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£ 45 ? They can take a running jump at that price.............

£ 45 ? They can take a running jump at that price.............

I had a weekend on the Crawl as well.....managed to blag some weekend VIP wristbands for the Roundhouse, so we managed to see The Yeah Yeah Yeahs there who were great, then it was off to Koko (with a brief stop to see Madness playing on top of a double decker bus !!) for The Whip (who took the place to pieces, was really impressed by them) then Echo And the Bunnymen who played an absolute stormer of a set. Saturday saw us see Little Boots (minus the big hair she was sporting at Night and Day last month - the new album promises to be a corker judging by the way the songs sound live - Stuck on Repeat is a stone cold pop classic in my books) - then after a fruitless queue to get in to see Billy Bragg at The Dublin Castle, we got into the Electric Ballroom without too much trouble to see Joy Formidable who really impressed me - their album is free to download from their website. We then wound our way back up to the Roundhouse to catch Kasabian, who, well....were Kasabian. They play to the crowd and every tune turns into a beery sing along anthem. The singer's horrible starry top (think Joe Bloggs circa 1989) didn't QUITE hide his expansive gut.....there's a career for them as a Primal Scream tribute band if they want it. An ace weekend, decent weather and I'd go again, but only with the all important Roundhouse wristbands that meant we didn't have to queue for ages to get in.

SPACEFACE !!!!

Couldn't agree more. Was there on Tuesday and it was painful to see how far they had fallen from the heights of 2008 / 2009, when their debut album and storming, passionate performances at Glastonbury and elsewhere marked them out as something special. I hope that they can rediscover their spark but I worry that the music industry has chewed them up and spat them out......

Crystal clear sound, an innovative 3D light show and Olympic medal winning cyclists tearing round the velodrome to the backing of 'Tour De France' being played by the undoubted pioneers of electronic music - OK they are down to one original member, but Kraftwerk were never about the personalities of the reclusive studio masters, it was (and still is) all about the beauty and imagery conjoured up by their classic emotional seventies techno - gigs don't get any more exhilarating than the one I was privileged to see last night.

Really impressed last night, have seen her several times now and she is getting better every time. The six minute version of 'Stuck on Repeat' that finished the show was an absolute killer, worth the ticket price alone. Looking forward to the album next month. The support band 'Delphic' were excellent as well, in a 'Sons of Underworld' vein, will definitely look out for them again.

They are a bad heavy metal band who have sold their soul to Kraftwerk and come up with two blinding electro tunes by accident. Saw them at Glastonbury and it was like watching Rick Wakeman play King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table....for 45 minutes - the last ten minutes when they play Kids (or mime to it, as they did then) and Time to Pretend barely make up for the twiddly nonsense that has gone before...and I'm bloody sick of the Soulwax remix of Kids as well, heard it 3 times at The Warehouse on Saturday and at the Neon Neon show last night.

Lamb on the Jazz World stage on Friday afternoon was one of the best things I have ever been lucky enough to witness - an hour that I will cherish for a long time. 2ManyDjs might not be the hippest names to drop but on the Saturday night, they blew roof off the Dance Stage East with their astonishing lightshow and backdrop as seen at the Academy three weeks ago. Other highlights for me were Doves, The Dead Weather, The Big Pink, Ladyhawke and the truly amazing comeback by Blur. Currently sat at work counting the days to next year......when the weather is good, Glastonbury is quite simply a little piece of heaven dropped down onto Somerset.

'Ambient Elevator Music' - where is this elevator of which you speak ? If you've got one that plays music as joyful as the Scream knocked out both nights running on Saturday and Sunday, then I want a go in it !!