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usernick wrote:Their musical taste — Mylo, Röyksopp, Groove Armada, Basement Jaxx, Gotan Project, Fatboy Slim, Goldfrapp, Fila Brazillia and Ska Cubano — is the easy-going soundtrack of bars, pubs and supermarkets everywhere.[/b]

Heh. If only... not my favourites but much better than what we do get Gooooo team North America!

That weather forecast changes more often than pop music styles!

Now shows light rain on Friday afternoon, Sun/Cloudy on Saturday (no rain), Torrential Rain (8.1mm) on Sunday evening, and light rain on the Monday...

Hopefully, by the end of the week, that Torrential Rain will disappear onto Monday afternoon (fingers crossed)!

The torrential rain has gone! We might get some on saturday and sunday, but less than 1mm!

Rich

From The Guardian:

The Big Chill

Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire

Carrie O'Grady
Tuesday August 9, 2005
The Guardian

The Church of Chill is a broad one. What began as an electro-lounge hybrid today encompasses everything from cello duets to Turkish knees-ups to drum'n'bass. The Big Chill festival, now in its 10th year, aims to please everyone all of the time, and offers all the above. This makes for some jarring juxtapositions: the old-school funk of the Fatback Band, for instance, followed by the Asian breakbeats of Bobby Friction and Nihal.

The weekend was more conducive to chatting and sunbathing than serious musical appreciation. The polished, breezy pop of St Etienne and Roisin Murphy was well received, but new material had less of a buzz than old favourites. The same was true of DJ Gilles Peterson, who played an excellent set of complex, intelligent multicultural mash-ups on the main stage, but it was when he played the Specials' A Message to You, Rudy that the crowd roared. The ambient noodlings of acts like Lunz and the Necks also got lost in the shuffle.

Similarly, one of the most intriguing-sounding acts played to an almost empty field. Transit Kings brought together the KLF's Jimmy Cauty and the Orb's Alex Paterson, backed by Pink Floyd session musician Guy Pratt and soundtrack man Dom Beken. Their four-laptop collaboration produced a rich wash of surprisingly melodic electro, punctuated by Paterson's trademark echoey samples and even the occasional chord change. But it was the wrong place, wrong time. More popular was the tuxedo-clad Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, who brought the house (field, rather) down the following afternoon with their medley of I Will Survive, Autumn Leaves, Fly Me to the Moon and Hotel California.

DJ Sean Rowley hit the button with his oldies-drenched set, and he wasn't the only one: I must have heard John Paul Young's 1978 hit Love Is in the Air at least three times in as many days. But Rowley couldn't match the peerless Rob da Bank, warming up for his own Bestival next month with a lively set, and masters of kitsch, Hexstatic. Their closing dedication - "Richard Whiteley: 1943-2005" - touched a chord with a nostalgic crowd.

So, has everyone come back from the Big Chill yet? Any thoughts, favourite acts, worst portaloo experience?

It was my first Big Chill at it was ace! I loved the atmosphere, the setting, the acts, the food - everything!

My favourite performance was Jerome Froese on Saturday night in the Sanctuary tent. I've enjoyed his TDJ Rome work, but this new album sounds like it will be superb. I bought the promo CD in the shop and can't stop playing it.

I also enjoyed Tunng (whose album I bought at the shop), Lunz, Patif, Bonobo, The Bays, Robert Fripp, Norman Jay, the Ninja Tune night, and Mark Pritchard.

Well my body is back from the Chill, but I reckon my mind is currently hovering around the Chill out stage wondering whats going on...

I loved it again. Couldnt have asked for better weather but I was slightly concerned about the state of the portaloos!!! Every time they were hideous! I'm sure they werent as rough as that last year

Hexstatic were great, DJ Food too. I got really bored with Treva Wateva's set....
Bonobo were good, London Elektricity, Giles Peterson, Ukelale Orchestra were all good.
Admitedly I spent so much of the weekend sunbathing and drinking smoothies (I actually had 1 milkshake too ), drifting in and out of consciousness and generally getting really intense headrushes everytime I stood up too quickly.

I cant remember too much of the weekend, but I do remember doing exactly what the festival is all about; Chilling.

Yup, portaloos were dreadful in the main arena - they should really take an extra special effort to clean them out more regularly next time...

As for acts, it seems as though we saw most of the same acts as Memley - i.e. Ninja, part of Transit Kings, Ukulele, Global Communication (Tom & Mark DJ'ing the entire remastered Global Communication catalogue from compilation-only tracks to the entirety of 76.14 from start to finish - superb), Bent DJ's, Tom Middleton, Sean Rowley, London Elektricity, etc.

Highlight was the Transit Kings set (why did it have to clash with DJ Food?), Hextstaic (especially the Doctor Pressure video - well done lads!), Global Communication (superb sound quality - can't wait for the reissue on 12th September), Ukulele Orchestra (orded the album, especially "Je T'Aime" and "Yes Sir, I Can Boogie!) - fab!

Roll on next year, and hopefully they'll keep the numbers down and sort out the bogs!

All the Underground Resistance guys were absolutely kick-ass. Carl Craig was very good. Ninja Tune lot was fun. Benny Sings was very enjoyable. Larry Heard was ace. Some other bits were good. Quite a lot of other stuff was rubbish. The weather was lovely. The beer was tasty.

I had a very enjoyable few days, though it took a lot of work to stay out until after sunrise each night, because there was fuck-all to do after 2am other than sit around, drink warm beer and talk bollocks.

Good to bump into a few of you at various points, though I was spectacularly hungover/jetlagged each day until about 10pm. Apologies for my lack of enthusiasm.

Funky Dung

Highlights for me included The Fatback Band, Efterklang, Fat Freddys Drop, Transit Kings, Leggo Beat, Xploding Plastic, Robert Fripp, Larry Heard, Hugh Cornwell and Youngblood Brassband (the procession to Fat Tuesday was fantastic).

The weather and company was also good.

Minor niggles included sound bleed from club\strongbow tents to the sanctuary. Think they are over doing the "club" element and should concentrate more on the chilled stuff. I am getting on a bit though.

Shrineboy wrote:Minor niggles included sound bleed from club\strongbow tents to the sanctuary.

Agreed. There were several times I could hear a tumping bassline interupting a chilled out Sanctuary-based performance.

The toilets, sadly, remain a lasting memory of the weekend for me. On one occasion, I nearly vomited at the smell, but that was only after I was pumping the foot pedal for dear life to clear other people's mess and leave it clean for the next person! I managed to be quite canny about it towards the end though, noting where the trucks had been at various times and walking back to those toilets when required.

I'm gutted I missed the Global Communication thing.

Did you guys not all camp togther?

I swear i just got up too quickly and thought i was in a field being handed a smoothie by Memly with some dub music being played....jeeez these flash backs are doing my head in!!!

jessopjessopjessop wrote:Did you guys not all camp togther?

Me, Nick, Manns, Ali (future Mrs Manns), Rich (TCB2000) & wife Kathryn, Sid, Paul (Phil's friend) and Del n' Emily (other friends) were all camped together at 'Gazebo City' in the quiet camping area...

They need to sort out the loos, they need to kill the audio bleed from the club tent, they need to make sure that the numbers don't go up and I NEED my own 'Shaken Udder' stand in my back garden!!!

Dog wrote:Me, Nick, Manns, Ali (future Mrs Manns), Rich (TCB2000) & wife Kathryn, Sid, Paul (Phil's friend) and Del n' Emily (other friends) were all camped together at 'Gazebo City' in the quiet camping area...

I see. I did keep an eye out for any Loopz-related campsite, but I was nowhere near the quiet area.

Damn my back though. Four days with no mattress or the like is giving me no end of trouble.

jessopjessopjessop wrote: Damn my back though. Four days with no mattress or the like is giving me no end of trouble.

Yeh I made that mistake at Glastonbury. Made sure I went out and bought an inflatable matress.
Another way is to get sooo baked that you "pass out" more than "fall asleep"