This is one of those self-publicity moments…

I've just posted a blog about Pauline Scanlon, here:

Musicus Eclecticus - Pauline Scanlon

Go check it out. It's the first entry on my brand-spanking-new blog. Cool or what.

My bargain of the week, this week, was a super-cheap vinyl purchase - The Best Of The Dubliners, on the Pickwick label.

This cost me the very grand total of TWENTY PENCE from a charity shop near where I work - not bad, eh? Of course I've got most of the tracks on CD but you can't beat 12 inches of sleek black vinyl, can you?

Anyhoo, here's the track listing:

McAlpine's Fusiliers
Finnegan's Wake
Rocky Road To Dublin
Home Boys Home
The Patriot Game
Monto
The Holy Ground
The Wild Rover
Mason's Apron
Boulavogue
Master McGrath
The Leaving…

Thursday

Mick Artistic (Green Roadshow Bandstand)
Don Letts (Leftfield Stage)
Damian Dempsey (Leftfield Stage)

Friday

Attila The Stockbroker (Cabaret Marquee)
Pauline Scanlon (Acoustic Tent)
The Dylan Project (Acoustic Tent)
Chumbawamba (Avalon Stage)
The Coral (Other Stage)
Rhythm Wave (Cabaret Marquee)

Saturday

Liam O’Maonlai – the guy from Hothouse Flowers (Acoustic Tent)
Broken Family Band (Avalon Stage)
Julie Fowlis (Avalon Stage)
Gruff Rhys (Avalon Stage)
Ed Byrne (Cabaret Marquee)
John Fogerty (JazzWorld Stage)
Iggy & The Stooges (Other Stage)

Sunday

Richard Swift (Park Stage)
Pauline Scanlon (Small World Stage)
The Boat Band (Croissant Neuf Tent)
Seth Lakeman (JazzWorld Stage)
Billy Bragg…

1. A song that wakes you up in the morning.
The Pogues – Thousands Are Sailing

Or possibly something by Poison Idea, recently anyway.

2. A song you loved in high school.
Easy this! I bought the 12" the week it came out – Metallica – One. I still have that record. I had a 7" promo of it for ages that I bought for £6 from a secondhand record shop. Some bastard stole it from me a few years later. It now goes for over £50 a pop. Twat. I have never seen another copy of it in…

Another great Friday night of music telly from the BBC last night. My Friday's wouldn't be the same without the BBC's commitment to showing top class music. Here's hoping they keep it up. So… what did we have last night?

Cambridge Folk Festival 2006 (BBC4, 9pm-10pm)

A repeat of the highlights from the UK's biggest and best folk festival, presented by the loveable Mark Radcliffe. Starting a programme with The Chieftains can't be bad, can it? Following on from that were further performances from the brilliant Julie Fowlis (who's album I have just ordered from Amazon), John Tams & Barry…

…And so we arrive at the third thrilling installment of this writer's adventures in gig-land. Unfortunately I somehow conspired to not bother seeing any bands at all between the end of Glastonbury 1998 and the beginning of the following year's festival.

Once again, I'm sure I will have missed some of the bands I saw at Glasto 99. Them's the breaks.

Glastonbury 1999

Sharon Shannon
Having seen her brilliant performance on the main stage in 1998, I went along to the Acoustic Tent to catch her 1999 show. This was easily as good as the previous year. I wasn't into…

As I came to think about writing the second part of my live music reminiscences, I sort of came to realise that for the next 3 years, we are looking almost exclusively at Glastonbury Festival. Which, come to think of it, is no bad thing at all.

By the way, if you missed Part One of this epic tale, it is here: http://www.last.fm/user/nboldock/journal/2006/02/20/80547/

Anyway, where were we? Ah yes… just finished Glastonbury 1997.

Which leads us to…

Space
Hull City Hall, 1997.
Support: can't remember

This was genuinely a cracking gig. I was well impressed with them. Unfortunately I got…

1. Which bands/artist do you own the most albums by?
Probably David Bowie I should think. Mostly on vinyl.

2. What was the last song you listened to?
Saturn 5 by Inspiral Carpets

3. What's in your CD player right now?
An album by Eurythmics, a David Bowie bootleg, and a demo by a band called Tarifa.

4. What was the last show you attended?
Beverley Folk Festival 2006. See my journal for more details. The last act I saw live (at this fest) was Altan.

5. What was the greatest show you've ever been to?
The Pogues…

Beverley Folk Festival 2006

I had the privilege of attending the 23rd annual Beverley Folk Festival last week and caught some great acts throughout this very impressive festival. Here’s a rundown of the bands/acts I managed to catch and a few notes as to who was great, who was not-so-great, and who was monumentally brilliant…

Edwina Hayes
Singer/songwriter from East Yorkshire who divides her time between Driffield and Nashville (!). I know where I’d rather be. Musically, she was a bit too poppy for my liking - very reminiscent of Mindy Smith but without the flashes of brilliance that Smith…

So what you do is you play all your music at shuffle and each song goes for the current question. I nicked this from someone else. But so did he. This could be nonsense, but here goes……..

How does the world see me?
Song: That's Where It's At
Artist: Sam Cooke
Comment: Yeah, so follow my lead, suckers.

Will I have a happy life?
Song: Moondance
Artist: Van Morrison
Comment: Sounds good to me. Reminds me of Glastonbury, 6am. Heh heh.

What do my friends really think of me?
Song: Blues With A Feeling
Artist: Little Walter
Comment: Hmmm. What…