Archive from March, 2006

Cambridge Folk Festival 2006 lineup announced

24 Mar 2006: They’ve announced the lineup for this year’s Folk Festival which takes place in my back garden (-ish) and it’s an intriguing one. Nice to see they’ve continued the trend of the last few years by avoiding the pop acts (it hasn’t hurt the ticket sales, so why not?) Headlining is “a rare and exclusive UK festival appearance from the legendary Emmylou Harris” which should be interesting, and there’ll be plenty of people wanting to see the first appearance here in over 20 years of The Chieftains. I’ll be fascinated to hear if Cerys Matthews has gone folk, and artists returning who I’ve enjoyed in the past include Eddi Reader, Cara Dillon, Seth Lakeman and local faves Ezio. Also, when was [...]

Real-life Simpsons intro

9 Mar 2006: Just how long did this take to do? Utterly fantastic.

More British than a British thing

4 Mar 2006: There’s a half-decent, half-British, half-American Half Man Half Biscuit interview on Popmatters today. It says: “A big part of America’s problem, of course, is that Half Man Half Biscuit (HMHB to their friends) are so very British that, to a lazy listener, they must sound positively alien.” Count the missus in on that one, and she’s an Essex gel.

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