http://boswestblog.com by Ben Oswest Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:11:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Who? ** ____________ ** Seen at the 2007 Green Man Festival. Festivals, like all closed social systems, have rules. One of them is that the last band - the very last band, the band that headlines the final day, the band that enjoys the number one ranking - gets to be ... http://boswestblog.com/2007/10/13/in-a-green-man-minute-stephen-malkmus-and-the-jicks/ Male fraud. ** ____________ ** Seen at the 2007 Green Man Festival. To be honest, the only reason we were standing that close to Banhart was to stake out a good position for the next act, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks. "He sucks," my newfound Italian friend Marco hissed in my ear about ... http://boswestblog.com/2007/09/30/in-a-green-man-minute-devendra-banhart/ Nice vuvuzela. ** ____________ ** Seen at the 2007 Green Man Festival. Rhys' set mainly comprised a rendition of his hijack epic, "Skylon", from the album Candylion. The performance, which was a ghastly bit of bar-raising on the self-indulgence front, featured a pantomime in which a alien airplane hijacker (about 10 feet tall) ... http://boswestblog.com/2007/09/30/in-a-green-man-minute-gruff-rhys/ Glass tent. ** ____________ ** Seen at the 2007 Green Man Festival. The festival's "Literature Tent", designed more for poetry readings than interviews with rock stars, could barely house all of emperor-of-indie Stephen Malkmus' fans. Fortunately, Your Correspondent and his Lovely Assistant had arrived early - with all of the UK's Sunday ... http://boswestblog.com/2007/09/23/in-a-green-man-minute-stephen-malkmus-talks-to-phil-sutcliffe-of-mojo-magazine/ Live band! ** ____________ ** Seen at the 2007 Green Man Festival. Battles, who headlined the Green Man's Folkey Dokey stage on Saturday night (playing opposite Robert Plant, who was on the main stage in front of arguably fewer people), provoked the first encore I witnessed at the festival. The audience simply ... http://boswestblog.com/2007/09/16/in-a-green-man-minute-battles/ Scrooge-scourge. ** ____________ ** Seen at the 2007 Green Man Festival. Briefly. Plant was, quite frankly, worse than Donovan last year, who at least provided comic relief. Led Zeppelin's reforming for a "one-off" gig is doubtless meant in part to make up for all the wrongs committed by the Strange Sensation. Robert Plant ... http://boswestblog.com/2007/09/16/in-a-green-man-minute-robert-plant-and-the-strange-sensation/ Post-tortoiseshell. ** ____________ ** Seen at the 2007 Green Man Festival. "This is going to be our last song for some time," said Adem Ilhan; then he and friends Kieran Hebden and Sam Jeffers (plus one more: who?) post-rocked into the night. Fridge home http://boswestblog.com/2007/09/16/in-a-green-man-minute-fridge/ Pet river. ** ____________ ** Seen at the 2007 Green Man Festival. "Pet river" = meandering and complacent, just like this utterly unremarkable agglomeration of sleepyheads. Vetiver home http://boswestblog.com/2007/09/16/in-a-green-man-minute-vetiver/ Scritti politti. ** ____________ ** Seen at the 2007 Green Man Festival. Why "scritti politti" - ? Well, for one, we were in Wales (home of the band that invented the phrase); and, as a second point, a Six Organs performance is an uncompromising war on the dictatorship of soft, flabby rock ... http://boswestblog.com/2007/09/16/in-a-green-man-minute-six-organs-of-admittance/ Outside in. ** ____________ ** Seen at the 2007 Green Man Festival. Glyn, the 2006-2007 Welsh Children's Poet Laureate, was performing songs from her album Tonau in the Green Man's "literature tent" - a session sponsored by the Welsh literary magazine Tu Chwith*, and stumbled upon by your correspondent only because of ... http://boswestblog.com/2007/09/16/in-a-green-man-minute-gwyneth-glyn/