s inspired pop to ambient electronica to … more →
One Man Dan's Dumpwrote 3 months ago: Dan Davies talks to Saint Etienne’s main man Bob Stanley about his part in Moseley folk Saint Etienn … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Contrary to the image that I’d had in my head, Technopolis, the venue for Synch Festival, wasn’t the … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Get together, right now With audience travel making up a staggering 43% of all of the CO2 emitted by … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Received wisdom has always told us that the English like queuing but based on our first impressions … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Metallica and Linkin Park will headline Sonisphere, a new festival to be held at Knebworth House. As … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Not surprisingly after fourteen years of multiplying chills you pretty much know what to expect of t … more →
wrote 1 year ago: The sonic yaw of rock from a grounding in heavy metal, pushed through by the driving rhythms of twis … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Dan Davies goes for a festival but stays for a fiesta. I don’t care what people say about trench spi … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Po-faced prima donna performers, bo-ho hopping females and the occasional mega-geek… Dan Davies find … more →
wrote 1 year ago: One of the New Generation of festivals to germinate with decent people and splendid toilets sprouted … more →
wrote 1 year ago: For many years now St George’s Day has been at best ignored and at worst, an embarrassment. This may … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Drop Beats Not Bombs lead the charge as the legendary Q Club re-opens. The Q lives up to its name in … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Until now a closely guarded secret where only the initiated may gain access, Dan Davies uncovers the … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Baking heat, cheap food, big beers, friendly faces, original music. Has Dan Davies flown on another … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Dan Davies is staying the distance… but it feels like a marathon. The rain was patting on the … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Dan Davies gets down and dirty on day two of another Worthy Farm mud bath… If you’re doing Gla … more →
wrote 2 years ago: The intrepid, slightly clumsy Dan Davies tackles Glastonbury in the best way possible – with n … more →
wrote 2 years ago: Attention campers, some ugly looking reprobates and hippy sheilas have taken over Butlins. Hi-de-Hir … more →
wrote 2 years ago: An open topped double-decker bus rolls into Birmingham, full of badly drawn egg shaped men waving th … more →