Domingo 7 Dic 2008, 11:33
Regular readers will know that I've been trying to see a band starting with each letter of the alphabet during 2008. We finished this off on Friday with a Queen tribute. Some of the highlights were:
- Most skilful use of a wheelie bin on stage: John Otway and Wild Willy Barret.
- Most erratic Nirvana cover version: Winston Echo.
- Band least able to engage with the audience: XX Teens.
- Band hardest to get within sight of: Glasvegas.
- Most shambolic performance: Lily Allen trying to sing for Mark Ronson.
- Best clog dancing: Rachel Unthank and the Winterset.
- Band that Steve Lamacq is most likely to stand next to you during: The Kabeedies.
- Cleanest wellies at Glastonbury: Steve Lamacq.
- Freddy Mercury impersonator least able to button his tight trousers all the way to the top: Queen on Fire.
- Band most likely to have a bonkers support act: Misty's Big Adventure.
- Performance of Hallelujah likely to be better than anything that X Factor bashes out: James Nye.
- Most tea drunk on stage: Billy Bragg.
For fact fans, here follows the complete list. Of course, I saw more than one band for many of the more common letters; I've listed the first act I saw for each letter, not necessarily my favourite.
- Art Brut - Barfly
- Billy Bragg - Town Hall
- Los Campesinos! - Academy 2
- The Deirdres - Sunflower Lounge
- Winston Echo - Sunflower Lounge
- The Futureheads - Barfly
- Glasvegas - Glastonbury
- The Harper Brothers - The entertainingly named La Grotte après-ski bar
- Idlewild - Glee Club
- Jesus Jones - Academy
- The Kabeedies - Glastonbury
- Levellers - Civic Hall
- Misty's Big Adventure - Hare and Hounds
- James Nye - The hotel bar in Serre Chevalier
- Otway and Barrett - Edinburgh Festival
- Amanda Plamer - Glastonbury
- Queen on Fire - Robin 2
- Mark Ronson - Glastonbury
- Supergrass - Academy
- Three Daft Monkeys - Civic Hall
- Rachel Unthank and the Winterset - Glastonbury
- Vampire Weekend - Glastonbury
- The Wonder Stuff - Academy
- XX Teens - Glastonbury
- Young Knives - Glastonbury
- Jay Z - Glastonbury